Tie into government s shift to electronic payments systems for benefits, wages, and purchase orders. Facilitate financial or intellectual capital investment in community businesses with attractive growth potential. It is never too early to bring outsiders into the local business development process. They offer more than just money, they also offer advice about which businesses are likely to do best in your neighborhood. Facilitate improved business plans, incubation centers and syndicates of resources for community entrepreneurs and businesses.
Many small businesses lack the know-how for growing out of their current rut.
A simple, standard approach to business planning would help kick-start the process. Facilitate back-office, business planning, data and other venture skills to support local business and their skills marketing, mailing and product development, either individually or in syndicates. If a local business decides to move, expand or change its business lines, it will probably need help with timely and affordable business services. These are highly polluted areas, many left over from long-gone manufacturing industries, located in or near urban centers. The presence of these unattractive and often dangerous plots of land usually precludes any neighborhood redevelopment.