Success Stories
Toledo's Stanley's Markets to sell meat products wholesale
Toledo Free Press - July 25, 2008 - Duane Ramsey
Toledo-based neighborhood food store Stanley's Markets is marketing its Polish and specialty sausages to the food-service business through its wholesale meat operations.
The family-owned business is expanding beyond its retail store to develop growth in sales and as many as five additional jobs in the near future with the new venture.
Orem small-business center helps entrepreneurs of all types
With the economic turmoil depleting personal finances, displacing employees and forcing some to seek new career paths, more and more Utah County residents are turning to self-employment to support themselves and their families.
Floralyn Martinez, a master hair stylist for 17 years, researched the possibility of opening her own salon last summer. It was at that time that she came into contact with the Orem Small Business Development Center located just west of Utah Valley University. She didn't have a clue about the steps to starting her own business."I'm an artist behind the chair, but I'm computer illiterate," she said. "I was either going to start up my own place or go to another salon."
Businesses can take root, grow at Springfield's SBDC
The Small Business Development Center didn't get the memo that the economy is struggling. Located in the former Frye Elementary School at 300 E. Auburn Ave., the SBDC recently experienced its first vacancy in more than a year.
"Other than the offices vacated by Meva (Formwork Systems), which moved out in early July, our location is full and has been for over a year," said Executive Director Steve Anzur.
Small Business Development Center Celebrates 20 Years
Kauz.com - July 17, 2008
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All we've been hearing lately is the economy is failing and businesses are falling under. But one way to keep small business alive in North Texas is by networking. That's exactly what hundreds of owners are doing tonight at the Midwestern State, Dillard Of College of Business Administration. All for BCI Business "After Hours."
Include brochures in marketing plan
Developing a company brochure can be a time-consuming, laborious and often frustrating event the first time around. After the first brochure is developed, the memory of the pain and anguish causes many to keep on using that first effort, despite the fact that it may be out-of-date, incomplete, unfocused or simply bad. And then they are handed out like monopoly money — willy-nilly and sometimes without thought to the return-on-investment that is expected.
