{"id":52897,"date":"2000-08-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-08-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/961ae94b-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2000-08-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2000-08-02T00:00:00","slug":"961ae95b-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/961ae95b-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Small business workshop draws\nover 200 participants at NMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NMC Small Business Development Center assisted over 200 business people and entreprenures during its June Small Business Month training series.<\/p>\n<p>One of the workshops, &#8220;Start Your Own Business,&#8221; had over 20 registrants on all three islands. Those who failed to register can attend the workshop in August. The free-to-the-public workshop will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 8 at the Center&#8217;s Conference Room (Building T). Registration begins at 5:30 p.m. and light refreshments will also be avaliable. The workshops begins promptly at 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the workshop is to present to entreprenures the services the SBDC provides and the importance of business planning.<br \/>\nParticipants will also learn the factors that can improve their chances for a successful business start-up, and how to start a business and market it on a tight budget.<\/p>\n<p>According to staff business consultant Dirk Sharer, &#8220;We always have solid participation and expect attendance to be strong again this month. Moreover, we are in the process of adding follow-on programs, such as Business Plan for Success, to assist the attendees prepare a business plan that they can bank on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Center&#8217;s conference room has recently been renovated to accommodate about 20 attendees. This will allow for maximum participation and idea generation.<\/p>\n<p>Call Robert Suzuki at the NMC Small Business Development Center at 235-1551 to reserve a seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NMC Small Business Development Center assisted over 200 business people and entreprenures during its June Small Business Month training series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}