Small towns are by definition a limited market. If you are depending on just your locals for all of your customers, you are limiting the growth of your business. You may need to reach beyond the geographic limits to find enough customers to be sustainable. So think of ways you can get beyond the borders….
Time for the first Brag Basket of 2014! What can you do in the Brag Basket? introduce yourself share some great news from this week congratulate a friend laugh about something wonderful that you tried that failed applaud for each other How do you join in? Below this post is the comment section. Add your…
Backing up your accounting data used to mean printing off reams of paper reports stuffed into boxes, and then you had to find a place to keep all that. Today, backing up your accounting data means generating a few PDFs and keeping extra copies electronically. 1. Save PDF versions of year-end accounting reports Accounting systems…
IRS Tax Calendar for Small Businesses and Self-Employed, has been discontinued after 2013. This was the printed wall calendar that used to list the due dates on the pages of each month. However, the IRS said that an IRS Tax Calendar and most of the information previously contained on it can be found at www.irs.gov/taxcalendar. The calendar dates…
In response to “Want to develop your small town? Start with your assets, Luther Snow says,” two of you asked for more information about facilitating business-to-business marketplaces. Simone Cahoj said in a comment: I’d love some more ideas about facilitating a business-to-business marketplace. We have tried this but I think we need a different approach! :)…
Welcome to the Brag Basket, our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one December 27-29, 2013. What good news will you add to the brag basket? Don’t hold back because of that word, “brag.” When you hold back, you hide your good news and accomplishments that might inspire…
Recently I was fortunate enough to catch a webinar with Luther Snow talking about the asset approach and positive development. Urban Bias Snow started by addressing the prevalent “urban bias”: assuming that the way things happen in the concentrated center is what matters everywhere. Urban bias is evident in: centralized meetings traditional land economics (high price…
A friend who is buying a business is needing a number of spreadsheets, contracts and legal forms. That got me looking for reputable and reasonable places to find sample business forms online today. For US-based businesses, I found these three: 1. BizFilings.com Business Owner’s Toolkit Lots of checklists useful for going into business, a nondisclosure agreement…
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