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Going Outside the Box When Operating Your Rural Grocery (or Other Rural Store)

By Glenn Muske

Think otside the box

It’s a growing trend. Online stores selling to your consumers. And the trend is growing. Currently books, electronics, clothing, etc. are the more popular items being sold. But the available categories are expanding rapidly. One of the growing categories is online grocery sales. This took the front page when Amazon purchased Whole Foods. But the […]

April 25, 2018 Filed Under: rural, success Tagged With: best management practices, ecommerce, online, small business

A Sustainable Advantage

By Glenn Muske

advantage

Does your business have a sustainable advantage? Having one or more sustainable advantages gives you an edge in the marketplace. Advantages can be developed in several ways. Perhaps the most commonly sought after advantage is price. However, a price advantage is rarely, if ever, sustainable. Another business will find a way to offer a lower […]

April 11, 2018 Filed Under: rural, Small Biz 100, success Tagged With: advantage, best management practices, management, small business, small business success, sustainable advantage

Keep Doing Things That Worked

By Glenn Muske

reboot

Small Business Saturday has come and gone. What worked? What did you do? And what do you wish you would have done? Now is the time to answer those questions. Yes, I know that for many of you it is also the holiday shopping season and you have just run the gauntlet of getting the […]

December 6, 2017 Filed Under: rural, shop local, Small Biz 100, success Tagged With: best management practices, effective marketing, good management, marketing, small business, small business saturday, success, successful small business

Making Room for Change

By Glenn Muske

exhaustion

Let’s start with two underlying truths. First, you probably are near the point where your time is maxed out. It would be hard to add anything more and still manage to stay on top of everything at work and in your personal life. Second, things change and there are always new opportunities and requirements coming […]

November 15, 2017 Filed Under: Small Biz 100, success Tagged With: best management practices, change, effecting management, effective change, time management

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