Another small town small business idea: Buy damaged items from online auction sites, repair them, and then resell them. I got this idea from a student in one of my eBay classes. She would search eBay for broken china dolls. Her search keywords included “needs help” and “poor thing”. These broken dolls came at a…
Think what we are saying is too basic? Or too repetitive? “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.”Dr. Samuel Johnson It’s what Mark Taylor calls “a Blinding Flash of the Obvious.” Music by Frenz, from Pod Safe Audio. New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see?…
Our friend Jack Schultz found the best ever “shop local” campaign. (From Oklahoma, of course!) An advertisement from the Perkins Community Foundation really caught my eye in the Perkins Journal. It showed a picture of the local fire department fighting a fire in the community with this caption, “If you have a fire, you need…
Researchers at universities worldwide have developed techniques for creating uses for otherwise wasted items, like chicken feathers and cotton plant stalks. Some of these techniques can be licensed from the universities, and some are freely in the public domain. Can you put these ideas into practice, making something out of “nothing”?Pulling together several different processes,…
Development vs. rural housesBig rural projects, like the spate of new ethanol plants, can create problems as they run over the top of existing houses.“Counties should limit where people can build homes in rural areas…. But if a house already is there, it can be difficult to resolve a conflict….” Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette. Enterpreneurship…
Time for more rural entrepreneurship news headlines! One Governor puts his budget money into rural broadbandSouth Carolina Governor Mark Sanford “included $2 million in his executive budget to help provide high-speed Internet access to areas, such as Allendale, through direct and matching grants.” Island Packet Online.And, from New York, The Ithica Journal profiles rural broadband,…
Our friend, Romanian entrepreneur Cristian Dorobantescu tagged me for the 5 things meme, where we found out that he has played chess on a professional level! I don’t have anything that neat, but here are five MORE things you probably don’t know about me. I’ve lived in Oklahoma City, and outside of Luling (Texas) and…
Some rural communities develop, and some wither. Some development efforts succeed, and some terrific attempts are miserable failures. What makes the difference? Michael Holton with the Center for Rural Affairs explores the Top 10 Reasons Rural Community Development is So Hard to DO! You have two ways to read it. Read the entire article in…
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