Money in the Mountains

Participant Information Sheet

 

Thursday Evening Reception (7:00 – 9:00 p.m.) – Jackson Lodge, West Virginia Room

 

Friday Night Barn Dance (7:00 – 9:00 p.m.) – West Virginia Building 

 

Community Track – Assembly Hall

·         Economic Development Opportunities Panel (Friday 9:00-11:45 a.m.)

·         Microbusiness in WV’s Woodlands (Fri. 1:45-3:15)

·         Microenterprise as an Economic Development Strategy (Fri. 3:30-5:00)

·         Supporting Craft and Artisan Efforts (Sat 8:15-9:45 a.m.)

·         Developing Support Mechanisms for Local Entrepreneurs (Sat 10-11:30)

 

Microbusiness Track:  Ask the Experts (Friday 8:00-9:00 a.m. and 9:15-10:15 a.m.)

  • Starting your business  – Flameway #2
  • Keeping your business on track  – Flameway #1
  • Financing Options  – Flameway #3
  • Shoebox Accounting  – Flameway #1
  • Legal nuts and bolts of microbusiness ownership  – EEC #4
  • Insuring your business and yourself for the future  – EEC #2

 

Marketing and Production Courses (Friday 10:30-11:45)

  • Wild and wonderful plants – Flameway #2
  • High value for hand made – EEC #5

 

Marketing and Production Courses (Friday 1:45-3:15)

  • Timber gardening tour – meet in front of the Dining Hall after lunch.  End of class will be held in EEC#5.
  • Community Supported Agriculture – Flameway #1

 

(Friday 3:30-5:00)

  • Wooden’t” it make cents to cooperate? – EEC #4
  • Cooking up hot markets – Flameway #1
  • Arts and crafts – EEC #5

 

*** Special Opportunity: Focus Group with the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (Fri 3:30-4:30)

Harrison Building (you need to sign up at the registration table for this)

 

Options for Marketing (Saturday 8-9:15)

  • Direct Marketing – Flameway #2
  • E-Commerce – EEC #5

 

Marketing and Production Courses (Saturday 9:15-10:45)

  • Flower business – cut and dried – Flameway #1
  • Herbs and shrooms – EEC#5

 

***Opportunity for all:  Saturday afternoon

  • Informal Networking – Flameway Hall
  • Product Evaluation – EEC (you need to sign up for this at the registration desk)

 

Meal Schedule – all meals are in the Mt. Vernon Dining Hall

  • Breakfast is at 7:15 a.m.
  • Lunch is at 12:00 noon.  Friday is the Banquet Lunch with the mircrobusiness video premier.
  • Dinner is at 5:30 p.m.