How do you get merchants to work together?

I spent a couple of days touring Lake Arrowhead, California, meeting merchants and retailers, talking to residents, and holding a work session with the board of the Village Merchants Association. They have a ton of natural assets, great ideas, but have trouble getting the merchants to come together toward common goals. They’ve struggled to build…

How do you attract people to your town? 

My friend Paul Chaney asked me this, and I thought you might be thinking about it, too.  “Hi, Becky. I’m working with a group here in Natchez that is focused on figuring out ways to make it attractive to location-independent workers (that’s one group anyway; also, artisans, makers, the creative community). Also, interested to know…

Joining me? 

I’m hoping you’ll be joining Deb Brown and me for our webinar… March 16 – this Wednesday – at 6 pm Central Time for one hour.  Rural business people are trying a variety of different business models today, and using these smaller scale experiments and tests to learn what works before making a huge investment….