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    Rural entrepreneurship news is full of ideas

    ByBecky McCray February 7, 2007August 27, 2014

    Today’s rural entrepreneurship news is full of ideas you can copy and adapt. Start a rural food festivalIf you have a rural food or ag business, get together with your neighbors to start a rural food festival. Read about a successful food festival in Isreal. Get the attention of your government; copy “Rural Oregon Day”All…

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    News: Teaching entrepreneurship

    ByBecky McCray February 3, 2007August 27, 2014

    Rural news this time focuses on different programs for teaching entrepreneurship. USA universities take on entrepreneurshipBut can they teach you anything valuable? Yale University is changing their business education program after stinging criticism that they don’t teach useful skills. Expect more focus on entrepreneurship. Our friend Pat Matthews weighs in. “The challenge universities face,” Matthews…

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    Business for a Fair Minimum Wage

    ByBecky McCray February 3, 2007August 27, 2014

    Disclaimer: I respect that we as a group hold a wide variety of opinions. You may or may not agree with me. That’s OK. I signed on to this statement at Business for a Fair Minimum Wage. We, the undersigned business owners and executives, support an increase in the minimum wage to benefit workers, business…

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    Rural entrepreneurship news – cell phones, partnerships

    ByBecky McCray January 31, 2007August 27, 2014

    More rural entrepreneurship news to report.Cell phones essential to rural businesses globallyI will vouch for this story. In my trips to Africa, I’ve seen how cell phones are vital to rural business people. Broaden your world perspective with this story at MyFox.[Rural cell phone user conducting business in Namibia, Africa, by Francois Haasbrock.] How is…

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    Rural entrepreneurship news 1-30

    ByBecky McCray January 30, 2007August 27, 2014

    Broadband means more than internet access Connect SI is a 20-county effort to collaboratively enhance the economic and community development efforts throughout Southern Illinois using greater Internet access and bandwidth to communicate regionally and globally. This project isn’t about broadband internet access. It is about improving the quality of the lives of Southern Illinoisans by…

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    Position Yourself as an Expert

    ByBecky McCray January 23, 2007August 27, 2014

    Onthaal, lezers Enthousiasmeren! Welcome, ProBlogger and Biz of Knowledge Readers! Here’s How to position yourself as an expert. Thank you to Bill Belew at Biz of Knowledge for compiling 66 of the great bloggers featured in our friend Ted Demopoulos‘ book, What Nobody Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting. His post has now been…

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    Podcast: Nothing New

    ByBecky McCray January 20, 2007July 8, 2017

    Think what we are saying is too basic? Or too repetitive? “People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.”Dr. Samuel Johnson It’s what Mark Taylor calls “a Blinding Flash of the Obvious.” Music by Frenz, from Pod Safe Audio. New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided Tour. Like what you see?…

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    Rural entrepreneurship news 1-18

    ByBecky McCray January 18, 2007August 27, 2014

    Development vs. rural housesBig rural projects, like the spate of new ethanol plants, can create problems as they run over the top of existing houses.“Counties should limit where people can build homes in rural areas…. But if a house already is there, it can be difficult to resolve a conflict….” Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette. Enterpreneurship…

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