Small Towns and Chambers of Commerce: The Hardest, Most Rewarding Service for Cultivating Community, Visitors Bureaus, and Economic Development

Small Towns and Chambers of Commerce: The Hardest, Most Rewarding Service for Cultivating Community, Visitors Bureaus, and Economic Development

Here’s what people from cities, even cities of 50,000 residents, don’t understand about small towns–actual small towns. Public transportation, what’s that?  Most small towns are rural. They don’t have public transportation. The closest thing they have to public transportation is what’s now known as Uber but without the app. A person calls someone who lives…

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Shannon Communications website design

Beaver Builder, Meet Shannon

I’ve been working on a new site design and build for Shannon Communications, a branding and communications consultancy here in San Antonio. This site is an expression of the brand she’s built, but it’s also an expression of everything I love to, for whom, and learning and applying what I’ve learned. I’ve had an ongoing…

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Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket.

A few years ago, Vine was the hot video social media platform. Vine stars grew followers/audiences quickly. Overnight, the platform died. All those followers…gone. All that social media collateral…gone. All that social media influence…gone. They were forced to start over again.

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