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Refilling the rural business pipeline

By Becky McCray

Becky McCray and Deb Brown present Refilling the Business Pipeline

This is a short sample from the SaveYour.Town video “Refilling Your Business Pipeline” featuring Deb Brown and me. Small towns and rural communities will need new business startups to revitalize their local economies, but not many people have the resources today to do a startup the way it’s traditionally been done. Part of what holds […]

July 7, 2020 Filed Under: economic development, entrepreneurship, failure, mistakes, rural, success, trends Tagged With: Becky McCray, building a business, Climate, Deb Brown, economic development, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, idea friendly, Idea Friendly Method, Innovative Rural Business Models, recession, rural, SaveYourTown, small business, small business success, starting, startup, startups, take small steps, video

Gathering the Doers

By Paula Jensen

Paula Jensen

The first vision board presented by the design:SD team to the community of Webster, South Dakota, on Sept. 27, 2014, stated the following phrase in bold lettering:  GATHERING THE DOERS.  There were approximately 50 people in the room that day and surprisingly none of them got up and ran out in fear upon seeing the design:SD team’s […]

November 22, 2019 Filed Under: community, economic development, rural Tagged With: #Iamrural, doers, engaged, gather your crowd, guest post, idea friendly, Paula Jensen, rural, starting, take small steps

Better entrepreneur training for small towns

By Becky McCray

  Because I’ve been an entrepreneur since junior high school, I’ve been asked to help with all kinds of entrepreneur support over the decades. I’ve taught entrepreneur classes, I’ve been part of day-long entrepreneur events, I’ve taught workshops and I’ve been a mentor in formal and informal ways. And I’ve been thinking lately about what […]

November 4, 2019 Filed Under: economic development, entrepreneurship, rural Tagged With: classes, courses, economic development, entrepreneur, entrepreneur training, entrepreneurship, idea friendly, rural, starting, startup, Support, training

Be Careful What You Wish For!

By Glenn Muske

Dream

“If only” is a statement I hear often from small-business owners. Sometimes the wishes are big and grandiose. But most of the time, the wishes are just what one might expect such as more customers, a big order, more space or more money to work with or in the bank at the end of the […]

November 8, 2017 Filed Under: Small Biz 100, success Tagged With: building a business, business ideas, business opportunities, dreams, ideas, opportunities, starting, startup

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