Northwest Indiana Small Business Development Center

A healthy, happy employee can aid in making up for many budget shortfalls. However, the negotiating and obtaining of heath insurance for your staff can be difficult and confusing especially with elements of the new heath care law continuing to take...

The ISBDC has a new partnership to announce with Accion! You're invited to an open house and press conference to celebrate the development as well as their new office hours. The open house takes place on Tuesday February 26, 8-9:30am at the City...

Calling all inventors, big thinkers, experimenters, and idea men/women! Do you have the next big idea? Has a thought been brewing in your brain that is nagging to become a reality? Then you need to take part in The Big Sell taking place Saturday...

The Northwest Indiana Small Business Development Center is presenting Launch Your Own Business Workshop: A Sound and Proven Path from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday Feb. 12 at the Hammond INnovation Center, 5209 Hohman Ave. The workshop is a first step toward...

The Northwest ISBDC is offering Detect and Correct from 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday Feb. 9 at the Purdue University Calumet Academic Learning Center, 9900 Connecticut Drive. Anna Sheets, of Accounting Made Simple, will help QuickBooks users focus on...

Wriiten by Cindy Bertram  “One size no longer fits all” when it comes to successful marketing today. It’s no longer a world where “the larger the ad in the newspapers or phone book you have the more calls your business receives.” With...

Written by Bill Gregory en.tre.pre.neur: a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. Earlier this year, while preparing to facilitate a “Launching Your Own Business”...

The Northwest ISBDC is offering a W2 & 1099 workshop from 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday Jan. 12 at the Purdue University Calumet Academic Learning Center, 9900 Connecticut Drive. The event will focus on year-end payroll reporting and will provide...

Gary Brownlee has joined the NW-ISBDC staff as a business adviser. He will work primarily with businesses in Porter County bringing 30 years of experience in the financial services industry to his role. Brownlee will work directly with new and...

This workshop aims to help entrepreneurs evaluate their business ideas, prepare a sound business plan, manage expectations and increase chances of accessing capital. Workshop topics include: identifying personal objectives, skills and resources...