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Come share your good news in the Brag Basket

By Small Biz Survival

 

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Come share your good news in the Brag Basket.

The Brag Basket is open! This one is for June 23-25, 2017. Bring your good news, big or small, to share with everyone.

What can you share in the Brag Basket?

  • introduce yourself
  • share some great news from this week
  • celebrate progress, even baby steps
  • congratulate a friend
  • applaud for each other
  • confess your undying love for rural places

Want to see some past Brag Baskets and read some past contributions? Here’s the archive.

How do you join in?

Below this post is the comment section. Add your good news there.

Reading this in your email? Hit reply.

Don’t like to brag? Just share some good news for someone you’re happy for. It’s a conversation with friends. So jump in. And remember to cheer for each other.

June 23, 2017 Filed Under: brag basket

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Comments

  1. Greg Manter says

    June 24, 2017 at 9:43 am

    I recently discovered your blog and have been reading through older posts. Great stuff.

    Your posts about the need to stay open later hours spurred me to share this story about a local business. Makers Donuts is a wildly popular doughnut shop. They’re located just outside downtown, next to a cemetery. The same people also run a coffee shop next to the doughnut shop, but the location is still out of the way and odd.

    When they started their hours were 7AM to 1PM Thursday to Sunday. Closed Monday to Wednesday. Despite the restricted hours and odd location they literally had lines out the door and often sold out before closing time.

    After being open for several months they tried an experiment. They stayed open until midnight on a Friday (one of our monthly First Fridays when there is a lot going on). It was a big hit and now they are open until midnight every Friday and Saturday.

    The moral of the story is: you can sell a lot of doughnuts to people with late night munchies. Also it’s probably smart to be open more on weekends and close during the week. Also, if you make great doughnuts the world will beat a path to your door.

    https://www.makersdonuts.com

    (Knoxville isn’t a small town but I think everything you write about here is applicable to us too).

    • Becky McCray says

      July 7, 2017 at 6:28 pm

      Greg, thanks for sharing the late-night doughnut story! I hope it will inspire more businesses to try later hours, even as a temporary experiment.

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