How a Community Bank Can Add Value to a Small Business | Episode 13

Owning a small business may quite possibly be one of the loneliest jobs on the planet. You set out to create something beautiful for your community only to find yourself navigating more challenges than you ever thought possible, and there is no one to turn to for help but yourself. Every community bank out there claims they want to support your small businesses, but their efforts turn out to be little more than smoke and mirrors. Plus, you wouldn’t know what to ask them for even if they could help. Sound familiar? On this episode, we sit down with one of the owners of Crown Brew Coffee, Jared Gravatt, to talk about his journey as a small business owner in southern Illinois. What started out as a shared vision of creating something special for their region came to fruition in the form of their café located in Marion, Illinois. It was all made possible through the relationships they built along the way; one of those relationships being their banking relationship with Farmers State Bank. You’ll walk away from this episode with a clear picture of what a healthy relationship between a small business and a community bank should look like and learn ways your bank can add value to your small biz.