According to the National Main Street Center’s Institute for Professional Downtown Management:The cornerstone of a dowtown business’ activities is a business plan.Why? to learn about the business opportunity itself to provide insight to the potential for development to identify human and financial needs of the business Key uses include: describe the key planning elements describe…
Technology changes all the rural small biz rules. Open Source Business Idea: Small Town Actors – VideoBy Chris Brogan Have you heard of Cherub? A fan and a bunch of local actors have built a web series spoof of the canceled TV series, “Angel.” Have you heard of Star Trek: The New Voyages? This is…
Robert Middleton, the More Clients Blog, was wondering about why some Independent Professionals charge (and receive) much higher fees than others. Middleton’s Key Points: Sell a solution, not a process. See your fees in relationship to the outcome. Add a lot of intangible value. Have the guts to ask for more. The first and most…
“The best way to beat the competition may be to do less.”Anne Fisher, Fortune “Focus is cash in the economics of attention.”Merlin Mann, 43 Folders “You = your calendar”Tom Peters How you spend your time tells everyone what is important to you. When you are your own boss, and maybe even the only one in…
By Ed Morrison, EDPro Weblog: Economic Development for Today’s Professionals: Web Watch: Network Kansas The Kansas Center for Entrepreneurship has launched its NetWork Kansas Web site, call center and assistance fund for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Visit the site. The site represents a network of more than 200 organizations that provide assistance to small…
Blog for Rural America: Natural Meat Market Ripe for Farmers and Ranchers:by Wyatt Fraas, Center for Rural Affairs A nationwide Roper poll found that consumers trust small farms more than large industrial farms to produce safe food responsibly by a 2:1 margin. This is a market based on trust. The families paying premiums for natural…
By John Crabtree: In the rural Great Plains, nearly 70 percent of job growth in the 1990s came from people creating their own job by starting a small business. Technorati tags: rural, small, biz, entrepreneurs, business, town, job, growth, Great, Plains, CFRA
This is a directory of rural UK businesses. RuralHeart: the rural business directory that matches your needs with the heart of the rural business community More than a directory RuralHeart.com is a directory of businesses and organisations that are based in town, village and suburb. But more than a directory, RuralHeart.com seeks to attract visitors…
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