Life in a rural community can be tough.

But it’s also one of the best parts of our lives. Working hard with family, friends and neighbors brings our communities together and we can all prosper — ensuring a future for our kids and grandkids.

Whether you are a rural business owner, non-profit organization member, or a community leader who believes in your town, you have a story to tell. Letting the world know about your unique product, experience, or way of life will help your organization succeed.

That’s where Remarkably Rural comes in.

We’ve gathered a group of rural folks, both young and old, who are passionate about living and promoting the rural life. We’re rural marketing pros — and we want to help you tell your story.

From marketing trainings and workshops that teach you the best about composing your story and then getting it into the minds of customers and benefactors, to custom, one-on-one consulting, we’ve got the tools to help you succeed.

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what we Do.Living in a rural area shouldn’t restrict you from professional development. Travel to far-away trainings is expensive and takes you away from your business and family obligations.

That’s why we’ve created a series of webinars, workshops, and personal consulting sessions based on what your community needs to make your business and non-profit organizations grow, where you need them - in your hometown.

We then follow-up with you for one-on-one consulting with your specific need at the forefront. After the consulting sessions, we’re available to create custom marketing projects for your organization.

how we do it.When you decide to tell your unique rural story, we offer multiple ways for you to have marketing success. Remarkably Rural provides both live and on-demand webinars, customized workshops and training sessions, and one-on-one marketing project completion.

We’ll look at where you are at and where you want to go - and then create the road map for you to get there!

We’ll help you identify what your story should tell customers, clients and benefactors. Then, we’ll determine what custom trainings you would benefit from and get them scheduled.

After the workshops, we’ll have one-on-one consulting sessions to help you with specific obstacles.

why we do it.As we’ve said before (and you’ll soon figure it out after visiting with us), we’re passionate about rural life.

We were born and raised in rural America and we want to help keep the rural way of life prosperous for future generations.

314 Main Street | Courtland, KS 66939 | 785-454-1194 |785-259-3489remarkablyrural.com | remarkablyrural@jenrusfreelance.com

Training Topics

Non-Profit Organizations• Fundraising for Non-Profits• Finding the Funds - Grantwriting 101• Local Foundations - Telling Your Story• Crowdfunding Understood• Building a Non-Profit Board

Marketing | Advertising | Public Relations | Websites | Social Media | Tourism Promotion Business Development | Fundraising | Community Development | Grant Writing

A common question we often hear is, “Where do I even start? I’m doing a good job in some areas, but in others, I really need some help!”

We’ve asked rural businesses and organizations what areas they needed help with the most and we’ve developed these topics.

Each training is fully-customizable to fit your needs. If you don’t see a topic here, let us know and we’ll put the training together for you.

Tourism• Looking at Your Community

Through the Eyes of a Visitor.• Tourism Basics• Working with Travel Writers• Building Group Tour Itineraries• Transient Guest Tax 101

General Marketing• Marketing on a Budget• Marketing to Millenials• Email Marketing• Surveying Your Audience• Storytelling & Relationship Building• Utilizing Traditional and Digital Media• Visual Storytelling - Photography & Video

Online Marketing• Selling Online• Email Marketing• Websites 101• Showing up in Search Engines• Increasing Your Online Presence

Business Development• Turning the Empty House

on the Corner into an Airbnb• Building a Successful Rural Business• Basics for New Eco/Devo &

Chamber Executives• Building Teams - Community Collaboration• Downtown Building Ideas• Rural Grocery Stores• Retirement Transitions

Customer Service• Creating Customer Evangelists

for Your Business• Creating an Excellent Customer Experience• Selling Your Unique Experience• Old-Fashioned Customer Service in the 21st Century

social media• Navigating the Social Media Revolution• Social Media Marketing Basics • Advanced Social Media Marketing• Facebook Advertising

WebinarsWe offer a variety of these same topics in live and on-demand webinars.

They are available at remarkablyrural.com

How it works Pricing

NEED FUNDING HELP? CONSIDER:• E-Community marketing funds (NetWork Kansas)• Dane G. Hansen Foundation (non-profits)• Resource, Conservations, and Development (RC&D)• Community Foundations (non-profits)

The Remarkably Rural program was designed to give rural communities the training and tools to effectively market themselves to a wide audience.

WEBINARSWe are always developing new webinars that are available both on-demand and live on remarkablyrural.com

COMMUNITY WORKSHOPSParticipants should include at least three to five businesses or organizations in a community.

ONE-ON-ONE MARKETING PROJECTSAfter the workshops are completed, each participating organization will receive consulting sessions with our specialized rural marketing consultants to create an action plan and marketing strategy for their organization.

WebinarsOne-Time Live Webinar - $40.00Provides you access to a live, one-hour webinar.We offer two live webinars each month.

Check out our free Email Marketing webinar hosted on our website!

Community workshopsParticipants should include three to five businesses or organizations in a community.

314 Main Street | Courtland, KS 66939 | 785-454-1194 |785-259-3489remarkablyrural.com | remarkablyrural@jenrusfreelance.com

Level Two - $5,000 • Two full-day workshops in your

community for up to 25 participants. • Follow-up consulting (10 hours) via

phone/video chat/email for one community marketing project.

• Includes all training materials for workshop participants and travel expenses for facilitators.

Level Three - $10,000 • Three customized, full-day workshops held in your

community, focused on the specific needs of your groups. (75 participants)

• Individual, face-to-face marketing consulting for each of the participating groups.

• Access to a private Facebook discussion group. • Includes all training materials for workshop

participants and travel expenses for facilitators.

Monthly Membership - $50.00Provides you: • 24/7 access to our library of pre-recorded

webinars. We guarantee two new webinars to be added each month.

• Access to our private Facebook discussion group. Use us (and other group members) to bounce ideas around.

• Cancel your membership at any time.

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Level One - $2,500 • One full-day workshop in your community

for up to 15 participants. • Follow-up consulting (5 hours) via phone/

video chat/email for one community marketing project.

• Includes all training materials for workshop participants, and travel expenses for facilitators.