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    Brag Basket – Will Brag for Applause

    October 20, 2006December 15, 2014

    It’s Friday and time to brag! Tell us about any success you like. Just leave a comment. In return, we’ll all applaud for you, and you can take a banana! Well, at least you can take a copy of our graphic, if you want. It was donated to us by our friend BJ. It’s a…

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  • customer service | ideas | rural

    Podcast: Your customers

    October 19, 2006July 8, 2017

    What do your customers want? Let’s ask them! For more ideas, read Basic Methods to Get Feedback from Customers by Carter McNamara. Music by Frenz, from Pod Safe Audio. small biz rural entrepreneurship customer service podcast audio New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see? Subscribe.

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  • resources

    Successful Blog is THE blogging resource

    October 19, 2006August 27, 2014

    Sharing her knowledge, fun spirit, and generous (linking) nature, ME “Liz” Strauss writes Successful Blog to help you become an SOB – Successful Outstanding Blogger.I mention this because Liz asked her readers to describe her blog in 25 words or less to celebrate her blog’s birthday. Congratulations, Liz! Liz’s archives are the single best blogging…

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  • marketing | rural

    Promote your business at Jump Up

    October 18, 2006August 27, 2014

    I just wrote about Intuit’s Jump Up, but I missed this. Steve Rucinski noticed it. Want to make the front of their website and have your business featured? Then complete the application by November 15th and you may be featured on the home page. Or get this flyer to learn more. The site is great…

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  • resources | rural | tools

    Jump Up and start your business

    October 16, 2006August 27, 2014

    Inuit wants to help you succeed in business. They started an online service, originally called Jack Rabbit, and we talked about it before. Now it is called Jump Up. You can customize Jump Up’s features like saving your own favorite bookmarks from around the web, tagging, social networks, community, and online tools. I like the…

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  • economic development | entrepreneurship | global | rural

    The Nobel Prize for Entrepreneurs

    October 14, 2006August 27, 2014

    So Professor Mohammed Yunus is the winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace. Didn’t mean much to me, until entrepreneurs I admire spoke up. Tom Peters is ecstatic, Rex Hammock is all for it and I’m beginning to see why this is important to me and you: entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is one of the few great…

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  • brag basket

    Brag Basket – Leave a brag, take a banana

    October 13, 2006December 15, 2014

    Taking pity on my lame-o Brag Basket graphic from last week, BJ of Kickass Web Design has whipped up the basket of bananas you see here. So, leave a brag (in a comment) and take a banana (feel free to put the badge on your site, at whatever size works for you)! What’s all this…

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  • rural

    TABOR, SOS and other government spending limit proposals will hurt us most

    October 13, 2006August 27, 2014

    Rural communities will be hurt the most if government spending limits are enacted. Let’s face it, we rely more on government dollars out here. We always get fewer of them, but more of us depend on them. Our schools carry enormous importance in our communities. Our government offices, state prisons, community colleges, and more are…

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