How Fairview stopped talking about housing and started building houses

How Fairview stopped talking about housing and started building houses

At the Teeny Tiny Town Summit last week, JaNae Barnard from Fairview, Oklahoma, shared how they jump started their new housing project. “We stopped settling for talking,” she said. She loaded up the key folks from Major County Economic Development, and they drove past every single house in Fairview. That gave everyone a much clearer…

What to do with kids’ ideas – even the ones that will “never work”

What to do with kids’ ideas – even the ones that will “never work”

The other day, I told you about how the kids’ Photovoice project stopped me in my tracks and why we made a video for those kids.  Today, I want to share one of the photo ideas the kids made and what Deb Brown and I said to those kids. It’s also part of the video…

Why won’t people come to our entrepreneur training??

If you set up entrepreneur training, you want to reach as many potential entrepreneurs as you can. When only a handful sign up and even fewer show up and some drop out before the end, it’s discouraging.  It’s just possible that some of the problem is in how the training is delivered. For formal training events like conferences, there are certain accessibility…

You probably haven’t thought of this local business benefit

I’ve been thinking lately how many large challenges we face as a society that come down to not thinking from other people’s perspectives. Our communities could use more empathy. Doing business with each other can help us build empathy.  Selling something requires us to think about other people. We have to think about what other people…

7th Annual SMTULSA® Social Business Conference Equips Local Business People for Social Media Marketing Success

SMTULSA Conference brings together a select group of people to discuss social media marketing strategy, email marketing, SEO, and other techniques to help business people rise above the noise and make a mark that will give their business longevity. TULSA, OK (PRWEB) FEBRUARY 22, 2017 “There has never been a better time to be a…

Absolut vodka goes local through partner distillers

Absolut vodka goes local through partner distillers

Pernod Ricard, owner of Absolut vodka, is building a terrific connection following Small Town Rule 7: Build Your Local Connections. They are working with local distilling entrepreneurs worldwide on a project called Our/Vodka. Each will be called by the local city name, like Our/Austin or Our/Melbourne. The local partner will open micro-distilleries that will produce vodka following a set…

Piggly Wiggly is proud of being local “since forever”

Regional supermarket chain Piggly Wiggly is proudly proclaiming their localness as a selling point. This is exactly how to do Rule 7: Be Local.  “At Piggly Wiggly Carolina Company, we know what it means to be ‘local.’ Our founder, Joe Newton, had a vision when he started this grocery store chain in 1947 — to buy local,…