What a great day it was at the CBI on Thursday September 12th starting in the early morning when our clients and friends started bringing in their materials and setting up their marketing areas throughout the building. There was a lot of activity and a lot of friends sharing ideas and networking. Continue reading
I visited Arkansas over the holiday weekend recently and picked up some interesting information from small business owners there. As we all know, new businesses face daunting odds: only half of all businesses launched annually will survive five years, and only one-third will survive past 10 years, according to the SBA. Arkansas has more than 241,000 small businesses, some quite successful. Business owners everywhere who succeed do more than build it and hope buyers will come. They stick to a written business plan vetted by a professional. They spend judiciously and reinvest in their business, and many effectively use the power of social media. Continue reading
Labville is a STEM – Science, Technology, Engineering and Math – group for all ages. The goal is to highlight a topic each month and introduce it to the public at a level we can all understand. August will be 3D Scanning that can lead directly to 3D printing or other means to create the model outside of the computer. Continue reading
It’s fair to say that at the Cumberland Business Incubator we do “something different every day.” As examples, a few things that have occurred recently: Continue reading