Workshop on small-business marketing, networking set for March

Small-business owners and operators can learn how to improve their marketing efforts through a three-part seminar offered March 1-15.

“Marketing and Networking Your Micro-Business” is aimed at individuals who operate small, client-service businesses such as freelance workers, massage therapists, nutritionists, life coaches, social workers, physical therapists in private practice and similar practitioners.

The 90-minute workshops will take place 6:30-8 p.m. on the Pellissippi Campus March 1, 8 and 15.

Sue Painter, a former executive director of a 4,000-member international training network who owns Touch Therapy Center and Travel Wise, will lead the seminar. Her two businesses depend on low-cost but highly effective marketing combined with “extreme” customer service.

The seminar will cover such topics as low-cost marketing, effective customer service, how to make newsletters work and public relations.

Participants are encouraged to bring any advertising materials or marketing plans that they are using. The fee is $95, which includes resource materials.

To register call Business and Community Services, 539-7167, or contact Nancy Corum, 687-6587 or ncorum@pstcc.edu for additional information.

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