TCTC offering Small Business Start-Up

Owning and operating a small business can be difficult, especially if you are doing it alone.  Help is available though.  A workshop to address the first steps involved in starting a small business takes place on October 10th.  Tri-County Technical College in partnership with the Tri-County Entrepreneurial Development Corporation, Piedmont SCORE, Clemson’s Small Business Development Center and the Anderson Area Chamber of Commerce are offering this workshop to help local small businesses succeed, explains instructor Terry McKenney. “It is October 10th from 5:30pm to 8:30pm.  It is free; all of our monthly three-hour classes are always free.  It covers the areas that people who are essentially novices and know nothing about starting a business, it covers the things they need to know to get started.  Even from a personnel standpoint, is it a good personnel fit for them in their life where they are right now.  It is also very heavy on business planning; put together a business plan so that people will know where they are headed with their business.” Pre-registration is required, so call 864-646-1700 to register for this free class on October 10th.  The Corporate and Community Education Division of Tri-County Technical College is also offering a ten-week course for small business owners, adds McKenney.  “Our upcoming Nx Level class, that is a ten-week class and it does have a fee associated with it but it is underwritten by Blue Cross & Blue Shield of South Carolina, so the fee is a fraction of what it would normally be.  That starts October 15th and the cost is $195 with a $50 discount if they sign up before October 1st.  That is going to be ten-weeks in the evening and it covers all the things that people who have an existing business need to know either to grow their business or bring it to the next level.  It is heavy in finance, marketing, human relations and tax laws.  Those things that take years to accumulate on your own, you can get in a ten-week class.” To register for the ten-week Nx Level class, visit www.BizBuildersSC.com.