Nothing remains constant. Those are words that small-business owners need to remember. Long-term small-business success means constantly changing. This is not new. However, these changes are happening more rapidly than ever. And the odds are, the pace of change only will get faster. Some of the changes that small-business owners have had to adjust to […]
Archives for August 2014
Finding Mona’s Market, a small town business picture-story
Guest post by Marci Penner, Kansas Sampler Foundation YOU FIND KANSAS… when you find Mona. We were about to leave the town of Dresden on our ERV guidebook research when we saw a simple sign against the cracked surface of the old basketball court. We had to find out. Who was Mona and what kind […]
Brag Basket 08-08
The Brag Basket is open! This one is for August 8-10, 2014. Bring your good news to share with everyone. 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 […]
Entrepreneurs or Small Business Owners: Does a Community Care?
If you look back through various writings, these two terms, entrepreneur and small business owner, were once considered the same thing. Yet today business schools and economic/community developers often view them differently. More often the focus is on entrepreneurial development with fewer programs having “small business” in the title. Yet one often wonders are they […]