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    UK rural areas see more business startups

    ByBecky McCray April 10, 2007August 27, 2014

    Big news out of the UK: rural areas are starting up more businesses and outpacing urban areas. Four different news sources picked up this story on the report from Barclays Local Business. What led to this boom in rural business? From the London Stock Exchange: “Amongst the fastest growing start-up locations, more than half are…

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    How To ideas from the rural entrepreneurship news

    ByBecky McCray March 14, 2007August 27, 2014

    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….

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    Idea: Selling local photos

    ByBecky McCray February 16, 2007August 27, 2014

    Need an idea for your solopreneur small business? Think about local photography. If you have some tourism, students, or other part-time residents, this can be an especially big hit. You don’t have to be the world’s best photographer, either. Read a bit more about this concept at the Photopreneur site, Photography Marketing: Think Local, Shoot…

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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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    Rural entrepreneurship news roundup 1-7

    ByBecky McCray January 8, 2007August 27, 2014

    More rural entrepreneurship news to share. One Stop Support for Small BusinessesNebraska (USA) is using local colleges to bring together all the agencies that help small business. They are also creating a uniform entrepreneurship curriculum. They are calling it NET Force Nebraska. Economic Impact of FestivalsDo festivals contribute to your local economy? Take the example…

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    Rural entrepreneurship news roundup

    ByBecky McCray January 4, 2007August 27, 2014

    Welcome, SCORE Rural Resource readers! Besides this round up, we have more rural small business articles. See the newest ones on the Home Page. Todays news was full of stories on rural entrepreneurship. Here’s a roundup. Towns turn to the arts and revive Main StreetsThe Economist magazine (USA)Some surviving small towns have simply become bedroom…

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    Develop by Promoting Arts & Beauty of Your Area

    ByBecky McCray August 15, 2006August 27, 2014

    Jack Schultz, Boomtown USA, has some terrific questions to ask about Promoting the Arts & Beauty of your Area. “What can you do to send gifts of beauty from your town?” was the challenge that Gerald Yoshitomi asked of the participants at the FHLB Conference in Sioux Falls, SD. He discussed a number of innovative…

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    Georgia investing in airports as rural economic development

    ByBecky McCray July 26, 2006August 27, 2014

    Georgia has plans to develop its rural areas, and the latest initiative is an investment in rural airports. Rural airports are important to business development, tourism, health care, and transportation. Quite a bit of bang for the buck. Announced in Vidalia on Monday, the initiative includes small, rural airports scattered over the entire state, from…

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