EforAll Berkshire County and R3SET Studios Offering Digital Business Survival Course

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PITTSFIELD, Mass. Entrepreneurship for All (EforAll) Berkshire County is collaborating with R3SET Studios to run a free online intensive program to help small businesses improve their online marketing.   
 
This five-week Digital Business Survival Course is based on a successful pilot program run by these same partners in June 2020.  
 
Funded by the Pittsfield Economic Revitalization Corporation (PERC), Mass Growth Capital Corporation and Google, the program will be offered at no charge to participants and will include both "lectures," and intensive work in small groups led by Digital Specialists, experts in web marketing.   Successful completion of the program will earn participants a $100 advertising grant to promote their business.
 
The virtual program learning is being coordinated and facilitated by Pittsfield's Noah Cook-Dubin of Kanoa Consulting, a former Google executive.  
 
Topics to be covered include:
  • Setting strategic goals
  • Crafting effective customer personas
  • Website Design and Implementation
  • Ecommerce 
  • Email marketing
  • Social media
  • Video and content creation
  • Search optimization
  • Paid online advertising
 
There will be twenty places available for the Digital Business Survival Course.  Applications are now open at www.digbizsurvival.com
 

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Dalton Select Board Argues Over Sidewalk Article

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
DALTON, Mass. — A heated discussion concerning sidewalks during Monday night's Select Board meeting resulted in the acting chair calling a recess to cool the situation. 
 
The debate stemmed from the two articles on the town meeting warrant for May 6 at 7 p.m. at Wahconah Regional High School. 
 
One proposes purchasing a sidewalk paver for $64,000 so sidewalks can be paved or repaired for less money, but they will use asphalt rather than concrete. The other would amend the town's bylaws to mandate the use of concrete for all future sidewalks. 
 
The article on concrete sidewalks was added to the warrant through a citizen petition led by resident Todd Logan. 
 
The board was determining whether to recommend the article when member John Boyle took the conversation in a new direction by addressing how the petition was brought about. 
 
"I just have a comment about this whole procedure. I'm very disappointed in the fact that you [Logan] have been working, lobbying various groups and implementing this plan and filed this petition six weeks ago. You never had any respect for the Select Board and …" Boyle said. 
 
Before Boyle could finish his statement, which was directed to Logan, who was in the audience, Chair Joe Diver called point of order via Zoom. 
 
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