IDEAS NUMBERED 32-44
32 A Hard Sell Website for Every Single Town no Matter the Size Selling Quality of Life for Potential Residences
This can be everything from free houses, free taxes for 10 years to people who move with kids, this can be some other benefit. The ultimate residence incentives. People are moving to small towns in other parts of the country. Why not North Dakota?
33 A North Dakota “Tourism” Blitz
Ambassador people attend Sports Shows, Outdoors Shows, Gun Shows, State Fairs, Large County Fairs, and hundreds of other venues. The cost of attending a show with lodging for a party of 2 is about $500 for Lodging, $250 for Food and Entertainment, $300 for Travel (Small Travel Van), and $1000 average for booth and distribution materials and $50 amortized over the life of the booth for a competent Display. That’s $2200 per Show. If there were average of 3 shows per month and 2 People working the shows full time @ $35,000 per year each, means a total of $70,000 for salaries and about $80,000 for the other costs mentioned above. The selling of Sportsman’s Nirvana.
That totals $150,000. If those people were giving away free fishing, or hunting licenses or free lodging or some other free thing you can bet they would be generating a level of activity. It wouldn’t take long to get that money back in direct and indirect revenues. If just 50 licenses were given away or raffled off how much activity and what kind of tourism mail or email list would that generate? No One comes alone, that license will always bring another visitor along.
34 The Shrine to Lawrence Welk as an Example
North Dakota has at least a hundred recognizable and famous people to enshrine in small towns of the Dakota Prairie. I won’t list them, but where was Peggy Lee Born (the house)? What about Eric Severide? Each small town that can boast a visit, residence, or birth of a famous person should create a shrine to them. Build it and they will come. Roger Maris and Teddy Roosevelt aren’t enough. Celebrate them all. It builds pride and offers tourists something to remember.
35 Crops That Do Well in Dakota
Winter Squash, Red Beets (Pickled Beets), Chokecherry and Bush Cherry, Dill Pickles, Juneberry. All these are but a few of things which grow better in North Dakota than many places because of it’s hot dry weather. There are products which come from these which can be offered to a wider market. They are under produced.
36 Attraction Guides and Access Cards
Every County, Town and Village that has a Golf Course, City Park, RV Camp, and any other attraction of any kind should be well marked. In the case of RV camps and Golf Courses, sell an access card to allow people to play the course or camp their trailer without extra costs. As a person drives down the highways, attractive brown attractions signs to point visitors to these things.
37 Sales Tax Abatement for Towns under 500 and Companies with sales under $500,000.
Make a loophole for business owners to take advantage of. No sales tax for any small business in any small town. This single incentive might just cause an entrepreneur to relocate there or better for a company to put a store there who might not have otherwise. The amount of money the sales tax division would lose is very small. The benefits are great.
38 The Lilac Town, The Viburnum Town, The Grapevine Town, The Rose Town
Every medium sized town from 500-3000 can get it’s residents to get on board and grow at least one of a selected landscape horticultural species. There are for instance 250 different Lilacs which grow in ND, 80 different Viburnums, 40 different types of Cherries and Plums, 150 different roses, 30 different Grapevine types etc. Make it a community which specializes in ONE species. In Illinois the city of Lombard IL is called the Lilac City. Thousands of Lilacs of all different kinds bloom on streets, in parks and on medians during the lilac festival. I don’t think it’s too hard to imagine that North Dakota cities could do the same thing. It becomes a reason for someone to travel somewhere and see the sights when they are in full glory.
39 Universal Access for Every Navigable Waterway
North Dakota has lots of small streams and rivers without access for canoes, small boats etc. Make every stream, creek, lake no matter where accessible for public use. Only by sharing these precious few assets on a more universal scale can we expect to attract and keep visitors and residences. These access locations should be well marked.
40 Create Houses of Life
North Dakotans teach and train what they know in life skills to those who have not had the breaks in life. Some are inner city kids, some are prisoners just out of jail, some are people down on their luck. Do this as a business. Do this as a ministry. This is about teaching people to survive and prosper. Some of these “customers” will stay and some will be come good citizens as the move back into society. Right now there are few opportunities for troubled kids. This is a faith based initiative.
41 Health Spa
There are warm flowing artesian wells going to waste in ND. I know of several where the water comes out at 80 degrees and runs down the stream. Capture this water, house it, sanded pond with an outlet on the back side. A hot healing spring. Better if it has sulfur smell. People believe in the healing qualities of such “Springs”. It wont take long to field a few testimonials. Cover it in winter. Make it a destination. The Pool of Siloam in ND.
42 Window Dresser
No store window should ever be empty in ND. Always be selling something, the history of the area, Attractions, anything.
This can be everything from free houses, free taxes for 10 years to people who move with kids, this can be some other benefit. The ultimate residence incentives. People are moving to small towns in other parts of the country. Why not North Dakota?
33 A North Dakota “Tourism” Blitz
Ambassador people attend Sports Shows, Outdoors Shows, Gun Shows, State Fairs, Large County Fairs, and hundreds of other venues. The cost of attending a show with lodging for a party of 2 is about $500 for Lodging, $250 for Food and Entertainment, $300 for Travel (Small Travel Van), and $1000 average for booth and distribution materials and $50 amortized over the life of the booth for a competent Display. That’s $2200 per Show. If there were average of 3 shows per month and 2 People working the shows full time @ $35,000 per year each, means a total of $70,000 for salaries and about $80,000 for the other costs mentioned above. The selling of Sportsman’s Nirvana.
That totals $150,000. If those people were giving away free fishing, or hunting licenses or free lodging or some other free thing you can bet they would be generating a level of activity. It wouldn’t take long to get that money back in direct and indirect revenues. If just 50 licenses were given away or raffled off how much activity and what kind of tourism mail or email list would that generate? No One comes alone, that license will always bring another visitor along.
34 The Shrine to Lawrence Welk as an Example
North Dakota has at least a hundred recognizable and famous people to enshrine in small towns of the Dakota Prairie. I won’t list them, but where was Peggy Lee Born (the house)? What about Eric Severide? Each small town that can boast a visit, residence, or birth of a famous person should create a shrine to them. Build it and they will come. Roger Maris and Teddy Roosevelt aren’t enough. Celebrate them all. It builds pride and offers tourists something to remember.
35 Crops That Do Well in Dakota
Winter Squash, Red Beets (Pickled Beets), Chokecherry and Bush Cherry, Dill Pickles, Juneberry. All these are but a few of things which grow better in North Dakota than many places because of it’s hot dry weather. There are products which come from these which can be offered to a wider market. They are under produced.
36 Attraction Guides and Access Cards
Every County, Town and Village that has a Golf Course, City Park, RV Camp, and any other attraction of any kind should be well marked. In the case of RV camps and Golf Courses, sell an access card to allow people to play the course or camp their trailer without extra costs. As a person drives down the highways, attractive brown attractions signs to point visitors to these things.
37 Sales Tax Abatement for Towns under 500 and Companies with sales under $500,000.
Make a loophole for business owners to take advantage of. No sales tax for any small business in any small town. This single incentive might just cause an entrepreneur to relocate there or better for a company to put a store there who might not have otherwise. The amount of money the sales tax division would lose is very small. The benefits are great.
38 The Lilac Town, The Viburnum Town, The Grapevine Town, The Rose Town
Every medium sized town from 500-3000 can get it’s residents to get on board and grow at least one of a selected landscape horticultural species. There are for instance 250 different Lilacs which grow in ND, 80 different Viburnums, 40 different types of Cherries and Plums, 150 different roses, 30 different Grapevine types etc. Make it a community which specializes in ONE species. In Illinois the city of Lombard IL is called the Lilac City. Thousands of Lilacs of all different kinds bloom on streets, in parks and on medians during the lilac festival. I don’t think it’s too hard to imagine that North Dakota cities could do the same thing. It becomes a reason for someone to travel somewhere and see the sights when they are in full glory.
39 Universal Access for Every Navigable Waterway
North Dakota has lots of small streams and rivers without access for canoes, small boats etc. Make every stream, creek, lake no matter where accessible for public use. Only by sharing these precious few assets on a more universal scale can we expect to attract and keep visitors and residences. These access locations should be well marked.
40 Create Houses of Life
North Dakotans teach and train what they know in life skills to those who have not had the breaks in life. Some are inner city kids, some are prisoners just out of jail, some are people down on their luck. Do this as a business. Do this as a ministry. This is about teaching people to survive and prosper. Some of these “customers” will stay and some will be come good citizens as the move back into society. Right now there are few opportunities for troubled kids. This is a faith based initiative.
41 Health Spa
There are warm flowing artesian wells going to waste in ND. I know of several where the water comes out at 80 degrees and runs down the stream. Capture this water, house it, sanded pond with an outlet on the back side. A hot healing spring. Better if it has sulfur smell. People believe in the healing qualities of such “Springs”. It wont take long to field a few testimonials. Cover it in winter. Make it a destination. The Pool of Siloam in ND.
42 Window Dresser
No store window should ever be empty in ND. Always be selling something, the history of the area, Attractions, anything.
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