This is a guest post by Ryan Cox. Ryan is the owner of Cox Consulting – a community management, audience development firm. They run the gambit of online & social media marketing and have a love for data and conversions. He is also on the founding team of Seconds, a mobile payments tool based out of Seattle. His passion [...]

I admit that I have an extreme bias for the book Small Town Rules by Barry Moltz and Becky McCray. I grew up in a small town and my husband currently operates his manufacturing facility in that same small town. (I hear John Mellencamp in my head now.) Small Towns totally get Fierce Loyalty. In [...]