Start Your Own Business
Rob Gilligan, Emporia Main Street President
Monday, February 1, 2010
“It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier.” — Thomas Robert Gaines
This Feb. 9, Flint Hills Technical College , the Small Business Development Center at Emporia State University and Emporia Main Street begin their fourth “Start Your Own Business” class. This coordinated effort is designed to give area entrepreneurs the tools necessary to achieve success through exposure to an expansive curriculum, community experts and area resources. Organizations associated with this outstanding program understand the necessity of entrepreneurs to our long term economic growth, diversification and prosperity. By working together, we hope to provide those that dream of owning a small business, either through starting an enterprise from scratch, transitioning an existing business or purchasing a franchise, the opportunity to survive and thrive in our local economy.
In the recent economic climate, national pundits of various political affiliations have conceded the fact that entrepreneurs must lead our towns, states and nation back to prosperity. The creativity and work ethic embodied by our small businesses tend to renovate and rejuvenate our area economies by filling gaps in existing markets and creating new markets for goods and services. These brave individuals and partnerships allow for growth in organizations designed specifically to meet the needs of the Emporia area economy. The ingenuity of our small businesses is necessary to package goods and services in a market that is less than ideal for many national chains. With entrepreneurs, we can create a unique set of goods and services that meet or exceed local expectations while acting as destinations for homogenized areas outside of our traditional trading zone.
To achieve our vision of a unique city that inspires additional pride among its citizens, we require your help. For those of you with the passion to start a business, for those of you that recognize market needs, and for those that wish to improve our community, sign up for the “Start Your Own Business” course. For those of you that don’t meet all of the aforementioned criteria, but still wish to help, consider investing in our local entrepreneurs. For those of you that cannot invest, please support our existing small businesses and our newly emerging entrepreneurs with your patronage.
We can either become a reactive community that waits in vain for some sort of outside entity to build our city for us, or we can enable individuals from inside our local communities to take charge of our economic destiny by creating jobs, economic development, community investment, goods and services. The “Start Your Own Business” class is $208 and runs for five weeks, meeting twice a week on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. If you would like more information on the “Start Your Own Business” course for you or someone else, please visit www.emporiamainstreet.com or the Emporia Main Street office at 12 E. Fifth St. Thank you for your consideration, and we sincerely hope to see you on the first night of the fourth annual SYOB course, starting Feb. 9.
reddog (K. B. Thomas Jr.) says...
The 4 functions of running a business [1] planning [2] organizing [3] controlling [4] motivation. Running a business is quite different from a bureaucracy which is the art of making the possible impossible WHEN GOVERNMENT TAKES RESPONSABILITY FOR PEOPLE THEN WHY SHOULD ANYONE TAKE RESPONSABILTY FOR THEMSELVES AND START A BUSINESS?
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