By Ed Morrison, EDPro Weblog: Economic Development for Today’s Professionals: Web Watch: Network Kansas The Kansas Center for Entrepreneurship has launched its NetWork Kansas Web site, call center and assistance fund for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Visit the site. The site represents a network of more than 200 organizations that provide assistance to small…
Blog for Rural America: Natural Meat Market Ripe for Farmers and Ranchers:by Wyatt Fraas, Center for Rural Affairs A nationwide Roper poll found that consumers trust small farms more than large industrial farms to produce safe food responsibly by a 2:1 margin. This is a market based on trust. The families paying premiums for natural…
By John Crabtree: In the rural Great Plains, nearly 70 percent of job growth in the 1990s came from people creating their own job by starting a small business. Technorati tags: rural, small, biz, entrepreneurs, business, town, job, growth, Great, Plains, CFRA
This is a directory of rural UK businesses. RuralHeart: the rural business directory that matches your needs with the heart of the rural business community More than a directory RuralHeart.com is a directory of businesses and organisations that are based in town, village and suburb. But more than a directory, RuralHeart.com seeks to attract visitors…
How you gonna keep em down on the farm …By Timlynn Babitsky “What can we do to keep our kids here?” IS the wrong question. “What can we do to get them to come back home?” is the real question to ask, and providing jobs and economic opportunities is only one part of the answer….
By Timlynn Babitsky: In the best “I’m going to win the lottery” mind set, we have come to believe that “out there somewhere” is the silver bullet that will fix whatever ails us. If we can only find it and bring it home, then our farm, school, town, region, economy — future — will be…
Time to celebrate a small milestone: 100 posts on Small Biz Survival! We will continue to focus on the entrepreneurial issues of declining small towns, because that is what we live. Our refined vision is: By and for small business people in rural areas and small towns.Topics: Competition Online Marketing Online Resources Workforce Isolation Community…
allAfrica.com: Namibia: Polytechnic, Shell in Rehabilitation Deal: Namibia Economist (Windhoek) March 17, 2006 Inmates at the Windhoek Central Prison are set to acquire entrepreneurial skills following a project, inaugurated this week, which focuses on teaching business skills such as compiling business plans, cash flow management, marketing, administrative and financing proficiency.…The government is not alone, said…
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