by Deb Brown What is a bio Start with short overview Use professional picture Short detailing of what you do Fuller accounting of what you do Contact Info Let’s first determine what a bio is. It’s certainly not a resume. A resume follows a structured format of Education and Professional Experience and is usually in…
All small town businesses are different, and all customers are different. Mix those two realities together, and people end up with all sorts of small town business experiences. Here are a few comments I caught on Twitter. Small town business ftw! Christmas shopping resumes :) 8:18 AM Dec 21st @siriuslyheather You have to love small town…
Every week, I open a Brag Basket. This Friday happens to be Christmas, and it’s a great time to share. (That’s what the Brag Basket is for: sharing.) Take a moment this weekend to introduce yourself or share some good news. Speak up and add yourself or another deserving soul in the comments. We all…
In a Father Brown detective story, a man is dead. It is clear that he has been killed. There were two guards at the door who knew the man was inside. No one entered, no one left. Father Brown, a priest with detective instincts, keeps asking Finally, the guards acknowledge that the postman had come,…
I met Judy Dunn when we both guest posted for The Marketing Guy Jay Ehret. We’ve been Twitter friends ever since, and I’m so excited she finally shares her small town business story. On Rural Small Biz Success: 5 Things I Learned When I Moved My Business to an Island There are small towns. There…
If you are going to use the standard mileage deduction, you need to keep track of the business miles driven. There are two ways to prove to the IRS how many miles you have driven your car for business. Under either method it is very advisable to record the odometer reading on the 1st day…
Your library is hiding some surprising business intelligence, or at least, I was surprised. At the Michigan Small Town Conference, I sat in on the session on economic gardening. The librarians presenting the session talked about all the cool databases of information they have access to, that the general public does not. And how useful…
Here’s another illustration of the consultants’ ongoing issue of where to draw the line between free and paid. A company approached me about doing a consulting job in social media. I was one of several they were talking to, they told me. We talked by phone. They told me how they needed help to get…
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