Skip to content
  • Survey of Rural Challenges
  • Small Town Speaker Becky McCray
  • SaveYour.Town
Small Biz Survival
The small town and rural business resource

The small town and rural business resource

Small town main street
  • Front Page
  • Latest stories
  • About
  • Guided Tour
  • Subscribe
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact
  • RSS
Small Biz Survival

The small town and rural business resource
  • 20 small business ideas for small towns
    announcement

    20 small business ideas for small towns

    ByBecky McCray July 18, 2012November 3, 2015

    Welcome, friends from Launch Me! Here’s the idea book I was telling you about. Returning friends, you might have missed this gem, so I’m mentioning it again. Need ideas for a small town small business? We have an ebook for you. 20 Small Business Ideas for Small Towns is a short ebook detailing 20 different…

    Read More 20 small business ideas for small townsContinue

  • Best of | entrepreneurship | marketing | planning | social media | tourism

    Blog Post Planners and Social Media Calendars

    ByBecky McCray July 17, 2012August 27, 2014

    Blogs and social media can be effective marketing tools for small town businesses, but they take planning to make the most of. This is true for small businesses and for tourism groups. Don’t let important events, holidays, and tie-ins sneak up on you. Use your calendar to connect your social efforts to the real world….

    Read More Blog Post Planners and Social Media CalendarsContinue

  • brag basket

    Lucky 13 Brag Basket

    BySmall Biz Survival July 13, 2012December 15, 2014

    The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one July 13-15, 2012. For Friday the 13th, we’re having a lucky Brag Basket. Leave a brag, grab some luck! Have some good news this week? Put it in the Brag Basket. Grab some luck!Photo (CC) by…

    Read More Lucky 13 Brag BasketContinue

  • Sorry Honda, We Screwed Up on Page 12
    SmallTownRules

    Sorry Honda, We Screwed Up on Page 12

    BySmall Town Rules July 11, 2012August 11, 2022

    Early in the book, Small Town Rules, we mistakenly say: “Events that “stick” to a large corporation can threaten to bring down a company. There are well known examples of Johnson and Johnson’s Tylenol (product tampering), Perrier (product contamination) and Honda (brake failures).” One loyal reader rightfully pointed out that the brake issue was at Toyota not…

    Read More Sorry Honda, We Screwed Up on Page 12Continue

  • SmallTownRules

    A big company can choose to remember that it was once a small company

    BySmall Town Rules July 11, 2012August 11, 2022

    Cartoon (CC) by Gaping Void “A big company can choose to remember that it was once a small company.” Artist and Marketer Hugh MacLeod gets the small town rules. He grew up in a small town, and has lived in towns and cities world wide. He drew this Cube Grenade for Rackspace, as they experience…

    Read More A big company can choose to remember that it was once a small companyContinue

  • economic development | marketing | rural | social media | tourism

    The new billboard (video)

    ByBecky McCray July 10, 2012August 27, 2014

    Educator Kevin Honeycutt of Inman, Kansas, (population 1300) is working with other locals to create a “New Billboard”: a combination QR code, Foursquare tour. If you can’t see the video, click through to Small Biz Survival. The basic idea is to draw in visitors from the highway, and use tools like QR codes and Foursquare…

    Read More The new billboard (video)Continue

  • rural

    What is a small town?

    ByBecky McCray July 9, 2012February 17, 2015

    “What do you consider a small town?” I get asked that quite a bit. The answer isn’t that simple. Places come in too many sizes to fall neatly into just three categories: big city, small town, suburb. What We Think In general, I think of small towns as being under 10,000 in population, and really…

    Read More What is a small town?Continue

  • brag basket

    Put your first half of 2012 brags in the basket

    BySmall Biz Survival July 6, 2012December 15, 2014

    The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one July 6-8, 2012. Have some good news this week? Put it in the Brag Basket.The first half of 2012 has passed. Time to review the past six months. You can use these six-month questions to get…

    Read More Put your first half of 2012 brags in the basketContinue

Page navigation

Previous PagePrevious 1 … 169 170 171 172 173 … 398 Next PageNext

Howdy!

Glad you dropped in to the rural and small town business blog, established in 2006.

We want you to feel at home, so please take our guided tour.

Meet our authors on the About page.

Have something to say? You can give us a holler on the contact form.

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.

The Best of Small Biz Survival

TREND 2025: Retail’s Big Split: what small town retailers can do now

99% of the best things you can do for your town don’t require anyone’s permission

Get started as an outdoor outfitter without breaking the bank

How to get customers in the door of small town and rural retail stores

Read more of the Best of Small Biz Survival

Partners

We partner with campaigns and organizations that we think best benefit rural small businesses.

Logo with "Shop Indie Local"
Graphic of US currency with the text Move Your Money, bank local, invest local
Multicolor logo with text that says "Global Entrepreneurship Week"
Save Your Town logotype
Copyright © 2006–2026 Becky McCray • Site by Webdancers

  • Front Page
  • Latest stories
  • About
  • Guided Tour
  • Subscribe
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact
  • RSS
  • Survey of Rural Challenges
  • Small Town Speaker Becky McCray
  • SaveYour.Town