News and Events
Join us May 19th for a virtual resource panel that will:
provide insights into the current labor market and overcoming workforce challenges from Ramsey County Workforce Solutions Director, Ling Becker
introduce to you Shoreview's Open to Business advisor Noah Her and the free business guidance he provides
preview the Shoreview Business Peer Advisory Grou...
Spring is a season of life, with the landscape turning green with growth. It also serves as the perfect analogy for the Shoreview community as it strives for an economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. This May is an excellent time to recognize and draw a focus to the busines...
Shoreview Assistance Helps Business Dance On
Mar 8 2021Applications for Second Round of Emergency Assistance Grants Open Now
As the owners of Metro Dance Center in Shoreview, Becky Jacobs and Danielle Wood-Twohy know dance is a performance art that helps develop poise, confidence, and self-esteem in their students. The COVID-19 crisis has tested those characteristics in themselves as smal...
5 Tips for a Thriving Company Culture
Mar 3 2021Given the uncertainty businesses face in 2021 as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, company leaders are looking at every phase of their operation to determine ways they can improve.
Workplace culture is one area commanding attention. As the virus caused business limitations and forced many companies to go fully remote in 2020, workplace culture was challenge...
How to Host Better Virtual Meetings
Feb 24 2021If you’re like most professionals, you spent a lot of time in virtual meetings in 2020 and will in 2021 — more than you ever thought possible in, say, 2015. And if you’re like most professionals meeting virtually, you’ve lamented the fact that they could be better.
Virtual meetings suffer many of the same drawback...
Just Launched: COVID-19 Vaccine Connector
Feb 18 2021Dear Business Leaders,
I wanted to share a new tool that we launched today, the COVID-19 Vaccine Connector, which will help Minnesotans find out when, where, and how to get their COVID-19 vaccine.
The Vaccine Connector is the next step of the state’s vaccination strategy to meet Minnesotans where they are and connect the...
2020 was a tough year for businesses of all sorts. Covid-19 decimated labor markets, stressed supply lines and, in some unlucky sectors, ground production to a halt. 2021 is a chance to forget last year’s trials and to start fresh.
Chances must be capitalized on to create change. You need to pu...
If you are planning to open your own small business, the first step is to develop a business plan. The next step is to develop a marketing plan, as all business plans should be paired with a strategy for marketing your products or services. Marketing strategies vary in format, bu...
Applications for Second Round of Emergency Assistance Grants Open Now
Doug McCulloch walked away from his career in 2017, tired of the work, but without a plan. Four short years later, as owner of the Winkin’ Rooster restaurant in Shoreview, his situation has changed.
“Working long hours are trying once in ...
Tuesday, December 15th - Small Business COVID-19 Resources and Financial Guidance Webinar
Dec 8 2020SMALL BUSINESS COVID-19 RESOURCES AND FINANCIAL GUIDANCE WEBINAR
Learn more about financial assistance from the SBA and MnDEED and hear from experts on PPP reporting, end of year tax implications, and Ramsey County Open to Business.
Tuesday, December 15, 2020 at 10:00 am
Hosted by Ramsey County in partnership with the city of Shoreview an...
COVID-19 has changed the economics of off- versus onshoring manufacturing operations. For decades, companies have offshored manufacturing operations overseas in order to save costs. But as business executives have watched the disruptions to supply chains and product deliveries, they have begun to ask if those savings are worth the inabilit...
November 28 is Small Business Saturday and a wonderful opportunity to recognize local small businesses for the positive contribution they make to our lives. 2020 has been difficult for businesses but thousands of small businesses have been driven out of business or suffered significantly.
Shoreview has always been a tight-knit communit...
