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    Rural Answers to the Top 5 Questions and Trends

    ByBecky McCray January 2, 2007August 27, 2014

    Our friend Chris Brogan is passing around a list of questions from Jeff Pulver about web sites and trends. Here are the questions: Most Useful application Best Web site Worst Web site Hottest Trend Favorite Gadget Here are the rural/small town business answers: Most useful application – Not a hot new trend, but the most…

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    Thank you for connecting with me

    ByBecky McCray December 29, 2006August 27, 2014

    It’s the end of the year, and Small Biz Survival is almost one year old. Time for some thank you’s. Thank you to Glenna Mae, Jeanne and Karen for joining me as contributing authors. All three of you are very busy, and I’m glad to have each and every one of your contributions. Double thank…

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  • community | economic development | ideas | planning

    Idea: Share your community plans

    ByBecky McCray December 28, 2006August 27, 2014

    [Special guest author Laura Girty lives in Cherokee, Oklahoma, and works for the Oklahoma Department of Commerce in community development. She has kindly contributed articles she wrote for the ODOC Developer newsletter, and yes this article does refer to me, OkieJ (Jeanne Cole) and OkieK (Karen Payne). ] Does your community buy into your community…

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    Idea: Business Symposium

    ByBecky McCray December 27, 2006August 27, 2014

    Want to support new businesses in your small town? Try a Business Symposium. Barber County (Kansas) Development, Inc., organized one with guest speakers to cover topics including: Barber County’s micro-loan program State and local tax exemptions Incentive programs Enterprise Zones Other local initiatives You can pull together speakers on a similar list of local help…

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  • economic development | entrepreneurship | rural

    Resource: Reviving small towns

    ByBecky McCray December 26, 2006August 27, 2014

    Rural entrepreneurship has become one of the most exciting areas of the New Economic Development. But you don’t have to take my word for it. That quote is from economic development expert Ed Morrison. This week, he has a round up of some of the best resources for reviving small towns. Jack Schultz gets some…

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  • economic development | entrepreneurship | rural

    Wisconsin’s inventor and entrepreneur clubs

    ByBecky McCray December 26, 2006August 27, 2014

    By Ed Morrison Wisconsin promotes inventor and entrepreneur clubs as a rural economic development strategy. Thirty-five of the state’s 72 counties now have clubs operating. Read more here and here . You can cvisit one of the club web sites here. You can visit the Wisconsin web site here. New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided…

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  • economic development | rural | youth

    Connecting students to employers

    ByBecky McCray December 20, 2006August 27, 2014

    If you want to retain more of your youth, you need to connect them with the community. How do you come up with ways to connect students with local businesses? Let’s ask the students! That is what happened at Binghamton University in New York, where a student-led group came up with “an impressive list of…

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  • economic development | ideas | rural

    Idea: Regional economic development Land Run

    ByBecky McCray December 19, 2006August 27, 2014

    [Contributed by Guest Author Laura Girty] Land Run 2006 Yes, that’s the Land Run 2006! And some might say it was just as exciting as the ones held one hundred years ago. A few years ago citizens in several Northwest communities started meeting together to discuss what they could do as a region towards economic…

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