When recruiting industry to rural counties, we must focus on identifying local needs, promoting the community’s unique assets, creating appealing job listings that highlight quality of life benefits, engaging with local organizations, leveraging technology, and being transparent about the rural environment while offering potential incentives to attract businesses. Do your market research and local needs assessment: Conduct thorough…

  Some weeks it’s so easy to come up with a topic, but other weeks are oh so difficult! This is one of the difficult weeks, but not because there is just not anything going on worth talking about. Sometimes the deadline to submit a column makes it difficult because it seems many breaking issues…