VILLAGE HAPPENINGS

Electrifying service with TwinOaksNH Electric

This week I wanted to highlight the great service I recently witnessed from TwinOaks Electric NH. Here’s how we feel about veteran-owned business Twin Oaks:

• Thank you for showing up on time when you said you would come take a look at the job.
• Double thank you for showing up the second time, on time, to complete the job.
• Thank you for brainstorming solutions that may have been outside the scope of what we originally discussed!
• Thank you for the reasonable fees, we received great value.
• Guess what?!  We’re referring you to everyone we know! 

Interested in Having Your Business Showcased?

Shoot me an email: chris@launchmechanic.com, and we’ll come visit you 🙂

Upcoming Events & Opportunities

This Week’s Recommended Events

• Feb 13 – Stella Downie, Serial Brick and Mortar Business Builder, brought to you by Dave McLaughlin’s “Hardhat” series

My friend Dave McLaughlin recently launched this thought provoking series that interviews entrepreneurs, artists and other professionals to help growth-mindset people, aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners. Learn more here.

Monday February 13, 2023 12:00pm  12:45pm

Stella Downie builds IRL, consumer facing businesses that don’t appear to have much in common with each other. First she built Boston’s best toy store, then eventually sold it. Then she launched the first indoor trampoline park business on the East Coast, growing to five sites across New England. And now she’s re-launching a retro Berkshires motor lodge on the beautiful Mohawk Trail in Western Massachusetts. Visionary but very very humble, smart and hard-working in the extreme, Stella understands how to operationalize a vision and how to make customers happy. And that’s what we’re going to talk about. Request an invitation to this conversation.

• Nurse Entrepreneurs. New Village Community!

Welcome nurse entrepreneurs! Village recently joined SONSEIL and is now in touch with a large community of nurses who are interested in starting or growing their own businesses.  SONSEIL (Society of Nurses, Scientists, Entrepreneurs and Innovation Leaders), is a large association of nurses from across the country.  

If you’re a nurse and you’d like to learn more – either check out the SONSEIL link above or follow along with us at the Village!  I’ve already met some very successful entrepreneurs in this community and we will be featuring one of them soon at a live event in March!  (see below)

• Live Event Series! Translating Nurse Know-How Into Income 

Making the Shift from Nurse to Entrepreneur

Featuring keynote speaker Teresa Sanderson, RN

Nursing Continuing Education Consultant, Nurses Feed Their Young Founder, Marketing Consultant & Trainer, Nurse Entrepreneur Preceptor

Join us on March 1st at noon for this informative discussion with Teresa Sanderson, serial entrepreneur and Founder of Nurses Feed Their Young, a movement to improve nursing culture and work environment.  A serial entrepreneur and founder of a successful hospice agency that grew to $3M, today Teresa operates a business focused on helping nurses realize their potential for entrepreneurship!  By working with Teresa, nurses learn they can generate new streams of income by translating their unique skills and experience into continuing education courses and content. 

Farm & Food Village Goodies

• Village Recently Joined New Hampshire Eats!

New Hampshire Eats is a large Facebook community of food appreciators, restaurants and food producers.  Phil Meyer, Admin, has committed to helping small businesses in this community and has invited Village to post content, tips and strategies.  We are actively showcasing small businesses and booking featured speakers.

• Sullivan Country Store 

The Sullivan Country Store on Route 9 in NH is actively looking for small farms and producers to present their products as they get ready to open! You can contact them here.

• Funding Available for Infrastructure Support

Up to $15,000 in funding is available for restaurants needing Infrastructure Support
The Local Restaurant Infrastructure Investment Program provides awards to local restaurants seeking reimbursement for eligible equipment, infrastructure, and technology purchases up to an award cap of $15,000. Such purchases must be a result of or in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in order to be eligible under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund.  Learn more here.

• Retail Village Goodies

This is an easy flip-through report on what consumers want from retailers in 2023.  2,000 people over the age of 18 were surveyed for these findings.  Customers still prefer to be contacted by email and via FB, although text is on the rise.

• Getting Started with SKUs? Here’s a Beginner’s Guide.

If you’re just getting started working with SKUs, here’s a Beginner’s Guide you may find helpful!

Village’s Must Go’s

• Small Business Digital Alliance

Launched in February 2022, the Small Business Digital Alliance brings together major players, influencers, and companies in tech, e-commerce, benefits, and other industries to help connect small businesses with digital tools, trainings, and expanded opportunities, and grow their digital networks to reach new customers – free of charge.

• NH Community Navigator Program

New Hampshire’s Community Navigator Program is powered by an ecosystem of experienced small business and microenterprise technical assistance providers across the state. Small businesses can gain access to resources and services at no charge. 

Be sure to check out the small business resources that are available throughout the state of NH at the  NH Community Navigator Program.

Outside NH and looking for a Navigator Program in Your State? Click the button below.

• EForum

The EForum is a Cambridge MA-based nonprofit, supported by the Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship at MIT. Check out their  calendar of entrepreneurial events. 

You’ll find general information about EForum here.  

Help a local family? Here’s a cool project!

Over in Monadnock NH, the Morales family are working hard to launch a cattle operation.  If you’d like to hear the story and learn if you can help, listen to this short recording that we created to help Luis Morales apply for his first grant.

Listen to Luis Morales’ story HERE

Free Courses & Coaching

Ready to grow? We’ve got the perfect program for that.

• FREE content, coaching & networking for your business! Oh yeah, and the 10K Grant Opportunity is a huge bonus 🙂

Here are some top-shelf live events coming to you in February, courtesy of Small Business Digital Ready!

February 20 – 4-5:30 pm
Ask the Expert: Video for Social Media: A Quick How-To 
Learn how to create effective content across TikTok, Instagram Reels, and Youtube Shorts with a social media expert in this exclusive Ask The Expert Session. Enroll Today.

February 27 – 12:30-2:30 pm
Ask the Expert: Success in Retail: Panel Discussion
Hear how other industry experts have pivoted and succeeded in the midst of economic and social downturns in this Ask The Expert session. Enroll Now.