FREE How to Start a Small Business Training

Attend this FREE First Steps in Starting Your Own Business workshop that is designed to help you understand the ground work for starting a business.

Decide if entrepreneurship is for you. Find out about pros and cons of small business ownership, what skills and resources are needed, State of Maryland requirements to start a business, why your credit is important and why a business plan is needed.

Take home:

· Business Start-Up Checklist—a packet with critical contact information of State of MD agencies needed to effectively start-up your business

· Business Plan Template—answer the questions in each section and you will have a business plan at the end

· Legal Structures For Your Business—see which structure is the best for your business

· Trade Name Application

· Application for EIN number

All of these are completely FREE! Pre-registration is required!

Thursday, January 15, 2015 from 10:00am-12:00pm

Enoch Pratt Central Library, Poe Room, 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD 21201

To pre-register go to http://marylandcapital.org/trainings or call Bonnie Barresi at 410-776-8907.

Hosted by The MCE Women’s Business Center, 333 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21201

Use of library meeting space does not constitute endorsement of this organization, this program or its content by the Enoch Pratt Free Library