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Baby Otter Swim School dives in for a makeover

Baby Otter Swim School made its first steps with their five-day “Turn, Kick, Reach” program. In the early days, their instructors traveled to the home

pools of their students. Then for many years, the company leased pool space to offer lessons.

In 2013, Baby Otter revised its business model. The company is poised for growth and is seeking to license its brand and swimming technique. “We want to move from managing a swim school to managing a licensing business,” Business Owners York and Bloom said. “We need to move to the next level.”

Bloom and York asked the Miami Herald for a Small Business

Scott Jones Receives the Mentor of the Year Award

Meet Scott Jones, the Southeast Minnesota Chapter's Mentor of the Year! Mr. Jones, a resident of Rochester, was selected for the award based on his many years of successfully counseling area businesses. The award we presented to him at the state Small Business Association luncheon in July.

Congratulations to Scott Jones, Mentor of the Year

Congratulations to Scott Jones of Rochester, Minnesota. Scott recently received the distinguished Mentor of the Year Award - Southeast Minnesota Chapter. The award was presented at the state SCORE Awards recognition luncheon in Minneapolis.

Broward SCORE receives Small business Awards

Broward SCORE received two awards this past weekend from the SBA. The award recognizes the Broward SCORE’s efforts to reach, educate, and communicate with the business community in South Florida.

Broward SCORE volunteer counselors yesterday finished a makeover of an ex-teacher’s tutoring service.

The Miami Herald has a Business Makeover Program where it solicits applications from its readers to have their business examined by professionals for ways to move it forward.

The Herald selects businesses from the applicants and 4-6 times a year asks Broward SCORE to provide volunteers with the appropriate background to go into the businesses, evaluate the opportunities, and make recommendations.

The team, along with Herald staff, works over a six to 8 week period in 3 or 4 meetings to get to know the business well enough to make observations and recommendations. SCORE’s counseling

4th Encore Entrepreneur Day was a Success

Broward SCORE, the SBA, and AARP held the 4^th Encore Entrepreneur Day at the Alvin Sherman Library of Nova Southeastern University yesterday.

The event was attended by close to 70 entrepreneurs. Aimed specifically at people 50+ years of age the symposium featured speakers with a wealth of knowledge on starting a business later in life.

SCORE Volunteers George Gremse, Nancy Leve, Joe Ewart, Paul Bosley, and Michal Bush recounted the paths they took from working in the corporate world to starting their own businesses in consulting, restaurants, internet marketing, travel, education, and tutoring

Marketing Magic for Small Business - North Central Florida SCORE - Lake City

Marketing Magic For Small Business, a special SCORE Entrepreneur's Workshop.

Broward SCORE supports South Florida Minorities

Broward SCORE Participated in South Florida Minority Supplier Development Council’s 29^th Annual Business Exposition on March 21^st, 2014.

SCORE Volunteers Angelica Love Valentine and George Gremse informed attendees about SCORE services and discussed business counseling and workshop programs.

Paul Bosley and Nancy Kalikow Maxwell participated in the “Expert Consultation Sessions” where they met individuals for 30 minute sessions. Paul discussed financing and Nancy spoke about grants.

The mission of the Southern Florida Minority Supplier Development Council is to link Corporations and Government

Broward Score's George Gremse Judge at Workforce One's Start Up Quest Program

George Gremse was a judge for the final presentations of Workforce One's innovative StartUp Quest Program.

On November 14th 16 teams pitched their tech start up plans to a panel of judges.

The first-place winners, were Healical, a cloud-based platform to aid developers in producing next-generation apps for healthcare, based on FIU technology.

NuPhoresis also took first place in its class for the development of a transdermal drug delivery system

Broward SCORE yesterday completed its 29th offering of the popular Simple Steps for Starting Your Business Program.

The program is a series of 5 workshops organized to take an entrepreneur through disciplined steps to address the key factors that can help insure success in starting a business. The workshops take attendees through business concept development, identifying customer groups, evaluating the competition, setting a pricing strategy, creating a marketing message, estimating start-up costs, projecting revenue, expenses, and profits, and much more.

Close to 300 people have participated in the program over the past 36 months.

This last session was held in conjunction with Hispanic Unity of Florida’s

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