Wednesday is National Small Business Development Center Day On Wednesday, March 16, 2022, the Florida SBDC Network will celebrate the sixth annual, national SBDC Day, and you're invited to join in the celebration. What is SBDC Day? SBDC Day is a national, collective proclamation of the success and impact that America's Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) foster each year. [...]
FSBDC at IRSC Highlights Client Success: Benjamin Franklin Plumbing Michael Bernard (SBDC) discusses plans for expansion with Matt Black, CEO of Ben Franklin Plumbing. (Michael Spooneybarger/ Florida SBDC Network Headquarters) Understanding the importance of working on your business as often as you work in your business is a topic CEO/President of Benjamin [...]
Florida SBDC IRSC holds Digital Marketing Bootcamp The Florida Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Indian River State College (IRSC) is conducting a pilot for their Digital Marketing Bootcamp kicking off on Monday, January 31, 2022 at 8 a.m. on the IRSC Pruitt Campus in St. Lucie West. This is a three-day program offered [...]
FSBDC at IRSC Profit Mastery Program The Florida Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Indian River State College (IRSC) will hold another round of Financial Training, formally known as Profit Mastery, on the IRSC Blackburn Campus in Fort Pierce starting Tuesday, January 11, 2022, at 6:00 P.M. EST. This is an eight-week program offered [...]
Tips for Managing Cash Flow What's the No. 1 reason small businesses fail? Cash flow, not lack of profits. About 80% of small business failures happen because of poor cash-flow management. Mike Bernard, a consultant at the Florida SBDC at Indian River State College and a financial specialist, says he hears it all the [...]
FSBDC at IRSC Highlights Client Success Staff with Al Coffey, Owner of DragonFly Graphics. (Michael Spooneybarger/ Florida SBDC Network Headquarters) What started as a family business twenty years ago has grown to a recognizable and respected brand across the Treasure Coast. DragonFly Graphics, located off Bayshore in Port St. Lucie, Florida, understands [...]
FSBDC at IRSC Regional Director Joins Intuit and NACCE Ambassador Program Tom Kindred, FSBDC at IRSC Regional Director The National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE) in partnership with Intuit is pleased to announce the acceptance of fourteen colleges into their newly launched Ambassadors Program. Selected educators will support and champion the [...]
FSBDC at IRSC Promotes Small Biz Saturday The Florida Small Business Development Center at Indian River State College announces its participation in Small Business Saturday, which will be held on November 27. Small Business Saturday is a day dedicated to supporting small businesses and strengthening communities across the country. Created by American Express [...]
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Think your business is too small to be a target of the cyber bad guys? Think again. According to the Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report released in May 2019, 43 percent of cyber attacks in 2018 targeted small businesses. That’s pretty high odds.