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Small and Home Based Business Program

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Æ Surviving Difficult Economic Times

 

Doing Business Radio Show - WERU

IRS News Releases and Headliners

New Business Workshops

Small & Homebased Business Audio Tips

Business Management Publications

Energy Saving Tips

Business Workshops

Doing Business Radio Show

Maine Business Works

Small Business Clinics

Virtual Resource Library

Recordkeeping Workshop March 2009
Maine people have owned and operated micro businesses for centuries.
  • These micro businesses operate out of the home and now have the name "home-based business". 
  • Starting and managing a business takes motivation, desire, and talent. It also takes research and planning. 
  • Cooperative Extension provides educational resources to area residents who operate or are thinking about starting a business.  We work with business owners at any stage of business life, especially at the "thinking about it" stage. 


Business WorkshopsRecordkeeping Workshop

Business education workshops provide a wealth of in-depth, research-based information and help you gain useful business management skills including planning, organizing, networking and evaluating.

Recordkeeping workshop at UMaine Extension

 

 

 

 See local workshops in action

 

To learn more about upcoming small business workshops being offered in Waldo and other counties, visit the
 UMaine Extension's Small Business Education Calendar

 

Other workshops offered recently include: Recordkeeping; Pricing Your Handmade Product; Understanding Financial Statements and Starting a Business.

 

IRS News Releases and Fact Sheets

We are pleased to partner with the IRS and  provide you with the latest IRS News Releases and Headliners to educate small business owners. We hope that the information will be helpful and will make it easier for you to fulfill your tax obligations.

 

IRS Tax Information for Businesses

Whether you are a budding entrepreneur, or an established business owner, you will find everything you need to start and manage your business venture.  Topics available include starting and operating, EIN, business or hobby, recordkeeping, checklists, etc.

 

Small Business and Self-Employed Tax Center

One stop assistance  center includes information by industry or profession, A-Z index, highlights of tax law changes, tax tips and more.

Improving voluntary compliance one fact sheet at a time

Most people want to pay their fair share of taxes and many simply need a better understanding of their tax obligations. The Tax Gap Fact Sheet series is designed to clarify specific tax issues for taxpayers.

 

Here are some resources for your Small and Home Based Business Program webpage

  • Video and audio presentations on IRS.gov
     IRS has two new pages that offer video and audio presentations on tax topics.  Visit our pages for small businesses . 

  • SBTV.com
    We’ve partnered with this new Internet news channel for small businesses.  Look to the SBTV.com daily newscast every Wednesday for IRS news, and visit the IRS Partner Page on SBTV’s website for more IRS resources and information.  

  • Business.gov
     Business.gov guides you through the maze of government rules and regulations and provides access to services and resources to help you start, grow, and succeed in business.

  • e-News for Small Businesses
    Subscribe to IRS e-News for Small Businesses for bi-weekly news by e-mail on topics your small business clients want to know about.

 


Maine Business Works
Maine Business Works provides access to a broad array of business development assistance available throughout the State of Maine including business education, financing programs, and small business information and/or assistance.

Administered by the Maine Small Business Development Centers (Maine SBDC), Maine Business Works provides prospective and existing business owners easy access to many of the resources needed to develop and grow a successful small business in Maine.

 

Small Business Clinics
 Small business clinics provide an opportunity for business owners to meet individually with one or more business educators to discuss any phase of their business. Small business owners reported they had acquired useful business skills and learned how to access business resources. 

 


Virtual Resource Library
A Small and Home-based Business Virtual Resource Library includes hotlinks to online resources on topics such as: small business management, business-assist organizations, lending agencies, data centers and demographic information, trade associations, UMCE's home-based business fact sheets, and more.

 


Doing Business Radio Show     CHECK IT OUT!

Live, streamed, podcast, iTunes and archived each and every month!
Tune into this live, monthly, hour-long public affairs program on WERU-FM focusing on issues facing small and home-based business owners in Maine.

Doing Business is heard from 10:00 to 11:00a.m. on the first Thursday of each month.  Also, the Doing Business Broadcast is now available by Internet Streaming through a link/button on WERU's website. This online stream is a simulcast of our broadcast so that our programming is heard live on the Internet at the same time it is heard over the local airwaves.
To listen online go to: www.weru.org 


Business Management Publications
Over 20 publications, including a nine-part business fact sheet series, are available  to business owners. The publications are designed for any business owner from those considering a business to those engaged in business.  Publications Catalog

 

Home-Based Business Fact Sheet Series

This series of 10 fact sheets is for anyone entering or engaged in a home-based business. You can print them yourself, or order a hard copy from the Extension office (prices vary from $0.75 to $1.25 each or order whole series for $7.00, use item #3031)

To order any of these bulletins, you may contact the Waldo County Extension office by phone, fax, email or order right online from
UMCE's  Online Extension Publications Store

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