Drew, of The Marketing Minute, has put together an awesome PDF of marketing lessons he learned on vacation at Disney. They are simple, direct and to the point. And more important, the lessons end with a challenging question to help you evaluate your own business. New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you…
Enjoy life, and brag about it! Once a week, I offer this post as a safe place to brag. You can brag on your business, your community, or your self. The goal is to encourage you to review your week. Learned anything? Made any accomplishments you’d like to share? It doesn’t have to be something…
By Seth Godin Gil lost his cell phone I lose mine all the time. You probably do too. So here’s my idea. And I don’t even want to wait to patent it and license it… you should just build it. It’s two credit card sized devices. One goes in my wallet. The other is taped…
Today’s rural entrepreneurship news is full of ideas you can copy and adapt. Start a rural food festivalIf you have a rural food or ag business, get together with your neighbors to start a rural food festival. Read about a successful food festival in Isreal. Get the attention of your government; copy “Rural Oregon Day”All…
The high profile Freakonomics Blog noticed a tiny slice of rural business, when they profiled the Farmers Only online dating site. Farmers Only got noticed because it fit into one of their trends: niche online dating sites. Which brings us to the business idea: target your product or service to the rural and small town…
Following up on our teaching entrepreneurship news, the EDPro Ed Morrison offers links to resources for teaching entrepreneurship. Morrison predicts that high school entrepreneurship classes will be “catching fire” in the USA over the next three to five years. In Montana, an e-newsletter from the Montana Associated Technology Roundtables recently pointed to the growing resources…
Rural news this time focuses on different programs for teaching entrepreneurship. USA universities take on entrepreneurshipBut can they teach you anything valuable? Yale University is changing their business education program after stinging criticism that they don’t teach useful skills. Expect more focus on entrepreneurship. Our friend Pat Matthews weighs in. “The challenge universities face,” Matthews…
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