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  • The Brag Basket is the “good news” market
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    The Brag Basket is the “good news” market

    April 12, 2019March 31, 2019

      The Brag Basket is open! This one is for April 12-14, 2019. Bring your good news, big or small, to share with everyone. What can you share in the Brag Basket? introduce yourself share some great news from this week celebrate progress, even baby steps congratulate a friend applaud for each other confess your…

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  • How church buildings can do more for the community
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    How church buildings can do more for the community

    April 8, 2019March 31, 2019

    This week at SaveYour.Town, we’re sharing how to take big empty buildings and divide them up for multiple small businesses. One model is co-working spaces, which offer shared office and workspace. Then our friend Jon Swanson sent us an article on rural churches doing innovative things, including one doing a co-working space. This seems like…

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    Let’s clean up in the Brag Basket

    April 5, 2019March 31, 2019

      The Brag Basket is open! This one is for April 5-7, 2019. Bring your good news, big or small, to share with everyone. What can you share in the Brag Basket? introduce yourself share some great news from this week celebrate progress, even baby steps congratulate a friend applaud for each other confess your…

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  • Ideas to fill empty display windows
    entrepreneurship | marketing | rural

    Ideas to fill empty display windows

    April 2, 2019March 31, 2019

    Every small town has some empty windows downtown. Some are empty buildings, some are buildings being used for storage, and some are service businesses that just don’t have a lot to put in their windows. Here are three ideas I saw on my trip through Cowlitz County, Washington. Make a mini-museum. Work with the local…

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  • Good news goes swimmingly in the Brag Basket
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    Good news goes swimmingly in the Brag Basket

    March 29, 2019February 22, 2019

      The Brag Basket is open! This one is for March 29-31, 2019. Bring your good news, big or small, to share with everyone. What can you share in the Brag Basket? introduce yourself share some great news from this week celebrate progress, even baby steps congratulate a friend applaud for each other confess your…

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  • Know your customers: What do they want to be good at?
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    Know your customers: What do they want to be good at?

    March 25, 2019March 23, 2019

      A few weeks ago, we talked about knowing your customers in order to help them answer questions they get asked. This week, get to know your customers better by thinking through what they want to be good at. What do your customers want to be good at? You help customers all the time. The…

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  • Are all small towns dying? Can you save a small town?
    community | economic development | POV | rural | survivors | trends

    Are all small towns dying? Can you save a small town?

    March 23, 2019February 22, 2019

      There have been too many years of disinterest and disinvestment in rural America and at times I grow weary of defending the value of the rural place I call home to a national audience. I have read multiple articles about the rural underclass and the poverty that plagues our landscape from Bloomberg Business, NY…

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  • A kaleidoscope of good news colors the Brag Basket
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    A kaleidoscope of good news colors the Brag Basket

    March 22, 2019February 22, 2019

      The Brag Basket is open! This one is for March 22-24, 2019. Bring your good news, big or small, to share with everyone. What can you share in the Brag Basket? introduce yourself share some great news from this week celebrate progress, even baby steps congratulate a friend applaud for each other confess your…

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