Msnbc. Hi there, everyone. Im j. J. Ramburg, and welcome to your business. Today we bring you the story of a Small Business and a small town whose fortunes have been tied together. The business is the Missouri Star Quilt Company, and the town, hamilton, missouri. Hamiltons main street, like so many in small towns across america, has been struggling to survive with store fronts empty and crumbling. As the Missouri Star Quilt Company grew, the family that started the business in 2008 saw an opportunity to improve their main street and grow their business by bringing quilting enthusiasts from all over the world to town to shop and to sew and to meet up. And so far its working. Well show you how in this weeks main street u. S. A. Welcome to hamilton, missouri, population 1800. They have been known as the birth place of jcpenney, but today this city which is an hour away from kansas city is known for something quite different, quilting. Its been dubbed the disneyland of quilting, and thats
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letting them be run down and fall apart and putting together something new and exciting. some of them, i see, you have the sewing retreat for quilters. yes. you have sew seasonal over there. well, we re focused on quilting. we want to have most quilt shops than any town in the world. what do you think the missouri quilt shop is doing? they ve brought in employment. i m sure they re the largest employer in the city and in all of the county. they ve came in and improved a lot of our buildings that were in disrepair, maybe dilapidated and going to fall down. it s been a really good situation for the city of hamilton. and the city of hamilton has been really good for the doane family. 20 years ago ron and jenny doane were barely making ends meet living in california when they decided to pack up their large family and head to missouri with the hope of finding a slower pace of life and lower cost 6 living. with a fresh start jenny stayed home raised her seven children
hi everyone. i m j.j. ramburg, and welcome to your business. the show dedicated to helping your small business grow. how often do you think about data in relation to your business? every single one of us who runs a company is collecting data and i suspect that many of you throw out this data or never look at it. but hiding in those numbers are great strategies to help your company thrive. to give you an illustration of this we went to visit an owner of a lunch shop who showed us how her data helped her increase her cash flow and decrease her supply costs. next customer! take a close look at this turkey and cheese on a roll. if you re one of these customers at village cheese shop in palo alto california that sandwich looks like lunch. but if you re lindsay hiken, the owner here that sandwich looks like data, raw data. these are their bread choices, these are their spread choices, meat, cheese, toppings. if they wanted any deli side. at the 50 year deli shop which lin