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Business Planning & Financial Statements Template Gallery
Download SCORE’s easy-to-use business planning, finance, sales, marketing and management templates to help you plan for a new business startup or grow your existing business. Read more
Financial Projections Template
Download this financial projections template to calculate your small business expenses, sales forecast, cash flow, income statement, break-even analysis & more. Read more
How to Successfully Start a Business with the SCORE Startup Roadmap
The SCORE Startup Roadmap, sponsored by FedEx, is the perfect tool to start the journey to your new business. A SCORE mentor can be your guide along the way. Read more
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The 9 Building Blocks of a Business
The Business Model Canvas categorizes the processes and internal activities of a business into 9 separate categories, each representing a building block in the creation of the... Read more
The Business Model Canvas
The Business Model Canvas (BMC) is a strategic management tool to quickly and easily define and communicate a business idea or concept. It is a one page document which works... Read more
Preparing for your SCORE Appointment
Preparing for your appointment is optional, but if you do a little beforehand it greatly enhances the effectiveness of your mentoring session and you maximize the mentor’s ability... Read more
How To Get Paid Faster: 8 Tips For Quick Customer Payments
From making the switch to digital invoices to accepting multiple forms of payment, several ways may help you collect your customer payments faster for years to come and the continued success of your business.
Checklist for a Healthy In-House Marketing Team
Does your internal team have what it takes to move your small business forward, or is it time to hire more staff or outsource marketing tasks? Let’s find out!
Your Most Frequently Asked Software Questions, Answered
Software Advice Group Vice President Blake Clark answers the most frequently asked questions about software.
How to Plan for Slow Season In Business: 10 Things To Do In Advance
To help business leaders plan for the “slow season,” we asked small business owners and business professionals this question for their best tips.
Dominating Your Industry by Becoming an Online Expert
Building an audience online is all about delivering valuable, relevant, and compelling information to a particular group of people consistently over time. Use this article to get your strategy started.
Adding Text Marketing to Your Marketing Plans
Text message marketing was accelerated by the pandemic. Learn how to add this to your marketing strategy.
Business Strategies for Surviving Recessions: 8 Examples From The Pandemic
To help business owners survive future recessions, we asked CEOs and business professionals for their best strategies on surviving recessions.
How Covid-19 Transformed Small Business Marketing
Take a deeper look at how the Covid-19 pandemic impacted small business marketing tactics. Read more
Overcoming the 3 Biggest Problems of Content Writing in Marketing Campaigns
When optimizing content writing processes for small business marketing campaigns, you can meet three main problems influencing the overall success of your content marketing endeavors. This article will help better understand and deal with them.