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10 Tips to Survive a Coming Recession and Other Storms
As local businesses, we’ve learned resilience. In fact, we all probably have a PhD in resilience, at least those of us who survived—make that...
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An Austin Staycation Can Rival the Best Vacation. Think Not? Read On!
Just when we begin to emerge from pandemic life and try to recoup the lost vacations of the past couple of years, gas prices rise to skyrocket...
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Shop Local Week is May 1-7
At the Local Business Institute, we don’t refer to businesses as the classic B to B (Business to Business) or B to C (Business to Consumer). We...
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Communities Make a Nation
The economic health of America lies not in the accumulation of individual wealth but in the greater exchange of dollars in local communities...
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2021 Opportunities and Creating Success
2021 is the “Customer Obsessed” year. If you aren’t speaking to your existing customers about how you can help with their needs, you will...
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Taking Back Capitalism
The pandemic has brought out the best and the worst of us. Or as my father used to say about Louisiana politics, both cream and scum rise to...
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Return to Normal? No Thanks.
We are all anxious to leave this pandemic-ridden world and return to some form of normalcy. The community of friends and commerce where our...
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5 Lessons to Make the Most of Working From Home
Even before COVID-19 hit, 4.7 million Americans worked from home. And now that number is astronomical, as many have been forced to stay...
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