SMALL BIZ HELP 4.7.20

To follow impacts to local businesses from the coronavirus, we're getting a look at some help that's available.

The kentucky small business development center is putting on weekly webinars for area small businesses.

We've got kristina joyce joining c1 3 wtvq >> enjoy doing and i found this morning that the director of the ... time to think ... thank you so much for the opportunity are you down think they ... try as much as we can have yourself ... yeah wash my hands a lot ... following gov.

Bush years advice ... before we get into all the more match organization and what you ... do ... alright well the kentucky small- business development center is actually funded by the us small business administration and it's a great collaborative effort ar close to university kentucky college bag and we also have other partners throughout ... date other academic institution city counties and chamber of commerce that help ... two help us to locate offices all across the state were statewide organization and we have business coaches that help walk the journey with the small business ... they can help you understand your finances and and in these challenging times understand ho to ... how to look for things to keep you in business and to keep you going and then more importantly hopefully after all this christ over ... had you to be stronger on on the other side ... that's what we wanted to we help methods to start growing 60 ... % for jumpiness and the second is doing ... describe what qualifies a small business because that would surprise a lot of ... a really wide the va ... definition of small business is a company that has centerleft employee so that ... is pretty significant now we normally work with companies that have about five ... is pretty significant now we normally work with companies that have about 550 or or fewer are that usually the norm but like i say we we can run the gambit ... of of small businesses from it would be considered myth ... amid businesses midsize businesses to very small one or two people shot ... i love doing brake line people might ... that is all but ... the what you're doing with webinars actually work ... well we call them wednesday webinars and iep follis on initial media and i highly at the ... to do we provide a date all the time update were finding out from the federal government and from day ... and anything to do with small businesses so we decided that we would have an ongoing webinars very ... every wednesday evening and you can go on our facebook page or you can go on our our specific with page that we made just for this this situation it ky biz help.com and you can find out about her when it webinars there and again check us out on socia media linkedin and you can count on that every wednesday day at noon and we have various topics that we will be exploring we have our business coaches that actually facilitate and we also have speakers last last week we had someone from the bashir administration to come in talk and so you know you can look ... to those and additionally you can replay the so if you get our website organization that page ... you can have the opportunity to see you last week than in the and any of the ones that we hav worked ... being to also start a series on tuesday thursdays for q&a just request for q&a so look for that hopefully start next ... week ... incredible resource for timing there's no ... all essentially ... the ... anytime ... absolutely and is no cost to to anyone we do because of our funding to the federal state government know this is that no cost ... see the sun sisyphus.

Time ... for small business owners what was a guess maybe the biggest feedback to your getting ... back from some of these ... all business owners ... with what you guys are doing to help them out ... a lot of questions with regard to all the things that they're hearing coming down from the federal government the good new is that there's ... lots of opportunities for assistance ... that's the good news ... you know how to this is a littl stressful for more than a littl stressed for a lot of company ... so you if you can, stay, ... read all you can about pacific of some of the relief that coming or the loans that are available in then come to the chaos beatty need to talk with us further our business coaches help walk ... the journey with our client and that helped them to can understand "alps of of what the should do what may be helpful t them as they go along their journey at work were hearing a lot question about the in again i would ... i would encourage everyone to every small business really while you have ... a little bit of ... time in edwards if you're if your business is down right now learn all you can get out opportunity you to really take a look at the your business take a step back take a look at it wit the ... critical eye and then also again seek out system and accused west with ... plethora ... of resources for small business and the chaos seeking help ... you go in the right direction ... see if you want more informatio about the webinars and ... in what you see working ... they can find it on our basic pay contact the small business development center they can als go to art are one page ... for all of this week updated continuously it ky biz help.com ... and then we have a universal phone number that you can call leader namely the county that you're in and then we will have business coach to reply and that number is one number is 18 1888 475 ... 47572475-7232 again that's one 888 888475 ... 88847572 ... 888-475-7232 ... thank you and y'all take care and as we