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Kim Tinkham makes a difference in Decatur

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We love to share small town success stories. Deborah Reynolds sent us this one after our most recent newsletter.  (If you missed our newsletter, you can read it here.)

Downtown Decatur, Texas, by stevesheriw on flickr
I want to share a story with you about one woman who is making a difference in our small town of Decatur, Texas, actually in our entire county.  Kim Tinkham has been distributing a county magazine for the last six years entitled Wise Family Today.  This magazine is about inspring parents, motivating kids and celebrating life.  She offers it as a free publication and makes it available online. Kim is very well-known, highly motivated, and an amazing businesswoman.

Kim truly enjoys helping others and her passion is to help locally.  From this passion and her incredible business experience, she founded Wise Merchants Associationin 2009 to help our local businesses weather the recession.  The goal of this Association is to allow merchants to share ideas, problems and solutions with other merchants.  The Association meetings are structured to provide information, education, and motivation for business owners, as well as networking opportunities.  It is open to any merchant in our county at no cost.  Our meetings have included training for business owners in marketing, networking, social media, and business goal setting.  Kim even arranged sales training with a speaker from Brian Tracy!   And, last November she provided members free tickets to the Get Motivated event, which featured Colin Powell, Rudy Guiliani, Zig Ziglar, Robert Schuller, and George W. Bush.

Kim Tinkham is consistently providing invaluable information to our local business owners through the Wise Merchants Association.  The Association has grown tremendously and the members are very supportive.  You can read more about it and its members at www.meetup.com/wisemerchants.
In addition to the Wise Merchants Association, Kim recently launched Wise Woman magazine to educate women business owners in our county on various topics.  She has local writers, as well as nationally known writers Dave Ramsey and Bob Burg contributing to the magazine.
Kim Tinkham’s passion has really made a difference to local businesses in our small town and county!

Deborah Reynolds
Owner and Virtual Assistant
DediKated Resource Virtual Administrative Solutions
www.dedikatedresource.com

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Becky started Small Biz Survival in 2006 to share rural business and community building stories and ideas with other small town business people. She and her husband have a small cattle ranch and are lifelong entrepreneurs. Becky is an international speaker on small business and rural topics.

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