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JFS Consulting is the nanocorp representing the creative and business enterprises of Jim Salmons and Timlynn Babitsky of Fairfield, Iowa, USA.

Our current portfolio of dejobbed small businesses includes:

• Sohodojo, Inc.
  An independent applied R&D Lab for solo entrepreneurs (AKA nanocorps) and their dejobbed small businesses – the building blocks of Small is Good Business Webs. Sohodojo is chartered as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation exploring the 'other side of Capitalism' to serve the unique educational, research, and technology development needs of ventures such as...

• Crisp Copy services include writing, editing, proofreading, indexing, abstracting, and background research. We also offer industry-standard page layout and desk top publishing services to provide our clients with camera ready copy for commercial printing or electronic publication.

  
  Our work is exceptional but our rates are fair and reasonable. We consistently meet our client's requirements - on time, on budget, and with great attention to all those little details that make a good project an outstanding one. We have been providing professional Crisp Copy services to a wide range of clients in both technical and non- technical markets since 1984. Contact us to discuss your project - we are here to help you get your ideas noticed.
  
  

• The Chandler Guild
  Our 'sandbox' that will showcase Small Is Good Business Webs (AKA microenterprise networks) for bridging the Digital Divide with a self-managing, sustainable network of home-based and 'craftory'-scale product design, development, manufacturing and distribution links in the Green business of creating and selling soybean wax candles.
  
  The Chandler Guild is our first microenterprise network (Small Is Good Business Web) to take flight. The R&D we do through Sohodojo to support this business web's evolution will be fed forward into the launch of the Squirrelfeeders.com and 3RBuilders.Net business web networks we have in the planning stages.

• Squirrelfeeders.com
  Our 'sandbox' that will showcase the Small Is Good Business Web for bridging the Digital Divide with a self-managing, sustainable network of home-based and 'craftory'-scale product design, development, manufacturing and distribution links in the Business Web's decentralized elastic supply chain.
  
  It's about opportunity webs, not career paths, in the increasingly self-employed workplace of the 21st Century. Here's a summary of our grant proposal to the Golden LEAF Foundation seeking assistance in starting the first Small Is Good Business Web in the rural areas of our home state of North Carolina. (Note: This grant was not funded. We are pursuing other avenues of launching this demonstration business, most probably in rural North Central Montana rather than North Carolina.)
  

• 3RBuilders.Net
  Our 'sandbox' that will showcase the Small Is Good Business Web as it applies to the construction of affordable housing in rural and distressed urban areas using 'Green' building techniques based on the '3R's of "Reduce, Reuse and Recycle". We're working on this most interesting business web with partners who live in the Earthaven ecovillage in western North Carolina.

• The Pop Culture Store and Virtual Museum
  Our 'sandbox' that will evolve to showcase Small is Good Business Webs in a pure-Internet play context with a content-driven model that incorporates a strong eCommerce-based marketplace component.
  
  The Pop Culture Store will create and maintain the largest, international, 'multi-cultural' free and open repository of information about what is popularly known as Pop Culture. We plan to use The Pop Culture Store as a training ground for youthful entrepreneurs who will 'grow into' participation in one or more of our small-scale production-oriented Business Webs.
  

Our goal is to guide the development of Small is Good Business Webs in rural and distressed urban communities interested in unleashing the 'other side of Capitalism'... the power of Small is Good Business Webs. Target communities for seeding the Entrepreneurial Spirit amongst solo entrepreneurs and working families include the U.S. Renewal Communities, Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities (RC-EZ-EC).

We balance and enhance our on-going business ventures through involvement in a range of dynamic projects including:

• The North Carolina Small Business Voter's Information Center - in association with the NFIB. This site is now very dated but still accessible. Former NFIB North Carolina Chapter Executive Director Perri Morgan remains a life-long friend and an active and valued collaborator through her role as a member of the Sohodojo Advisory Board.

• phpPolls-Extras 'Goodie Pack' - our Open Source project at SourceForge. This project is still accessible although it is currently inactive.

• 'Assessing Project Planning and Project Management Software and Web-based Services' - an investigative project at The Center for Community Collaboration Technologies.

In November 2000, Sohodojo was designated the 'technical node' in the Communities of the Future Network. As Founders and Research Directors at Sohodojo, we have designed, implemented and host the following grassroots activism web sites:

• The North American Rural Futures Institute - Montana State University Northern, Havre, Montana, was a great example of a partnering collaboration that allowed us to do extensive field work to deepen our experience in rural economic development. In 2003 and 2004, we relocated to remote, rural Northcentral Montana to take leadership roles in launching and evolving this important agenda and resource.

• The Tartan Transformation Project - a collaboration with Communities of the Future, McAllum Inc. and the South Carolina Export Consortium to encourage commerce and cultural exchange between the Scots of the Carolinas and the 'homeland'.

• The Potter County Pennsylvania Process Leadership Institute - a community resource of the Communities of the Future Network.

• The Global Rural Network Project - exploring rural furtures through a collaboration between Communities of the Future and the Tennessee Valley Authority

• The home site of Communities of the Future, Rick Smyre's "platform" for his wide-ranging and far-reaching grassroots social activism.

We are a member in good standing in the Master Webring of the Nanocorps.

We love feeding birds, squirrels and other critters in the yard.

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Jim's college buddy is a walking pop culture encyclopedia and collector living in an historic house in beautiful Lexington, Virginia. He's surrounded by an inventory of thousands of items to seed The Pop Culture Store and Virtual Museum data warehouse. We like going there for PCS Bored of Directors meetings.

But above all, we love to spend all our time together, thinking, learning and doing. For us, quality of life is a measure of how much non-stressful, happy time we can spend together in challenging work and play.

Our collection of businesses have a wide spread of coverage on Faith Popcorn's market-driving trends.

We have chips riding on cocooning, clanning, fantasy adventure, small indulgences, 99 lives, egonomics, eveolution, mancipation, cashing out, being alive, down-aging, vigilante consumer, icon toppling and save our society trends in the marketplace!

We have plays on fourteen of Popcorn's seventeen driving social trends. This diversification provides us a strategic market position which will help to minimize the 'feast or famine' cycles of individual portfolio businesses.

To see this better, take a look at the clickspread analysis of the JFS Consulting nanocorp at Sohodojo.

If you want to keep abreast of developments about nanocorps, in general, and JFS Consulting as a case in point, please subscribe to the Sohodojo Rants and Raves newsletter.

Sohodojo is home of the nanocorps and small business revolutionaries. It's never business as usual at Sohodojo.

Thanks for visiting,
--Jim Salmons and Timlynn Babitsky--
Founders and Only Employees
JFS Consulting
Fairfield, Iowa USA

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