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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.

The R&B stalwart has long vibrated on a different wavelength than do his contemporaries; in a turbulent, bruising world, he's stayed rock-steady.

Number crunching is what small business owners around the U.S. are doing now, assessing the costs of President Trump's tariffs on imports. For one business owner, a dream deal is at stake.

Alan Rauch joined us a few months ago as part of an author's roundtable, and now he's back to chat with us a bit more. He is in his eleventh year as a…

Congress' attending physician announced vaccinated and unvaccinated House members will again have to mask up while in the U.S. Capitol or risk a fine.

The autodidact producer spent time learning in Florida, before returning to Nashville with a vision for elevating the entire city.

Sisters Theresa Alethia and Danielle Lussier call themselves the Sisters of the Little Way of Beauty, Truth and Goodness. Their order plans to help victims of abuse.

Owner of this business says she’s on a mission to show the richness and diversity of Latin American food, one empanada at a time.

The missing persons toll has dropped after one person was found alive. Residents who escaped the flames that destroyed some 1,000 homes returned to sort through what was left.

Ed Gordon talks with Grammy-winning R&B singer Toni Braxton about her music career, her new Oxygen Channel special and her latest CD, Libra.

Everybody has a story to tell. The Moth, who many public radio listeners may be familiar with, is dedicated to the art and the craft of storytelling. It…

Suraya Mohamed is the Executive Producer for NPR Music.

For fans of Gillian Welch, Aaron Copland and The Books.

For fans of Jenny Lewis, Allison Crutchfield and Jessica Lea Mayfield.

Sally Helm reports and produces for Planet Money. She has covered wildfire investigation in California, Islamic Finance in Michigan, the mystery of declining productivity growth, and holograms. Helm is a graduate of the Transom Story Workshop and of Yale University. Before coming to work at NPR, she helped start an after-school creative writing program in Sitka, Alaska. She is originally from Los Angeles, California.

The Long Island R&B singer premieres a new song during his Tiny Desk quarantine concert.

The legislation underscores "an increasingly symbolic thrust of legislation as Congress heads toward midterm elections," NPR's David Welna says.

Scorpionfinds Drake embracing his pop Janus, split (almost) evenly between the star's rap and R&B aspects, with cameos from Jay-Z and... Michael Jackson?!