A common theme in many small towns is vacant business properties and struggling downtown areas. Revitalizing them takes a long-term effort by many different groups and individuals. Suzanne Morse, in the Smart Communities blog, has some resources for vacant property projects. New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see? Get our updates.
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….
A Carnival is a round up of terrific articles from a wide variety of online authors. Our friend Ben Yoskowitz runs the Carnival of Entrepreneurs. It’s full of terrific articles this issue. Thanks, Ben, for including one of my articles this week. The same article (from idea to start up) was included in the Carnival…
So you have this great business idea rolling around in your head. How do you get it into the real world? (What? You don’t have an idea yet? You can use the four tactics in Resource: Small Business Ideas for Small Towns and check out our previous ideas posts to get started. Oh, and look…
Reader Robert Ellis sent us a note about his new tax blog, Smart Strategies. The first post is on an important ruling about home office deductions. Ellis is a CPA from Colorado. Stop by and wish him well! I’ve also been enjoying Gina’s Tax Articles by CPA Gina L Gwozdz from Texas. She frequently answers…
I asked for other business for sale sites, and Peter Siegel said… Ok, here is another small businesses for sale web site for you: www.USABizMart.com. We have a great track record for people who want to sell their businesses. We have free weekly virtual workshops and a blog. Check it out. We’d love to get…
Drew, of The Marketing Minute, has put together an awesome PDF of marketing lessons he learned on vacation at Disney. They are simple, direct and to the point. And more important, the lessons end with a challenging question to help you evaluate your own business. New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you…
Following up on our teaching entrepreneurship news, the EDPro Ed Morrison offers links to resources for teaching entrepreneurship. Morrison predicts that high school entrepreneurship classes will be “catching fire” in the USA over the next three to five years. In Montana, an e-newsletter from the Montana Associated Technology Roundtables recently pointed to the growing resources…
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