By Zane Safrit Do you stay at your job for the health care benefits? You’re not alone. Lots of American workers are held hostage by their company-sponsored health care benefits. This employee hostage scenario is more and more common: Your company’s changes have marginalized your contribution, maybe your income, definitely your happiness. You’d like to…
This post is the fourth in a series on social media and social networking tools for small towns. By Shawn Kirsh Well I was born in a small townAnd I live in a small townProbly die in a small townOh, those small communities All my friends are so small townMy parents live in the same…
Social media tools can be a great field leveler for small town professionals. I explained why we bother spending time on social networking at Liz Strauss’ Successful Blog, and then offered some practical ways to get started at Chris Brogan’s blog. Now, let’s do a little show and tell. Here are four people living in…
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. Tony Katz explained why this matters: It’s ok to have success, it’s ok to have great things happen in your life and it is ok to talk about those…
What could a small business in a small town gain from spending time on social media tools like blogs, Twitter, and FaceBook? And how can they get started? And is anyone doing this right now? Those are the questions around our 4 part series on social media for small town small businesses. 1. Social Networking…
Need ammo for your shop local campaign? Use this fact: local merchants are worth three times as much to your local economy as the chain stores. From Civic Economics: The analysis demonstrated that locally owned merchants generate more than three times the local economic activity of their competitor chain stores on equal revenue. Found in…
Every day we’re hit with conflicting economic news. For my first guest post at the Small Biz Pod (UK), What About the Economy?, I offered some thoughts about what it means to be a small business owner during troubled economic times. Rather ambitiously, Alex Bellinger gave my guest posts the title of Small Business Letter…
By Jon Swanson You wonder about your customers, whey they don’t come back, why they choose others. But look at how you function… as a customer. Not for your business, but for your personal life (and I know, small business owners have no personal life. But just pretend with me for a moment). When you…
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