Mountain BizWorks will offer a Foundations business-planning course beginning March 4 in Tryon. This session leads clients through an eight-week business planning course that helps entrepreneurs evaluate and estimate start-up and overhead costs, determine profit goals, project cash flow, develop marketing plans and learn about necessary licensing and record keeping. Additional material is provided for those in agricultural enterprises.

Registration is now open for the eight-week course beginning Monday, March 4 from 6 – 9 p.m. at Carolina Foothills Chamber of Commerce, 2753 Lynn Road, Suite A, Lynn. Fees are based on a sliding scale. For more information or to register, contact Ashley Epling, 828-253-2834 ext. 27, Ashley@mountainbizworks.org, or course Facilitator Carol Lynn Jackson 828-817-2308, carollynn@mountainbizworks.org.

For a full schedule of upcoming courses and events throughout western North Carolina, please visit www.mountainbizworks.org/calendar.

– article submitted by Carol Lynn Jackson