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Open Up – It’s the Customers

By Chris Brogan

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As different places begin to allow local businesses to open up, you’re not alone if you’re breathing a sigh of relief mixed with a gasp of worry. We all need the money. We all want to get back to being useful for the people we serve. And some or most of us are worried about […]

May 19, 2020 Filed Under: customer service, economic development, entrepreneurship, management, marketing, rural, shop local, trends Tagged With: change, Chris Brogan, coronavirus, COVID19, crisis communications, customer service, disaster, economic development, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, guest post, recovery, reopening, resilience, shop local

Remember when we used to try to hide our accents?

By Chris Brogan

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  By Chris Brogan I’m originally from Maine. Accents up there come through the nose. Most famously, people from Maine are supposed to say “Ayuh” when we mean “yes.” Midway through high school, I moved to Massachusetts, where you lose the nasal thing, but you also lose all “r’s” from conversation. “It’s hahd to sound […]

May 7, 2020 Filed Under: entrepreneurship, marketing, rural, shop local, trends Tagged With: accents, authenticity, branding, Chris Brogan, coronavirus, COVID19, effective marketing, email marketing, guest post, marketing, retail, rural, service businesses, small business, small business success, small town

Did America Get Too Big? Next steps for small businesses right now

By Chris Brogan

Survival skills for small town businesses in the Coronavirus era By Chris Brogan As the world starts to ask what’s going to happen when this pandemic is finally over and we can look at what it will take to jumpstart the economy again, one venture capitalist says we have to save Main Street and not […]

April 17, 2020 Filed Under: entrepreneurship, global, management, planning, rural, survivors Tagged With: business survival, coronavirus, COVID19, entrepreneurship, good management practices, guest post, rural, small business, success, survival

The best things you can do for local businesses in light of coronavirus

By Becky McCray

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  Monica Bailey of Rock Port, Missouri, sent in this question that I think you can relate to: Thank you ladies, as always, for supporting small towns! My question is super generic but it is giving me sleepless nights. I am our counties economic/community development director and I’ve been scrambling to support our small businesses […]

March 27, 2020 Filed Under: economic development, entrepreneurship, rural, survivors Tagged With: change, community development, coronavirus, COVID19, crisis, economic development, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, isolation, recession, rural, service businesses, shelter in place, small business, stay home, Support

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