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…
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…
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…
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…
[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…
Last week, I offered examples of local resources for securing government contracts. In a comment, reader Ken Larson offered this great info: For an all volunteer site, dedicated to small businesses who wish to succeed in federal government contracting please see the below site: http://www.smalltofeds.blogspot.com/ Larson’s profile says he is a SCORE volunteer with decades…
According to the Global Entrepreneruship Monitor in London: Women are driving enterprise in the rural economy and are almost twice as likely to set up their own businesses as those living in towns….“This isn’t just about baking pies and selling them,” said Rebecca Harding, executive director of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. “It is about solving rural…
You have a huge advantage over the generations of small town business people who came before you. Through the internet you can learn from other people who live far away, but face similar challenges. Right now, Pat Matthews is blogging at Small Town, Big Ideas about what he learned from some failures. Go right now…
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