How would you monetize the site mybmore.net? MyBmore.net was created for locals to discover Baltimore by watching videos of urban businesses, artists, activities, and organizations. The good people on Hacker News have some ideas: It’s going to be fairly difficult, but since you asked: Step 1: Develop a sufficiently large following among Baltimoreans such that […]
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Working in partnership with the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, YesPleaseMore aims to provide an economic development platform that gives participating creatives funding for new innovations, the opportunity to sell their wares, and a nurturing environment for creative entrepreneurial culture and reported by trendspotter Springwise. Its pop-up souvenir shop in a vacant retail space within
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Oregon-based Supportland is using incentives to reward consumers for choosing local businesses when they buy products and services of any kind, according to a story by trendspotter Springwise. Supportland has developed a rewards card that works at any of the company’s network of some 50 locally owned Portland-area businesses. Using the free card, consumers are
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The book Big Box Swindle:The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses raises important questions and suggests some interesting ideas that should be of interest to work at home entrepreneurs who struggle to overcome the “Big Boys’” economies of scale. The main argument against the “Big Box” and it’s “low low
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photo credit: kevindooley OpenForum.com: When comedian Steve Martin declared, “Let’s get small,” he could have been coining today’s consumer mantra. Across the nation, shoppers are shifting their purchases to small and local businesses. One great way to go local with your business is by doing the three goodness rules. Do good for yourself obviously because
A new wave of startups, as well as giants such as Google and Yahoo, is trying to tap the multibillion-dollar potential of what is often called “the local Web.” reports The Indy Star. The local Web is rapidly evolving amid the converging forces of online social networking, location-savvy smart phones and an array of new
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The “While You Were Out” form is a simple way to communicate with your local businesses. It gives you a polite way of letting a business know that you’d would have spent money in their establishment, but because they weren’t open, you couldn’t. I’m planning to use these in my community. There are four coffee
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TechCrunch: NPR has received $3 million in funding to launch a new journalism project that will focus on providing in-depth, hyper-local coverage on community-specific issues on an online platform. NPR received $2 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and $1 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The new funding
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Fast Company: Outside the local train station, the Maplewood Civic Association maintains a bulletin board plastered with news of jazz festivals and yoga classes for this small, affluent New Jersey town. One day last winter, an unassuming new flyer appeared, nestled between ones hawking a fish tank and a drum set, titled, “Introducing the Local.”
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photo by Angie Carlson Last Sunday, I had a minor accident that as I attempted to remedy illustrated some basic failing that many small businesses suffer from. While weed whacking my yard, I shot a handful of small stones towards my house and broke my sliding glass door and another window. The outer pane of
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