Celebrate Veterans Small Business Week with SBA
October 31 kicks off National Veterans Small Business Week! Here are a few ways you can celebrate with SBA:
- Attend one of SBA’s local events
- Take advantage of SBA’s resources to help you start or grow a business
- Share your business story or picture with SBA using the hashtag #MyVetBiz
- Follow SBA on Twitter and like SBA on Facebook for business tips
Contracting Opportunities for Veteran Entrepreneurs
This self-paced training exercise is an introduction to federal contracting opportunities for veterans. Topics include basic information about veteran-owned businesses and opportunities, services available to small veteran-owned businesses, small business incentives, and government procurement methods.
Blog | How Prepare for a Trade Show and Justify Your Budget
You’re back in the office after the show. You’ve thanked everyone, collected all the leads–and even collected more leads this year. The show was a success! As you prepare next year’s budget and you think about why it was a success, and why your budget should be increased (or not decreased), you’re forced to justify your participation in each show and simply increasing leads isn’t enough.
Part 1 | Part 2
Blog | Fundamentals of Lean Business Planning
Every business owner should be aware of lean business planning. It’s a perfect compromise between the old-fashioned formal business plan that is too big and static, and the kind of small steps and analysis that is the watchword of lean manufacturing and lean startups.
How to Submit a Winning National Small Business Week Award Nomination
For more than 50 years, National Small Business Week has served as our nation’s salute to small business owners, who create two out of every three net new jobs for Americans. Many household names were previous National Small Business Week award winners, including Ben and Jerry’s, Calloway Golf, Chobani, Dogfish Head, Stoneyfield Farm, Pacifica and Tom’s of Maine. It’s now your time to join the list of SBA’s National Small Business Week winners by submitting a nomination.
Here are four tips to help you submit a winning nomination package…
Webinar | What the Healthcare Law Means for Your Small Business
Thursdays | 2:00 PM ET / 11:00 AM PT
Find out how to navigate the opportunities in health care through the Affordable Care Act 101 webinar series. Registration is free, but required.
For more information on what the health care law means for small businesses, check out www.sba.gov/healthcare.
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