Alexandria SBDC hosted their monthly Brown Bag Workshop yesterday and it was a packed house! Patricia (Patra) Frame of Strategies for Human Resources provided a higher-level prospective with some well-conceived, practical lessons for hiring practices for Small Business entrepreneurs new and growing. If you haven’t yet, you should check out Patra’s blog post, Hiring the Talent […]
What are Government Cost Proposals? Can your team write one that will win a federal contract? Join us for the fourth in an interactive series of START, MANAGE, GROW your business workshops for federal contractors. Learn the basic elements of Government Cost Proposals, including tips on the certificate of current cost and pricing data from a federal contracting expert, Sequin Lukon, Principal of The Essential […]
Google+ for Small Business Technology That Can Help Your Business Grow! February 29, 2012 9 am – 12 Noon With only 20 spots for this hands-on workshop, we anticipate more demand than space. Email or call Patricia Melton if you are interested. Slots will be filled on a first come, first served basis, […]
So you want to provide services to the federal government. Where do you begin to develop your book of business? How do you identify opportunities? How do you get face time with government staff? Join us for the second in an interactive series of START, MANAGE, GROW your business workshops for federal contractors. Workshop # 1 gave you the top 10 proven activities […]
Many Small Business entrepreneurs interested in growing their businesses look to government contracting to sell their goods or services to state and federal agencies. Alexandria Small Business Development Center can help you in many areas of government contracting. To begin, you will need to register–think of it as the driver’s license to do government contracting–at […]
Many people ask themselves that very question before starting a business or expanding an existing one and the quick answer is yes. Many entrepreneurs state that they have most of the information in their heads or on notes in outline form – why take the time to write it down in a format? It is […]
Presents February 2012 Series of Events We are well into 2012 with our programming designed to help your business thrive. As always, all of our events are FREE of charge! Tuesday, February 7, 2012: Brown Bag Lunch- “Every Word Matters” – Learn tips for better business writing. Held from noon – 1:00 PM in our boardroom at 625 N. Washington Street, […]
CNN‘s Tom Foreman explains in the network’s “Explain it to me” video series how the “presidential dash for cash” (in political parlance, campaign fundraising) laws and strategies work in simple terms. While watching the video, I realized that much of this is counter to Small Business financing and funding. Primarily, the subject of access to that […]