• Survey of Rural Challenges
  • Small Town Speaker Becky McCray
  • Shop Local video
  • SaveYour.Town

Small Biz Survival

The small town and rural business resource

A row of small town shops
  • Front Page
  • Latest stories
  • About
  • Guided Tour
  • Subscribe
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact
  • RSS

Show and Tell – How Video and Maybe Even LIVE Video Are Important for Small Town Business

By Chris Brogan

Small Town Business Lights

By Chris Brogan They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes, it might be worth a thousand dollars, too. Over the last ten years, restaurants and bars who post their best dishes or drinks as photos on sites like Instagram have learned that people love seeing examples of what they’ll get if […]

April 20, 2020 Filed Under: entrepreneurship, marketing, rural, social media, tech, tools Tagged With: Chris Brogan, effective marketing, entrepreneurship, guest post, rural, service businesses, small business, small business success, video

For easier social media marketing, fill in the blank

By Becky McCray

Sheila Scarborough and Leslie McLellan of Tourism Currents laid out a simple starting point for all your social media efforts. Good news: it’s as easy as filling in the blank. Fill in the Blank (Our company) is where (our customers) find (the thing we offer) with (this benefit) So all you have to do is […]

August 5, 2019 Filed Under: entrepreneurship, marketing, rural, social media, tourism Tagged With: branding, destination marketing, effective marketing, entrepreneurship, marketing small business, online marketing, planning, retail, service businesses, Sheila Scarborough, social media marketing, Tourism Currents

Post signs with your tourism hashtag where visitors will see them

By Becky McCray

This one is a simple idea that came up when I was visiting Cathlamet, Washington, population 553: Post your local hashtag where visitors will see it. The Cathlamet Chamber of Commerce does an awesome local photo contest. Most of the photo submissions come from locals. They use these on their annual events calendar and other […]

May 13, 2019 Filed Under: marketing, rural, social media, tourism Tagged With: marketing, online marketing, rural, social media

Is Your Business on the Map?

By Paula Jensen

About sunrise on Thursday, November 16, 2017, there was report of strong smell of petroleum and a potential oil leak along the TransCanada pipeline that runs through Marshall County, South Dakota. The leak was identified by a farmer 10 miles west and north of Langford (where I live) and approximately 10 miles from Britton. By […]

February 23, 2019 Filed Under: marketing, rural, social media Tagged With: #Iamrural, Google local, Paula Jensen, seo

« Previous Page
Next Page »

Howdy!

Glad you dropped in to the rural and small town business blog, established in 2006.

We want you to feel at home, so please take our guided tour.

Meet our authors on the About page.

Have something to say? You can give us a holler on the contact form.

If you would like permission to re-use an article you've read here, please make a Reprint Request.

Want to search our past articles? Catch up with the latest stories? Browse through the categories? All the good stuff is on the Front Page.

Partners

We partner with campaigns and organizations that we think best benefit rural small businesses. Logo with "Shop Indie Local"Move Your Money, bank local, invest localMulticolor logo with text that says "Global Entrepreneurship Week"Save Your Town logotype

More of the best of Small Biz Survival

Copyright © 2026 Becky McCray
Front Page · Log in