As a part of the work at Quad City Local Ten, I am going to be doing a series called Local Spotlight. This will be articles which highlight local entrepreneurs and their businesses. My desire in these articles is to let our local entrepreneurs gain exposure and for the community to know where to go …
I had one of the most delightful conversations in several years yesterday. I met Emily Martin. She is an education specialist at Central High in Davenport, working with students in the iJAG program (Iowa Jobs for America’s Graduates). iJAG is a non-profit organization that, according to their website, is designed to help students who “… …
I just had a wonderful meeting this morning with a “micro-business” owner here in the QCA. I am working on an article that will spotlight her business that should be out in the next week. It will be the first in an ongoing series of articles that will be called “Local Ten’s Local Spotlight” and …
You know it wasn’t that many years ago that businesses growth occurred, in most businesses locally and organically. What I mean by this is that when a business opened its doors, generally its first customers were those people/companies from the local market who needed their products/services and who then passed on the news of these …