[Our Friend Cody Heitschmidt has a new project. I offered him a few ideas, but he needs your ideas, too. -Becky] I just leased a 2300 seat concert hall in Hutch for all of 2010. Gonna see if we can liven Hutchinson, Kansas, up a little. Thoughts? No, really, I want your thoughts! I love…
“Memorable experiences are the ultimate scarce commodity.” That’s what I scribbled while driving, listening to Chris Anderson’s Free. The marginal cost of digital distribution is falling toward to cheap to measure, so it makes sense to offer many digital products for free. For example, the Audible copy of Free I was listening came with no…
UPDATE: The newest tips are available on this post: Blogger blogs still work for small business. Blogger may be one of the easiest ways to start a blog, but to the bloggy elite, the blogspot.comaddress has become a kind of badge of shame. Good news: Blogger hasintroduced a slew of new ways to make your…
You deserve a Brag Basket mention, and all you have to do is add yourself or another deserving soul in the comments. Share your projects and accomplishments. You can also cheer for other people, give shout outs, congratulate, and even give someone a well-deserved pat on the back. Every week, y’all share great stories in…
Our friend Shashi Bellamkonda is back with another guest post of a small business story. “Did you really find me on the Internet?” Small Business owner to me By Shashi Bellamkonda A few weekends ago on a Saturday morning, I went out to my car to begin my weekend errands and saw that I had…
Tourism Tuesday: our series recognizing the importance of travel and tourism to small town business. The discussion in the comments section is always the best part. In Scotland, while staying in Stirling, we picked up a driving tour brochure. It listed a monument to the McRae Clan in the nearby Sheriffmuir area. Being good McCrays,…
Sheila and I are hosting an Open House at Tourism Currents this Wednesday through Friday (September 30 – October 2, 2009). What is Tourism Currents? It helps you learn about how to use social media tools for tourism projects. It’s all based around real life things you do every day in the tourism world. Come…
At the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds Conference in Oklahoma City, Fred Patterson offered me a guest post. Fred has an amazing knowledge of the SBIR program, so I asked him to give us an introduction to it. -Becky by Fred Patterson – The SBIR Coach Over 25 years ago, the Federal government…
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