Rural Small Business

Podcasts for Creative Small Businesses

February 8, 2009

Here’s a link for artists, writers, photographers, and all other creative folk on the back roads. Prosperous Artists – Outrageous Ideas for Creative Business is a blog with frequent podcasts for creative small businesses. Prosperous Artists is a blog designed to support you in building the career, business and creative life you desire. Dean La [...]

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Rural Business Weekly News February 7, 2009

February 7, 2009

Here are a few interesting blogs and online articles published this week that relate to Rural Small Business, ending February 7, 2009: What The New York Times has to say this week may not be news to most of us in rural America. But odds are, it’s new information to most Americans and their fantasy [...]

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Rural Business Weekly News 01/31/09

January 31, 2009

Here are a few interesting blogs and online articles published this week that relate to Rural Small Business, ending January 24, 2009: The U.S. House passed an $819 billion stimulus plan this week, part of the economic stabilization plan to restart the US economy. The New Mexico Business Weekly analyzes the Stimulus package from a [...]

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How Does Today Look?

January 30, 2009

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s when you’ve had everything to do, and you’ve done it. Margaret Thatcher

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Changes in Rural Mail Delivery?

January 28, 2009

Rural small businesses may be affected by postal delivery changes in the future. The Postmaster General told Congress today that massive deficits could force the post office to eliminate one day of mail delivery each week. The most likely day to be skipped is Tuesday, which is apparently the lightest mail day. The Post Office [...]

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Building Rural Community – One Sip at a Time

January 25, 2009

My husband and I just signed up for a bridge class to be held at our local coffee shop. I’ve never played bridge before, and to be honest, never thought much about it until we received a promotional flyer this week from our local Chamber of Commerce. The flyer certainly achieved its goal. It described [...]

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Rural Business Weekly News 01/24/09

January 24, 2009

Here are a few interesting blogs and online articles published this week that relate to Rural Business, ending January 24, 2009: Conservation and community development groups are urging Obama to use the economic stimulus package to improve rural America by investing in the nation’s public forests. Improving the health and productivity of our public forests [...]

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Starting a Rural Business

January 23, 2009

And for all of you city folk trying to get away from it all and make your way to our neck of the woods, you’ve can get some specific guidance about starting a rural business at Goodbye, City Life blog. Starting a new business during a recession could be perfect timing, if you listen to [...]

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The Problem Is More Than Lead Paint

January 22, 2009

Looks like rural business and handmade business owners have found a kindred spirit in Walter Olson, a lawyer at the Manhattan Institute whose opinion piece at Forbes business magazine website states his case – “Scrap The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act.’ Olson makes the point that the concern is not only about handmade toys, but [...]

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Rural Business Optimism in Rural America

January 21, 2009

Yesterday I awoke excited about Inauguration Day, knowing that President Obama will create much change in America, and hopefully many opportunities for Rural Business. I think a lot of other people woke up feeling the same way, because our web orders were triple yesterday what they usually are on a daily basis. Today’s web sales [...]

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