WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), the USDOT Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) and the US Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) announced partnerships to help small and disadvantaged businesses access the resources they need to succeed. These partnerships will support the Biden Administration’s whole-of-government efforts to support American businesses.
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Businesses should consider several elements in preparing for a disaster. Not only is it important to protect the staff, building, data, and inventory of a company, it is also critical to prepare a plan to continue operations following the disaster. A good plan may include provisions to relocate to a pre-identified site, retrieve data, including employee, customer and vendor records; and a way to operate efficiently with a smaller staff of key individuals.
Below please find a disaster preparedness plan template and emergency procedures template to help your business develop an in-depth preparedness plan. Use the guide to help formulate your plan.
Need additional help? Consider leveraging the following resources below and know that we’re here to help.
As part of our service offering, our disaster specialists can help you develop a comprehensive business continuity and emergency preparedness plan tailored to your business at no cost. To find the Florida SBDC office nearest you, visit www.FloridaSBDC.org/locations.
After a disaster occurs, you may need disaster assistance to help your business rebuild, recover, and reopen. Every business should have a fire- and waterproof Business-Ready “Records-To-Go” box that includes essential information and documents necessary for business to continue and/or when applying for state and federal assistance after a disaster.
For more helpful tips on how businesses can protect their assets, support their employees, and safeguard critical business processes, download and review our Dare to Prepare Flyer.
How can you get more visitors to your website? What can you do to stimulate traffic? Here’s a checklist of 37 items you need to consider. Many of these you may be doing already; others you meant to do and forgot about; still others you’ve never heard of. Of course, a great deal has been written about this. You’ll find many articles about website promotion on our site.
This article is designed to introduce you to website promotion — getting consumers to come to your website. It gives you the basic information, which you can then explore through links to other resources, many of them free. As one of our most popular articles, this was revised most recently on April 19, 2011.
While I’m not breaking any new ground here, I’ve tried to summarize some of the most important techniques. Read Moore…..
U.S. entrepreneurs have long recognized that a world of opportunities is available to them if they are willing to expand beyond domestic borders. Information technology has allowed the global economy to become considerably larger and has rendered lucrative markets abroad more accessible than ever.
Related: 7 Tips to Make Working Overseas Less Painful
While the U.S. government certainly does not want to stand in the way of global opportunities, recent efforts by the Treasury Department and IRS indicate that the government is more serious than ever about preventing U.S. business people from utilizing foreign activities to avoid or defer paying federal taxes. These efforts are reflected in the promulgation of new tax reporting rules and the strengthening of older ones. Following are five tax tips for doing business overseas and staying in compliance with recent tax reporting rules and reforms affecting U.S. entrepreneurs.
National Veteran’s Small Business Week, celebrated the first week of November, honors veteran entrepreneurs who continue to serve our country by creating jobs and fueling economic growth. As part of the celebration, the National Women’s Business Council will recognize veteran women business owners, highlighting their great economic impact and community contributions. Read More
Since April 2014, Maria Contreras-Sweet, 59, has been running the U.S. Small Business Administration as a member of President Obama’s cabinet. She was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, and came to America with her mother, Guadalupe Contreras, and five siblings when she was 5. Read More
Participants will learn the basics on developing a “base” proposal for funding consideration. This mini workshop will discuss the importance of enthusiastic and persuasive writing, a reasonable budget, program design, and other critical elements that must be considered during the writing stage. Participants will also learn the importance of Becoming a 501c3 and maintaining 501c3 status. If you are Church, Nonprofit, Human Resource Agency, Individual, Ministry, or Association that would like to learn the latest on preparing grant proposals then this workshop is designed just for you!
Speaker(s): Jennifer Donald, Principal; Metropolitan Design and Consulting Group, LLC
Fee: Free
The Tallahassee Business MatchMaker will take place on May 21, 2015, during the 32nd Annual Small Business Week hosted by the SBDC at Florida A&M University. This day’s event is free and will consist of a series of workshops designed for women, minority and veterans to enhance their overall knowledge of working as a vendor of state and local government agencies and area universities. In the afternoon, small business owners can attend one-on-one sessions to meet with purchasing representatives of more than 30 agencies and private corporations.
