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Finding Success with Dogs at Camp

By Becky McCray

[Glen Kowarsky emailed me the other day, and I had to pass along his story. It’s a great rural small business story. -Becky ] I started Dogs at Camp back in the Spring of 2002. At that time, I had a dog named Abby, who was my ‘one and only’, as I don’t have children. […]

June 21, 2010 Filed Under: entrepreneurship, global, ideas, success, survivors

Talking tourism with Des Walsh

By Becky McCray

Sheila Scarborough and I were happy to connect with Australian Des Walsh to talk tourism for our Tourism Currents listeners. I thought you’d enjoy it as well. Des Walsh(cc) by trib Des attended some presentations on the Tourism Queensland project, The World’s Best Job. He joins us with some thoughts on what went right, what […]

June 1, 2010 Filed Under: global, tourism

International small businesses face similar challenges

By Becky McCray

After my Small Business Letter from America that goes to the UK, our friend Marco Terry, of the Invoice Factoring Blog, shared some of his international perspective in the comments. What’s the same and what’s different for small business around the world? By Marco Terry What you write about is pretty universal. Small businesses still […]

October 27, 2008 Filed Under: entrepreneurship, global

My Small Business Letter from America

By Becky McCray

Once a month, Alex Bellinger allows me to post a Small Business Letter from America at the SmallBizPodUK. It’s a pretty tall order for this small town gal to seem to speak for the whole of American small business. This month, I didn’t think I could avoid the topic of the economy. If you’ve read […]

October 23, 2008 Filed Under: global

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