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What is holding us back? Why does every project take so long in small towns?

By Becky McCray

  We all hold different titles, work in different fields or sectors, but we’re all fighting for the future of our towns and rural places. We want to be a place our children and grandchildren and our nieces and nephews can live a good life. Quality of Life, a prosperous future for our towns, these are things […]

December 3, 2018 Filed Under: announcement, Best of, community, rural, trends Tagged With: idea friendly

Welcome back, Small Biz Survival email readers!

By Small Biz Survival

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We’ve missed you! Since I secured this site with https, you haven’t been receiving our emails. It was my fault for not updating our feed for delivery through MailChimp. I’m sorry. But you’re back now! Here are a few of the great articles you’ve missed lately… From me: The giant checklist of social media marketing […]

August 7, 2018 Filed Under: announcement

Check this list? Did I get your topic on there?

By Becky McCray

Deb Brown and I were in the same place last week, and she twisted my arm until we planned out our SaveYour.Town webinar topics for all the way through 2019. Here’s the list along with tentative dates for the recorded lessons: April 6: Rural Jobs Creation Strategies (open for registration now through April 25 only) May […]

April 9, 2018 Filed Under: announcement, rural Tagged With: Survey of Rural Challenges

2017 was the retail apocalypse. What does the future of retail hold for small town stores?

By Becky McCray

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Despite the headlines, what we are witnessing is not the death of all retail. Retail is splitting in two. This time, small retailers are the big winners. Future of Retail Webinar Deb Brown and I are making this Future of Retail the subject of our next webinar at SaveYour.Town. We’ll talk about the underlying consumer trend driving this […]

January 15, 2018 Filed Under: announcement, entrepreneurship, rural, trends Tagged With: retail

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