In this article, I’ll explain what SEO is for social media, why you should care about it, and how you can use it to your advantage. Search engine optimization (SEO) sounds like a fancy jargon word that has a suit with elbow patches on. But it’s really just a way to be easily visible and … Read more
The “Move Your Money” campaign wants you to shift your financial resources to local banks and investment opportunities. That makes a lot of sense for small town businesses who care about having a thriving local economy. The 2024 Move Your Money Campaign The American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA) has been at the forefront of the … Read more
Waynoka, Oklahoma, had a lot of vacant run-down buildings in their downtown. In a town of 900 people, the prospects didn’t look great. At an all-class reunion, a group of alumni got together and decided to change that. They called themselves Project Waynoka, our friend and early contributor Jeanne Cole said. They started raising money. … Read more
Marketing tip: keep signs up year-round even if you’re a seasonal business. When I toured several small towns in Washington and Idaho with the Inland Northwest Partners, I noticed many part-time and seasonal businesses did not have signs up during their off season. In the town of Deary, Idaho, (population 500) there is a wine … Read more
While there are many different roles and projects that Annie Potts can be recognized for, the actress has warmed our hearts and made us laugh out loud as Meemaw for the past seven years on Young Sheldon, the prequel spinoff of The Big Bang Theory. The series gave fans insight into Sheldon’s childhood in East … Read more
An uncanny understanding of character dynamics and superior cast chemistry have made Stranger Things the defining science fiction drama of the last decade. Although fans love the special effects and evil enemies omnipresent in the series, showrunners the Duffer brothers have always grounded the story in character development. Mike’s (Finn Wolfhard) and Will’s (Noah Schnapp) … Read more
Doctor Who has a habit of taking a throwaway line and making it into a big deal. In 60th anniversary special “Wild Blue Yonder”, Russell T. Davies wrote what seemed like a passing joke about Isaac Newton mishearing the word ″gravity″ as “mavity” before committing to the bit and changing the word in the timeline … Read more
This article contains likely spoilers for Dune: Part Three as well as the books Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. You are not prepared for what is to come. These are the words of promise, or prophecy, in Anya Taylor-Joy’s lone scene in Dune: Part Two. Whether the sequence is a kind of psychic chat … Read more
What if opening a suspicious email attachment didn’t just mess up your computer; it manipulated reality itself? Such is the premise of the latest DUST short film, Signal Dark. “Signal Dark is a DUST short film from Silver Edge Studios. Lucas Anderson is an insular IT technician whose life is turned upside down when he … Read more
“Satan is his father and his name is Adrian!” shouts the coven leader Roman Castevet at the end of 1968’s. Rosemary’s Baby. “He shall overthrow the mighty and lay waste their temples. He shall redeem the despised and wreak vengeance in the name of the burned and the tortured.” Even when making allowances for Roman’s … Read more