Reader Kevin Thompson sent us a tip on a small town small business: I wanted to see if you’d be interested in writing about one of my good friends. He owns a business with his brother selling hunting and fishing knives (and other stuff) that just reached its 10 year anniversary. Given that this is…
You have a huge advantage over the generations of small town business people who came before you. Through the internet you can learn from other people who live far away, but face similar challenges. Right now, Pat Matthews is blogging at Small Town, Big Ideas about what he learned from some failures. Go right now…
“My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.”– Abraham Lincoln Failure is one of my favorite topics, because it is a necessary part of success. You must try many things on the way to success, and some of those attempts are bound to fail. The trick…
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.Colin Powell You know that I like to talk about what we learn from failure. So does Zane Safrit. He is talking about why failure is important. Fridays are all about failure here. It’s the end of the week….
A new business is exhilirating, but can also be frightening. So many wonderful possibilities, and yet so many potential stumbling blocks! Plus, being in a small town or rural area seems to magnify everything. If you could know about some of the common stumbling blocks before you hit them, you could either take action to…
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. Dr. Joyce Brothers Found at the Business Opportunities Blog small biz rural entrepreneurship success failure New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see? Subscribe.
Mark Taylor, another small town Oklahoman, put together his experience in business, education and workforce development, and came up with this article on changing your thinking. Albert Einstein once said, “The significant challenges that we face today can not be solved at the same level of thinking at which they were created”. The world of…
I believe in celebrating failure, redefining it as a positive, seeing failure as a sign of progress. Apparently, Scott Westcott at the National Federation of Independent Businesses agrees, at least a little. His article, The Fruits of Failure, explores some examples, and encourages giving failure awards, and I applaud him for researching and writing it….
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