Matt About Business Weekly Link Roundup Each week, I collect the 10 best posts that I’ve read and share them with you here. These posts focus on either choosing, or using, small business solutions online (or both!). Enjoy!Matt MansfieldHow to know if you can trust your SEO?Link: http://biznik.com/articles/how-to-know-if-you-can-trust-your-seoMy Take: A great checklist for evaluating an SEO…
One of our traditions at Small Biz Survival is the Brag Basket. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one June 17-19, 2011. Even though I call this the Brag Basket, it’s not really about bragging. It’s about sharing. It’s here so you can introduce yourself, share some good news, or congratulate…
Rural sourcing is a trend I love. It leverages technology to bring more high tech, higher paying jobs to rural areas. But it’s a small trend, and I’d love to see it spread to more places and more people. What does a small town need to do to support rural sourcing? How can you get…
“The Loneliest Road”US 50 in Nevada I’m just back from a big roadtrip across the American Southwest, and I thought I’d share my perspective as your potential visitor. Would you be findable to me? Let’s see. I had very little planned out, so I did a lot of searching online, especially from my phone. I tended to…
If you like using online tools to better get to know your customers, Noteleaf is another tool that can help. Here’s some of the explanation from their website: You schedule meetings in Google Calendar, Noteleaf gives you information about who you’re meeting on your phone. Noteleaf sends you a text message right before your meeting with…
One of our traditions at Small Biz Survival is the Brag Basket. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one June 10-12, 2011. My lavender is in bloom, so let’s make this a relaxing lavender-scented basket. What good news helped you relax this week? A basket of lavender from Maia C Even…
Thanks to Tim Marema and an email from the National Rural Assembly, I took a quick look at today’s announcement by The White House “that it is creating a Rural Council to help the administration better coordinate the impact of federal programs in rural areas.” Obama, center, and Vilsack, right, and Morgan Hoenig, left, touring…
Did you know the photos on your tourism website are actually annoying more people than they are attracting? I hadn’t thought of this, but Andy Hayes explained it, in “Why Photos on your Travel Website Can be a Bad Idea.” I’ll give you the summary here, along with the action plan to fix it. Lovely!…
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