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Links: The Great American Small Business Challenge
1st Annual Great American Small Business Challenge to Launch in 2009
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The GASBC is a year long event, starting January 1, 2009 and running through December 31, 2009. The event is designed to help small business owners develop a faster, easier and better business development process. The GASBC encourages business owners to set-up their organizational infrastructure and to gain the essential leadership skills needed to turn their business into a rewarding, profit generating enterprise. The Challenge is a collaborative effort between our corporate and non-profit Sponsors, participating Small Business Development Centers (SBCDs), members of the America's Small Business Development Network (ASBDC) and other organizations who provide resources, services and funding to small businesses.
Everyone who participates in the Challenge has an opportunity to win a Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum award. Awards are achieved when certain milestones in the business development process are reached. Each milestone, or completed step in our four step process, is associated with a corresponsing award. The Challenge is structured so that everyone who participates is a winner. In essence, small businesses are competing with themselves, not each other.
Through the help and generosity of corporate and non-profit Sponsors, GASBC participants will come closer to realizing the "American Dream." Challenge participants will have access to private and non-profit resources, including business management and business development software, online collaboration tools, business planning kits, business counselors, coaches and management consultants, online leadership, management and soft-skills training courses, webinars (health insurance, legal, networking, sales, marketing, etc.) and a host of other products and services that they can use to make their business development process faster, easier and better. In addition, through the generosity of our Sponsors, challenge participants can receive product discounts, qualify for special offers and prizes and will receive FREE National publicity. All participants will be listed on The Great American Small Business Challenge web site and a link will be provided to the web site of the Challenge participant and/or Sponsor. "The knowledge that business owners will gain from participating in the GASBC will give them the edge to outperform their competition and to build a successful business that is profitable and easy to manage." If you are a small business owner and you would like to sign-up/register for the Challenge, please click here: Small Biz Sign-up/Registration If you are a corporation or non-profit interested in sponsoring or supporting the Challenge, please click here: Sponsor Sign-up/Registration If you are a Small Business Development Center interested in helping Challenge participants, please click here: SBDC Sign-up/Registration To view the GASBC press release, please click here: GASBC Press Release
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