Now here is a strategy for rural development: Hope that one of your small town’s alumni will return and pour money on you. Don’t want to wait? Start looking for alumni to bring back, organize general alumni events, and build relationships with people. At the same time, don’t forget your “never lefts,” the people who…
Princeton, Indiana, has set up a low-interest revolving loan program, to make loans of up to $10,000 to downtown businesses. Travis Neff wrote about it in the Princeton Daily Clarion, City hopes to foster downtown progress with loan program.It’s a partnership of the city government and the Umbrella Committee on Downtown Revitalization. The city was…
Juan Guillermo Tornoe, Hispanic Trending, offers some meaningful business advice: It is indispensable for you to look beyond the bottom line and utilize your company as a way to contribute to the community. Get involved with a cause; any cause. Just look for something that you hold close to your heart and find a way…
Nebraska is faced with familiar problems of rural decline: declining population and depressed economies. Some small towns are actively trying to promote entrepreneurship and development. The Blog for Rural America reports on a new program for those towns. The Building Entrepreneurial Communities Act (BECA) program, administered by the Nebraska Rural Development Commission and Department of…
Thanks, Chris Brogan for dropping by to comment on “Not Free Agents. Guild Members!” This is great! It’s exciting to see the conversation carry on. I’m interested in the number six part of the discussion. I can’t disagree, but am wondering why that number works. I happened to read Chris’ original post and one over…
How do you envision the future for skilled workers? Especially those of us outside the metro areas. Chris Brogan’s post Not Free Agents. Guild Members! is the starting point for a novel vision. Take your skills anywhere in the world and know that you will have access to the larger market because you are a…
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