I’m from a big town. 300,000 people live within 14 miles of me. It’s almost the smallest town I’ve lived in. When I look at a placemat like this, I think “small town.” It’s an advertising medium designed for people without access to or budgets for large media. It’s an advertising medium designed for diners…
Each Friday, I open the Brag Basket as a fun place to give someone a pat on the back, brag, or promote yourself and your projects. The Brag Basket is open for everyone, whether from a small town, a big city, or anywhere in the world. (But it’s true that I love small town brags!)…
Every growing small business runs into a crunch time, that time when the work is pouring in faster than you can afford to hire help to do it. How do you get out of a crunch without hiring? That’s my topic for the OpenBeta event in Oklahoma City tonight. It’s a lightning talk, so there…
It takes a truly collaborative spirit to bring together 237 authors from 15 countries for a not-for-profit book. That’s the Age of Conversation 2: Why Don’t They Get It? Contributor Jon Swanson and I each wrote a chapter. Jon gave a preview of his part in Talking Together. A little bit of mine is at…
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Tourism businesses have an array of new tools. Today, I’m talking about those tools at the annual tourism conference of the Red Carpet Country tourism association. When another speaker canceled at the last minute, Jeanne “OkieJ” Cole asked me to fill in. I put together these ideas to share. Here are the links from the…
After my Small Business Letter from America that goes to the UK, our friend Marco Terry, of the Invoice Factoring Blog, shared some of his international perspective in the comments. What’s the same and what’s different for small business around the world? By Marco Terry What you write about is pretty universal. Small businesses still…
Each Friday, I open the Brag Basket as a fun place to give someone a pat on the back, brag, or promote yourself and your projects. The Brag Basket is open for everyone, whether from a small town, a big city, or anywhere in the world. Last week, Bob of Pixels and Code landed a…
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