Small Business Saturday is focusing more people’s attention on small businesses for holiday shopping. That’s good. But what does it mean? How can small town businesses benefit? What do we need to do? The bottom sticker is for SmallBusiness Saturday from 2011.Seen in Portland, Maine. Small Business Saturday is the Saturday after Thanksgiving, Nov 24, 2012….
The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one Nov 16-18, 2012. Have some good news this week? Put it in the Brag Basket. The basket maker keeps working. Photo (CC) by PhotosByDavid. Don’t hold back because of that word, “brag.” When you hold back,…
I’m always seeing new business ideas, so I bring them here to share. Maybe one of these will work from your small town: Service I need: someone to stock the fridge and have dinner on the stove when I get home from travel.— Amber Naslund (@AmberCadabra) October 27, 2012 Sounds like an interesting sideline for…
Investment Ready Places is a new description of small towns and mid sized cities, from the team at Street Sense: Atul Sharma, Kevin Lavelle and Joseph Nickol. Small towns and cities have lots of potential. Mid-tier towns and cities are our most dynamic urban settlements and have the largest untapped potential for fostering economic growth. They vary…
IR-2012-84, Nov. 2, 2012 Washington ― The Internal Revenue Service today alerted employers and other taxpayers that because Hurricane Sandy is designated as a qualified disaster for federal tax purposes, qualified disaster relief payments made to individuals by their employer or any person can be excluded from those individuals’ taxable income. Qualified disaster relief payments…
The Brag Basket is our tradition of sharing. The basket is always free and open all weekend, this one Nov 9-11, 2012. Have some good news this week? Put it in the Brag Basket. They’re called frame baskets. Frame upsome good news in ours.Photo (CC) by Zoe Rimmer Don’t hold back because of that word,…
Reader Carie Fuhrman, with the City of Princeton, Minnesota, shared this story on our contact form. Great stuff! –Becky By Carie Fuhrman Downtown Princeton, MNPhoto courtesy of City of Princeton staff. I’d like to tell you about what the Princeton, MN (pop. 4,698) community is doing to revitalize their downtown and help small business owners and entrepreneurs….
If you are a victim of Hurricane Sandy, the IRS may be able to help. Learn about the options available in this YouTube video.
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