Small Business Resources
What is a Strategy Roundtable Session?
PCV Strategy Roundtable sessions are a unique part of the PCV Business Advising program, offered to members to supplement traditional one-on-one advising. Program staff creates a customized panel of about seven expert advisors, hand-selected specifically to deal with the obstacles and opportunities the participating small business is facing. These sessions offer small business owners access […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources •
Support small businesses the Saturday after Thanksgiving
Jul 15, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources •
Cash Flow Matters
We want to share this great post we found on unreasonable.is about the importance of understanding your cash flow. The author of this post, Pascal Finette, is the Director of Mozilla’s Open Innovation Group, and consults entrepreneurs on their strategy and operations. “Cash-flow is simple: Money in minus money out. If your cash-flow is positive […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Small Business Loans • Small Business Resources •
Getting Competitive Bids for Your Small Business Insurance
Your business insurance is coming up for renewal and you are interested in getting competitive bids for the renewal. Scott Hauge, President of CAL Insurance and Associates gives us some tips on how to start and what to do. Start the process about three months before your policy renews. Identify brokers beside the incumbent broker […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Loans • Small Business Resources •
What Management Can Do to Keep the Workplace Virus Free
Felicia Savage is a content strategist and up-and-coming PR specialist living in Indianapolis. When she isn’t sharing online content, Felicia loves to draw and watch animated films in her spare time. Twitter: @canonicalkitteh The next time your employees surf the web at work, they should do so with caution. Someone’s watching them. Most companies like […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources •
Meet the Panel: Online Marketing for Small Business
Meet our panel for next week’s Online Marketing for Small Business seminar at Mechanics’ Institute Library. Please visit http://pcvmarketing.eventbrite.com/ for more information and to register. We hope to see you there! Danielle Petersen PCV Advisor and curator of this panel, Danielle Petersen is a results driven leader with over 17 years of proven merchandising and marketing expertise […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources •
Are you running an effective online marketing campaign?
Most entrepreneurs know that their website and social media sites are crucial pieces of the marketing puzzle when it comes to their brand. But it’s not enough to just have these pieces, one must use these pieces to turn visitors into customers and page views into sales. Take the following case study, for example. Verve […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources •
Life Preservers for Startups
Felicia Savage is a content strategist and up-and-coming PR specialist living in Indianapolis. When she isn’t sharing online content, Felicia loves to draw and watch animated films in her spare time. Twitter: @canonicalkitteh Launching a startup, believe it or not, is no easy task. Almost every day it seems like there’s a new story in […]
Jul 15, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources •
Access to Capital – Government Resources & Policy Implications
Thank you to everyone who came to Hanson Bridgett this morning for Access to Capital: Government Resources & Policy implications. We had a great turnout, awesome panelists and catered breakfast to boot! Just in case you missed it, let us recap the event. We were joined by Mark Quinn of the SBA, Barbara Kasoff of […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Small Business Loans • Small Business Resources •
Technology and Small Business
Felicia Savage is a content strategist and up-and-coming PR specialist living in Indianapolis. When she isn’t sharing online content, Felicia loves to draw and watch animated films in her spare time. Twitter: @canonicalkitteh As technology continues to evolve and become more accessible, people adopt certain devices and programs to make their lives easier. To increase […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources •
Is your small business ADA compliant?
This morning I attended a conference at the beautiful San Francisco City Hall, which focused on ADA (American Disabilities Act) Compliance for small businesses. Did you know that since 2002, over 400 small businesses in San Francisco have been sued for noncompliance with ADA and state regulations, and that the […]
Jul 14, 2015 – Small Business Advising And Mentoring • Small Business Resources •
Crowdfunding & Small Business: CircleUp and Episencial
Access to capital is one of the biggest obstacles that many small businesses face. We see the frustration that entrepreneurs go through when their companies are growing, yet they can’t get more money to fund that growth. I read an article recently about a company (not in the PCV network) that felt similar growing pains, […]