Yesterday, I sat down with Chris Brogan and Joe Sorge for their series on small business, Kitchen Table Talks. We talk about my many businesses, SOBCon, Small Town Rules, failures, and customer complaints. If you don’t see the video, click through to the page on Kitchen Table Talks. There is no proof that Chris and…
The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one May 4-6, 2012. Have some good news this week? Put it in the Brag Basket. Leslie McLellan is joining us in Tourism Currents! This week, I’m proud to use the Brag Basket to announce that Leslie…
By Jon Swanson I write blog posts five days a week. A post that I wrote three years ago, and reposted a year ago started getting a lot of traffic about three months ago. In fact, about three times as much traffic in the last three months as in the nine months before that. It’s…
Our friend Heather Thomas of Destin Florida Boat Rentals has been looking for ways to make her website “copy-proof.” See, other boat rental companies can say they offer the same services or the same tours, but of course it isn’t the same. How could she better show off her uncopy-able qualities? How can you add…
Lisle Corporation makes specialty auto tools. They are tapping their customers’ creativity to find new tools to make. See, auto mechanics are notorious tinkerers, so it’s only natural to go to them for new ideas that Lisle can cooperate to market. This ad was on the cardboard backing on a tool Lisle sells. How are you tapping…
The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one April 27-29, 2012. Have some good news this week? Put it in the Brag Basket. Basket photo (CC) by Keepps Don’t hold back because of that word, “brag.” When you hold back, you hide your good…
Burnet, Texas, has a neat small town development idea, to encourage building close in, instead of out on the edge in suburb-style developments. Downtown Burnet, Texas. They call it the Hometown Housing Program. For new houses on empty residential lots in the targeted core area, the city rebates 100% of water, sewer and electric tap…
“The most commonly visited section on a small brick-and-mortar business website is the store locator. Customers want to know your store locations, your hours, and your phone number,” Alex Schmelkin of Alexander Interactive says. My store’s site putslocation and hoursright up top. Here are the important implications for your small town business website: Put your…
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