Cornering Rural Tourism for City Folks with Dominic Monkhouse

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Nuggets:

• The USDA offers grants and special loans for first-time farmers
• You can often succeed in an old industry (e.g. restaurants, hotels) by simply following modern best practices
• Don’t underestimate the value of employing amazing people in the hospitality industry

Action Steps:

1. Research best practices for starting a hotel
2. Search for employees in the hospitality industry
3. See if you can get a beginner farmer grant or loan
4. Locate existing farms and offer to install cabins on their property
5. Locate existing Farmhouse rentals on AirBNB and offer to optimize their business model

Links:

• Dominic Monkhouse: Business Coaching
• ‎The Melting Pot with Dominic Monkhouse
• F**k Plan B: How to scale your technology business faster and achieve Plan A
• Cabana - Mobile Hotels
• Avrame
• The Road to Less Stupid
• Kiss the Ground
• Featherdown Farms
• AirDNA
• The Ruby Slipper Cafe
• USDA Beginning Farmer and Rancher Loans

Dominic Monkhouse is a business coach, scale up expert, host of the Melting Pod podcast and author of F**k Plan B: How to scale your technology business faster and achieve plan A.

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