AOL is showing an AP story today, Alaska Town is Giving Away Free Land. Here’s the interesting twist: the program was developed by the local high school students. They convinced the city council to go along with it. Other free land programs exist. I’m familiar with Kansas Free Land, an impressive regional effort. Actions: Ask…
How to market your rural area: focus on rural strengths For the first time that I can remember, the state’s push for people to consider bringing their business and/or their family to Iowa is not apologizing — it is celebrating all that makes it such a terrific place to live. Found at Drew’s Marketing Minute….
Training and workshops come up frequently in the rural business news. Here are some recent articles that include ideas you can use in your own area. Workshop series uses multiple locations “The entrepreneur has the vision for the business,” Jim Hogge, director of the Small Business Development Center at Boise State University, said in a…
Our Friend Nairobi Paul has given me an idea, with his post Biz idea. Heather had a great idea of starting an import-export business between Kenya and the US. We’d fill up a shipping container with this artist’s furniture and sell it through an exclusive group of stores in appropriate shopping areas in the States….
You’ve heard of The Creative Class? Meet The New Rural Business Class “Gone are the days when the local farmer was the mainstay of the community, as cheap imports and rising costs make traditional farming less and less viable. Rural business people – often former farmers themselves – have taken on the mantle, and are…
Need an idea for your solopreneur small business? Think about local photography. If you have some tourism, students, or other part-time residents, this can be an especially big hit. You don’t have to be the world’s best photographer, either. Read a bit more about this concept at the Photopreneur site, Photography Marketing: Think Local, Shoot…
By Seth Godin Gil lost his cell phone I lose mine all the time. You probably do too. So here’s my idea. And I don’t even want to wait to patent it and license it… you should just build it. It’s two credit card sized devices. One goes in my wallet. The other is taped…
The high profile Freakonomics Blog noticed a tiny slice of rural business, when they profiled the Farmers Only online dating site. Farmers Only got noticed because it fit into one of their trends: niche online dating sites. Which brings us to the business idea: target your product or service to the rural and small town…
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