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e-Learning for Entrepreneurs
... provides 24/7 availability of business management and industry-related workshops, seminars, and e-Tools right in your workplace or home.
Business Plan OnLine (BPOL) Create your start-up or growth business plan on your own, or over time with an SBDC business advisor with this online software product. Cost: $49
SBDC's How To's for Business Owners - OnLine, AnyTime are courses in Business Management, Marketing, and Finance. These are free, 2-3.5 hour courses, which you can take in one sitting or in several via the internet. Phase III Premier Sponsor: Public Service of New Hampshire.
For more information on e-Learning for Entrepreneurs and on becoming an e-Learning sponsor, contact Heidi Edwards Dunn, Educational Program Coordinator. |
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Upcoming Events
REGISTER NOW! NH Small Business Development Center, US Small Business Administration, NH Department of Resources & Economics, NH Bankers Association and Southern NH University
join with
US Senator Jeanne Shaheen
to invite business owners to the
Small Business Financing Fair, providing New Hampshire small businesses with public and private financing information. Monday June 29th, 2009
Registration: 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
Program & Fair: 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Southern NH University
Hospitality Center Ballroom
Hospitality Center Building
2500 N. River Road
Manchester, NH
Businesses must pre-register online at http://shaheen.senate.gov/services/rsvp/. For more information, please contact Senator Shaheen's Manchester office at (603) 647-7500.
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SAVE THE DATE
Speed Venture Summit™
Where Capital and Business Match in Minutes™
October 28, 2009
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Nashua, NH
Speed Venture Summit™ is the premier speed-dating-style event for fast-growth businesses and investors in New England, brought to you by the New Hampshire Small Business Development Center and the New Hampshire High Technology Council.
The 2nd annual Speed Venture Summit™ is already gathering speed... |
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SBDC News
Every other Tuesday, small business owners now can take advantage of SBDC's one-on-one management consulting being offered at Optima Bank & Trust.
Thanks to $10,000 in funding and office space on the Portsmouth waterfront, both provided by Optima, small business owners now will be able to make appointments to meet with certified business advisors during the Tuesday sessions. For further information contact SBDC's Seacoast office at (603) 330-1929.
(From left to right) Daniel R. Morrison, Optima Bank & Trust's president and chief executive officer, recently joined William D. Young, Optima's senior vice president and chief lending officer; Mary Collins, state director of the NH Small Business Development Center; Warren Daniel, SBDC's Seacoast Director and Chris Duffy, an SBDC business advisor, at Optima's headquarters in Portsmouth. Photo by Sean Collins
--------------------------------------------------------------- Time for a coffee break? Check out the new
NH SBDC blog
 Find practical tips for starting, growing and maintaining your small business, including updates on the federal stimulus package. Take a break with us and offer your two cents worth by commenting on what you see. Find us at www.nhsbdc.org.
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2009 SBA Small Business Awards hosted by
the NH SBDC
Congratulations to the SBA 2009 Small Business Winners and Champions, and thank you to NH SBDC's Awards Luncheon sponsors: Centrix Bank, Citizens Bank, NH Community Development Finance Authority, First Colebrook Bank, Laconia Savings Bank, Pentucket Bank, and Public Service of New Hampshire. |
| Timely Tools for Entrepreneurs
Beginning on June 15, SBA will start guaranteeing America's Recovery Capital (ARC) loans. ARC loans are deferred-payment loans of up to $35,000 available to established, viable, for-profit small businesses that need short-term help to make their principal and interest payments on existing qualifying debt. ARC loans are interest-free to the borrower, 100% guaranteed by the SBA, and have no SBA fees associated with them.
Disaster preparedness for homes and businesses should include:
- A solid emergency response plan.
- Adequate insurance.
- Making copies of important records.
- A "Disaster Survival Kit."
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) provides a number of tax incentives for businesses, including expanded net operating loss carryback, discharge of business indebtedness, and others.
Businesses planning to claim the newly-expanded work opportunity tax credit (WOTC) for eligible unemployed veterans and unskilled younger workers hired during the first part of 2009 have until Aug. 17 to request the certification required for these workers, according to the IRS.
The NH Division of Travel and Tourism recently launched a new, high-tech, user-friendly planning resource where you can easily compare hundreds of venues and services, view videos and slideshows, find hot deals, send RFP's, create your own websites for your events, and more. The best part is that it is all free! |
| SBDC Educational Programs
Business Basics
This workshop is for people who are interested in learning the fundamentals of starting and running a business the right way. Some subjects covered are the pros and cons of being in business, registering your business, choosing the business form (LLC, sole proprietor, etc.), basics of accounting and record keeping, understanding your market, basic business law, cash flow planning and budgeting, and how financing really works.
Amoskeag Business Incubator
33 S. Commercial St., Manchester
SBDC Restaurant Initiative Courses
The SBDC Restaurant Initiative is an award-winning, statewide program that focuses on helping independent restauranteurs grow their businesses while being mindful of cost and budgets.
Controlling Food Costs: This seminar will help you to make better management decisions by developing your skills and control systems and helping you to communicate these systems to your employees. The importance of food cost percentages and industry standards will be an important component of this workshop.
June 23, 9:00 am. - 1:30 p.m.
Conway Techonolgy Village
53 Technology Lane, Conway
This seminar is a continuation of the MWVEC's Spring Business Boot Camp Series, sponsored by PSNH and Laconia Savings Bank. To register, call 603-447-6622, or email info@mwvec.com. Please include Food Cost in the subject line. |
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The NH SBDC provides
confidential business
management consulting and educational programs to more than 3,000 NH small businesses each year. The NH SBDC is the only NH agency that has full time, certified business advisors providing one-on-one, long-term management consulting to small businesses.
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