It’s time for the weekly Brag Basket. This is your chance to promote yourself, your small business, your successes and your beautiful failures. What’s the point? To remind you that every single week you should take time to evaluate your performance, to learn some lessons, and to plan for improvement. So go ahead; brag a…
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. Dr. Joyce Brothers Found at the Business Opportunities Blog small biz rural entrepreneurship success failure New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see? Subscribe.
The following is part of a weekly newsletter I get from the Business & Professional Women’s National Headquarters: This week you have the opportunity to weigh in on the proposed Small Business Administration regulations for the implementation of the women’s federal procurement program. Comments can be received by July 17, 2006.After 5 ½ years, the…
Everyone join me in giving a huge and public thank you to Maesz for all the work while I was gone. She logged in and posted all those entries for me over the last three weeks, and I really appreciate it! small biz rural entrepreneurship New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you…
Tech startup Dave Snider writes very honestly about launching a new business: A year from now this story will either be a testament to our methodology or an embarrassing reminder of all the mistakes we made. Either way, the hope is that it avoids the polish of hindsight and will be not only inspirational, but…
Still hiding your light under a bushel? Waiting for someone to notice how well you are doing? Get over it! Brag! Let us in on your success and marvelous failures this week. Reviewing your own performance honestly is vastly better than waiting for someone else to come do it for you. small biz rural entrepreneurship…
Slow Leadership blog offers 8 excellent tips on maintaining Start-up Sanity. A little while ago, I tried to explain why I think working hard is often necessary for small business owners and those with a start-up, but no guarantee of business success. Maybe that sounded like cold comfort, but it’s better to face reality early…
Princeton, Indiana, has set up a low-interest revolving loan program, to make loans of up to $10,000 to downtown businesses. Travis Neff wrote about it in the Princeton Daily Clarion, City hopes to foster downtown progress with loan program.It’s a partnership of the city government and the Umbrella Committee on Downtown Revitalization. The city was…
Since 2006, this site has been helping people like you in small towns move forward without waiting on outside experts, big budgets, or perfect plans. You don’t need any of that to get started.
If you care about your business, your downtown, or your community, you’ll find ideas here you can actually use. Take one. Try it out. Let me know how it goes for you.
Want to search our past articles? Catch up with the latest stories? Browse through the categories? All the good stuff is on the Front Page.
We partner with campaigns and organizations that we think best benefit rural small businesses.
Copyright © 2006–2026 Becky McCray • Site by Webdancers