Test your business idea with small steps: starting a quilt retreat
Uniontown, Washington, (population 300) has a strong base of arts, artisan and craft entrepreneurship. When I toured Uniontown, a woman…
Month: January 2025
Rural marketing tip: the name is the claim
Guest post and photo by Debbie Saviano NO GUESSWORK Here! You know exactly what you’re getting! Great burgers and…
Unlocking Community Potential: The Catalyst Approach for Change
Who do we envision ourselves becoming? The big framing question, “Who do we envision ourselves becoming?” was written in wide…
Young Americans Returning to Rural for More than Just Holiday Dinners
by Caroline Tremblay, The Daily Yonder August 5, 2024 Kansas: Elevate the work of younger people In rural Kansas, if…
New sidewalk sales idea: Sell through the fence
In the small town of Duck Lake, Saskatchewan, Marilyn Pope Francis ran a restaurant with a fenced patio for…
Make a “What to do in…” Pinterest Board
— How many times have you heard it? Someone lamenting, “There’s nothing to do here!” Worse yet, hearing someone tell…
How one town stopped business owners and staff from parking in front of downtown businesses
Without making people mad! One common small town parking complaint is business staff taking up customer parking. I can’t tell…
Boost your co-working space with social hours
When I visited Caldwell, Kansas, the manager of the co-working site said they had filled their private offices, but struggled…
You don’t have 52 weeks this year
By Rob Hatch Thirty-six weeks. Part of my process for planning my business for the New Year is to do…
TREND 2025: Retail’s Big Split: what small town retailers can do now
Remember the Retail Apocalypse around 2017? In a media interview this week, I brought up that it was actually Retail’s…