Blab with Becky: Session Six, Five Stories

Just about every Sunday Becky McCray and I discuss five stories about small towns on the platform Blab.  Here are the stories with comments and the blab video is below. Oh boy – this is just a fun idea that worked in Canada, What a hoot!   I love the little paper and his persistence.  http://calgaryherald.com/life/swerve/the-nanton-experiment-starting-a-mini-newspaper-in-a-small-town-is-a-big-idea…

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Blab 5 Stories – Session 5

Blab Session 5 of SaveYour.Town of our Weekly 5 Stories happened tonight – we snuck it in early this week!  Next week might be early too – so keep your eyes posted on our Facebook page, we will announce it there.  I’m traveling next weekend and it looks like we will be blabbing on Saturday.…

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8 Innovative Rural Business Models – Happening Tomorrow!

Wednesday, March 16 at 6 pm Becky McCray and I will host a webinar discussing 8 innovative rural business models.   Entrepreneurs are using these smaller scale experiments and tests to learn what works before making a huge investment. That’s tomorrow night, and you can tune in from the comfort of your home while eating…

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Save Your Town – Session Four of 5 Stories

Each week Becky McCray and I review 5 stories and make comments about them over at blab.im.  Here are the five links to the stories (italicized comments are mind) and the video is posted below. Small Business Owner Sandy Higgins’ Old-Fashioned (they mean small town) Methods Yield Modern-Day Success http://buff.ly/1LVNZa1 Hat tip to Miss Dazey for the…

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SaveYour.Town 5 Stories Session 2

Sunday afternoons Becky McCray and I, as part of our SaveYour.Town project, are talking about 5 stories found on the internet during the week.   Here are the links to the stories we covered this week and the 10 minute video discussion. Agritourism Toolkit – Oregon Tourism Commission http://buff.ly/1RnaZNZ Focus on business fundamentals first, then…

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Five Stories – Session One

Becky McCray and I have started a series at Blab.  We are discussing five stories that address some viewpoint that can be used in some way, shape or form to help small towns.  Todays stories were: The State of Entrepreneurship in 2016: U.S. is on the Verge of an Entrepreneurial Boom http://buff.ly/1QnB4zp – for the focus on…

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Toulouse-Lautrec on a Barn

I saw the article in the paper and promptly forgot about it.  Then my friend asked if I wanted to go take a picture of it.  I didn’t realize it was so close to where I lived, just west of Dayton on Highway 175. What a great story!  How often do you see the Peter…

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What Rural People Say They Need: The Survey of Rural Challenges

We all know what rural towns need, right? They need jobs, and to recruit some manufacturing and they have a huge poverty problem. Right? Well, no. At least that’s not what rural people told us. Becky McCray, my partner at www.saveyour.town, ran a survey of subscribers and visitors on SmallBizSurvival.com. Over 200 people who identified themselves as…

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Blab – Tour of Empty Buildings

Blab.im is a new place to have conversations online with up to 4 people who can see each other.  The listening audience can ask questions via a text option.  It’s pretty smooth running and meets a lot of needs.  Becky McCray and I ran a blab last night to answer questions submitted to us about…

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Weed Whackers and Windex

Ninjas Needed I visited Roscommon County, Michigan and toured a few empty buildings.  On one corner, a major intersection into town, there was an empty building on each corner.  We talked about building possibility, working with the county and the town and hosting a tour. Next to one of the buildings that needed to be…

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