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Sustaining a Business in a Down Economy

Portland Business Alliance (PBA)
200 Sw Market St
Portland, OR 97201, US (map)

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Topics that will be discussed include:

Planning — An existing business’ basic need. You need to put a planning process in place.

Customers — Do you really understand what drives your customers.

Products and Services — You need to think value not feature or benefit.

Advisory Board — Do you have a support network in place.

Financial Plan — You need to understand you financial landscape so that you can position the business to raise the capital necessary for growth.

Competition — You need to pay attention to your competitors and how they deliver value to their customers.

Technology — This is the vital lifeline in today’s economy. How you deploy it can be the difference between success or failure.

Speaker
James M. Smith Jim Smith, who began his career at IBM in sales and marketing, has over thirty years of experience mentoring entrepreneurial start-ups and counseling small to mid sized companies that are looking to expand or are under performing or under capitalized. Jim brings a deep background of executive management experience. In 1993 he founded and remains the managing partner of YCHANGE International, a turnaround consultancy specializing in small to medium sized new businesses or existing companies looking to expand or needing a turnaround strategy.

SPONSORS
SBDC; Portland Business Alliance; CubeSpace; OTBC; MercyCorps Northwest; Portland SCORE; Hillsboro Chamber; OAME; Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber; Philippine-American Chamber of Commerce

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