"Superior Visions"
Educational and networking breakfast series
for Twin Ports women in business

2008-2009 Superior Visions Schedule:

TUESDAY, OCT, 14, 2008  -  "Sales Skills for Small Business"
Presented by: Meg Thoreson, Solon Springs Mercantile
Winner of the 2006 Wisconsin SBA Emerging Small Business Person Award

TUESDAY, NOV. 11, 2008  -  "Getting and Staying Organized"
Carrie Hegstrom, Harmonized Spaces
Professional Organizer; Member of the National Association of Professional Organizers

TUESDAY, FEB. 10, 2009  -  "Marketing Strategies for Small Business"
Pascha Parks, Vice President, JPG Advertising

TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 2009  -  "Making Your Business Plan Work for You"
Cindy Fennessey, New Horizons Children's Center of Superior, LLC
First Place Winner of the 2008 Superior-Douglas County Business Plan Competition

TIME:  7:15 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.

WHERE:  University of Wisconsin-Superior Multicultural Center (232 Old Main)
Belknap Street and Catlin Avenue, Superior

COST:  $18 per event (or $65 in advance for the series of four)

REGISTRATION:  Online at www.uwsuper.edu/sbdc.  For further information call: 715-394-8351.

SPONSORED BY:  Superior Choice Credit Union, UW-Superior SBDC, Northeast Entrepreneur Fund
 

Greenstone Group featured in
Knight Foundation Progress Report

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the major financial supporter of the Greenstone Group (an initiative of the Northeast Entrepreneur Fund), has included the Group as one of four programs to be featured in its 2007-2008 Progress Report.  As part of the report, Knight also produced a video segment that gives a preliminary overview of the Greenstone Group concept and planned work.  You can read the report and view the 5-minute video at:

http://progressreport.knightfoundation.org
2007/stories_of_transformation/detail.dot?id=328811

Visit the Greenstone Group website - www.greenstonegroup.org - to view a 9-minute video that introduces the purpose of the Greenstone Group and features several Growth Group members discussing the benefits they have realized since working with the Greenstone Group.
 

IRS to offer free phone forum: 
Recordkeeping for Small Business & Self-Employed

Date: October 22, 2008
Choose a time: 9 am, noon, or 3 pm
Cost: FREE
Location: The convenience of your home or office

This IRS phone forum is for:

 -  Tax professionals
 -  Attorneys
 -  Payroll professionals
 -  Industry partners


Learn about recordkeeping for small business/self-employed individuals:

 -  What books and records are
 -  Why books and records are needed
 -  Who should have books and records
 -  How good books and records can shorten an audit
 -  How long books and records should be kept

Details and registration:  http://www.entrepreneurfund.org/Recordkeeping Phone Forum Invitation.doc
 

Minnesota Indian Business Conference

October 28-29, 2008
Treasure Island Resort & Casino
Welch, MN

The 2008 Minnesota Indian Business Conference is a “must” for Indian business owners and artists; tribal leaders; tribal policy and law makers; tribal judges and legal counsel; tribal economic, business and community developers and other tribal government staff; community development corporations; foundations and not-for-profits; Indian college students and tribal college faculty; federal, state and local elected leaders and agency staff; and lenders interested in tapping into the unlimited business potential in reservation communities.

Minnesota Indian Business Conference:
http://www.umdced.com/mnibc.html
 

October Job Fairs in Hibbing, Grand Rapids

"Up North Job Fair" - Hibbing
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
9 am - 3 pm
Irongate Plaza
(formerly the Irongate Mall)
http://www.mnwfc.org/hibbing

Grand Rapids Job Fair
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Noon - 6 pm
Timber Lake Lodge
144 SE 17th Street, Grand Rapids
http://www.mnwfc.org/grandrapids
 

This Month's Featured Entrepreneurial Resources… 

Office of the Secretary of State

Minnesota:  
http://www.sos.state.mn.us/home/index.asp

Wisconsin: 
http://www.sos.state.wi.us/