Starting a Business

Business columnist Rieva Lesonsky outlines three things you need to consider in order to craft a fresh and effective business plan.

By Rieva Lesonsky

Support Small Businesses in Your Community the Saturday After Thanksgiving "Small Business Saturday"- AMEX Open

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Thu, 2011-11-24 12:57

 

CONSUMERS CAN SHOW THEIR SUPPORT FOR SMALL BUSINESS THIS HOLIDAY SEASON ON “SMALL BUSINESS SATURDAYSM

U.S. Consumers Encouraged to Join the Movement and Spread the Word

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These tools can be your first step towards small business success. Then, get advice to help you on your way.

Business Planning Templates

Use the templates below, then meet with a SCORE mentor for expert business planning advice.

Have the Ambition to Succeed in Business

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Ready to be your own boss? In this fascinating webinar, Steve Forbes shares what it takes to be a great leader and to succeed in business today, using examples from the past and today. Sign-up for the webinar today, listen anytime.

You will learn how:

Creating a Strategic Plan

Summary

This free online business workshop will help you: understand how a strategic plan can strengthen your business, draft each section of a strategic plan, and put it all together with provided worksheets.

Identifying Your Sales Strategy

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This free online business workshop will: help you develop a sales plan that will achieve maximum results, walk you through the steps to implement your chosen strategy, provide a self-assessment and worksheet to put it all together.

Preparing a Balance Sheet

Summary

This free online business workshop will: explain the importance of a balance sheet, walk you through the steps of creating a balance sheet, and provide a sample balance sheet and worksheets to help put it all together.

Marketing More for Less: 10 Tactics to Get the Growth you Want from the Resources You Have

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This webinar shares ten low-cost techniques for gaining customers and increasing profits from Jeanne Rossomme, Roadmap Marketing.

STARTUP She Sticks to Her Knitting - Susan Smigielski Acker

Date
Fri, 2013-02-01 15:54

When family and friends would see the amount of yarn stored in Roz Klein's extra bedroom, their response was always the same, "You should open a yarn store."  After 35 years as an educator, retiring as director at Norfolk Collegiate's Middle School in June, Klein opened Baa Baa Sheep in Norfolk's Ghent neighborhood in August.

Klein received help with the business side of her store from her brother-in-law, Carlisle Wroton, who was active in the Hampton Roads Chapter of SCORE.

 

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Cloak and Dagger Meets Chocolate and Peanut Butter - Aleksander Hewitt

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Fri, 2013-02-01 11:53

Delivering home-baked cookies that leave you guilt-free, Undercover Cookies is run by three health-conscious yoga instructors. Valerie Mantzoros, Cindy Toda, and Eva Klembarova all work at the Bikram hot yoga studio on Higuera Street in San Luis Obispo where they came up with the idea to create healthy alternative cookies.

They took their cookie company idea to the SLO chapter of SCORE, which is a nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneur education.

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