Joe Sorge understands business because he is a business owner, with a handful of restaurants and event places in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He and I share that background in bricks and mortar business, and we share many similar opinions about business. He invited me to be a guest on Kitchen Table Talks with Chris Brogan so…
Straight from the IRS: The 2013 IRS Tax Calendar for Small Business and Self Employed, Publication 1518, (English and Spanish) will ship in December. It can be pre-ordered online now. The Tax Calendar for Small Businesses and Self-Employed is a 12-month wall calendar, filled with useful information on: general business taxes, IRS and SSA customer…
International Day of Rural Women sounds pretty cool. It’s every October 15, as declared by the United Nations. Rural women Primrose and Portia, friends from my South Africa trip. The problem is the U.N. page talks about “rural women” but they actually mean “rural women in developing countries.” That’s a pet peeve of mine: saying “rural” when…
The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one Oct 12-14, 2012. Have some good news this week? Put it in the Brag Basket. The Brag Basket is open fora wide variety of topics.(CC) by Ausiegall on Flickr Don’t hold back because of that word,…
Last year at the Small Town 140 Conference, I shared a bit of a rant about how outside people see small towns and why that matters to us getting together online and in person. If you can’t see the video, please click through to Small Biz Survival. Here’s what I said: Last week I opened…
We’ve been hitting the airwaves with Small Town Rules. Here are a couple of recent radio shows. Author and small business expert Barbara Weltman featured Becky on Build Your Business Radio (WSRadio.com): Build Your Business Radio Interview Brian Sullivan and Pat Madden featured Becky on The Entrepreneurial Moment radio show (KCTE in the Kansas…
The rise of containerized shipping and intermodals has completely remade the shipping industry, and it serves as a model for the change in the entire economy. The New York Times profiled the changes to jobs at New York area ports, in On the Waterfront, the Rise of the Machines. The old way of distributing work…
This article comes from my friend Stephanie Ward. She’s originally from Oklahoma, but currently lives in The Netherlands. She wants to help you become a more meaningful entrepreneur, making a difference in the world. While this article isn’t specifically written for rural entrepreneurs, I think outsourcing is a small town issue. Outsourcing doesn’t just mean…
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