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Metaverse business idea: virtual world tour guide

By Becky McCray

Screenshot from the Metaverse Festival captioned "A POAP token is being sent to your wallet"

  Are you a proficient online gamer or metaworld master based in a rural community? You could make a small business out of being a virtual world tour guide. Years ago, a now-defunct business ideas site profiled Synthtravels, a business that offered guided tours of online virtual worlds. If you’ve heard of the metaverse or […]

April 15, 2022 Filed Under: entrepreneurship, ideas, rural, trends Tagged With: business ideas, metaverse, rural, virtual worlds, VR

Make extra money from extra workspace: co-working and 3rd workplaces in small towns

By Becky McCray

  With more people working remotely, more people are working from places that are neither their offices or their homes. Cue the rise of the Third Workplace. You may remember “third places” as places you hangout that aren’t home and aren’t work. Coffee shops, bars and places like that. “Third workplaces” are places you work […]

March 28, 2022 Filed Under: economic development, entrepreneurship, ideas, rural, trends Tagged With: coworking, remote work, rural sourcing, third places, workshifting, zoom towns

Small town business idea: cat grooming

By Becky McCray

This was a new idea to me. Alyssa McCleery from Newkirk, Oklahoma, brought this up. She has local dog grooming but had to drive hours to find a place to get her cat groomed. I was skeptical at first, but why not cat grooming as a service? Just trimming cat claws can be a challenge. […]

November 15, 2021 Filed Under: entrepreneurship, ideas, rural Tagged With: business idea, cat grooming, entrepreneurship, ideas, pet grooming, rural, service businesses, small business

Boost your rural retail business with this trick

By Deb Brown

Shoppers at a furniture store find temporary displays of jewelry and skin care products.

By Deb Brown The old way of doing business is one building, one business. What if you could test an idea and have a business inside a business? Anyone of us either knows or can find someone who is making things from their home and selling it. What if you encouraged already existing home-based businesses […]

November 5, 2021 Filed Under: economic development, entrepreneurship, ideas, rural Tagged With: building community, Deb Brown, economic development, entrepreneurs, guest post, pop ups, retail, rural, store

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