Free Counseling

I went to the Small Business Administration in Downtown Denver on Friday. They have a program called SCORE, which basically provides free counseling to anyone who is starting a business, or in business. There are between 10-20 counselors who have anywhere from 15-50 years of business experience. They are very knowledgeable people who have expertise in many different fields and many different businesses. The best part of the whole program is that you can go as often as you want, as many times as you want for free. The gentleman I met with was very helpful and gave me some great ideas as to where to start. Basically I am in the "information gathering stage," I will need to research my market; find out who my competition is and determine exactly what it is I want to do. I will need to start calling photographers in the area and asking first if they will send me some of their marketing pieces; and also see if I can find some photographers who will meet with me so that I can ask them some questions about the business. I don't think it will be easy to "cold call" people and ask for their help, especially if I will become competition; but I am hopeful that there are a few people out there who will be willing to help. I have also changed my website and hopefully made it better; there are more pictures and I feel that it is more professional. You can link to it from this blog, so please check it out and let me know what you think about it. Go Broncos!