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Smoky Mountain Dance Center is proud to be a member! Mountain BizWorks is a great starting point for rookie entrepreneurs lookings to launch a new business, as well as an excellent resource center for experience entrepreneurs with hopes for improvement or expansion.
Nicole Polzella - Smoky Mountain Dance Center
American Youth Sports
Category: Sports
Patti Dickerson
142 Poinsettia Drive
Easley, SC 29642
Phone: (864)605-0703
Published a book on coaching Little League baseball and Babe Ruth.
Catamount Honey
Category: Sports
Matthew Baker
101 Daves Creek Road
Franklin, NC 28734
Phone: (828)349-9045
Catamount Honey provides consumers with homegrown honey and products made from our own hives.
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For over two decades, Mountain BizWorks has been in the hope business, the dream business, the opportunity business. We have been helping small business owners build the economy of Western North Carolina one business and one job at a time. Mountain BizWorks values serving all individuals who aspire to be entrepreneurs and they believe that people should be able to create a better life for themselves and their families through business ownership. Mountain BizWorks believes that successful businesses create long-term social benefits and economic prosperity, particularly in underserved communities. They value the dignity and work of each individual and encourage self-sufficiency, accountability, and cooperation. Furthermore, they value being a community that bridges the gap between entrepreneurs of varying incomes, geographies and ethnicities. Mountain BizWorks is an entrepreneurial, non-profit organization that operates with a double bottom line of social impact and financial viability -- ensuring a permanent resource for the Western North Carolina region.
In 2009, Mountain BizWorks was able to provide its services to 1074 entrepreneurs (65% were low-income, 61% were women, 26% were racial or ethnic minorities). Those individuals created 163 businesses and expanded 390 businesses. In turn, those businesses created 309 jobs and sustained 1147 jobs. We also made 49 loans totaling almost $792,800.
Since thriving small businesses are central to a vibrant regional economy, our vision is that every entrepreneur has access to business training, support, and capital for creating and sustaining successful businesses.
The mission at Moonlight Spa and Retreat is teaching and educating the client about the integrated nature of a spa experience. The facility offers far infrared sauna; whirlpool; steam bath; wet room; park facilities at the river; meditation areas; and labyrinth.
Spa guests may select from an array of experiences. Indulge in an aromatherapy wrap designed to relieve stress and detoxify your body with exfoliation, heat and essential oils; or spoil yourself with a body scrub using sea salts followed by a Swedish massage with a soothing cream.
Ydo certified through Mountain BizWorks’ Foundations business planning course in 2006. Upon completing the program, Ydo said, "The training with Mountain BizWorks helped me to have a clear idea of everything involved in business; from a defined unit and its production cost, to all the steps and strategies I have to follow to guide my business to success."
