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  • entrepreneurship | survivors

    What to do when your business is being squeezed out of existence

    ByBecky McCray May 13, 2008August 27, 2014

    Here’s some insight into a business being squeezed out of existence. Professional photography: portraits, weddings, and studios. If everyone has an awesome digital camera, who needs a professional photographer? How long can a professional keep charging $55 for an 8×10 print, when I can get one printed online for under $5? Can enough customers afford…

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    Small Town Business Tips Newsletter

    ByBecky McCray May 11, 2008August 27, 2014

    To help you continue the conversations we start here, I’ve introduced a newsletter. It features bonus material that doesn’t appear on our site. My hope is that it will be exactly the kind of thing that you might pass along to others in the small town small business arena, to share our conversations. Note: I…

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  • customer service | marketing | Small Biz 100

    How to convert freebies into paying clients

    ByBecky McCray May 10, 2008September 27, 2016

    Every small service business gets them: people fishing for free help, or asking twenty questions so they can go off and do it on their own. If you don’t have an established way to help them easily and convert them into paying clients, you are missing out on business and going crazy, I’ll bet. Cody…

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    Small business ideas for small towns ebook

    ByBecky McCray May 9, 2008December 16, 2021

    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 ways you can make a successful business in a small town. It also covers seven ways to generate your own ideas, so you can dream up the…

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    A fresh Brag Basket is ready!

    BySmall Biz Survival May 9, 2008December 15, 2014

    Each Friday, I open the brag basket as a fun place to give someone a pat on the back, brag, or promote yourself and your projects. Tony Katz explained why this matters: It’s ok to have success, it’s ok to have great things happen in your life and it is ok to talk about those…

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    The role of marketing

    ByBecky McCray May 9, 2008August 27, 2014

    If you are doing wonderful, exciting things that will help other people, then you owe it to your potential customers to learn marketing and selling skills so you can connect more people to your benefits. If you are learning marketing and selling skills because your only focus is on generating more money for you, well,…

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  • entrepreneurship | Small Biz 100 | tax matters

    When NOT to be a Sole Proprietorship: Forming an LLC or S Corp

    ByBecky McCray May 7, 2008August 27, 2014

    Sole proprietorship is the simplest form of business, but it also has some disadvantages. So for this installment of the Small Biz 100, I’ll talk about some of the situations where you don’t want to be a sole proprietorship and what types of business you might want to form. Important: I am not an attorney,…

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    Embrace good things in the Brag Basket

    BySmall Biz Survival May 2, 2008December 15, 2014

    Each Friday, I open the brag basket as a fun place to give someone a pat on the back, brag, or promote yourself and your projects. Tony Katz explained why this matters: It’s ok to have success, it’s ok to have great things happen in your life and it is ok to talk about those…

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