AOL is showing an AP story today, Alaska Town is Giving Away Free Land. Here’s the interesting twist: the program was developed by the local high school students. They convinced the city council to go along with it. Other free land programs exist. I’m familiar with Kansas Free Land, an impressive regional effort. Actions: Ask…
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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Here, have a banana! Just leave your brag in the basket. What is this all about? It’s about you. Your chance to share something from your life and business, and to get applauded for it. Tips for great brags: Review your week. Look over your calendar, and share something good that happened. Tell us a…
A Carnival is a round up of terrific articles from a wide variety of online authors. Our friend Ben Yoskowitz runs the Carnival of Entrepreneurs. It’s full of terrific articles this issue. Thanks, Ben, for including one of my articles this week. The same article (from idea to start up) was included in the Carnival…
Small town people really are helpful. We feel like neighbors helping neighbors. If your car breaks down, or your business gets damaged by a storm, or you need some business advice, your neighbors will be there to help. More reasons to love where you live: Rural Advantage 1: No ‘rush hour’; only ‘rush moment’Rural Advantage…
It has taken 15 months to reach a profit, but a Lilywood Turnings of rural Nova Scotia has made it. “We were a bit fearful at the beginning, especially after we first went to some home shows,” Ms. MacPherson recalled. “We’d talk to a lot of people, get great feedback, but when the orders didn’t…
Training and workshops come up frequently in the rural business news. Here are some recent articles that include ideas you can use in your own area. Workshop series uses multiple locations “The entrepreneur has the vision for the business,” Jim Hogge, director of the Small Business Development Center at Boise State University, said in a…
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