Simple Steps to Start Your Business

Thinking about starting a business but not sure where to begin? Simple Steps to Start Your Business provides a practical roadmap for turning an idea into a viable business. Learn how to evaluate and test your idea with potential customers, choose a business structure and name, develop a simple business plan and financial projections, secure funding, set up banking and bookkeeping, address licenses and permits, establish an online presence, and develop a marketing and sales approach. The workshop also compares the pros and cons of starting a new business, buying an existing business, or purchasing a franchise—and explains how SCORE can help you along the way.