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Saturday, December 1, 2018 from 9:15 AM to 1:15 PM SCORE Naples Fifth Third Bank Building 900 Goodlette Road North Naples, FL 34102 Cost: Free when registering online Event “Choose Your Counselor” Free help with any business issue! No time for a weekday appointment? Take advantage of this opportunity for free weekend men-toring. Review each counselor’s expertise and experience below, select the one with the qualifi-cations that best suits your needs and schedule an appointment online. Choose your time for a one hour appointment. Counselors: Mike Jacobson Expert in: Retail Management; Business Strategy & Planning; Profit & Loss; Organizing Your Business; Developing Your Staff; Sales & Marketing; Leasing Your Space; Managing Your Inventory; Succession Planning Experience: 40 Years of retail experience; 20 years of leadership with major retail organizations. Help to develop and build a successful family business with multiple locations; owned a successful franchise. Norm Storm Expert in: Business Start Up, Business Plans, New Product Development, Sales Promotion, Marketing, Consumer Package Goods & Services, Retail Management Experience: Marketing & Management instructor at the Lutgert College of Business, 17 years at Florida Gulf Coast University; Considerable marketing experience with both large and small companies;.Started and operated 4 small companies during the past 20 years. Bill McKinney Expert in: Non-Profit/not-for-profit/new business start up. Choosing a Board of Directors. Meeting state and federal legal requirements/registration. Raising funds and promotion via social media and other methods. Record keeping and analysis. Business plan versus operational plan. Time line construction and use. Business analysis, direction, research. Experience: 36 years as an entrepreneur. Started new business within major corporation. Certified volun-teer Financial Counselor with state. Jack Condon Expert in: Starting entrepreneur, not for profit and non profit businesses. Incorporation with state and registration with IRS. Experience: 36 years as an entrepreneur. Started new business within major corporation. Certified volun-teer Financial Counselor with state. Steve Horvath Expert in: Financing Your Business; SBA Loans; Requirements for Obtaining a Loan Experience: 44 years of bank commercial lending experience Scott Sharon Expert in: I Business Start Up; Marketing & How to find clients and how to communicate with them; Res-taurant operations & marketing; Strategy and planning, manufacturing and product development, busi-ness operations, business finance and accounting and public relations; Government Contracting Experience: Technology and Web-based Services; Product Development in the Restaurant Industry; Started 3 companies that served the restaurant industry Registration For registration: go to scorenaples.org, or call 239 430 0081.