Here are four ways that I am using Twitter itself to attract interesting and interested people on Twitter. 1. Live tweet from events. Include the event hashtag. (If there isn’t one, make one.) 2. Participate in tweet chats. Find one that interests you on this list of Twitter Chats on Google Docs. 3. Create lists of…
Lots of local tourism groups and chambers of commerce send out excellent email blasts to their members. If you send an email newsletter, I’ll bet you routinely talk to people who didn’t know about it. It’s like the best kept secret. Did you know you could be multiplying your reach with social tools?You can use…
[Glen Kowarsky emailed me the other day, and I had to pass along his story. It’s a great rural small business story. -Becky ] I started Dogs at Camp back in the Spring of 2002. At that time, I had a dog named Abby, who was my ‘one and only’, as I don’t have children….
I was disappointed I couldn’t find more info about a small town I wrote about in http://eldergeneration.net. Even small towns need websites. @Miss_Dazey I don’t care how small your town is, you have visitors and tourists. If you aren’t online, you are ignoring them. Some of them could be writing about you, promoting you to…
Even though I call this the Brag Basket, it’s not really about bragging. It’s about sharing. I started this so you can introduce yourself, share some good news, or congratulate a friend. The basket is open all weekend, from June 18 – 20, 2010. Speak up and add yourself or another deserving soul in the…
This is the second of several reports from the Making Place Matter in Northwest Oklahoma Rural Community Economic Development Summit held in Alva on June 3, 2010. A session on community building covered a wide range of topics, from the Main Street approach, to supporting local businesses, rural tourism, rural grocery stores, the participation of young people,…
Encouraging and supporting entrepreneurs is a hot topic in economic development, and I’d like to start a series on it here at Small Biz Survival. Most of you are involved either in a small business, or in economic development in one form or another, so I’d like to start with you. Do you have an opinion…
If you are interested in training for social media marketing in tourism, look at the courses Sheila Scarborough and I developed at Tourism Currents. Enrollment for the new courses starts today. (yay!) Sheila Scarborough, Liz Strauss, and Becky McCray Sheila and I met on Liz Strauss’s Successful Blog, on her open mic nights a couple…
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