Resources for Your Small Business or Nonprofit

This is a virtual event held on Zoom | Please click here to register

This online workshop with Myles Robert, Portland Public Library Business & Government Librarian, will show you how to conveniently find in-depth information to help you launch or grow your business or nonprofit. Use online research tools to save you time, money and credibility which can be accessed (with your PPL card) either at the library or from home.

Participants will learn how to:

+ Access full business plans and templates

+ Build marketing strategies utilizing demographic and expenditure reports

+ Efficiently compile phone, email and social media contacts

+ Find out consumer spending behavior specific to geographic location (eg: How much does the average person in Portland spend on baked goods per year?)

+ Learn about your competition (e.g. how many employees they have, current and past annual revenue, credit rating)

+ Read full text trade journals and popular magazines in the areas of business and industry

+ Download and print legal forms

PPL would like to thank our co-sponser for this event, SCORE- Southern Maine