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SBA Serves Up Free Online Courses
Listen to this articleBIZ Around the StateThe U.S. Small Business Administration last week launched free online training courses and other resources for entrepreneurs.
The new courses are available at the agencyÂs Web site, www.sba.gov, and focus on revising business plans to reposition with current conditions, winning customers in a slowing economy, restructuring existing debt and diversifying the customer base with federal contracts, according to the SBA.
One recently added course is ÂDownshifting in a Slowing Economy: A Business Planning Guide;Â it is designed to help business owners reorganize and streamline their business strategies. Other related business tools include a new automated business plan template, and an assessment and strategies guide for surviving in a slowing economy.
The SBA said it believes these courses will help business navigate the current economy, in addition to its work in counseling them on financing options and identifying local, participating SBA lenders.
