Start Your Own Business / Biz Resource Center   Tags: business, entrepreneurship, start-your-own-business  

Small business clients should contact MI-SBTDC-Greater Washtenaw Region, located on the campus of Washtenaw Community College in the Morris Lawrence Building, 4800 East Huron River Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48105.  Call 734-477-8762 or email  sbtdc@wccnet.edu  for the following services:

• Training and individual consultation for anyone interested in starting a small business. Topics include: business planning, financing your business, legal issues, marketing and sales strategies, managing cash flow, building your team, and more.
• Assistance for existing businesses includes: planning for and managing growth, understanding financial statements, strategic planning, marketing, etc.
• Consultation for early-stage, technology-based companies, such as alternative energy, life sciences, homeland security and advanced manufacturing.

The Biz Resource Center at Washtenaw Community College is a partnership program between the Richard W. Bailey Library and Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center (MI-SBTDC), Greater Washtenaw Region, which serves the counties of Hillsdale, Jackson, Lenawee, Livingston, Monroe and Washtenaw.

The Biz Resource Center at the Bailey Library offers the following services to MI-SBTDC-Region 12 small business clients:

• On-site access to print and electronic library resources. 
  • A community user card is needed for borrowing library materials.
  • Remote access to electronic resources is unavailable.
• Market research workshops in a computer lab environment.
• Individual consultation with a librarian on basic business information research.

This is the PowerPoint used to facilitate the Market Research Workshop.  It has been saved as a PDF so that it could be uploaded to this site.

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