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SBA's Web Chat Series to Highlight Virtual Business Start-up

SB Informer
Thursday, February 22, 2007; 02:09 AM

Victoria Parham, SCORE counselor and small business owner, will host the February Web chat on "Entrepreneurship: The Essentials for Starting an Online Virtual Business." Parham will share her personal story of growth from active duty soldier and military spouse to self-employed entrepreneur and creator of a thriving business educating clients, including military spouses, on how to do business in the virtual marketplace. Join her for an online dialogue as she shares her business advice and insight.

Parham serves as a distance learning contractor for the Department of Defense Military Spouse Portable Careers Initiative, and was featured as one of Inc. Magazine's 26 Most Fascinating Entrepreneurs of 2005. Parham has served as a SCORE counselor since 2004, providing small business advice to entrepreneurs.

The SBA's live Web chat series provides business owners the opportunity to have discussions online about relevant business issues with experts, industry leaders, and successful entrepreneurs. Participants have direct, real-time access to the Web chats via questions they submit online in advance and during the session, and receive instant answers.

The Web chat will be held Wednesday, February 28, 2008, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., ET. Parham will answer questions for one hour.

Chat participants can join the live Web chat by going online to http://www.sba.gov/, and clicking the "Online Business Chat" icon. Chat participants may post questions for Parham before February 28th by visiting http://app1.sba.gov/liveMeeting/Feb07/ and posting their questions online.

To review archives of past Web chats, visit online at http://www.sba.gov/tools/monthlywebchat/index.html.

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