Grow Your Business

Being a business owner comes with a unique set of challenges – developing your own skills while growing your business, keeping customers engaged, delegating, and seeking out new opportunities.  It’s helpful to have people on your team to support you, guide you and provide you with information and tools that will help you improve your business management skills and drive the future success of your business.

As the business owner, you solidify the foundation of your business and allow for future growth by strengthening your own skills and connecting with appropriate resources.  Resources required to maintain and grow an existing business include:

  • Strategic business goals
  • Industry connections
  • Business acumen
  • Financial management skills
  • Sales and marketing skills
  • Life skills
  • Financing
  • Professional advisors

Business Ownership Initiative offers a range of services for business owners through its free one-on-one business counseling, low-cost educational workshops, life skills coaching, networking opportunities and mentoring program. We can help you:

  • Create a strategic business plan and identify growth opportunities
  • Develop focus and clarity on next steps
  • Locate small business financing sources
  • Develop marketing plans to find new customers
  • Get a better handle on your business finances and profitability
  • Connect with professional advisors and other business owners
  • Improve your networking skills to build relationships with customers and referral sources
  • Connect with government procurement opportunities

Owning a business requires continual monitoring, telling your story in the marketplace, promoting your services in appropriate destinations, and increasing the unique growth markers for your products or services. As a small business owner, one of the challenges you face is working for yourself while marketing yourself. Like a good juggler, you have to do both well in order to turn contacts into business connections. And luckily, we can all learn how to network. Networking is about building relationships and one of the primary ways to build relationships with others is to have effective, productive conversations.  In a win-win, both people benefit from the relationship and are mutually helpful to one another.  Through BOI, you can learn networking skills through our Networking for Success workshop series and start to build those mutually-beneficial relationships.

We encourage business owners to start by making an appointment with a business counselor to discuss your goals, so that we can help you identify the key steps on your path to success and can highlight which of BOI’s programs would be most appropriate for you.  Many business owners take advantage of our advanced programs in the areas of business planning, sales and marketing, financial management, and legal protection. See our list of workshops to read more about these programs.

By arming yourself with a solid business foundation, strategic goals and a support team, you will build your confidence and pave your road to future success.  BOI would like to take that journey with you.  Come see us – we can help!