Small and Home-Based Business Education

Assistance to small and home-based business owners is available through workshops and business management publications. Business related topics can address marketing, pricing, record keeping, customer relations, Internet marketing, and more. Get answers to your business questions or receive one-on-one free, confidential visits. We particularly assist customers in the thinking and start-up stage of their business.

Find upcoming workshops listed on our Small Business calendar.

Consultations: These are free, one-on-one, 1-hour sessions with Cooperative Extension’s Business and Economics Specialist, James McConnon and Extension educators. This confidential meeting can assist small and home-based business owners with their specific questions. Such questions might address reviewing a business plan, tips on marketing, and much, much more.

Consultations are held year round. Upcoming consultation date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009

If you are interested in a session please call our office at 942-7396 or 1-800-287-1485 (in Maine) to make an appointment.

• Business Education

• Business Virtual Resource Library

• Small and Home Based Business publications

• Maine Business Works:
  www.mainebusinessworks.org

• Finance Authority of Maine:
  www.famemaine.com

• Eastern Maine Development Corporation:
  www.emdc.org

• Small Business Administration:
  www.sba.org

• SCORE - Counselors to America's Small Business:
  www.score.org

• Maine Centers for Women, Work and Community:
  www.womenworkandcommunity.org

• Internal Revenue Service
  www.irs.gov