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Orange to Hold Session to Help Residents Start Their Own Businesses
Business 101: Starting Your OWN Business
Tuesday, September 26th, 2011, 6:30pm-8:00pm,  City Hall – Council Chambers – Fourth Floor,
29 North Day St., Orange, NJ 07050
Residents can learn the essential steps required to establish a successful business. Session Topics will include: Basic Business Planning, Business Structure Overview, How to Register your Business, Accounting Basics, marketing, legal counseling, to banking and finance.
The program includes an initial presentation by the Rutgers-Newark Small Business Development Center (SBDC) touching on: Getting Started – Understanding Your Market, Registering Your Business, Protecting Your Brand, and Establishing a Structure. It will also cover What is a Business Plan and Why Do I Need One? And Marketing: The Pathway to Profit.
The program also includes a session on Business Finance conducted by Carlyle Fraser FRASER CPA, Inc. and covering: Business vs. Personal Finances, Credit Management and Financial Literacy, and How to Avoid Financial Failure. Finally, the Rutgers-Newark SBDC will present information on how to succeed with a franchise business.

This session is part of Mayor Eldridge Hawkins, Jr.s Orange Business imPACT Series. Mayor Hawkins has been hosting a series of seminars to develop, empower, and strengthen Orange Businesses. These seminars have included a Minority and Women Business Enterprise Certification Workshop, a Workshop to help businesses secure contracts for the Walter G. Alexander Redevelopment, a workshop on Doing Business with Orange, and meetings with commercial landlords and developers.

Statement by Mayor Eldridge Hawkins, Jr.
“Orange is committed to ensuring local businesses and residents have the right tools to be part of the revitalization of Orange. Attracting new development, bringing in new businesses, helping existing businesses to thrive, and revitalizing our business districts are the high priorities of my administration.
 
We are creating a Business Empowerment Network for entrepreneurs, with support from groups like Rising Tide Capital that provide business-development assistance and the Intersect Fund which provides micro-finance assistance to help local entrepreneurs flourish.

The City is committed to making our business districts even safer, making business structures more attractive, retaining and strengthening businesses, recruiting new stores, making zoning more business-friendly, launching an exciting and innovative co-op destination marketing program and implementing other ways to attract shoppers and visitors to Orange. “