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Did America Get Too Big? Next steps for small businesses right now

By Chris Brogan

Survival skills for small town businesses in the Coronavirus era By Chris Brogan As the world starts to ask what’s going to happen when this pandemic is finally over and we can look at what it will take to jumpstart the economy again, one venture capitalist says we have to save Main Street and not […]

April 17, 2020 Filed Under: entrepreneurship, global, management, planning, rural, survivors Tagged With: coronavirus, COVID19, entrepreneurship, good management practices, guest post, rural, small business, success

What would you be doing this weekend, if the world hadn’t fallen apart?

By Paula Jensen

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Guest post by Paula Jensen I was on my second video conference of the day earlier last week and a peer in the meeting said, “Time-out! I need to ask everyone a question.” We all agreed, and he said, “What would you be doing this weekend, if the world hadn’t fallen apart?” Some people answered […]

April 12, 2020 Filed Under: community, planning, rural Tagged With: #Iamrural, guest post

Business plans are not worth the paper they’re written on

By Deb Brown

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by Deb Brown At least, the old way of doing them Writing a business plan is an intense project that takes up a lot of your time. You spend weeks and weeks on it, and you’re not even sure everything in it is correct. Your financial projections are just wild guesses. You’re not even open […]

February 6, 2020 Filed Under: economic development, entrepreneurship, family business, planning, rural, success Tagged With: Deb Brown, entrepreneurs, guest post, idea friendly, pop ups, small business, small town

We tried that before and it didn’t work!

By Paula Jensen

Guest Post by Paula Jensen When was the last time you heard someone say, “We tried that before and it didn’t work!”  In my early days as a local leader those words spoken by an experienced leader often stopped me in my tracks. Their words indicated to me that they had the experience of knowing […]

May 26, 2019 Filed Under: community, mistakes, planning, rural Tagged With: #Iamrural, experience, failure, leadership, listening, Paula Jensen

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