From Deseret News archives:
Zions opens business resource center
The center, 310 S. Main, features a library including books and periodicals on everything from how to write a sales plan to effective management and marketing techniques as well as three computer terminals with access to the Internet and loaded with business planning and other software. It also has access to staff who can help answer or direct questions to local experts.
"We've found that business owners want a source of information, someplace they can go to get the information they need and not be intimidated by walking into a huge facility because it can be overwhelming," said center director Cecilia Mitchell.
A grand opening event will be held from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Friday in the building's mezzanine.
In the past, Zions partnered with the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) in operating Salt Lake's Business Information Center. The SBA stepped away from BIC in early 2005.
Nakano said the SBA supports the business center model and believes Zions "will run an outstanding center."
Zions, utilizing the old BIC location, updated and upgraded the furnishings, library and computer terminals the first steps in what Mitchell said is a broader plan to reach new, prospective and growing businesses statewide.
"We don't want to just target new businesses, but existing businesses as well, that need help learning how to better manage their business," she said. "There are a lot of business owners that have been in business for three to five years and things are OK good but not great. They're making their payments and paying their bills and they're paying their employees. But they want to go to that next level and they don't really know how to get there. We want them to come in and sit and talk about ways that they can grow and expand."
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