By Ed Morrison Wisconsin promotes inventor and entrepreneur clubs as a rural economic development strategy. Thirty-five of the state’s 72 counties now have clubs operating. Read more here and here . You can cvisit one of the club web sites here. You can visit the Wisconsin web site here. New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the Guided…
This week, the Brag Basket is teaming up with the Wishing Well at Gifter.org. Here, you can brag about your community, your business, what is happening for you. It doesn’t have to be something HUGE; just something positive you feel like sharing. Feel free to expand a bit, use a few paragraphs. Tell us something…
If you want to retain more of your youth, you need to connect them with the community. How do you come up with ways to connect students with local businesses? Let’s ask the students! That is what happened at Binghamton University in New York, where a student-led group came up with “an impressive list of…
[Contributed by Guest Author Laura Girty] Land Run 2006 Yes, that’s the Land Run 2006! And some might say it was just as exciting as the ones held one hundred years ago. A few years ago citizens in several Northwest communities started meeting together to discuss what they could do as a region towards economic…
Last week, I offered examples of local resources for securing government contracts. In a comment, reader Ken Larson offered this great info: For an all volunteer site, dedicated to small businesses who wish to succeed in federal government contracting please see the below site: http://www.smalltofeds.blogspot.com/ Larson’s profile says he is a SCORE volunteer with decades…
Cristina Favreau (The Savvy Entrepreneur) has written a series you should read, all about doing your best. It’s a big challenge to run a small business and to turn in your best performance day after day. Favreau’s articles focus on: Love what you do Dress the part Be a lifelong student Don’t sell yourself short…
Oh, how I love the Brag Basket! I’ve missed it; haven’t you? It is your chance to share, tell us something great! Don’t be modest; tell us about your community, your business, what is happening for you. It doesn’t have to be something HUGE; just something positive you feel like sharing. Don’t just drop a…
[Special guest author Laura Girty lives in Cherokee, Oklahoma, and works for the Oklahoma Department of Commerce in community development. She has kindly contributed two articles she wrote for the ODOC Developer newsletter.] A popular movie a few years ago, Pay It Forward, was based on the thought that if a group of people did…
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