Did You Know? Nearly 5,000 Iowa small business owners and service providers are here! Want to know who they are?

Since we rolled out the new interactive community last May, several thousand small business owners and organizations have signed up! Welcome to Barbara Massey from Williamsburg who joined us yesterday and is launching an event planning business- and a special congratulations to her on her recent BA degree!

Patricia McMahon also joined us this week. She is a new Iowan and a new entrepreneur! Patricia visited the state last year and fell in love with our hillsides and rural beauty. We get that. She and her daughter have made the move to rural Iowa and she has launched a virtual bookkeeping and administrative support business serving other small firms. Her 20 years of experience will serve her well in this new venture.

We’ve put together a map of where you all are from and will soon make it interactive so you can find like-minded people near you with just a click. In the meantime, take a look at the map below to see who’s online. If you’d like to learn more, just click on the Find A... Member section at the top of your page and you can search for other small business owners by county or industry or even by name.

Thanks for being with us! I’m off to Holstein, Iowa to talk up small business with community leaders there. More next week.