Free Small Business Center Workshops Available at RCC

If you’re thinking about starting a new business, you may want to enroll in one of the upcoming workshops available at the RCC Small Business Center in Lumberton. Each year, RCC offers approximately 60-75 seminars to assist aspiring and existing entrepreneurs.

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All workshops below are free, open to the public, and are available online

• Marketing Your Business – October 4 from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
• How to Start a Small Business – October 11 from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
• How to Write a Business Plan – October 18 from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
• The Best Year of Your Life – October 21 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
• Financing Your Small Business – October 25 from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
• Getting Your Business Listing on Google – October 27 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
• Starting, Operating, & Growing Your Business – November 1 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
• Using Google Tools for Your Business – November 3 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
• How to find your customers – November 8 from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
• Grant Writing 101 – November 13 from 8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
• How and where to Find Grants – November 13 from 10:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
• Fundamentals of Fundraising – November 13 from 1:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
• Basics of Bookkeeping – November 15 from 6:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.
• How to Start a Non-Profit Business – November 20 from 8:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
• How to Complete the IRS 501(C)3 Paperwork – November 20 from 10:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
• How to develop or restore the bylaws for a non-profit – November 20 from 1:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
• Your Small Business Taxes – November 22 from 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.

To register for one of the above classes, please visit https://www.robeson.edu/SBC and click on “View Seminars and Register.”

The small business center at RCC also offers free, one-on-one confidential counseling for those who wish to start their own business. For more information on the free counseling or one of the seminars above, please contact Bob Moore, the small business center director, at bmoore@robeson.edu or (910) 272-3631.