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General Business Development

Publications

Assisting Retail Trade Using Consumer Surveys (PDF format)-Nancy L. Williams, Student Assistant, Mike D. Woods, Professor and Extension Economist, and David Cassel, Coordinator, Statistical Lab, Cooperative Extension Service, Oklahoma State University

Business Plan Outline-Arkansas Small Business Development Center

Developing Your Local Economy: Basic Retail Marketing-Don Stebbins and Greg Taylor, Texas Extension Publications

Developing Your Local Economy: Business Incubators-Don Stebbins, Texas Extension Publications

Developing Your Local Economy: Consumer Opinion Survey Using Consumer Panels-Don Stebbins and Norman Whitehorn, Texas Extension Publications

Developing Your Local Economy: Focus on Agriculture-Gregory S. Taylor, Texas Extension Publications

Economic Development Strategies for Oklahoma Communities-Principal investigators: Mike Woods and Gerald Doeksen, Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University

Entrepreneurship Summit Strengthens Minority Businesses-Janet McCoy, Auburn University News, September 26, 1997

Gap Analysis as a Tool for Community Economic Development (PDF format)-Suzette D. Barta, Assistant Extension Specialist, and Mike D. Woods, Professor and Extension Economist, Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service

Getting Started in a Food Manufacturing Business in Tennessee (PDF format)-William C. Morris, Professor, Food Science and Technology, University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service, 1996

Getting Started in the Food Specialty Business-William C. Hurst and A. Estes Reynolds, Extension Food Scientists, and George A. Schuler and P.T. Tybor, Former Extension Food Scientists, The University of Georgia, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Cooperative Extension Service, March 1991

Impacts of Shopping Centers on Rural Communities and Their Trade Areas (PDF format)-Marlys Knutson Nelson, Economist, ERS-USDA, and James R. Nelson, Extension Economist, Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service

Market Penetration: How Well Are Your Merchants Doing?-Dennis U. Fisher, Texas Extension Publications

A New Look at Marketing (PDF format)-Alan Barefield, Assistant Professor, Agricultural Economics and Resource Development

Number of Retail Firms: How Well Are Your Merchants Doing?-Dennis Fisher and Donna Pfluger Adcock, Texas Extension Publications

Sales Per Store: How Well Are Your Merchants Doing?-Donna Pfluger Adcock and Dennis Fisher, Texas Extension Publications

Small Business Incubators: Potential Local Economic Development Tools (PDF format)-Mike D. Woods, Professor and Extension Economist, and Robert W. Rushing, Graduate Research Assistant, Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service

Small Business Innovation Research Programs: An Opportunity for Small Businesses in Oklahoma (PDF format)-Michael D. Woods, Extension Economist; Steve Paris, OCAST; and Jesse Qualls, OCAST-Cooperative Extension Service, Oklahoma State University

Starting a Successful Catering Business-Ann Lastovica, Extension Specialist, Family Management, Virginia State University; Tim Roberts, Extension Specialist, Food Safety, Virginia Tech; and Denise Brochetti, Extension Specialist, Human Nutrition, Foods and Exercise, Virginia Tech-Virginia Cooperative Extension, posted June 1999

Trends in Retail Trade (PDF format)-Suzette Barta, Extension Associate; Jason Martin, Student Assistant; Jack Frye, Area Extension Community Development Specialist; and Mike D. Woods, Extension Economist, Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service

Youth and Adult Entrepreneurship: The Tuskegee University Micro Enterprise Model-Alabama Cooperative Extension System

Research Reports

Considerations for a Value-added Agribusiness (PDF format)-Rob Holland, Assistant Extension Specialist, and Kent Wolfe, Assistant Extension Specialist, Agricultural Development Center, University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service

Critical Factors in Attracting New Businesses and Industry in Oklahoma (PDF format)-Gordon Sloggett, Research Associate, and Mike D. Woods, Extension Economist, Cooperative Extension Service, Oklahoma State University

Establishing a Birding-Related Business (PDF format)-David Scott, Associate Professor and Extension Recreation, Park, and Tourism Specialist, The Texas A&M University System; and Ashley Callahan, Expo Coordinator, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department-Texas Extension Publications, 2000

Issues for Florida Communities 3 Small Business Firms in Rural North Florida-E.M. Babb, L.J. Beaulieu, C.H. Gladwin, B.F. Long, A. Moseley, D. Mulkey, and D. Zimet, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, May 1994

Retention and Expansion: A Local Economic Development Strategy (PDF format)-Mike D. Woods, Professor and Extension Economist; Nancy Williams, Student Assistant; Claude Allen, Area Rural Development Specialist; Jack Frye, Area Rural Development Specialist, Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, Oklahoma State University

Related Websites

Southern Region Land-Grant University Food Science/Food Processing Center Resources

Sustainable Business Network

Training Curricula

Texas AgriFood Masters Expansion and Management Guide-T. A. Vestal, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, Texas A&M University

Texas AgriFood Masters-Tool Chest-Christine Townsend and Lucinda Pullen, Texas Agricultural Extension Service, Texas A&M University

Conferences/Trainings

Business Skills Training
September 2-6, 2003
San Antonio, Texas

Southern Institute for Rural Development (SIRD)
November 5-8, 2001
Athens, Georgia

Southern Region Community Development Institute
June 12-16, 2000
Canton, Mississippi

Southern Region Community Development Institute
May 14-18, 2001
New Braunfels, Texas

Southern Region Community Development Institute
September 23-27, 2002
Talladega, Alabama


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