If you're a small business owner in rural West Tennessee, there's a special marketing and branding workshop you need to know about.

Learn how to build a better business and a bigger brand at a workshop on Thursday, November 1st from 9AM-4PM at the Lannom Center in Dyersburg.

Nationally renowned business branding expert and marketing cousultant Pink Gonzales will be the guest speaker. 

Learn how to define your business brand, build your business culture, and strategically advertise. 

This workshop will also be a great networking opportunity. 

Katherine Giacchino will also be a speaker.  She is the director of recruitment and hiring for Rubicon International.

Seating is limited so reserve your spot now.

Call Maleia Evans with the Tennessee Small Business Development Center at 731-286-3201.

Southwest Tennessee Development District has announced that it is awarding funding for a second REDI Digital Factory to Lauderdale County. The factory will be housed in the former TKS building, which is basically on campus with Ripley High School.

REDI’s pilot Digital Factory, established in the City of Parsons, has already created 46 jobs since it opened in the Summer of 2011, with a typical Digital Factory graduate earning between $12-13 per hour when working full-time and nearly $9 per hour when working part-time.

(WMC-TV) - Cars, credit and construction top the list of the industries most consumers can't stand, according to a survey by the Consumer Federation of America and the North American Consumer Protection Investigators.

The organizations surveyed 38 state consumer protection agencies about "...the most common, fastest-growing and worst complaints they received in 2011."