Business Essentials
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Business Financial Essentials Workshop

Be ready for any business grant, loan, or contract opportunity that comes your way! Let’s get your business financial ducks in a row so your business is ready to take off.

If you are a new or existing business owner who to scale and access additional business funding, we want to help you get your financial ducks in a row so set your business on track for success, and meet the financial requirements for most grants, loans & contracts.

Purchase access to the replay of the Business Financial Essentials workshop where IL MBDA Financial Consultant, Sergio Xula digs into fundamental business financial concepts and shares how you can leverage them to grow your operations and run a profitable business.

Click here to pay for access: https://strategicexceptions.com/product/business-financial-essentials-replay/

Terrie Simmons

Terrie Simmons is an entrepreneur, civic leader, and the owner of Strategic Exceptions, a professional business consulting firm, innovative employee training and organizational development company focused on delivering exceptional service standards with quantitative results. Terrie is expertly experienced in non-profit management, leadership development and all phases of entrepreneurship How To’s. Terrie is also an adjunct professor teaching business courses at the graduate level.
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