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My successes.

: I am learning a lot and am starting to implement some of these changes.

What inspired you to start your business?

Passion

What's special about your business?

Vision, Work Ethic, Learning, Unity

How SCORE helped.

Learning a lot of details. Still implementing it, but especially helping me a lot with better support and utilizing staff well.

What's great about my mentor?

Care, Understand, Guide

What advice would you give to someone thinking of starting a small business?

Look for ways to reach out to mentors, and look for ways to mentor others. Check SCORE as a wonderful resource.

What would you tell a fellow business owner about SCORE?

Wonderful organization, wonderful people

How Did Your Business Get Started?

I met Gregg and Bruce, initially for some business support, but this developed into fantastic mentoring and wonderful business support. From the very start I observed, some fantastic qualities about Gregg and Bruce:

• They Care: this is a huge step, because care is based on trust and promotes growth. It was very evident to me that they truly care and are there simply because they want to be there to support others.
• They Understand: they both asked meaningful questions, and disagreesagree and always respectful trying to move things forward toward a place of improvement and clarify.
• They Provide Meaningful Support: it is amazing how both Gregg and Bruce, provide meaningful advice, in a measurable and practical way.

Being new with SCORE, I was not sure what to expect. However, not only I am learning a lot and see a wonderful support system here, but also am seeing the true value of helping others and hope to be part of that process in the future.

My mentors

Gregg Schieve

I can help you with starting and operating a small business. Areas include sales, marketing...

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Bruce W. Kahn

I can help you with product costing; financial projections, profitability analysis and improvement....

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