Karen Wylie is writing a terrific new rural small business blog, Backroads Business. Karen is the owner of The Blue Ridge Soap Shed in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
She focuses on rural business, seasonal business and home business. Karen’s just getting started, but it’s well worth a look. Tell her I said hi!
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Becky, how nice of you to give a ‘shout out’ to my new blog! I should have known you brought it to people’s attention, because my visitors doubled that day! Thank you for your kind words and all you do every day to promote rural small business.