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	<title>Montana - Good for Business</title>
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		<title>Tester’s Small Business Opportunity Past Workshops on YouTube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday, July 9th  -  This is being broadcast live on the Internet
8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Flathead Valley Community College
Kalispell, MT
Part Workshops &#8211; See bottom of linked page
Senator Tester will host a Small Business Opportunity Workshop in Kalispell in early July.  The event will focus on entrepreneurship, access to capital (such as loans, grants, and tax [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.asurefit.com/business/2010/07/09/tester%e2%80%99s-small-business-opportunity-past-workshops-on-youtube/</link>
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		<title>Upcoming Event &#8211; Compete Smart in Billings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[October 7-8, 2010
MMEC&#8217;s premier conference for
MONTANA MANUFACTURERS
Co-hosted by MMEC and NorthWestern Energy
at the Holiday Inn Grand Montana in Billings.
Opportunity! Change the Game
MEET KEYNOTE SPEAKER
JEFF METTS
Come, hear how this courageous company leader stepped off the edge for new opportunity to lift his company above the morass of foreign competition in
&#8220;A Time To Be Bold&#8221;
Complete Info

			
		
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		<link>http://www.asurefit.com/business/2010/07/09/upcoming-event-compete-smart-in-billings/</link>
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		<title>The First Step to Fixing a Problem is to Admit you have a Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today the Missoulian reported about research into the state of the  economic development climate in Missoula.   This is a brutally honest report on trying to start a business in Missoula.  It states that Missoula is &#8220;woefully deficient, dysfunctional, ineffective and without direction or leadership&#8221; .  Those are harsh words describing an outsider&#8217;s view.  Mayor Engen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.asurefit.com/business/2010/05/12/the-first-step-to-fixing-a-problem-is-to-admit-you-have-a-problem/</link>
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		<title>Interesting Montana Stories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Butte:
Butte employers report improved business climate
Missoula:
Hellgate students win award with ball-kicking robot Mr. T

			
		
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		<link>http://www.asurefit.com/business/2010/05/12/interesting-montana-stories/</link>
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		<title>Montana Cities gets Top Rating for Cycling.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Billings, MT was ranked #37 by Bicycling magazine among cities over with at least 100,000 people.  Missoula was also a highly ranked smaller city.
In 2008 League of American Bicyclists awarded Missoula the Silver in its Bicycle Friendly Community Program and Billings received the Bronze award.
Read More

			
		
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		<link>http://www.asurefit.com/business/2010/04/12/montana-city-gets-top-rating-for-cycling/</link>
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		<title>Sen. Tester Workshop on Federal Contracts &#8211; Feb. 19</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sen. Jon Tester will host another workshop to help Montana contractors and companies compete for federal contracts and create jobs in Montana.
All Montana contractors and businesses are invited to attend the day-long event, scheduled for Feb. 19 at the Best Western GranTree Inn in Bozeman.
Representatives from federal and state agencies will be on hand to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.asurefit.com/business/2010/02/02/sen-tester-workshop-on-federal-contracts-feb-19/</link>
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		<title>Montana BEAR (Business Expansion &amp; Retention) Project goes statewide!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[News Release
Economic Development Tool Made Available to Montana Communities
10/15/2009
Sarah Elliott
Jayson O’Neill

(HELENA) &#8211; The Governor’s Office of Economic Development, Montana Department of Commerce, Montana Department of Labor and the Montana Economic Developers Association (MEDA) have partnered to make the BEAR (Business Expansion and Retention) Program available statewide. The Montana BEAR project provides economic development teams with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.asurefit.com/business/2009/10/28/montana-bear-business-expansion-retention-project-goes-statewide/</link>
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		<title>Licensing Your Innovation &#8211; Workshop &#8211; Montana Technology Innovation Partnership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[REMINDER&#8230;this is the last week top register for MTIP&#8217;s fast-paced and  entertaining workshop &#8220;Licensing Your Innovation&#8221; presented by Marti Elder @ MT  Tech in Butte on November 5th.  Simply go to www.mtip.mt.gov and click on MTIP Events:  Montana for the link and brochure.  The cost is $75 for the 9AM &#8211; 4PM [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.asurefit.com/business/2009/10/26/licensing-your-innovation-workshop-montana-technology-innovation-partnership/</link>
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		<title>Stillwater Mine Report Upsurge in Profits and Production in the 3rd Quarter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stillwater Mining Company reports third quarter production and profits are up.  In spite of General Motors and a bad for Montana bankruptcy court ruling the mine is now flourishing.  It does help to be the only source of platinum and palladium in the western hemisphere.
Here is a news article and the companies press release:
Profits Surge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.asurefit.com/business/2009/10/20/stillwater-mine-report-upsurge-in-profits-and-production-in-the-3rd-quarter/</link>
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		<title>Montana Fishing even Helps out of State Businesses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is an article about a fishing trip put on by a Idaho business to promote their flyfishing products.  Of course they come to Montana to demo the products.  The writer left the warm Willamette Valley, Eugene, Oregon to go to Helena and fish the Missouri.  The fishing was great even in cold, snowy conditions.
Here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.asurefit.com/business/2009/10/20/montana-fishing-even-helps-out-of-state-businesses/</link>
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