Whether you’re in Ponca City, Oklahoma or Sonoma, California, if you’re a small business in a small town, you know two things.

The first is you better stay lean and nimble. The second is you better hook up with people and places far beyond your backyard—like across an ocean beyond your backyard.

Those lessons keep coming up, and they may be the biggest lessons small businesses have learned and can teach out of the long economic drought.

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Small Businesses Push into Big World