OCTOBER 2021
CHAMBER CENTRAL A PUBLICATION OF THE WESTMORELAND COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
By Noele Creamer, Contributing Writer
leaders and representatives from the Small Business Administration will join them to cover topics like financing, wage debates, the future of Usually, the beginning of the last quarter of the year spurs a lot of small retail, and developments in small business lending options. Register for business owners to begin planning for the next calendar year. Of what promises to be three hours filled with valuable insights and tools course, it’s still definitely a good time to review your business plan and to help your business. set goals for the next year. But looking ahead into 2022, Small Business Administration we thought it may be time for a little small busiOnline Learning ness self-improvement session. If you’re not able to make the free sumYou know how the bookstore has a mit or want help with a specific topic, self-help section with books on you can visit the Learning Center on everything from woo-woo the SBA web site for free onways to nurture your “inner demand tutorials that cover child” to practical guides evergreen business advice. on how to quit bad habOr, register for topic-specific its? Consider this the online learning sessions small business self-help that are either free or lowsection of the newscost by going to the Events letter! page. There are plenty of SCORE Association and virtual and local reSCORE Westmoreland sources that can help Locally, reach out to SCORE you plan for a successful Westmoreland for infornew year, regardless of mation on upcoming in-person unknowns. You probably workshops or other free or lowalready know or have used cost training offered virtually one or more of these rethrough the national SCORE sources we mention below. But Association website. Their main office, when you’re deep into a business located in the McKenna School of Business, situation, sometimes it helps to be reEconomics and Government at Saint Vincent minded you’re not the first business owner to College in Latrobe, offers mentoring services and addiexperience a situation and that resources exist to tional assistance to new and existing businesses. help you.
FREE Virtual Small Business Summit On Thursday, October 7, Forbes is hosting its 2021 Small Business Summit from 2-5 p.m. Their theme is Innovating for the Next Normal, featuring many of the top editors at Forbes Magazine. Top business
Chamber Membership Directory Guess where else you can find experts to help guide you? By networking with your fellow members of the Westmoreland County Chamber of See Small Business ● Page 4