Recession help and info from the SBA

Posted on | January 8, 2009 | Comments Off

Just so you know, the folks at the SBA aren’t sitting around twiddling their thumbs waiting for January 19th (or whenever the Senate gets around to confirming Ms. Mills), nor are they so preoccupied with the ongoing transition that they have forgotten about you.

In proof of which, the agency has just announced its first web chat for 2009:

Eric Zarnikow, Associate Administrator for the Office of Capital Access at the U.S. Small Business Administration will host the SBA’s January Web chat on the topic “How Small Businesses can Deal with the Credit Crunch.” Participants can chat online and ask questions about real-world strategies to employ during economic downturns, and how they can sustain themselves through the credit crunch.

The chat will take place on January 15th at 1 pm ET and will last for an hour. To participate, head over to the SBA web site and click on the “Online Business Chat” button toward the bottom of the page.

And, if you want to submit some questions prior to the beginning of the chat session, you can do that at http://app1.sba.gov/livemeeting/jan09/index.cfm.

Here’s a couple of other things the SBA wants you to know about:

  • SBA offers a variety of resources and referrals to small businesses uncertain about what to do in the current economy on its Web page on Economic Recovery.
  • SBA also offers free online training courses on “Surviving in a Down Economy” and “Strategic Marketing: How to Win Customers in a Slowing Economy,” and “Retool & Reposition your company – How to Prepare a Business Plan.”

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