The answer was simple….NOPE.

I decided to follow my late granny’s advice…so, I got off my tush and did something. I started my own business endeavor.

My business will be launched as of June 2007. It’s called “SweetBash!” and it is a party planning service that specializes in upscale children’s parties. After doing some research on the businesses tied to event planning, I found that the local ones, here in Fort Smith, are underutilized because those who need the services aren’t finding websites nor do they feel their needs could be met by a local firm.

New customers are what make a business grow. Loyal clients maintain the growth that has already been achieved. I’ve found that a lot of firms in this area feel that their product will make it to a new customer’s attention by word of mouth spread by their current customers. The problem is, most new customers are more than 15 years younger than the new customers. These two social circles usually never cross.

I wanted to get rid of the “a small town doesn’t have what I need” myth to which most “out sourcing” customers subscribe. I plan to do this by selecting a few experts in fields such as baking, catering, transportation and entertainment as my recommended favorites. I have selected a few, but it is difficult since many firms are only advertised in the phone book.

Wish me luck…I’ll keep you posted on my endeavor!

First Greensborough north carolina… they have a renowened local presence. Other keeywords are hyper-local, citizen journalism of course.

Second, I never did find the IT conversations podcast on pigeon forge kentuky’s local web. I searched all over for it too, it’s to bad because it’s the flip side of what you’re trying to do.

Finally, I’m in a mid size town here in Michigan right now, Monroe, MI… since we’ve talked I’ve uncovered I got to doing some reasearch and uncovered a tremendous amount of local activity. Shocked me really. Citizen journalism stuff through and through. There’s a group here trying to do the same thing you’re doing there. Really interesting.

One last thing… I know you’re busy and your changing gears but i know you developed some widgets for WordPress to help with vlogging/ blogging. I think i’m using one in fact that works with delicious. Would you be interested in participating in any way in a video blogging open source community. A few of us are laying some groundwork right now.

I think there’s tremendous opportunity to expand on the vloging platform to make it easier and more accessible to all. I realize there’s tons of little pieces of source and widgets and stuff out there but there’s little open collaboration and no place to find them. I’m thinking a vlogging community source forge type thing… mostly just wiki’d and perhaps some sponsors and some bounties for code.

We should chat soon.

Your logic is sound and should be of great benefit.

Please update us as you proceed. It would be a great formula for other areas.