{"id":1961,"date":"2013-03-13T02:12:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T02:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?page_id=1961"},"modified":"2018-01-02T16:01:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T22:01:54","slug":"guided-tour","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/guided-tour.html","title":{"rendered":"Guided Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8901\" src=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Becky-McCray-in-Downtown-Alva-Oklahoma.-Photo-by-Colton-Foote-800x425.jpg\" alt=\"Becky McCray in Downtown Alva, Oklahoma. Photo by Colton Foote\" width=\"800\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Becky-McCray-in-Downtown-Alva-Oklahoma.-Photo-by-Colton-Foote-800x425.jpg 800w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Becky-McCray-in-Downtown-Alva-Oklahoma.-Photo-by-Colton-Foote-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Becky-McCray-in-Downtown-Alva-Oklahoma.-Photo-by-Colton-Foote.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Small Biz Survival, dedicated to the regular everyday small business people in small towns and all over the rural world. I&#8217;m glad you stopped in! You can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/about.html\">about us<\/a>, if you&#8217;d like, and you can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/disclosure.html\">read our current disclosures<\/a>. Let me give you a tour around the place.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">What can you expect to read here? Articles by and for small business people in rural areas and small towns. <\/span>You face some special challenges in a small town small business, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pressure from competitors in bigger cities,<\/li>\n<li>Pressure from competitors online, world wide,<\/li>\n<li>Scarce, or variable quality, resources to assist you locally,<\/li>\n<li>Tight labor supply, and a graying workforce,<\/li>\n<li>Lack of skills in your workforce,<\/li>\n<li>Isolation from your industry peers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But for each challenge, there is also opportunity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The online market opens the world to you.<\/li>\n<li>Involvement in your community is your way to fight against decline.<\/li>\n<li>Land is usually cheap, compared to growing areas.<\/li>\n<li>Regulatory burdens tend to be lower than in well-developed regions.<\/li>\n<li>A little payroll usually goes a long way.<\/li>\n<li>Work ethic is usually high.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">I believe&#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Entrepreneurship is the best way to support small towns.<\/strong> When the local people start their own businesses and prosper, they help their town to prosper, too.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Small town business people have a lot to teach the rest of the business world.<\/strong> Small town rules of customer service, tenacity, caring and community are long overdue for a come back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Regular Features<\/span><br \/>\nBased on those challenges and opportunities, we talk about small business basics, tourism, marketing, and economic development. To help you connect with each other, we have a Brag Basket every week. It&#8217;s your chance to share your successes and celebrate with others. On the <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/\">Front Page<\/a> you&#8217;ll find links to our recent stuff, by category.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Stage Are You In?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since &#8220;small business&#8221; is such a broad category, we&#8217;ve created three guides for the stages of business: <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/dreaming.html\">Dreaming<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/doing.html\">Doing and Growing<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/level-up.html\">Leveling Up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Searching and Finding<\/b><br \/>\nStop by <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\">the Front Page<\/a>. In the right-hand column, you&#8217;ll see a search box. That is the built in search-function, and it&#8217;s the easiest way to find anything you&#8217;re looking for here.<\/p>\n<p>To find all the categories here, there&#8217;s another box on <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\">the Front Page<\/a> in the right-hand column. That&#8217;s an easy way to browse by topic.<\/p>\n<p>Want to catch up? You can browse the most <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/recent-posts.html\">recent posts in the archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Do you like what you see?<\/span><br \/>\nCome back and visit often! And feel free to comment. We enjoy a good conversation. We welcome your story ideas, feedback, tips, and ideas for us to share with everyone. Don&#8217;t miss out! Make sure you get our updates, in which ever form you like best:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/get-updates.html\">Subscribe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reprints<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">All works here are copyrighted by Becky McCray, or by their contributors and are used by permission.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">If you&#8217;d like to reprint or re-use any of our materials, you can request permission on the <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" title=\"Reprint requests\" href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/reprint-requests.html\">Reprint Request<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"> page.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">That&#8217;s all!<\/span><br \/>\nSo that&#8217;s the tour. Hope you found something useful for yourself and your business. Thanks for stopping by. If you check <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\">the Front Page<\/a>, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll find something of interest.<\/p>\n<p>If we haven&#8217;t been introduced, you might want to catch us on the <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/about.html\">About page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in touch through <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/get-updates.html\">our updates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Welcome to Small Biz Survival, dedicated to the regular everyday small business people in small towns and all over the rural world. I&#8217;m glad you stopped in! You can read more about us, if you&#8217;d like, and you can\u00a0read our current disclosures. Let me give you a tour around the place. 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