New book provides advice on how to encourage entrepreneurship in rural areas

Promoting entrepreneurship is a key economic-development strategy for rural areas. A new book, Energizing Entrepreneurial Communities: Pathway to Prosperity, provides a guide to becoming an entrepreneurial community. Authors Don Macke, Deb Markley and John Fulwider explain the importance of, and strategies for, positively influencing your community's economic future, offer unique approaches to economic development and provide tips to reaching greater prosperity, says the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship.

"We have worked with thousands of rural entrepreneurs across the Arkansas Delta over the past 15 years," says Ines Polonius, executive director of alt.Consulting in Pine Bluff, Ark. "Energizing Entrepreneurial Communities: A Pathway to Prosperity has given us a whole new perspective on effectively engaging communities in our work in order to create ecosystems in which rural entrepreneurs can be more successful," To order the book, click here.