“Small business” is much too broad. It includes, by various definitions, companies that have up to 500 employees. I don’t know about your small town, but in mine, that would be a *huge* business. You have to start where you are.Then you can grow. And the term “entrepreneur” is even worse, with dozens of definitions…
Every business person, no matter how successful they appear, deals with failure daily. It’s just a part of doing business. Every week, I fail in my business.I never can outguess the customers! Looking in from the outside, you don’t see the whole picture. A smart friend told me he’s intimidated when he looks at people…
The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one August 31 – Sept 2, 2012. Have some good news this week? Put it in the Brag Basket. A sharing basket,from my Maine trip. Don’t hold back because of that word, “brag.” When you hold back,…
It shouldn’t be hard work for your customers to complain. They are helping you to improve, so make it easy for them to get a message to you. Contributor Jon Swanson. Contributor Jon Swanson worked hard to complain constructively to two companies. He heard back from one, but not the other. He finally wrote about…
Small-town guy Neil Armstrong.Photo by NASA HQ on Flickr. “I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.”–Neil Armstrong, first man to walk on the moon, small town guy New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see? Subscribe.
The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one August 24-26, 2012. Have some good news this week? Put it in the Brag Basket. I’m off to see friends this week, so let’s hear it for friends in the Brag Basket! A Maine blueberry harvest,in…
Choosing a website name or URL for a small business is important, and most of the advice out there is written for big city businesses. For small towns, there are two basic tactics. If you have lots of local competitionBig city businesses often compete over domain names that include the city and the product, like…
Eric Canada, Blane Canada Ltd., invited me to co-present a webinar on Blogging for Economic Development. I also made some notes from the other presenter I want to share with you. Eric said that blogging, by his research, is one of the key social media strategies for economic development. I have to agree. Blogging Lessons…
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