You probably get calls every week, pleading for free help.“Can I pick your brain?” “I just made a Facebook page for my business. I’d love to get your feedback!” “Let me buy you coffee and ask you about this.” Free coffee or lunch isn’t the same as a business.Photo by Jon Swanson. With all these requests for…
I love talking to my friend Paul Chaney because he really gets both small business and small towns. He wrote a great book on the basics of social media for small business called The Digital Handshake. When I heard he had a new book coming out, this one on F-commerce, I invited him to tell…
At a recent event, a fellow small-town resident asked me, “Isn’t small towns dying just part of a natural progression?” I said no. Here’s why. We’ll always need small towns. Small towns combine natural resourcesand supporting businesses. 1. Our security depends on small towns. Our nation needs a secure food supply, reliable production of natural…
The Small Business Influencer Awards honor those who are influential to small businesses in North America, through the products, services, knowledge, information or support they provide to the small business market. The Awards are designed to recognize the unsung heroes of small businesses – those who support and encourage entrepreneurs and small business owners, and…
James Lowe interviewed Becky for his Talk Radio X show. We talked about where the concept came from, the process of writing when we were based in different towns, and about connecting customer service to culture and place.
Author Barry Moltz took time to join J.J. Ramberg on MSNBC. They talk about a few of the rules, and how J.J. has seen the trend towards thinking and acting small in business. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9qib-gi2ac
The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one August 10-12, 2012. Have some good news this week? Put it in the Brag Basket. We all have our own personality.Baskets from Ghana by Frank Kehren. Don’t hold back because of that word, “brag.” When you…
Since our book Small Town Rules was released by Que Publishing this spring, Barry Moltz and I have been sharing lots of videos, interviews, and guest posts all over the web on the ideas in it. Because I’m so close to this subject, I forget that you haven’t seen much of it here. I finally realized…
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