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SMALL-MART REVOLUTION CHECKLISTTwelve Items for Entrepeneurs

  1. Local Niche. Make local ownership a key part of marketing your business to consumers and to investors.
  2. Go Green. Make your business an outstanding local environmental citizen by using local renewable resources and reusing nonrenewable resources (through recycling and reuse), and be sure to brag to your customers about your practices.
  3. BALLE Chapter. Create a local business alliance so that you’re not alone. Use the alliance to promote local purchasing, fight chains, solve problems, secure credit, and learn new skills.
  4. Producers Cooperatives. Join existing producers cooperatives or other kinds of industry-specific affinity groups that collectively purchase, advertise, and lobby ...

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