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Is Starting a Business Right for You? Business Start-Up Series - 4 Sessions Session 2: Business Concept November 3, 2020) The first workshop focuses on your business concept and step-by-step guidance in researching your idea, your market, and your competition. At the end of the Business Concept Workshop, you are able to identify your target markets, describe your products and services, and collect key competitive information to support your feasibility plan. Session 3: Marketing Plan (November 10, 2020) The second workshop provides you with an introduction to marketing communication methods and tools to maximize your customer reach. The discussion in the Marketing Plan Workshop covers pricing strategies, positioning, the difference between features and benefits, and different marketing strategies. At the end of this session, you will know how to outline your marketing strategy, test your marketing message, choose the right sales channel, and exercise your marketing strategy. Session 4: Financial Projections (November 17, 2020) The third workshop uses exercises to help you better understand financial concepts. This session reviews sales and prices, financial risks and rewards, true start-up costs, ongoing operating expenses, setting benchmarks for tracking progress and the organization of all your financial information. Using a hands-on approach, you learn how to use our financial model to forecast sales revenue and build solid pro-forma financial forecasts. Session 5: Funding Sources and Next Steps (November 24, 2020) The final workshop offers information on how to finance your small business. In this session, discussions include sources of funds, accounting the six C’s of credit, banking relations, ratio analysis, and monthly preparation and review of financial statements. A bank loan officer will give an inside view of how a banker assesses the merit of business plans and loan application. At the end of the series, you have all the tools necessary to decide whether or not to launch your small business. Attend all four sessions for $150.00 (A second person from the same company is an additional $50.00) Registration: https://charlotte.score.org/event/virtual-simple-steps-starting-your-business-workshop-series-2-5-nov Zoom virtual workshop, login information provided upon registration

Nestled in the heart of Charlotte, NC, Home.Grown CLT blossoms as an artistic extravaganza. This festival is a tapestry woven with threads of the local creative community. It showcases and celebrates a variety of disciplines and demonstrations at Charlotte Art League this October 7th from 3-10pm.

From mesmerizing visual spectacles, to awe-inspiring performances and eclectic artisans, attendees are encouraged to explore and discover the various creatives of this city. Home.Grown CLT is more than just an event; it's a hub of innovation, collaboration, and inspiration. The festival provides a platform for artists and art lovers to come together, fostering a sense of unity that only the power of art can create.

Join us this Fall to celebrate and cultivate our uniquely artistic corner of the world.

Billie Holiday's unique vocal approach and advanced sense of rhythm made her one of the most important and influential vocalists in American History. Her relentless fight to be treated as an equal - as a musician, a female, and an African-American - made her one of the most important American figures in the 20th century. Join us as we detail how she developed her unique vocal style and how she blazed a trail for women and African-Americans that would pave the way for future generations.

Federal lawmakers are moving toward a ban on using certain chemicals called phthalates in children's toys. Phthalates are chemicals that are used to make plastics more flexible.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Laura Atkinson and Justin Hicks of Louisville Public Media about shape note singing and its influence across the American musical tradition.

NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg has worked in all four of NPR's locations since it went on the air in 1971. As the company moves into its bigger space, Stamberg once again shepherds us to our new home.

Biden wants to change the filibuster to one in which a senator actually has to talk for potentially hours on end. Many Democrats hope that could ease passage of some of their priorities.

The pandemic, a changing party makeup and a softening approach to debt and deficit have combined to give the party space to embrace expensive policies that would have been unheard of a few years ago.

The GOP is divided over whether they want more details released about the Jeffrey Epstein federal investigations. And, over 70 Columbia University students have been disciplined for protests.

North Africa is enduring its seventh consecutive year of extreme heat and below-average rainfall. The drought has shrunk harvests and driven up the price of animal feed needed to raise livestock.

In Mexico, state governments are outlawing the sale of junk food to minors because high rates of obesity and diabetes have led to increased deaths from COVID-19.

Thailand's government says it is promoting cannabis for medical use only, warning that lighting up recreationally in public could still considered to be a nuisance subject to a potential fines.

There's still no clear motive in the attempted assassination of president Donald Trump. But experts say it will be a defining moment as America grapples with rising political violence.

The Apple co-founder's complicated story is the subject of The (R)evolution Of Steve Jobs, by composer Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell. It premieres Saturday in Santa Fe.

To business owners the word bankruptcy can mean failure. We visit a retailer in Charlotte, N.C., which tried to avoid the big failure. But bankruptcy might be the secret weapon of the U.S. economy.

Tuesday, August 18Like them or not, charter schools are growing in number in North Carolina. This year, there are 160 here including two online schools.…

Prime drinks have become a Gen Z status symbol, a prized social media prop for a certain brand of teen male. But they're causing jitters among pediatricians who say they pack scary caffeine levels.

Carole Soule is taking advantage of primary season to give New Hampshire's farming community more attention.

National Geographic photographer Nick Nichols calls the Congo Basin jungle of Africa The Last Place on Earth — the title of his new book detailing his adventures in the region.

Hospice is something that is often misunderstood and underutilized, but our guest is on a mission to educate us on what hospice care actually does and the quality of life it provides. Interestingly, one of the ways she does that is through her use of TikTok where she has 1.6 million followers. She also has a new book on the topic, "The In-Between."