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South Austin Business Association Offers Tips On Dealing With Corporate Challenges

Upcoming gathering will focus on inevitable challenges that emerge for business owners, with advice on how to overcome them.

SOUTH AUSTIN, TX — For business owners, emerging challenges that invariably emerge can pose serious, existentialist obstacles in the life of their enterprise. Officials at the South Austin Business Association have scheduled an upcoming seminar designed to help proprietors overcome such challenges to help their businesses thrive.

"Everyone is facing some sort of challenge," SABA officials write on their website. "Some are very visible and some you may never know. But they exist and we each must work though them in our own way. Yes, we all face and have challenges everyday. Learning how to utilize those to help move our business forward is vital."

The idea is to turn one's perception of a negative into a positive, officials explain. Yes, it takes work. But as the saying goes: "Fortune favors the bold."

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With that mantra in mind, SABA officials have scheduled their gathering on Wednesday, July 19, at 8 a.m., the Casa Garcia's Mexican food restaurant located at 1901 W William Cannon Dr. The event is part of the group's weekly meetups. The gathering will be hosted by SABA President Ken Vargas, its philanthropic chair Henry Blas and other group members.

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SABA was started in 2008 when a group of merchants near far South Manchaca Road got together to meet with local government officials about the construction of road and utility improvements in that area, officials describe on their website. The group met after hours at local restaurants to hear updates and provide feedback to county and Texas Department of Texas officials.

That initially small group of business owners quickly saw the benefit to building relationships and “knowing your business neighbors,” officials describe. They continued to meet as a business network, and have been meeting weekly over breakfast meetings at Casa Garcia's ever since.

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