Plan + Start

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Bounce About

Although after a career in teaching, she had little knowledge about how to start a business, Mirabal created a business plan, secured funding, and designed a successful marketing strategy. She launched successfully in 2016 and now has a state-of-the-art two-story arena for laser tag with 25 programmable game options. She has also designed a membership model to help retain a solid customer base.

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ShoreScan Solutions

Carlsen now has 65 clients from across the mid-Atlantic region using 85 cloud-based archives. He also recently opened a remote office in northern New Jersey. His total top-line sales are almost $1 million.

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Income and Cash Flow

This Excel Workbook contains templates that you can use to project both the standard Income Statement (or P&L) and a Cash Flow analysis. Both are extremely imprtant, especially the Cash Flow analysis - you can show a profit on paper but may be running out of cash in the process!

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Fatback's Famous BBQ Sauce

Since launching his business in August 2016, Mitchell has sold over 1,000 bottles of Fatback’s Famous BBQ sauce, which is now available in 10 local grocery stores and two restaurants. Mitchell received a “Watch Me Grow” award at SCORE Youngstown’s 2016 Salute to Small Business event. The local paper, The Review, published a feature article about Mitchell and his business.

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Ready to open your business?

By Brian Kieley, SCORE Mentor

With Thanks to: Ralph Coker

Ready to open your business? Focus on these 3 things to improve your chances of success

Congratulations! After a lot of work and planning, you’re ready to open your business! While there is much to do, here are the three things that need the biggest investment of your time and brainpower.

Marketing

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Guiding Harbor

Guiding Harbor is a private, non-profit organization founded by the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, Michigan (GFWC-MI) that provides child caring and child placement services for abused and neglected children. Its services include foster care, supervised independent living, and a residential program. Guiding Harbor provides children young men and women and their families with a safe and nurturing environment and specialized services. Guiding Harbor prides itself in providing services with dignity, respect, and professionalism to help each client reach their full potential. Guiding Harbor

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Sex Therapy Online

Between 2015 and 2016, Sex Therapy Online increased gross revenue by over 40 percent. Beauregard was able to buy a house big enough for a home office in Austin, which has allowed her to create a more healing, welcoming space for her clients. She has also been able to contribute to two retirement accounts for the first time. She projects that the business’s 2017 revenue will grow by another three percent.

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Zaxx Computer Specialists

With help from SCORE mentor Carla Lenk, Moreno developed a business plan, completed the purchasing process, and created a marketing plan. “She assisted with the business plan and any other questions that I may have had involving the purchasing of the company,” said Moreno. “At some points, we were emailing a couple of times per day.” Whenever Moreno had a question, big or small, he would reach out to Lenk. “She really helped me figure out what I needed to move my company forward,” he said. “Things such as who to reach out to for marketing, for example. The business was established already, but

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Apps Unleashed: Grow Your Business Using Just Your Phone

Join Ron Cates, digital marketing icon and renowned app expert, as he highlights and discusses must-have apps, how to use apps for maximum impact, and how to utilize apps in conjunction with your other marketing efforts to magnify results.

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Westgate Garden Design

Charlene Westgate had an education in design and a passion for the environment. She brought them together after becoming frustrated at the lack of sustainable landscaping services offered in her community. “The closest companies were 35 miles away and didn’t want to make the drive to our town,” she recalls. So she sought training in landscape design and earned her certification in permaculture and rainwater harvesting. Then, she opened Westgate Garden Design. “Thanks to the startup challenge, I have made strategic alliances to build my business in 2018, where my goal is to double my 2017

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