Talent Attraction: How do you find people to move to your town?

Talent Attraction is a new keyword. It simply means finding new people to come to your town! People are moving to small hometowns, bringing their work and young families with them. Do you know who they are? These 30–—to 44-year-olds arrive with college degrees, years of experience in the workplace, and large professional networks. Often, they…

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Turn your crafters into entrepreneurs and a new choice for shopping during the holidays

I’m writing a workbook. About ways to save your small town. Here’s one chapter from the book. Crafters can be your new entrepreneurs  You can boost creativity while building community with co-crafting events such as “crafternoons,” hacker or maker days. These are events where crafters/makers/or hackers gather together and do their thing. Sometimes they are…

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What will the future look like?

Location doesn’t matter in the future. You can work from anywhere. Work will be competitive and informal/hands on education will be valuable. Artists will be in good shape and Dr’s will see more robots replacing them.  It will be the networking economy and we will need people who can connect with robots. Empathy, communication skills, management…

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Your Gift from Becky and Me

We know that the Idea Friendly method works in small towns just like yours. You can learn all about it by watching this video. You’ve got through December 31 to watch it. Invite others to join you! Happy Holidays!

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