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Small Business Marketing: Start Your Own Holiday
ByGlenn Muske July 26, 2017July 19, 2017
If you have followed this blog, my colleague, Becky McCray, has provided lots of ideas for building communities and the small businesses in those areas. Her blogs have suggested things such as Pop-ups – https://smallbizsurvival.com/2014/03/what-is-a-pop-up-business.html Shared spaces – https://smallbizsurvival.com/2017/04/small-town-retail-trend-shared-spaces.html Tiny businesses – https://smallbizsurvival.com/2017/03/tiny-businesses-in-storage-sheds-a-rural-economic-development-tool.html I am adding another thought to this list by suggesting that a business or…
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Best of | community | economic development | POV | rural
Where your future entrepreneurs and business leaders come from
ByBecky McCray July 25, 2017December 9, 2018
A reader wrote to me about an influx of low-income people into his town, using subsidized housing and other community services. He said a town council member had talked about them as “a drain on resources” and “dead weight.” I got angry when I read that. But it took me awhile to figure out…
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community | entrepreneurship | rural
Clean Your Own Sidewalk
ByBecky McCray July 17, 2017November 25, 2018
One of the towns I visited recently has a dirty sidewalk problem. It looks like every time it rained, dirt and leaves and stuff wash out of the streets and onto the sidewalks. Pretty messy. “We did a cleanup project once,” someone said. But dirt, like life, keeps happening. You’ll have a cleaner town…
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economic development | rural
Why your downtown looks empty
ByBecky McCray July 10, 2017November 25, 2017
“We just don’t have as many businesses as we used to.” It’s one of those rural myths that I hear variations of all the time. “Our downtown is all boarded up. All the businesses are gone.” “Census numbers show fewer employers.” “We did a business count, and the number of businesses is way down.” But…
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entrepreneurship | ideas | marketing | rural
Farm Fresh Auctions – a new angle on the local niche
ByBecky McCray July 3, 2017June 4, 2017
In an era when we’re encouraging every rural business to look further outside their local market, it’s interesting to see a business go the other direction. Most rural auction companies use the internet to promote the items at their sales and to accept bids from far-flung customers. But one auction service I heard…
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economic development | rural | trends
The big flaw in rural business counts
ByBecky McCray June 26, 2017May 28, 2017
I thought you’d like this, from a recent local economic development newsletter that I received: “We just finished our annual business count. We use this comprehensive employment database to drive our economic development, planning and to keep aware of trends….We don’t include home-based or mobile businesses.” Anyone else see something wrong with that or…
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Best of | economic development | entrepreneurship | rural | workforce
The rural contradiction: “There aren’t any good jobs!” vs. “We can’t find good people!”
ByBecky McCray June 19, 2017November 25, 2018
After we talked about the difficulties in finding good people for low-level jobs in rural areas, I wanted to follow up with a challenge Mike shared with us: “Getting people to live here or come here for the jobs we have open NOW!” Mike’s not the only one with workforce challenges. It was one of…
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Best of | community | rural | trends | youth
Can rural communities retain young people? Are rural Millennials different from urban Millennials?
ByBecky McCray June 12, 2017July 30, 2017
One of the top issues named in our recent Survey of Rural Challenges was how to retain young people. It ranked the number one concern in 2015, and number 2 in 2017. One participant commented, “We have already identified that to survive, we will need entrepreneurial millennials who want to be rural by choice. The…
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