Credit quality, cash flow, and collateral are key to financing your business. Learn from a banking and consulting expert about how a lender looks at your loan request. This presentation will focus on preparing your existing business or startup venture for financing. Sources of capital, including SBA guaranteed bank loans, will be discussed.

Speaker: Paul Shaughnessy, Lincoln Consulting Group, Inc.

Financing Your Business

Financial statements are not dry documents…if you know how to read them! You can learn where your money is coming from, where it went to and, most important, what you have right now. Every businessperson needs to understand these critical documents. This workshop will look at financial statements and how they can be your best friends in building your business IF you know how to read them.

Mike Wheeler, President, Beverly Cooperative Bank

How to Read Financial Statements

Does it seem like everyone’s blogging but you? Do you wonder if there’s a right and a wrong way to blog? Does the commitment to keep on blogging seem overwhelming? Don’t be intimidated! An effective blog can help you reach customers and boost business, and it can be easier than you think. Veteran blogger and communication strategist Jennifer Powell can show you the way. Whether you want to get started or blog better, this is the workshop for you. Speaker: Jennifer Heldt Powell, Founder, The Excellent Writers Group and author of the “Small Business Matters” column in the Sunday Boston Herald

Co-Sponsored by the MA Small Business Development Center

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