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From Employee to Entrepreneur: How SCORE Mentoring Helped Amanda Hsiao
My SCORE mentor challenged me to better understand my personal finances and how to support my own life and my business.
How to Maintain a Healthy Business: Tarsha Gibbons, Gibbons Family Fitness
Coaching the Coach: How SCORE Westchester Helped
What’s Better than One Good Business Mentor?
Carol Sherwin and Andrew Schwartz are something of a dream team at SCORE Westchester. The two mentors have worked together for several years and both firmly believe that they are more effective together than apart.
Building a Business by Building a Community: A Horror Story with a Happy Ending
Client profile – Damon Della Greca. Planning a business from scratch can be a long and tedious process, and Damon credits his mentor for helping him keep the momentum going. He managed to build a community of horror lovers that now have a consistent place to meet.
Ask a Mentor: Fred Krawchick - How to Open a Retail Clothing Business
If you love fashion and decide to open your own retail clothing store, SCORE Westchester mentor Fred Krawchick has one message for you: It. Is. Not. Easy. It may not be the message you want to hear, but it’s probably the message you need to hear before diving in.
Mentoring Spotlight: Cecile Delannes & Rick Peterson
This Entrepreneur Had a Sweet Way To Start an E-Commerce Business
Mentoring Profile: Dominic Gallo, Founder of Forget Me Not
This Entrepreneur Saves Your Message in a Digital Bottle
Ask A Mentor: Ira Dansky on Four Legal Issues to Deal with Before You Start a Small Business
Ask A Mentor: Ira Dansky on Four Legal Issues to Deal with Before You Start a Small Business
Ask An Expert: Anne Kasdin: Improving Your Business Website
So, you want to start a website for your business. Great. You may have already figured out what platform you’re going to use to build it or which company you’re going to pay to host it. Before you go any further, have you done a competitive market analysis? If you’re staring blankly after reading that last part, don’t worry, you’re not alone.
Mentoring Spotlight: How to Build a Media Empire
Building a media empire from the ground up isn’t the easiest thing to do. Once her idea was formed, turning it into an actual business proved to be a bit more challenging. She found help with one of our SCORE Mentors.
Mentoring Spotlight: Jan Albanese: Setting Direction, Solving Problems
During her 13 years in sales and marketing at American Express, Jan Albanese worked with merchants in retail, manufacturing, restaurants, lodging, and more. Working as a SCORE mentor for the past nine months, Jan has set similar goals for her SCORE clients, which often boils down to building a sound sales strategy and using marketing to drive sales.
Mentoring Spotlight: Navigating Your Business Through a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown everyone for a loop. Small businesses were especially hit hard. She and her SCORE mentor, Fred Krawchick, put their heads together to come up with a plan to keep her business above water.