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freerangeranger · 9 months

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<As students are filing into the lecture hall, Honoria Sorrel can be see fiddling with a projector. The first slide of the powerpoint reads: 'So You Don't Want to be a Ranger?'

Honey straightens up as the slide finally comes into focus, before glancing put at the sea of children still settling into their seats. She purses her lips slightly and wanders across the stage to a podium that had been moved aside - reconvening with Lamp the Sizzlipede who was watching her from atop the wooden stand.

No one can hear her as she speaks to the little fire-bug, although she does hand Lamp the projector control after a few moment.

As the crowd slowly settles - with much hushing from the other adult supervisors - Honoria takes a deep breath, and begins.>

"Hello Campers, welcome! My name is Honoria, and I am a Ranger stationed in Castalia city. Some of you might know me from the Shadow Sky Incident; I was one of many who assisted with relief efforts. I have been afforded the opportunity today to teach you about the Ranger Union and what it can do for you, even if you do not want to become an offical pokemon ranger."

"The Ranger Union is best known for its Area and Field Rangers... but you know, not everyone is cut out for that sort of job.

It's true! When you get older - don't give me that look, you will get older - Your life isn't always going to turn out the way you planned it. Sometimes we hurt ourselves. Maybe you will have a family! Or find that your passion is in engineering or marketing or security. Maybe you just hate being outside or in the field.

And that's okay! Just because you aren't a Ranger doesn't mean the Union is a dead end for you. There are tons of opportunities that people don't know about and most Ranger schools have programs for these jobs as well."

"Let's talk Operators. You all got your phones - yea? Did Miss Ellisa ask you to put them away? Well - not all of you are listening. I see you in the back. Yea, you! Hot tip: If you want to hide your phone, don't turn it on in a dark room. But you my friend might be a perfect fit for an Operator.

Operators are our IT management team for the Union. Prior to the invention of phones they were people who coordinated local Rangers, organized job boards and sent messages between Bases to facilitate smooth operations.

Now that we have satellite radio and modern communications integrated into our stylers, Operators work as a hub of all incoming reports and updates from Rangers in the field. Being knowedgable of software - both new and old - is crucial because if something goes wrong you are able to help with repairs, suggestions and even call emergency services. Not only that! Operators can reassign missions, give constant updates and are often the people who begin and end missions for Rangers. You get to boss us around over the phone - it's great."

"Mechanics! The sister-field of IT. Where operators know what to do when software is on the fritz, Mechanics are responsible for building, maintaining and repairing all of the computers, stylers and other wacky gadgets that rangers use."

"Look at this. Not quite a clunky old styler, huh? My friends, this is the first artifical pokemom leaf ever conceived. It works too! With some grafting you can attach this prosthetic to any grass pokemon that has lost a major body segment and it will provide them with a method of creating their own food. This is what I mean when I say 'mechanics'. Tools and Tech that go beyond your average smartphone.

... although it does help to know how to remove a SIM card from a phone.

If you love the idea of keeping a well oiled machine running or even inventing your own machines on someone else's dime, the Union offers scholarships for high school students - encouraging your to pursure higher education and create something that you can share with the world."

"Not many people know this, but a lot of the research that the Union supports doesn't actually relate to the field of pokemon conservation. True - creating better medical systems and styler technology is benefical to the Union as well as the medical industry. But there is a lot more to it than that. Which leads us to..."

"Acedemia!

Now, this job isn't strictly 'working for the Union'. Your paycheck doesn't solely come from us. However. I don't know how many of you know this - but research is expensive! Last year the pokemon medical industry put 3.5 million dollars into new technology. Thats insane! I could buy the Union for that amount. But it gets used by people who want to know more about the world.

Now this doesn't really get explained to you so I'm going to lay it out here.

"No one knows anything. The smartest, most well known scientist in the world can't tell you everything - heck they can't tell you anything with certainty. And thats how they like it.

The world is wide and vast and so crazy complicated. There are still arguments about photosynthesis, whether or not Flygon is a Bug or Dragon, and how bones heal. And the Union wants to support people who are trying to answer these questions - to create things like the prosthetic leaf and to inform policies to protect and manage pokemon-human interactions."

"Okay. So you don't wanna sit in a stuffy office looking through a microscope all day. But being a Ranger seems very stressful and you don't really want to deal with the people-side of the job.

May I present 'Survey Corps'. These are the enviromental sciences part of the Union. They are the ones responsible for long term monitoring and management of specific at-risk habitat and populations.

Their job is similar to Area Rangers, only if they see signs of human interruption they call the Area Rangers and get the heck out of dodge. Their job is strictly tagging pokemon, taking soil samples, checking water temperature and quality, monitoring construction sites for pokemon nests and even handing out hunting tickets for overpopulated species.

That doesn't tickle your fancy? What's that? You want to pet the pokemon but not get attacked by an angry Ursaring?"

"Rehabilitation is the name of the game! or job. Unsuprisingly there is a massive branch of pokemon welfare within the Union, both for the ride pokemon born and raised in captivity as well as injured pokemon who are going to be re-released. The Union also funds and runs its own breeding programs to reintroduce species back into their original habitats and potentially bring back ancient species that were wiped out by human intervention.

An example - not related to the Union - is with @sneasedtomeetyou who has spent time breeding hisuian sneasel - an extinct poison type - from the recessive genes recently discovered in modern sneasel. It's their hope to reintroduce these species back into Sinnoh because it was recently discovered that certain species of trees grow only after the seed has passed through the digestive tract of certain poison types."

"What? Some of you want to deal with people more than pokemon? Jeez - picky crowd today.

Luckily I have a solution. The Union employs a lot of security forces both in the field and in their buildings. Because there are high risk pokemon in the protection of the Union - no I'm not going to tell you where or what they are, put your hand down - we need security guards who are skilled combatants to protect them. This is a perfect job for professional or aspiring trainers who need a fallback plan or simply don't want to be in the competitive scene anymore.

"In conclusion. The Union employs a wide variety of people with drastically different skills and needs. If you want to be Ranger - go for it! Be the best that you can be. But if you don't, I hope you will consider the opportunities presented here and maybe I'll hear you sometime over the phone telling me...

'Mission Clear!'"

#irl pokemon #pokeblogging #rl pokemon #foster island summer camp #adventures on foster island #honoria lore #pokemon ranger headcanons #pokemon ranger #long post #ranger talks

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safrina-shards · 9 months

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Hey kiddo! How are you settling in to school? I have an aunt and several cousins around your age who live in Cortando if you ever need a home cooked meal or some new friends!

Also, I keep seeing you talking to Victoria. The adults in your life are right to try to keep you away from her. She's dangerous, and not in the fun exciting way. Please be careful, and keep your Pokémon close to you. - Ellisa

Hi Ms Ellisa! I learned about field moves today! But I don't get it about what your saying about auntie, why is auntie dangerous?

#rotomblr #pokemon irl #pokeblogging #pokeblr #pokemon #irl pokemon #pkmn irl #of sparkling stars~ ic #pokemon ranger

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vintagerpg · 1 year

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This is Tales of the Loremasters Book II (1989) and man, I gotta start by saying: how on earth did they get all this stuff (and more beside) all out in one year? This is a sequel?! How?!? There is a metric ton of 1989 Shadow World stuff and it boggles my mind. Did Iron Crown employees just not sleep?

Like the previous volume, this is a collection of adventure sites, all illustrated by Jennell Jaquays (I really like how she approaches landscapes in her Shadow World material). This one feels more varied in its locales. No nucklelavee, so you can’t have everything, but this one is a handy one to have around — you can drop this stuff into any campaign and make it work without a lot of conversion work. The one with the mysterious meteor is my favorite. The details are fine, but honestly, I mostly appreciate the prompt of “mysterious meteor” — there should be more of those in RPGs, generally, I think.

Wanted to post about this primarily for the cover art by David Martin. Granted, I would call this a cockatrice, not a basilisk (those, for me, are snakes who wear adorable crowns) but I love the idea of whatever it is turning everything to stone, gorgon-like (basilisks traditionally kill via venom and pollution, while cockatrices usually cause people to just drop dead by looking at them). I’ve talked before about the quality of smoothness in David Martin’s work. I often find it off-putting, but here it works so good. Maybe that is the influence of Ellisa Martin, who is also credited on the painting (though not inside in the actual credits)

#RPG #TTRPG #Tabletop RPG #Roleplaying Game #D&D #dungeons & dragons #Shadow World #Terry Amthor #Jennell Jaquays #Iron Crown #Rolemaster #David Martin #Tales of the Loremasters

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orchard-lad · 9 months

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Orchards and Wild Pokemon

[The lesson is held in the orchard, under a bright sunny day. Darnell is sat under a parasol, petting a random Budew he found.]

I'd like to thank Ellisa ( @adventures-on-foster-island ) for the opportunity to speak at this camp regarding the importance of understanding orchards and its interactions with the ecosystems you establish them in.

Being a trainer is the main occupation that people associate with pokemon. However, for most people it isn’t a career they can, or intend to keep up into their twilight years. For many trainers, one career they transition into is that of orchard-keeping.

Berries are a resources that the world has a never-ending appetite for, being the basis for a majority of the world's food production. Berries are made into kibble, used as items, used as feed for prey pokemon and more. As the world continues to expand and more and more trainers and people keep pokemon, berries are increasingly needed to keep the world fed, hence the need for orchardists.

When it comes to owning orchards, one of the most important parts of your jobs is managing you and your orchard's interactions with the wild pokemon and ecosystem you are in. In creating an orchard, what you are essentially doing is taking up a chunk of an ecosystem entering that ecosystem. Most of the time, we don’t really care about that, as we live in cities or towns, ecosystems built by people for people out of concrete and steel.

But an orchard is a land of wood and grass, food and shelter. This makes it not only attractive, but interactive with the ecosystem around it. There is no way that you can pollinate the trees of the orchard yourself without the pokemon of the area around it, whether it be the Ledybas of Johto or Vivillions of Kalos. To compound this, pokemon specific trees, such as Berries and Apricots don’t just require any land to grow, but land that has been infused with the energy that pokemon give off on a daily basis. Should you somehow grow a berry tree in an isolated location, away from any pokemon, you will soon find that the tree will wither and die in days as it lacks this vital energy. As such, for your orchard to prosper, you have to interact with the ecosystem around you.

Pokemon can be split into three types: Beneficial pokemon, neutral pokemon and harmful pokemon. What pokemon fit into these categories depend on your region and ecosystem. For the sake of this lecture, it will be based on Johto as that is where I am located.

Beneficial pokemon are pokemon like pollinators, or pest control pokemon. While such pokemon might consume a few berries on a day to day basis, their presence and efforts in pest control provide more overall help to your orchard. A Johtoan example would be Furrets and Noctowl.

Neutral pokemon simply live in an area, and might not affect your orchard overall as a whole. This could include Wooper or Dunsparce. Alternatively, neutral pokemon might provide pros and cons that balance each other out. An example would be Hoppip, who might consume nutrients from the soil it decides to rest on, however are really efficient nitrogen fixers.

Lastly are harmful pokemon, who pose no benefit to the orchard whatsoever. This comes in many ways such as destructive pokemon (Aipom, Houndoom), territorial pokemon (Beedrill, Usaring), and berry/tree consuming pokemon, (Weedle, Caterpie, Paras, Pikachu).

Pokemon don’t fall neatly into these categories. For example, Yanma are really good at pest control, however they are aggressive and will attempt to attack you and other beneficial pokemon. Similarly, Spinarak are good at pest control within their territory, and so are Ariados, but an Ariados might decide to follow you home and smother you in your sleep. Due to the danger that these pokemon pose, they can be classified as harmful pokemon instead. Talking to other orchard owners in your regions and studying pokemon is required for your orchard to function at full efficiency, while having the least impact.

To deal with all of these pokemon, this requires battling capability. Battling and orchard ownership go hand in hand, as similarly to pokemon in the wild, if you want to own land, you must have the capability to back it up. In cities, this capability is provided by the society around you, which enforces such claims through hiring trainers to deal with issues, or the police force. But out in the countryside, this claim is only enforceable by you. Pokemon will not understand nor accept pieces of paper claiming your legal right to own land, and will test your claims repeatedly.

To understand this, we must talk about territory. All pokemon have a territory. In that territory, they often have two parts to it:

Home territory

Resource claim

A home territory is a pokemon’s home, such as a Usaring’s cave, or a Noctowl’s tree. Approaching a home territory will invite warnings, and encroaching on it without permission leads to violence.

A resource claim is a claim over a resource in an area. This could be the forest surrounding a Usaring’s cave, or the stretch of forest a Noctowl patrols. In this area, they have claims over certain resources, such as mates, berries or prey, but will not clash with other pokemon unless they are competing over those resources.

For certain pokemon, such as Spinarak or Ariados, these two parts are the same.

If you had the numbers, and the power you could enforce a home territory claim over the entire orchards. There certainly are farmers that do so, such as most farms or ranches. But in an orchard, due to your need for pollination and pokemon energy, it is far more reasonable to instead enforce a resource claim. This means that you can cooperate with beneficial pokemon (i.e. pokemon not in competition with the same resources as you, i.e berries).

Pokemon such as Noctowl or Furrets, which are smarter and more reasonable as well as not being in competition with you, are easy to settle into orchards. Noctowl tend to claim a tree or two on the edge of the orchard, and if reasoned with will often allow you to harvest berries off their trees. Furrets might claim the base of a tree to nest in, and often won’t have any issues with berry harvests, although they might claim a berry or two as a snack.

Both these pokemon consume pests as prey, and as such, short of you invading their nests or burrows, they are often great pokemon to have on your farm. However, their territories might conflict with one another. As such, to prevent constant combat between them, you might help introduce a neutral species between them or another beneficial species, such as a Ledyba swarm. Alternatively, you could also enforce a stronger claim with your pokemon there by having your pokemon patrol there a bit more often. Occasionally, a pokemon might move in that makes for good pest control or pollinator, but disrupt other pokemon already established. In those cases, it might make better sense for you to chase them off instead.

In contrast, pokemon like Ursaring or Aipom are bad for orchards. Ursaring often claim large swathes of land for resources and are incredibly territorial. In addition, their preferred way of harvesting berries involves damaging the tree to bring the berries to the ground. As they are in direct competition with humans, they often attack on sight and are easily provoked. As a result, it is important to enforce your control over your orchard by beating them in a battle.

On my orchard alone, I often deal with 3-5 new Ursaring that have been forced from home after losing in a territory battle or evolving that attempt to claim my territory every year. Left alone, these bears can easily damage trees and cause severe harm to your pokemon and yourself. Meanwhile, Aipom are nomadic tree-damagers, consuming large amounts of berries while damaging the branches they hang from. As such, they are a recurring pest that require constant vigilance to handle.

The importance I want to state here is the understanding that owning an orchard requires not only co-existing with the ecosystem, but also establishing yourself. If you choose to never battle for territory, you will soon find your orchard overrun by Beedrill hives, Rattata infestations and angry Ursarings, none of which will stop at fences or legal documents. However, it is important to understand that orchards can’t be pokemon free regions either. Your orchard will soon evolve into an extension of the forest, with countless pokemon setting up different territories competing over different resources. Some might be beneficial for your interests, while others might be negative. Your job is to balance the competing needs of yourself and these various pokemon, and find a way to resolve it that results in the least amount of damage to the ecosystem around you.

#pokeblogging #rotomblr #pkmn irl #pokemon irl #irl pokemon #pokeblr #foster island summer camp #rotumblr

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paldean-ranger-brandy · 8 months

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Eavesdrop! - Ellisa @adventures-on-foster-island

Send me 'eavesdrop!' to hear a snippet of what my muse says about yours when they aren't around! Please only submit if we have interacted at least one time.

“Okay but real talk, J? Can we real talk right now. The lady at that is doing just the absolute most. You know the type. Taking on everyone’s problems, just piling everyone’s burden onto their own shoulders. At least from what I’ve seen, anyway. Which I guess makes sense for the kind of operation she’s running. I respect it, don’t get me wrong. Loads of respect. But unless she has some serious coping mechanisms it really seems like she’s gonna get so burnt out.”

#ask game #ooc post

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lakelandseo · 1 year

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Three Irish Small Business Ideas that Could Be US Hits

“Knitting the Islands”, by Miriam Ellis

A happy and lucky St. Patrick’s day to all my readers! I’ve seen it again and again that small and local businesses became successful due to a great inspiration and some little happenstance bit of luck that got them noticed. Today, I’d like to celebrate with you by offering a shamrock of three ideas I’ve seen taking off in my mother country of Ireland. You may not replicate the exact business model, but do take away the underlying concepts which I strongly believe could succeed in the US. I’ll also point out how you can help luck along with a little creative marketing. Share this article with your team for brainstorming new campaigns, or with anyone in your life who wishes they could start a small business

Finding the "grá"

Ever wondered how to say “I love you” in Irish? One way is "tá grá agam duit" (taw graw ah-gum duts/ditch). It’s not uncommon to hear Irish folk saying they have a "grá" for something when speaking English, and to me, the word not only conveys love but a kind of longing. When people have a "grá" for some really good bread, or a trip to the seaside, or a warm coat they saw in a shop window, it’s what we might call “consumer demand” in American marketing lingo. Pay attention right now, and you may be starting to notice people in the US and elsewhere expressing a special kind of "grá" for a different life. Recently, such a thread stood out to me on Twitter, started by author and founder Dave Gerhardt.

Software, of course, isn’t going anywhere any time soon, and the more we see of the current state of AI chat, the less many analysts are convinced that it’s going to be a major disruptor at present, but what I observe in this tweet and the replies to it is that people are starting to get tired of the one-dimensional confines of too much screen time. Wanting a satisfying local life and community “IRL” is a great "grá" statement. Americans are deeply attached to our tech, but more and more, I’m running across peers talking about having an “analog life”, wishing their kids would become “luddites”, or wondering how an off-grid life would feel for their families. More simply put, many people would like to experience more satisfaction in what is right around them.

This dynamic is, in fact, tailor-made for small business entrepreneurs, so let’s look at these three aspirational concepts to see if you or your clients have got a "grá" tugging at you for any of them.

1. Be about life

Within living memory, it was the mark of respectability to have your little weedless patch of green lawn. You constantly cut the grass to keep it under tight control. You yanked out every dandelion - or worse - poisoned your own nest with herbicides. Think things never change for the better? I hear you, but check out TheIrishGardener because now, instead of rolling out bundles of monocrop sod, the Irish are carpeting the outdoors with native wildflower matts. One dimension isn’t enough anymore - folk want flowers and bees and moths and butterflies and bugs and more of everything alive. Yard by yard, they are reinvigorating essential ecosystems. Clever wildflower seed sellers are now marketing their products like seed matts and seed bombs not just to homeowners but as wedding favors, holiday gifts, classroom projects, and more.

There’s been such a base trend in US marketing in which we try to sell things to our neighbors by scaring them. Our ads are full of guns, screaming, threats, panic, anxiety, and danger and it’s very weird contrasting this with the ads I listen to on Irish media which seem to be largely focused on green energy, eating nice things, and enjoying the arts.

Could your great small business reject fear-and-shock-based marketing and instead hinge on beauty and satisfaction in life? We do have that old adage of drawing more flies with honey than vinegar, and if you can align your business with the very strong yearning for life to be abundant, varied, diverse, interesting, healthy, and fun, I think you’re moving away from the old lifeless lawns to the new thriving garden.

2. Be about locality

There’s only one place you can get real Irish seaweed - from the coasts of the country, of course! WildIrishSeaWeeds.com is one of those rare businesses that has seen the potential in a gift of nature that many might pass by without noticing. Seaweed is practically a miracle - you can eat it, bathe in it, and use it as a very carbon-friendly fertilizer that elders have always sworn by. What was once mainly a snack remembered fondly by children is now becoming a serious green industry in Ireland, and not far from where I live, I see a Californian company testing whether they can latch onto a similar demand in the US.

What is overlooked where you live? Is it something that can only be gotten in your local area? Something people used to love but are forgetting about now? Maybe it’s a local food source that’s starting to disappear because no one is using it anymore, or maybe its a skilled craft like basketmaking in a local style, baking or brewing a regional speciality, knitting or sewing a heritage garment, compounding an old-time remedy. Maybe it’s reviving a tradition that used to anchor your community. Could your great small business idea simply be about reconnecting neighbors with what’s special about where you live…a place that may have started to have vanished in our collective consciousness because the screens are blocking the view?

3. Be about people’s simplest pleasures

Our SEO lives may be consumed with ChatGPT right now, or GA4, or what will happen next on or to Twitter, but Padraic Óg Gallagher is up on the balcony of his restaurant, growing real Irish potatoes for his Boxty House in Dublin. If you’ve never had the luck to eat boxty, it’s a delicious potato cake, beloved enough in Ireland to be the inspiration behind a restaurant that’s seen such success, it was able to open a second location. Boxty is not fancy. It’s something your mother would make you from leftovers, something treasured from childhood, the memory of which warms your very soul.

If we look again at Dave Gerhardt’s Twitter thread, he’s not longing for a yacht, nor a manion, nor a pot of gold. He just wants the simple pleasure you get from “building in your community.” Most of us can be plenty happy with just enough, and rather than creating a business idea around elite luxury, consider what you might offer that actually delivers human contentment to the most people. A basic kitchen good that isn’t made well any more? A handcrafted walking stick? A cozy bookshop, a guided tour for visitors, your grandmother’s pecan pie, a wooden toy, a cloth doll, a sturdy garden implement, a bayberry candle, a regional herbal tea?

The simpler and better quality your idea, the more of a welcome change it could be for customers increasingly expressing fatigue from low-quality, mass-produced, and very limited options. America’s Vermont Country Store has been outstandingly successful in helping people relocate fundamental merchandise they can’t find anymore. Study their approach.

Creative marketing of your small business idea

What can you do to catch the eye of your audience? You’ve probably guessed that I’m going to say that, no matter how small your local business, you’ve got to have a website and local business listings. 30 years ago, I would have said this about the telephone book, and however much we may long for more off-screen time, we’ve got to concede that the web makes it so easy to be found! So yes, publish the best website you can budget for, build out your Google Business Profile and other listings, and invest all you can in learning about digital reputation management. It will help you achieve your goals.

That being said, the room there is beyond the web for creative marketing could fill all the pages of the Book of Kells. If you’re starting out quite small, try these low-tech approaches to getting the word out about your new business idea in your community:

Ask an established business owner to host you as a pop-up shop inside their store, perhaps for tourist season or the holidays.

If you produce enough volume, meet with local shop owners to discover whether your product could win a permanent place on their shelves.

Approach local reporters with the most succinct, newsworthy angle of your business to seek press.

Real-world community message boards still exist in some towns. Use them.

Put a sign outside your house or in the window of your apartment. No room? Ask local officials for permission to put a sign in a vacant lot or on a street corner where you’ve seen other signage posted. Be ready to sell them on how your idea benefits the community.

Research local regulations regarding hanging fliers around town.

Research whether there is an opportunity for you to be included in existing print catalogs. 90 million Americans purchase something from a catalog annually, and even as the Internet has become so established in our lives, catalog shopping has continued to trend upwards.

Found or join a local business organization for brainstorming, networking and cross-selling.

Coordinate with other micro-business entrepreneurs to host a shared party in a local park, acquainting your community with your presence and offerings.

Sponsor local teams, events, and people and be cited for it both on and offline.

If your community still has a local radio station, try to get on it, either with an ad or as a guest, to reach 82.5% of US adults.

If you live in an area favored by tourists, contact the local visitors’ center to see how to get listed in their publications.

Advertise in the mailers and bulletins of local houses of worship and schools.

If what you produce relates to any type of food, music, art, cultural, or local festival, participate in it.

“Little as a wren needs, it must gather it.”

I’m closing today with this famous Irish proverb, because it seems right for this moment in America, where the myth of endless growth and the dangers of an unchecked appetite for luxury have done no favors to the economy or environment our whole people must live in. The Irish phrase, “Cé gur beag díol, caithfidh sé a sholáthar,” has traditionally been used to remind us that even the small wren has to work hard to provide for itself - a scenario every small business owner and local business marketer will easily relate to.

But I’m starting to see a double-meaning in this phrase, and new business trends in Ireland are helping me to see it: a more sustainable way to found a venture may be in asking not how much you want, but how little you actually need to be satisfied. SEOs everywhere already know it’s a best practice to get clients to define what success looks like before a project begins so that all parties can see when a goal has been attained. For most small business owners not seeking to become big business owners, achievement will simply mean something along the lines of being able to pay themselves and their staff enough to have a modest, good life. To me, this recognition matters right now, because most customers are in search of the same thing - having just enough.

Whether it’s through thrifting in Ireland or thrifting in America, re-storing in Drogheda or re-storing in Simi Valley, eating local and organic at Moyleabbey Farm in Kildare or at Waxwing Farm in Washington, or preserving traditional crafts that last on that side of the water or on this, tandem trends are indicative of a search for a simpler, better life. 57% of Americans say they shop small to keep money local, and there is no overstating how much both nearby economics and the global climate benefit from this approach. If you’ve decided 2023 is the year to lean into the new/old ways by starting or marketing small businesses, I’d say the luck may be on your side!

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bfxenon · 1 year

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Three Irish Small Business Ideas that Could Be US Hits

“Knitting the Islands”, by Miriam Ellis

Finding the "grá"

1. Be about life

2. Be about locality

3. Be about people’s simplest pleasures

Creative marketing of your small business idea