Northern Initiatives and Our Customers are On the Move

Typically, local sourcing is defined as procuring consumable goods within a short radius of where they will be used. For example, Torti Taco, in Battle…

It was about 22 years ago that Kayla and I settled into our lives in Marquette.  I have many stories in that first year about…

  Communities We Serve   An Unusual Spike   A review of the July numbers gives the impression that something was off. Five of the…

  Communities We Serve   A quick glance at the data says....... Summer tourism and agriculture have made their way into the numbers of the…

  Communities We Serve   Jobless Rates Continue to Rise…… The June numbers were surprising in that 73 of the 78 counties Northern Initiatives serves…

There is something we strive to achieve in our work at Northern Initiatives and that is customer intimacy.  What does that mean?  It means that…

  Communities We Serve   Latest Data Trends Indicate....... Spring and summer in Michigan bring a wave of seasonal employees, resulting in lower jobless rates in April in all…

One of the most important, and most talked about, trends for businesses today is sustainability. Simply defined, sustainability is meeting the needs of the present…

What Facebook’s New Algorithms Mean for You Most marketing experts agree – if you’re not leveraging Facebook for your small to medium business, you’re leaving…