By BRENT MARTIN
St. Joseph Post
It’s Small Business Week and the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce is celebrating with a variety of activities.
Chamber spokesperson, Kristi Bailey, says there is something planned for every day this week.
“It’s a mix of things that we’re doing locally at the Chamber and also we’re doing some virtual things with the SBA,” Bailey tells KFEQmmunity. “But the goal is to help small businesses bring more clients into their businesses or to help them grow in multiple ways.”
The Chamber led a Small Business Member Crawl today and will hold an insurance workshop this evening.
Day One of a two-day Small Business Administration Virtual Summit begins Tuesday. There will be a social media strategy workshop in the evening.
Bailey says small businesses add something essential to a community such as St. Joseph.
“A community really needs a great mix of both,” according to Bailey. “You need the big businesses. You need the box stores that people expect to find in a city of our size, but you need the character of the small businesses, the things that you can’t find anywhere else.”
The workshops, the events, the activities all are designed to provide information, give encouragement, and delve into the nuts and bolts of running a business, which, according to Bailey, tend to trip up most small business owners at the beginning.
“One of the big issues with small businesses is a lot of them get into business, because they’re really good at what they do; baking, it’s making something, but they don’t always know the business side of it,” Bailey says. “The businesses that are most successful are the ones that learn HR, accounting, all of the things that maybe aren’t as much fun, but are so vital in making a business successful in the long run.”
A Latino Business Seminar will be held Wednesday with a Small Business Owner Roundtable on Thursday.
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