West Virginia Entrepreneurship Ecosystem November 2022
The Holidays are Coming… Get Creative Selling Online…and Offline!
When it comes to selling online, and particularly during the holiday season, we are usually bombarded by so many ads from a variety of sources that we are overloaded with products everywhere. Whether it’s online, in print, via TV, radio, mobile phone, the list goes on and on. How can...
West Virginia Entrepreneurship Ecosystem October 2022
Updates from around the ecosystem:
The Jumpstart Savings Program: A New Tool to Recruit and Retain a Skilled Workforce
We’ve all endured a high school award ceremony in a crowded gymnasium, where it seems that the same small group of whiz kids rake in all the trophies, certificates, and scholarships. Students at the Monongalia County Fair Supporting the Jumpstart Savings Program But as a former high school teacher, I often looked...
Seven Tips for Marketing Your Small Business to the Right Audience
Today's blog is a repost of Mr. Jens-Kristian Kiel's article written for the West Virginia Small Business Development Center's website. To find the original posting of this article, you can visit https://wvsbdc.com/seven-tips-for-marketing-your-small-business-to-the-right-audience/.
Introduction
As small business owners, we often focus on what we bring to the table — our products, services,...
Pursuing Federal Contracts Just Got Easier
Small businesses across the United States reaped a record $154.2 billion in federal contracts in fiscal 2021. That’s a lot of moolah for Main Street. Of that amount, $237,957,568 flowed directly to West Virginia small businesses. Sounds like a hefty sum – and it is – until you consider the Mountain...
Melting Pots and Building Blocks- The Founding of Piddlin’ Rooster
The Melting Pot
Business ownership is like a melting pot. Not in the normal sense of different people coming together to form a community, but similar: it takes many different forms of personal experiences, education, actions, trials and errors, lessons learned, tears, sweat, long nights, hard work, and an unbelievable amount...
Military and Agriculture: A Symbiotic Relationship
Life After the Military
Retired First Responder, Becky McCallister at My Way to My Roots Farm. For some veterans and active-duty members, agriculture offers an opportunity to gain back the camaraderie that many feel they lose in their life after military duty. For others, it offers a chance to be their own...
Welcome to WV BusinessLink
While there’s typically a celebration with public officials, banners, balloons, and a production made around the opening of large corporate offices across the country, most small business owners receive less attention when they are starting their enterprise. The small business process goes from an idea to conversations with family and...
