Start Your Own Business

This guide will show you the eResources and books you can use to help find your target market, plan your business for success, navigate legal and financial hurdles, market your business effectively, and community resources.

Are You a Leader?

Leaders supervise, mentor, direct, and inspire others. Do you have what it takes to lead? If not, don't worry:  Leadership skills can be developed!

Featured Events @ the Library!

Check out these upcoming events and classes that can help you get your business started!

Making Connections: How to Network

Up Your Leadership Potential: More Library Resources

There are numerous titles on Leadership available at your local library.

ONLINE COURSES

Lynda.com offers a Leadership Foundations training course.  Access this online resource using your library card number and PIN. 

How's your elevator speech? Lynda.com has also made a Public Speaking Foundations course available to cardholders. 

Personal Branding Library Materials

In the professional world, our reputations, our past successes and failures, often precede us. Personal branding is about shaping and nurturing our public personas, so that they pave our way, not hinder it. 

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