Information Session (Asheville)
Date: July 21, 2010
Time: 4:30pm – 5:30pm
Location: Mountain BizWorks (Asheville)
Cost: Free
Deadline for Registration:
Instructor:
Contact: erika@mountainbizworks.org
Information Sessions are the first place to start if you are interested in learning about services available at Mountain BizWorks. Pre-registration is required to attend a session.
Directions: We are located at the corner of Hilliard and S. Lexington – one block over from The Orange Peel.
About Mountain BizWorks: The mission of Mountain BizWorks is to build economic opportunities through business development and capital. Our vision is inspiring entrepreneurs who have viable business ideas and the discipline to follow through will be able to access the resources they need to create successful businesses. The entrepreneurs’ increased income and improved quality of life will build a more vibrant local economy in Western North Carolina. All who participate know Mountain BizWorks as a trusted gathering place and community to bridge the gap between entrepreneurs of varying incomes, geographies, and ethnicities. Mountain BizWorks is a leading small business development organization.
Community Agri-Business Alliance (CABA)
Date: July 21, 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Cooperative Extension Office (Columbus)
Cost: Free
Deadline for Registration: July 20, 2010
Instructor:
Contact: joann@mountainbizworks.org
The community Agri-Business Alliance (CABA) is a membership organization for the support and development of Mountain BizWorks Alumni in Polk County Office of Agricultural Economic Development.
The focus of this alliance has a special emphasis on agriculture, but the friends of agruiculture are also encouraged to participate.
For more information call: Jo Ann Miksa-Blackwell at 864.457.6843
Information Session
Date: July 26, 2010
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: Mountain BizWorks (Asheville)
Cost: Free
Deadline for Registration:
Instructor:
Contact: erika@mountainbizworks.org
Information Sessions are the first place to start if you are interested in learning about services available at Mountain BizWorks. Pre-registration is required to attend a session.
Directions: We are located at the corner of Hilliard and S. Lexington – one block over from The Orange Peel.
About Mountain BizWorks: The mission of Mountain BizWorks is to build economic opportunities through business development and capital. Our vision is inspiring entrepreneurs who have viable business ideas and the discipline to follow through will be able to access the resources they need to create successful businesses. The entrepreneurs’ increased income and improved quality of life will build a more vibrant local economy in Western North Carolina. All who participate know Mountain BizWorks as a trusted gathering place and community to bridge the gap between entrepreneurs of varying incomes, geographies, and ethnicities. Mountain BizWorks is a leading small business development organization.
Information Session
Date: July 27, 2010
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: Mountain BizWorks (Sylva)
Cost: Free
Deadline for Registration:
Instructor:
Contact: daphne@mountainbizworks.org
Information Sessions are the first place to start if you are interested in learning about and potentially signing up for classes and services with Mountain BizWorks. Pre-registration is requested to attend a session.
About Mountain BizWorks: The mission of Mountain BizWorks is to build economic opportunities through business development and capital. Our vision is inspiring entrepreneurs who have viable business ideas and the discipline to follow through will be able to access the resources they need to create successful businesses. The entrepreneurs’ increased income and improved quality of life will build a more vibrant local economy in Western North Carolina. All who participate know Mountain BizWorks as a trusted gathering place and community to bridge the gap between entrepreneurs of varying incomes, geographies, and ethnicities. Mountain BizWorks is a leading small business development organization.
SheBIZ Alliance
Date: July 28, 2010
Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Location: Mountain BizWorks (Asheville)
Cost: $20 for MBW members and Sheville advertisers, $25 for others
Deadline for Registration: 7/21
Instructor: Celeste Ametrine
Contact: shebiz@sheville.org
What is it?
The SheBIZ Alliance is a women’s networking and referral alliance! The mission of the SheBIZ Alliance is to provide women a place to network and develop business leads in a non-competitive business environment over six months.
How does it work?
The SheBIZ Alliance will hold closed monthly meetings of no more than 20 women. In these meetings you will have a chance to present your business and in
turn the group members will work to generate business leads for you.
What’s required of me?
Each member must agree to get leads for another business. You should bring 20
business cards to your first meeting. Each member will be required to sign a
confidentiality agreement. We will provide lunch.
Who can join?
Any woman owned and operated small business can join.
Group 1: First Friday of every month
Group 2: Last Wednesday of every month
*Lunch served @ 11:30 a.m.
Asheville Artist Alliance
Date: July 28, 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Location: Mountain BizWorks (Asheville)
Cost: Free
Deadline for Registration: 7/23
Instructor:
Contact: naomi@mountainbizworks.org
We invite you to join our steering committee to help create unique workshops and events to support local artists enhance their business skills. In this meeting, we will be working on the final touches for our August workshop.
The Asheville Artist Alliance mission is to provide assistance and opportunities to WNC artists for the development of business skills needed to succeed in their venue. The Asheville Artist Alliance is in its sixth year of producing Artist Seminar Series workshops and events, which are designed for WNC artists to provide assistance and opportunities to develop successful business skills.
Spanish Foundations
Date: July 31, 2010
Time: 9:00am – 12:00pm
Location: PILLAR Tax Servicess
Cost: Sliding scale
Deadline for Registration: July 30, 2010
Instructor: Norberto Chavez
Contact: adriana@mountainbizworks.org
Una vez que usted haya elegido confiar en usted mismo y en el negocio de sus sueños, nosotros le invitamos a que inicie el curso de Fundaciones. Este curso es esencial para la planificación de su negocio, con una duración de nueve semanas. Cuando usted participa en la clase de Fundaciones, también tiene la oportunidad de compartir con otros futuros comerciantes y explorar las necesidades que tendrá al iniciar su propio negocio. Al finalizar el curso, usted habrá convertido su idea a un plan de negocios por escrito que le ayudará a iniciar o crecer su sueño.
What are the advantages of Foundations: the Mountain BizWorks business training program for small business?
1. Comprehensive: The 24-hour course covers the key elements of a business plan, including:
• Business mission, goals and structure and management capacity
• Financial planning and resources
• Marketing (defining and targeting markets, product features and benefits, marketing strategy)
• Presentation
2. Stimulating, empowering and enjoyable: New and expanding small business owners ‘discover’ how to
apply their knowledge, skills and experiences to realizing their dream of economic independence.
• Actively involves participants in their own learning process
• Encourages creative thinking, discussion and problem-solving
• Develops life skills as well as business skills
• Generates immediately relevant learning in a safe, fun environment
3. Flexible: To be effective in a wide range of environments, the innovative content and methodology are
designed for:
• Dynamic delivery in informal classroom setting
• Low cost reproduction and supplies
• Accessibility/effectiveness with culturally and educationally diverse groups
• Learner-focused; participant controls what and how he/she learns
• Targets start-up or expanding business owners in every industry
4. Value-based AND results-oriented: The underlying principles are the same, regardless of the group:
respect, empowerment, trust. Inspired by these values, participants build their OWN business plans
based on their goals, experiences, management style and resources over nine weeks.
For more information, please visit http://www.mountainbizworks.org/.
* All SBA funded programs are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis. Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made of requested two weeks in advance. Contact the staff member listed with said event to request accommodations.
