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               ASU's SBDC director, Andrea Rogers Mosley (photo credit: David Campbell).
                     
                     
                     On Dec. 15 virtually:
                     
                     
                     Alabama State's SBDC Offers Free Course to Start a Business & Write a Business Plan
                     
                     
                     - Register online at: https://asbdc.ecenterdirect.com/events/9367  
                     
                     
                     By Kenneth Mullinax/ASU
                     
                     
                     The beginning of a new year is a time that sees many people both starting a news business
                                                         or making modifications to an existing one. Alabama State University's Small Business
                                                         Development Center (SBDC) has a free-of-charge, special, two-hour live virtual course being offered on the evening of Dec. 15, which
                                                         will give the "ABC's" to business entrepreneurs that will help make doing so more
                                                         understandable, successful and profitable.
                     
                     
                     "During our informative virtual workshop, participants will learn the basics of how
                                                            to start a business in Alabama and put together a coherent business plan which will
                                                            act as their road map to success," Mosley states. "I will help work each participant
                                                            through all things they need to understand in a broad format about opening a new small
                                                            business or expanding an existing one so they may navigate through the red-tape and
                                                            regulations, which may be challenging without some insight into what departments of
                                                            government one needs to contact and what forms to fill out and file."
                  
                  
                  A SUCCESSFUL SMALL BUSINESS IS IMPORTANT TO A SOUND ECONOMY
                  
                  
                  Mosley stated that the success of America's small businesses are paramount to the
                                                            healthiness of the nation and its citizens prosperity.
                  
                  
                  "Small businesses are the veritable backbone of our economy. Their vibrancy and success
                                                            help fund good roads, equipment for fire departments and law enforcement, healthcare
                                                            for those in need, clean water and even our nation's military, to name but a few,
                                                            which their tax money supports," Mosley stated. "That is why Alabama State pursues
                                                            these free small business classes due to the University's dedication to President
                                                            Quinton T. Ross, Jr.'s ideal of what he calls 'CommUniversity,' which is utilizing
                                                            all things ASU so they may contribute to the success and welfare of the residents
                                                            and institutions, which ASU exists within."
                  
                  
                  NOTE: Instructions for signing up for the Dec. 15 session will be forwarded to participants
                                                            after they register (see link above)  in a separate email that they will receive 30
                                                            minutes before the event begins. Once signed in, they will enter a ZOOM meeting. The deadline to register is on the day of the event - Dec. 15 - no later than 5 p.m.
                  
                  
                  News media contact: Kenneth Mullinax, 334-229-4104.
                  
                  
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