IPFW offers certificate to expand your small businesses

Small Business Strategy and Success Certificate Two certificate courses offered this fall Kristina Bowman has traveled extensively conducting organizational consulting for manufacturing and service organizations. She will be facillitating a course which will introduce operations management. Focus will be placed on utilizing effective operations management to improve quality while still decreasing costs. More information is available at this link: SBDC's Operations Management: Using Your Resources to Build a Sound Business Mark Hagar is the host of Your Business Matters, a small business talk show on local radio. He is a Certified Turnaround Professional who works with financially distressed companies across the country. He also currently owns several small businesses. He will be facillitating Financing: Managing by the Numbers. Although not an accounting course, practical application of the data provided by the financial statements will be examined. Important topics to be discussed will be cash flow, ratio analysis, projections and how they relate to business operations. More information is available at this link: SBDC's Financing: Managing by the Numbers

Welcome to our newest downtown business...
Team Lockout MMA!
The Chamber held a Ribbon Cutting on Tuesday, August 18th for the new business which is located at 109 W. Market Street. Chamber Ambassadors joined Mayor Ted Ellis, along with owners and friends to welcome Team Lockout to Bluffton. Michael Vanover is the manager and Huston Smith is one of the trainers. Visit their website at www.teamlockout.com

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Glad to have you visit our brand new blog! We are anxious to get news out about all of our members and the community. If anyone has any news and pictures they would like to get out to our community...this is the place. Please send all information items to Suzanne Huffman, Director of the Chamber of Commerce at shuffman@wellscoc.com and I will be happy to post it.

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