Turn your talent, experience, know-how and ideas into a profitable business that fits your lifestyle and fills your pockets! This workshop is packed with practical, down to earth advice on choosing a business you can run from your home, producing and marketing your product or service, and financing and legal issues unique to home based businesses.

What You Will Learn:

• How to tell the difference between a dream, an idea and a business
• Who else should be involved in planning your home-based business...and why
• Businesses you can do from home and businesses you can’t
• Organizing information to simplify planning and start-up
• Special financing, tax and legal issues for home based businesses
• How to know when you’ve grown out of your home

Bonnie Copeland, SCORE mentor, presents this workshop. Bonnie started and managed her own ski, arts-and-crafts and consulting businesses, worked for companies like Shell Oil and Disney, and helped hundreds of entrepreneurs with her common sense approach to business start-up and expansion. Although Bonnie has expertise in all aspects of small business operation, her emphasis is on planning, accounting and finance.

(Registration/Check-in 5:30 to 6:00 PM)

This series of business workshops is generously funded by Friends of the Library.

Age Level: Adults

For more information or to register for this workshop please visit the SCORE website.