Tag: Small Business

Thursday meeting examines “State of Small Business” in Savannah

From Savannah Score: On Thursday, May 30, from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, SAVANNAH SCORE will present: The State of Small Business. Reports will be issued by 13 area experts that will have 3 minutes each to present their information…

Leopold’s ranked as #5 top ice cream shop in the world

A few days ago, I made fun of Savannah’s ranking of #7 on a list of best U.S. and Canadian cities in a survey of the World’s Best Cities in Travel and Leisure. But here’s a list I can sink…

Williams-Sonoma coming to Savannah: good news for midtown, bad news for downtown

It wasn’t until earlier today that I found out that Williams-Sonoma is opening a store in Savannah, but the news has been available since at least June 3rd. According to Citybizlist: Williams Sonoma has signed a lease for 5,000 square…

Tom Kohler talks about hand-painted signs and a sense of place at TEDx in Savannah

I’ve already written about urban planner Christian Sottile’s great presentation about cities as living beings at the recent TEDxCreativeCoast here at the Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center here in Savannah. Below you’ll find the video of Tom Kohler’s talk and slideshow…

Savannah Town Hall meeting to deal with business issues — but will the business owners show up?

My column in the Savannah Morning News has for the last decade dealt with small business issues — from endless profiles of new enterprises to the larger challenges of business in our diverse market. For today’s column (“Will Savannah small…

How to promote a small business

I got a lot of positive feedback from this column about how small businesses miss good PR chances. Willow Ridge Media discussed it and expanded on some of my ideas in this post. I’ll be returning to this subject in…