The sluggish economy has made creating and maintaining small businesses particularly challenging, but many businesses are discovering strategies that are allowing them to flourish while others fail. Check out the stories below to see what how some small businesses in Arizona are thriving. Part 1: Arizona small businesses working hard to remain profitable Part 2:…
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Travel Through the Counties
By: Traci Huttsell/Arizona Sonora News Service
Not only does Arizona house the Grand Canyon, Tombstone and the London Bridge, but it also serves as the home to many hidden gems as well.
Throughout the 15 counties of Arizona, each one has its own distinct personality. Here are only some of the unique attractions this state has to offer.
Here are two small businesses in Arizona that utilized their local small business development programs. Both are doing well.
COCONINO COUNTY:
One of the businesses that Scott Neuman, the program coordinator for the Coconino County Community Services Department (CCCSD), worked with was Cheesecake & Chocolate owned by Jalalieh Marian.
Marian started her own business in 2008. She’s her only employee and she runs the business out of her home.
This single mom sells her goods at a farmer’s market in Flagstaff and caters in the off season.
Marian started baking various cheesecakes and other goodies for potlucks.
“People kept saying this is something you’d find in a café. Ok, thank you. I think I’ll start a business!” Marian said.
But she didn’t know anything about starting a business.
Most small businesses don’t start off with a plan. They just open their doors and hope for the best. Along the way they find that the key to their success is to eventually develop a strong business plan to keep their shop doors open. In Arizona, small businesses have increased more than 30 percent in…
As a child, Nolan Bade would go camping with his family and during these trips Bade learned to appreciate nature. This is also when he realized that there would be a need for sustainability activists in the future.
When Bade would get back to the city, he would think about how trees and animals used to cover the area, and how soon it would be before the places in nature he enjoyed would become a plot for a new building.
Now Bade is a senior at Northern Arizona University and an environment major. He meets with the Student Environmental Caucus every week. The caucus is a group of students interested in sustainability and increasing the green initiatives effort on campus.
Bade and his group are not alone in their commitment to nature. All three Arizona universities have least one student-run group where students look for ways to increase the green initiatives efforts on their campuses.
