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THREE RESOURCES FOR HELPING YOU START AND GROW YOU BUSINESS Starting a new business can be overwhelming. You might have questions like, “Do you need a business license?”, “How do you file and pay sales taxes?” or “Can you work out of your home if it is zoned residential?” Fortunately there are some great resources in the Hot Springs area to help you along this exciting process. BUSINESS BASICS GUIDE The Greater Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce has put together “Business Basics: A Guide to Starting Your Business in Garland County” to help walk you through this process. The guide offers basic information you need in starting a business in Hot Springs and Garland County. It also includes phone numbers, websites and other contact information for agencies that are needed in setting up a business in the State of Arkansas. Click here for a PDF of the guide. SMALL BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CENTER Another helpful resource is the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center. The state-wide program has a satellite office on the campus of Henderson State University in Hot Springs at the historic Landmark building. The ASBTDC is a university-based economic development program. It assists entrepreneurs, both new and seasoned, in every aspect of business creation, management and operation. They work with all types of for-profit businesses, from home-based to high-tech, and provide one-to-one confidential consulting and cutting-edge market research at no charge. The ASBTDC also provides affordable training seminars throughout the Hot Springs region. THERMAL FUSION – BUSINESS INCUBATOR For those who have already gone through the process and have started their business but need assistance getting it off the ground can participate in Hot Springs Metro Partnership’s Thermal Fusion. Thermal Fusion is a new business incubator designed to inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs and is the first stage of developing that ecosystem. The HSMP can give entrepreneurs the tools to help them establish new businesses and encourage them to grow in Hot Springs from the ground up. It is a partnership with the Greater Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce, Henderson State University School of Business, the ASBTDC and the National Park College Innovative Technologies Center. Call the Chamber at 321-1700 for more information on Thermal Fusion.
Starting a new business can be overwhelming. You might have questions like, “Do you need a business license?”, “How do you file and pay sales taxes?” or “Can you work out of your home if it is zoned residential?”
Fortunately there are some great resources in the Hot Springs area to help you along this exciting process.
The Greater Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce has put together “Business Basics: A Guide to Starting Your Business in Garland County” to help walk you through this process.
The guide offers basic information you need in starting a business in Hot Springs and Garland County. It also includes phone numbers, websites and other contact information for agencies that are needed in setting up a business in the State of Arkansas.
Click here for a PDF of the guide.
Another helpful resource is the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center. The state-wide program has a satellite office on the campus of Henderson State University in Hot Springs at the historic Landmark building. The ASBTDC is a university-based economic development program. It assists entrepreneurs, both new and seasoned, in every aspect of business creation, management and operation.
They work with all types of for-profit businesses, from home-based to high-tech, and provide one-to-one confidential consulting and cutting-edge market research at no charge.
The ASBTDC also provides affordable training seminars throughout the Hot Springs region.
For those who have already gone through the process and have started their business but need assistance getting it off the ground can participate in Hot Springs Metro Partnership’s Thermal Fusion.
Thermal Fusion is a new business incubator designed to inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs and is the first stage of developing that ecosystem. The HSMP can give entrepreneurs the tools to help them establish new businesses and encourage them to grow in Hot Springs from the ground up.
It is a partnership with the Greater Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce, Henderson State University School of Business, the ASBTDC and the National Park College Innovative Technologies Center.
Call the Chamber at 321-1700 for more information on Thermal Fusion.