Enjoy wine, champagne and good company at Cole Haan, in Northbrook Court, tomorrow.  Cole Haan, an SBAC member, will be providing a $50 discount on each purchase of at least $250.00.  We will also be serving homemade desserts, compliments of SBAC member I's Pies & Cheesecakes.  If you have not tasted these fantastic desserts and can stop by, you are in for a treat. 

 

This exclusive SBAC event will be held from 6-8pm.  As a special bonus, you can see me buy something stylish, a task my wife tells me has never been accomplished before.

 

Please let us know whether you will be joining us at Cole Haan tomorrow evening at 1236 Northbrookk Court, Northbrook, IL 60062. You can RSVP ahead of time by contacting blanca@smallsbuinessadvocacycouncil.org.

 

Dan Seals will be joining the SBAC this Saturday, at 12:15p.m., at our Northfield Office.  Mr. Seals is running for United States Congress in the 10th Congressional District.  We will talk about the challenges facing small businesses, and discuss Mr. Seal's ideas for restoring credit to business owners.  We would like to thank Mr. Seals in advance for taking the time to talk with us.

 

We would also like to introduce the co-chairs of the SBAC advocacy committee:

 

Finally, our petition drive continues.  We can continue to talk about the credit crises facing small business or we can take action.  Signing our petition should take less than a minute.  The more signatures we get, the more power we will have to prompt real action. To sign the petition, click on the clipboard below, or click here!

 
July 8th - Las Palmas Happy Hour

We are about two weeks away from our next Happy Hour.  Please join us at Las Palmas Mexican Restaurant in Highland Park, on July 8th, for beer, wine, margaritas and fantastic food.

Our Happy Hour will begin at 6:00pm.  Approximately eighty diverse folks have attended each of our prior Happy Hours.  Indeed, our members range from small business owners to corporate executives who support small business.  To view photographs from our past two Happy Hours, you can click here.

The SBAC golf outing at the Marriott's Crane Landing Golf Course will be held on July 23rd.  Meet our members on the course and at our cocktail reception after the scramble tournament.  We continue to receive fantastic prizes for the outing, including the opportunity to win a Fields Chrysler Jeep for a hole-in-one and a foursome of golf at the Marriott.

 

Next week's newsletter will feature our sponsors for the golf outing.  You can fill out your on-line application for the golf outing by clicking on the following link: SBAC 2010 Golf Outing Application

 

In August, the SBAC will be holding an educational forum on lending.  There are many vehicles for small and medium size businesses to obtain lending that far too few of us know about.  For instance, SomerCor 504, Inc., a member of the SBAC, helps small businesses buy real estate through the SBA 504 program at fixed interest rates that are often well below market. To learn more about SomerCor click here.

 

This educational forum will be open to all SBAC members.  We are also in the process of creating a list of alternative sources of financing, from micro-lenders to venture capitalist firms.  This information will be posted on the SBAC website shortly.  Your SBAC log-in will be required to access these resources.