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How Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) Can Help Your Business

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UW-Madison Small Business Development Center (SBDC) celebrating SBDC Day. Starting a new small business? Looking for some professional consulting to help you think through your business plan or your strategies for growth? Your local Small Business Development Center (SBDC) can help.

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How to Balance Cash Flow in a Seasonal Business

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Some find ways to create off-season demand through partnerships with other businesses, or by offering deals to local customers, or by moving sales online. The key to success in a seasonal business is management of cash flow. A good cash flow forecast will help with analysis of funds available and costs throughout the year.

Oregon 104
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One Little Ice Cream Cart That’s About to Have Big Growth

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Beginning as a small red cart in Eugene, Oregon, today Red Wagon Creamery has a downtown storefront, local retail distribution, and online ordering. From the beginning and all along the way, careful planning has guided the business from revenues of $35,000 in 2011, to $400,000 in 2014, and estimates of $700,000 for 2015.

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How to Start a Brewery: Growing Your Own Craft Beer Business

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Most small businesses and startups that are looking to grow— hire a new employee , or buy a new piece of equipment, or open a new location —need to think hard about cash flow, or making sure they have enough money in the bank to meet payroll and other financial obligations. Watch your finances. Martin Cove Brewing Company.

Oregon 24
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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

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Read also: Q&A with Business Incubator Co-founder Joe Maruschak. Learn more about Techstars , a startup accelerator program. Peter: Well, fortunately I know how to pronounce his name because I felt and that was some of his incubator work but Joe is a local entrepreneurial champion here in Oregon. Jonathan: Okay.

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Episode 10: How to Pitch Your Business, and Brand Storytelling with Park Howell | The Bcast

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You could do two or three different revolutions through this set up, conflict, resolution program. Park: Hey anything can happen in Eugene, Oregon. Peter: Lots of stories to be told, lots of small businesses out there to get out there and tell them. You don’t have to have a one-and-done story done right. Park: I know.

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Episode 7: Changing Plans, Niche Marketing, and the Internet of Things (IoT) | The Bcast

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It should have an understanding that some of the components within that larger plan are experiments and the results of those experiments will drive the further stages of those either marketing programs or business models or customer segments. I think that that all works into the idea of sticking to a good plan. I like that outcome.