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Entrepreneurs and Their Communities Information Briefs

Last Updated: September 04, 2007

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Information briefs are just what they sound like. Designed to be short and easy-to-read, information briefs cover some of the specific topics that small business owners, farmers and rural communities find themselves faced with as they develop their plans related to business planning and economic development. Check back often for new additions.

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Entrepreneur Briefs

Creating a Business Image
Does My Business Need a Website
Financial Ratios
Highlight: Exit strategies: Plan early for best outcome
How to Be Found on the Internet
Insurance and Risk Management
Is Agritourism for You?
Marketing to Restaurants
Options for Getting a Web Presence
Surviving Economic Downturns
The Basics of Marketing
Tracking Sales

Community Briefs

10 Community Strategies
A Driver for Economic Development in Indian Country
Community Coaches : Building Capacity to Support and Generate Entrepreneurship
Cultivating and Nurturing an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Entrepreneurial Communities: A Profile
Entrepreneurship and the Changing Role of Community and Economic Development
Inventors and Entrepreneur Clubs
Listening to Rural America
Measuring Entrepreneurship Efforts
Resources for Supporting Entrepreneurship at the Community Level
Seeding a Successful Future: Youth Entrepreneurship
Ten Ways to Build Public Awareness of Entrepreneurship as a Key Strategy for Building Community Wealth
The Economic Benefits of Entrepreneurship
The Entrepreneurs Within
What is an EC

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