Small town people really are helpful. We feel like neighbors helping neighbors. If your car breaks down, or your business gets damaged by a storm, or you need some business advice, your neighbors will be there to help. More reasons to love where you live: Rural Advantage 1: No ‘rush hour’; only ‘rush moment’Rural Advantage…
It has taken 15 months to reach a profit, but a Lilywood Turnings of rural Nova Scotia has made it. “We were a bit fearful at the beginning, especially after we first went to some home shows,” Ms. MacPherson recalled. “We’d talk to a lot of people, get great feedback, but when the orders didn’t…
Training and workshops come up frequently in the rural business news. Here are some recent articles that include ideas you can use in your own area. Workshop series uses multiple locations “The entrepreneur has the vision for the business,” Jim Hogge, director of the Small Business Development Center at Boise State University, said in a…
So you have this great business idea rolling around in your head. How do you get it into the real world? (What? You don’t have an idea yet? You can use the four tactics in Resource: Small Business Ideas for Small Towns and check out our previous ideas posts to get started. Oh, and look…
Rural broadband: good ideas and bad ideas Read a roundup of different programs in several southern US states to expand rural broadband from Facing South. The article includes a long introduction on why rural broadband is important. We cannot tolerate — nor in the long run can this nation afford — a society in which…
Rural economic growth leaves the cities behind! This shocking headline is from The New Zealand Herald, where high commodity prices are benefiting the diversified rural economy. Read more about the Kiwi economy at BoomtownUSA. Our Friend Jack Schultz has been touring the countryside there, sending back reports.[Photo from Jack Schultz of Gordon Riach at a…
Reader Robert Ellis sent us a note about his new tax blog, Smart Strategies. The first post is on an important ruling about home office deductions. Ellis is a CPA from Colorado. Stop by and wish him well! I’ve also been enjoying Gina’s Tax Articles by CPA Gina L Gwozdz from Texas. She frequently answers…
Today’s idea is how to use mobile marketing for your small business to reach tourists. Small towns are frequently tourist towns. Small businesses are looking to market to anonymous crowds who arrive for a short time. We need a method to give customers an incentive to go out of their way to stop in at…
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