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    announcement | community | entrepreneurship | rural

    How has 2020 changed the challenges rural small towns face? Tell us here

    ByBecky McCray October 20, 2020November 8, 2022

    Seems like there have been a lot of coronavirus-related surveys this year. This survey is different: we’ve been asking for and listening to your rural challenges since 2015. Of course rural challenges are different this year with COVID-19. That doesn’t mean all your other challenges disappeared, but it might mean your priorities have changed. We’d like your…

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    entrepreneurship | management | rural | survivors

    The Idea Friendly Method to surviving a business crisis

    ByBecky McCray October 6, 2020April 28, 2022

    Small towns have endured boom and bust cycles, commodity crashes, mill and factory closures, environmental disasters and losing their economic reason for existing. Rural communities have reinvented themselves before, and rural businesses are re-inventing the way they do things.  How Holyoke Hummus stays Idea Friendly through a crisis John is the owner of Holyoke Hummus…

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  • Small Town Buildings
    economic development | entrepreneurship | rural | shop local | trends

    Why “Small Town” Might Become the Sexiest Brand In the World

    ByChris Brogan August 7, 2020May 26, 2022

    Guest Post by Chris Brogan The COVID-19 quarantine has crushed so many small businesses and the economy at large. It’s truly been the worst financial crisis unfurling in this country since the 1930s. And while some measures are in place to help this not reach that level of despair, many people are finding themselves out…

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  • Small Town Main Street Business
    customer service | entrepreneurship | rural

    Masks are the new “no smoking” for small businesses

    ByChris Brogan July 13, 2020

    Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash Guest post by Chris Brogan The whole quarantine and COVID-19 situation has impacted small businesses even more than the big guys because it’s not like anyone has massive reserves of cash around so that you could deal with shutting down for months at a time. And now, as different…

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