Making a product is easy. Well, it’s easy when you compare it to setting your prices. Here is one straightforward way to figure prices for what you produce: Materials + labor + fixed costs per unit + capital costs + profit = Wholesale Wholesale x 2 = Retail Then, treat that as a starting point, […]
Archives for March 2014
Brag Basket 3-14 – Pi Day!
. The Brag Basket is open! This one is for March 14-16, 2014. What can you do in the Brag Basket? introduce yourself share some great news from this week congratulate a friend applaud for each other confess your undying love for rural places How do you join in? Below this post is the comment […]
Small Communities and Rural Migration
Stop by most any rural coffee shop and you probably will hear a discussion about attracting more people to the community. Then the question arises, can it be done? The Center for Small Towns, located at the University of Minnesota, Morris, plans to look at that question. Mark June 4th and 5th on your calendars […]
Using Better Block ideas to make better decisions
. Years ago, a town near me won a grant to improve their downtown. They hired an architect, who drew up 3 alternative plans. The council looked them over, debated which one would work best, then sat on those plans with no further action for a couple of years. They couldn’t come to an agreement on which […]