Business Enhancement

The University of Kansas Institute for Policy and Research releases data on the relative standing of Kansas counties.  Included in this fifty-one page report are a series of different statistical measures that describe the health of the area, the local economy, our population trends, income, certain amenities and our workforce.  You can read the full…

Millennials – They have a different way of life, they value different things, and their priorities are different than those of the previous generations. But why should we care to understand them? And more importantly, why should we structure our community around their desires? Millennials, those born between 1980 & the early 2000s, make up…

Emporia Main Street has the ability to communicate “best practices” or “generally agreed upon traditions” with the local area without saying “you MUST do this.”  We don’t have the power to compel independent businesses to do things they don’t want to do, but we find that many businesses understand that everyone can improve through a…

How are your sales?  That’s the question that everyone in the business world wants to know!  In the non-profit world, you might replace the word “sales” with “donations”, or “event revenues”, or even “memberships”, but the same basic concept applies.  You need to track cash flow trends within any organization to determine growth, the effectiveness…

Most of our business advice columns are specific to a certain industry or category type. Businesses have become more “niche” over the past decade, and those individual nuances mean we have to accommodate different business types by imparting targeted information.  However, there are some universal truths in business.  One universal truth is: everyone is selling something.…