Privacy Overview
This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. Necessary
Fingerlakes1.com
Menu
The Dream-O-Vate Busienss Competition is a local effort in Livingston County to bolster downtown business. The program awards $300,000 in prizes to a total of 15 winners. Bill Bacon, who serves as Director of Economic Development for Livingston County calls it an important component to growth. “Starting a business is hard work – especially in today’s economy,” he said in an announcement in March. “Through the Dream-O-Vate competition we hope to ease that transition into business for fifteen innovative entrepreneurs. In doing so, we’re not only helping the winners, but also our existing businesses as we add to the critical mass in our communities.”
GENESEO â Two staff members at Livingston County Economic Development have become certified to teach a class designed to help business owners increase revenue and customer traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Louise Wadsworth, downtown coordinator for the economic development office, and Maureen Wheeler, the agencyâs deputy director, are the first certified facilitators in New York State for the Destination Creation course. They are among only 48 trained facilitators in North America.
The Destination Creation Course teaches a 14-point business success strategy developed by internationally-known business consultant Jon Schallert, who created this methodology after three decades of coaching independent business owners to make their businesses irresistible to customers.