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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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Episode 2: Business Planning, Content Marketing, and 3D Printing – The Bcast

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Each week we discuss the latest news, resources, and advice for entrepreneurs and small business owners. In this week’s episode, we use the Bluth’s Frozen Banana Stand to show you how to write a business plan in under an hour. Content Marketing for Small Businesses (feat. Arrested Development.

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How to Choose a Business Location

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How much is income and sales tax? Zoning map of Eugene, Oregon. If you’re operating a business out of your own home, many of the same zoning laws will apply to you. Consider doing your own market research, and ask your target audience where the ideal location for them would be. How much are property taxes? Give it a try.

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What is a Product Life Cycle?

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Both product demand and profits are increasing, and marketing is aimed at a broad audience. Funding for this stage is generally still through lenders, or through increasing sales revenue. At the mature stage, sales will level off. While unit sales are at their highest at this stage, prices tend to decline to stay competitive.

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Proven Strategies to Increase Your Nonprofit’s Revenue

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The Mohawk Valley Metric Century —a bike ride event in Eugene, Oregon—is an example of a benefit event held annually to raise money for Oregon Supported Living Program’s Arts & Culture Program. Bake sales. Be sure to consider your target audience, and to segment appropriately. Running or cycling races and walkathons.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

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It’s normally $20 a month, so it’s a really affordable tool for you to do live business planning and tracking, and put a really compelling pitch together, and then invite investors in, or lenders in, or family members in, or mentors in to help you as you craft your pitch. It was a very different audience. That’s not good.

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5 Key Ingredients to Charging What You’re Worth

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I’m taking some vacation time this week and I’m actually going to stand waste deep in the Columbia River in Oregon and cast for Trout. It was at this ad agency where she taught small businesses the value of a strong foundation and how they would grow with a strong brand. Most small businesses fall down here.

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