It’s Friday, and that means the Brag Basket is open for the weekend. This is designed as a fun place for you to share your projects and accomplishments. But you can also cheer for other people, give shout outs, congratulate, and even give someone a well-deserved pat on the back. Think that bragging is a…
Internet providers who charge customers by how much they use would have to justify their prices to federal regulators under a bill introduced last week. Freshman Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) filed the bill after some providers tested plans to charge customers more if they download video or otherwise use a lot of bandwidth. The companies…
Tom Egelhoff, author of SmallTownMarketing.com, is in a generous mood: From now until the month of July, I want to give Small Biz Survival folks my two marketing and advertising books absolutely FREE: How to Market, Advertise and Promote Your Business or Service In a Small Town – and The Small Town Advertising Handbook –…
Letting your fans serve as your evangelists always carries more weight than bragging on yourself. So how do you find those people? At SOBCon09, Geoff Livingston was asked this question. “How do you identify the people who are going to be your fans and evangelists?” His answer: They self-identify. They’ll tell you. I want to…
People from all over the world, from a huge variety of industries, came together in New York with only a common language and common tool: Twitter. That’s bizarre. But that’s the 140 Characters Conference, created by Jeff Pulver (@jeffpulver). Aliza Sherman did a terrific job of capturing a flavor of the conference in her summary…
Each Friday, I open the Brag Basket for the weekend. Today, finally home from New York City, we jump right into the Brag Basket. This is designed as a fun place for you to share your projects and accomplishments. But you can also cheer for other people, give shout outs, congratulate, and even give someone…
You might be selling tickets to a community event or to you own business event. Either way, selling event tickets in a small town can feel like a real fight. Here’s a trick I picked up from Cody Heitschmidt, of Hutchinson Kansas: Limit the number of tickets and publicize that limit. This simple act turns…
“I love to sit in these chairs.”My friend and I were at church for a meeting. The two of us were meeting before the meeting. We were walking toward some chairs and couches in one of the large “milling around” spaces. The chairs my friend was talking about are nice chairs. They are nice for…
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