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Strategies for Small Business Growth

December 15, 2009

Highlighting the experiences of successful entrepreneurs, the U.S. Small Business Administration and Dell has launched an online video series offering tools and strategies to help small business owners rebound from the economic recession and put themselves in a position to expand and create jobs.  And they are coming here to the SCORE Minnesota blog.

Strategies for Growth: Advice for Expanding Your Business includes real-world insight, solutions and advice from small business owners who’ve succeeded, in good and bad economic times.  Additionally, the series draws on the expertise of counselors, policy makers and others for accessing resources and tools available to small business owners.

“Some of the best advice a small business owner can get is from other small business owners who’ve been in their shoes,” SBA Administrator Karen G. Mills said.  “They’ve dealt with the day-to-day challenges and found ways that worked for them to meet those challenges, pursue their life’s dream and grow their business.  This video series brings those real-life experiences together, along with information on other valuable resources and opportunities, in a way that will help other small business owners chart their own path to success.”

The Strategies for Growth video series features a dozen growing small businesses from across the country and across many sectors, including a design firm, a vegetarian restaurant and bakery, and a green construction company to mention just a few.

The SBA provides free small business counseling and training through a variety of programs, services and resource partners, located throughout country. Each of the business owners featured in Strategies for Growth benefited from a variety of training and resource tools offered by the SBA.

As a resource partner for SBA, SCORE will share these online videos with you through a series of several posts here on the SCORE Minnesota blog. As we post new videos we will update the topics below by linking to them. You won’t want to miss any of them, so either bookmark this page and return often for new links or simply subscribe to receive updates by email.

The Strategies for Growth video series highlights key topics that engage small business owners in issues critical to small business growth.  These areas include

• Planning for Growth (Click here - 6 videos available)
• Team Building (click here – 3 videos available)
• Marketing for Growth (click here – 3 videos available)
• Technology for Growth (click here – 4 videos available)
• Government Contracting (click here – 2 videos available)
• Exporting Opportunities (click here – 2 videos available)
• Disaster Recovery (click here – 4 videos available)
• Profiles of Success (click here – 2 videos available)

For expert help and advice on growing your business, contact SCORE by clicking the link on the right to the office nearest you or click here to request free face to face counseling and or mentoring.

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