A headline like, “Regional and rural small businesses outperform metropolitan-based businesses,” is sure to get my attention. This one is from Australia, and mirrors U.S. trends. In Australia: Business looks good at the Exchange Hotel, in Grenfell, Australia (population 1900).Photo (CC) by Pip Wilson. All small business monthly growth for October 2011 was 2.8%, while regional and rural…
The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The things we share are our gifts to each other. New Year’s Basket fun. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one Dec 30-31, 2011 plus Jan 1 2012. Have some good news this week, or even this year? Put it in the Brag…
By Glenna Mae Hendricks, E.A. The first of the year is very fast approaching. This means it is very important for all business owners to start gathering the information needed to file Form 1099-MISC for each sub-contractor who has been commissioned to do work for you and who you paid more than $600 total for…
Business listing sites are like theyellow pages: lots of choices,and always changing. My friend Allison Aldrige-Saur asked for a list of online places to register a business. She had Yelp, Google Places and several others, but was not finding a list. Here’s why there is no list: it changes all the time. Business listing sites…
The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The things we share are our gifts to each other. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one Dec 23-25, 2011. Have some good news this week? Put it in the Brag Basket. This community is the gift we give to each other. Christmas…
What is your backup plan,if your phone line is rippedout during the busyChristmas season? Here is another reason to consider Square for credit card processing over a traditional merchant account. Yesterday, the phone line was ripped off of the back of our store. (It looks like it was snagged by a truck and drug down…
Small town economies look strong for 2012. The trends for small town and rural businesses are always different from the general small business trends, and for once this is good news. The national economy is not looking all that good, but the rural economy looks strong. Rural small business trends are always different from general…
The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one Dec 16-18, 2011. Have some good news this week? Put it in the Brag Basket. Basket photo by Katy Wrathall. Don’t hold back because of that word, “brag.” When you hold back, you hide your good…
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