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Quick insights & advice from entrepreneurs on planning, starting, and growing businesses.

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Experienced entrepreneurs offer their most valuable lessons-learned on a variety of essential topics.

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Entrepreneurs share stories about starting & growing their ventures, being an entrepreneur, & more.
Balance Sheets Don’t Lie
Nathan Masters, owner of SimpleShot Shooting Sports in Asheville, talks about why the Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College Small Business Incubator is such a valuable resource, his best advice for new entrepreneurs, and a few tips on owning your business’ financial well-being.
Creating Awareness For Your New Small Business
David Riddell, owner of Big Frog Custom T-Shirts & More in Arden, shares some advice about creating awareness for your new business, getting prepared to launch, and how to form and utilize community ties.
Entrepreneur Advice From Female Small Business Owners
Listen to this group of talented female entrepreneurs talk about the different struggles and triumphs they’ve faced while planning, starting, and growing their small businesses. While many express the feeling of no longer being alone and the influx of women-owned business support networks, others reiterated the fact that women still make less money than their…
Entrepreneur Advice On Getting And Keeping Customers
Hear from experienced entrepreneurs on how to get and keep customers for your small business. They cover everything from being as transparent and honest as possible with them to not being afraid to pick up the phone and give them a call.
Entrepreneur Advice For Starting Your Small Business
Listen to these entrepreneurs talk about the challenges, setbacks, and successes they experienced while starting their businesses. From implementing customer policies and procedures to networking and making connections with your community, they give their advice as they look back on when they were just starting out as business owners.
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Featured Training
Building An E-Commerce Small Business
Don't lock yourself into Etsy or Shopify and put up with their built-in fees. Building a website on WordPress and using the WooCommerce plugin to handle e-commerce, taking payments, calculating shipping and tax, and managing subscriptions is easier than you think. In this training we'll walk you through the basics of building an e-commerce website for your small business and then answer more advanced questions to help take your online store to the next level. Note: This training was pre-recorded and is presented by the A-B Tech Small Business Center.