Marketing, Promotion & Advertising Tips for Small Local Businesses
If you are working to promote tourism in a rural area or small town, consider the niche travel trend called astrotourism. It’s just a fancy term for attracting people who like stargazing. A friend of mine asked what I knew about it, because she’s gotten inquiries from small towns about how they can take advantage of…
Erik Reader is a rural friend of ours, and much like us, out there everyday doing his best to make a difference and help somebody out. Erik is the president of Reader Area Development , and is a downtown revitalization professional with more than 15 years of hands-on experience working inside the realities of small…
By Marci Goodwin, co-founder of SmartStart Business Development Over the past few months, the SmartStart Business Development team has been deep in the weeds researching rural entrepreneurship programs to better understand what is actually happening on the ground with local microbusinesses and how communities support them. Microbusinesses are those with less than 10 employees and make…
If you are working to promote tourism in a rural area or small town, consider the niche travel trend called…
Erik Reader is a rural friend of ours, and much like us, out there everyday doing his best to make…
By Marci Goodwin, co-founder of SmartStart Business Development Over the past few months, the SmartStart Business Development team has been deep…
Hometown newspapers are small businesses, just like the hardware store, the cafe, or the auto repair shop. They’re not just…
Guest Post by Jason Duff, Small Nation I’ve been noticing something interesting happening across the small towns we work in,…
Guest post by Mark Gross, A Cheerful Giver I run A Cheerful Giver out of Elmer, New Jersey. The population…
You want to open a place to eat in your small town. Maybe a coffee shop, a little cafe, a…
The Leadership Myth That’s Holding Us Back The Community Coach | Paula Jensen In small rural communities, leadership matters. But…
People need a compelling reason to leave their homes and come experience your business with you. This feels like a…
Following up on the trend of rural experience-based retail, I spotted these Valentine’s Day offerings from my local women’s boutique,…
I walked into a local retail shop in Alva, Oklahoma, population 4,000. It’s called Bates & Co., and they are…
Twenty years ago today, I hit “publish” on the first post here at SmallBizSurvival.com. I was sitting in the backroom…