{"id":9018,"date":"2017-02-06T13:33:18","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T18:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/?p=9018"},"modified":"2017-02-06T13:33:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T18:33:18","slug":"frostburg-a-frontrunner-for-small-business-revolution-makeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/2017\/02\/06\/frostburg-a-frontrunner-for-small-business-revolution-makeover\/","title":{"rendered":"Frostburg a Frontrunner for Small Business Revolution Makeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Frostburg, <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainstreetmaryland.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a Main Street Maryland community in Allegany County<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> stands to win a $500,000 Main Street Makeover and a featured spot in a Hul<a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/02\/vote-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9019 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/02\/vote-2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/02\/vote-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/02\/vote-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/02\/vote-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/02\/vote-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2017\/02\/vote-2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>u documentary series from Small Business Revolution on Main Street, sponsored by Deluxe Corporation, a small business growth and resource center. Frostburg was selected as one of eight semi-finalists out of nearly 14,000 applicants in fall 2016. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If selected, Deluxe Corporation\u2019s Amanda Brinkman, entrepreneur Robert Herjavec from ABC\u2019s show Shark Tank, and Deluxe\u2019s professional marketing team will select six small businesses within the downtown district to offer services and materials for branding, marketing, and accounting to give small business owners the tools they need to succeed. In addition to these services, Deluxe will work with City leaders to select public improvement projects within the downtown to spruce it up. The Small Business Revolution\u2019s journey in Frostburg will be documented in an eight episode documentary series available on Hulu and on their website. \u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The top five finalists will be announced on February 9. \u00a0From there, voting will be open until February 16. Vote once a day per device and per browser at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/smallbusinessrevolution.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">smallbusinessrevolution.org<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.To learn more about how Frostburg has made it this far in the contest, visit their Q &amp; A page at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.downtownfrostburg.com\/people\/smallbusinessrevolution\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">http:\/\/www.downtownfrostburg.com\/people\/smallbusinessrevolution\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Follow their <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/FrostburgFirst\/?fref=ts\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frostburgfirst\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/frostburgfirst\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Instagram<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> pages for updates on the contest. Contact FrostburgFirst at 301-689-6900 with voting questions. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frostburg, a Main Street Maryland community in Allegany County, stands to win a $500,000 Main Street Makeover and a featured spot in a Hulu documentary series from Small Business Revolution on Main Street, sponsored by Deluxe Corporation, a small business growth and resource center. Frostburg was selected as one of eight semi-finalists out of nearly<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/2017\/02\/06\/frostburg-a-frontrunner-for-small-business-revolution-makeover\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-street-maryland"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9021,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9018\/revisions\/9021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}