Starting A Small Business In Sundance?

[Happy in Wyoming]

If you're willing to drive and you can handle telephone systems, you'll stay as busy as you wish. Sundance is a good place with good work ethics and prosperous. Rapid City will be your big city, and it's prosperous as well. Take a trip and see if you like it.

And take a look at the results in the last election. You know these folks are good folks.

Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - State Data

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by Happy in Wyoming

If you're willing to drive and you can handle telephone systems, you'll stay as busy as you wish. Sundance is a good place with good work ethics and prosperous. Rapid City will be your big city, and it's prosperous as well. Take a trip and see if you like it.

And take a look at the results in the last election. You know these folks are good folks.

Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections - State Data

I'm not sure I'd want to tackle that drive in the winter. It's 80 miles from Sundance to Rapid City and if a person is doing emergent work or on-call work, travel could be a problem. Now if it's possible to do the work via your computer in Sundance, then it's very doable.

[JohnnyQuest]

Great info. I appreciate the inside scoop.
It was difficult to get this kind of info from just searching.

[dmy407]

I was stationed in Sundance in '65 and '66, population then was 908. It was the largest town in Crook County, and the county seat. Beautiful country, savage winters, good people. Today, I read that the population was 1100, which is not much of a jump in 49 years. That should tell you something if you entertain the idea of starting a business there. Sundance is not for soft people or left coast California aroma-therapy types. However, in any direction, you can see breath-taking sights, working cowboys, real ranches, and for the right type of person, you can come away better than you thought you were, with memories of a new definition of paradise.

[CptnRn]

You could take a few lessons from this young man who started selling chocolates in Meeteetse, Wyoming to help pay for his rodeo habit.

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[Happy in Wyoming]

Originally Posted by dmy407

Sundance is not for soft people or left coast California aroma-therapy types. However, in any direction, you can see breath-taking sights, working cowboys, real ranches, and for the right type of person, you can come away better than you thought you were, with memories of a new definition of paradise.

There's a word that fits what you are describing. The word is America.

[JohnnyQuest]

Originally Posted by dmy407

I was stationed in Sundance in '65 and '66, population then was 908. It was the largest town in Crook County, and the county seat. Beautiful country, savage winters, good people. Today, I read that the population was 1100, which is not much of a jump in 49 years. That should tell you something if you entertain the idea of starting a business there. Sundance is not for soft people or left coast California aroma-therapy types. However, in any direction, you can see breath-taking sights, working cowboys, real ranches, and for the right type of person, you can come away better than you thought you were, with memories of a new definition of paradise.

The fact that Sundance has not really grown was a big factor in wanting to move there. Seems most other small towns are battling infestation.
If I can offer a good service, put some food in our belly and a small roof over our head, that my friend is simple paradise.

With a view.

[Jared]

I live in Sundance, and I'm not 100% sure a computer shop would do super well here. I'm not familiar with the Mountain or Stallion services the previous poster mentioned. There is Omega computers in Moorcroft, and a shop in Newcastle that I can't recall the name of. They are small hole in the wall -type storefronts, not sure where most of their business comes from?
I think the ebay seller idea has merit, and probably general tech support for locals as long as it wasn't too expensive.
FWIW I might be underestimating the need for a computer shop since I myself do the whole newegg thing.