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Financing Your Business

Join US Bank, SBA, the EDC,and the Northwest Business Development Association at a two hour workshop on financing your businesses. Contrary to what the mainstream media is saying, banks are loaning. With interest rates at the lowest they've been in decades, a loan now could save a business thousands of dollars.

Where: Whidbey Telecom Bldg (WiFire), 1651 Main Street, Freeland, WA 98249

When: February 15, 11:00am - 1:00pm.

Call the EDC to register.

Sponsored by US Bank, Whidbey Telecom, SBA, NWBDA and EDC

Where do Entrepreneurs Get Their Funding?

Want to know where most new business get their financing? Check out this latest video from the Kauffman Foundation.

http://www.kauffman.org/about-the-foundation/kauffman-sketchbook.aspx

WA State Export Initiative

Last year, Governor Gregoire announced a new export initiative to open additional export opportunities for Washington businesses. By 2015, the state export initiative aims to increase by 30 percent the number of Washington companies exporting and help 5,000 businesses achieve $600 million in new export sales through direct assistance from the Washington Departments of Commerce and Agriculture.

If your business wishes to learn about or expand its exporting, contact the EDC. The Dept of Commerce exporting website. provides more information on exporting or, if you want to hear what business owners say, watch the following videos:

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