Take a Field Trip

ByBecky McCray

All the best ideas are borrowed (or stolen). So have you taken any field trips lately? Similar businesses may be the most obvious targets, but also add dis-similar businesses in your region to your list.

Take a good hard look at businesses you visit frequently, scrutinize their ideas. Steal shamelessly!

Compare your work to others’. Try to find points in common with a bizarrely different business. Open your eyes to all the world of possiblities.

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Becky McCray wearing long braids and a professional outfit smiles as she stands on a rural downtown street with twinkling lights in the background.

Becky started Small Biz Survival in 2006 to share rural business and community building stories and ideas with other small town business people. She and her husband have a small cattle ranch and are lifelong entrepreneurs. Becky is an international speaker on small business and rural topics.

www.beckymccray.com

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