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    Resource: Rural Entrepreneurship has sample business plans

    ByBecky McCray September 22, 2008August 27, 2014

    The Rural Eship Resources page in Texas A and M’s Extension Agricultural Economics area has great rural business resource links. Let’s start with the link to sample business plans, for ag-based businesses like greenhouse vegetables and bee keeping. Then there is the whole list of business management resources, mostly targeted to ag-related business. They place…

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    BlogWorld Expo: Des Walsh

    ByBecky McCray September 20, 2008August 27, 2014

    Des Walsh is a cool guy. His business card says business coach and blogging evangelist. But really, he’s a small town guy. He and I bonded over our shared view that technology allows you to live where you like. He told me his post office sotry. A friend of Des, who is a business coach,…

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    Talking business at BlogWorld Expo

    ByBecky McCray September 20, 2008August 27, 2014

    This weekend, I’m talking business at BlogWorld Expo. If you’re there, too, come say hi! Together with David Bullock and Shama Hyder, I’ll be talking about how to streamline business planning for real people. How do you do that? Well, first you need to figure out your business. Then you’ll need to figure out your…

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    Business degrees and Entrepreneurship certificates

    ByBecky McCray September 16, 2008August 27, 2014

    Can entrepreneurship be taught? I think the skills that make successful entrepreneurs and small business owners can be taught. Eight Arkansas community colleges are taken action on that theory, offering a new business degree option and certificate in Entrepreneurship, the RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship in their September 2008 Rural Entrepreneurship Newsletter. (You do subscribe,…

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  • failure | success

    Overcoming powerful failures

    ByBecky McCray September 15, 2008August 27, 2014

    My plan to redefine failure has a new partner: fellow Oklahoman D. Scott Cooksey, author of Powerful People Overcome Powerful Failures, Your Daily Guide to Becoming Powerfully Successful. Cooksey isn’t shy about owning up to his own failures. We had a great conversation about responding to failure. He gets it. That’s why he wrote such…

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  • entrepreneurship | marketing

    If you want more sales

    ByBecky McCray September 14, 2008August 27, 2014

    “If you want to make more sales start by measuring how much time you actually spend face to face with customers, then double it and see what happens.”Frank Fullard I see two key parts: More face to face time with customers.  Adjust your business behavior based on what you measure.  Fullard writes smart things about…

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  • resources

    Resource: Alltop has all the top stories

    ByBecky McCray September 13, 2008August 27, 2014

    If you are looking for a shortcut to some of the best writing on a subject, almost any subject, look at Alltop. It brings together the headlines from selected writers by subject, all on one page. Here are just some of the (more or less) business related subjects under the letter S: Sales – Everything…

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  • entrepreneurship | finance | planning | Small Biz 100

    How to figure out your revenue goals

    ByBecky McCray September 10, 2008September 27, 2016

    Once you figure out your business, it’s time to set some goals for making money. The problem is that no one shows you how to do that, so you just guess. Then you have no idea how to reach that goal, and you have no way to tell if you are on track. Here’s a…

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