How can a community transform a dilapidated property with an $8000 assessed value to a new home that will return many times more value to the city? How can a community potentially bring a new family to town to live and work here? How can local investors create greater wealth for our community school, […]
Archives for February 2015
Look into the Brag Basket for good news
The Brag Basket is open! This one is for Feb 15-28, 2015. 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 […]
Know Why You Want to Start a Business
If starting a business is in your plans, determining your primary reason for such an effort is vital. You may think that is an odd comment to make because people obviously start a business to make money. That’s true for some, but people start businesses for lots of reasons. Money is not always the primary […]
How do you stop extending credit and still keep your customers?
Reader Scott Shipley wrote in with a question that I bet lots of people can identify with: a small town store that would like to get out of the business of extending credit to customers. “My mom runs a general store in a small town of about 350 people in Southern Alberta Canada,” Scott said. “For […]