“The Expo is provided to foster a spirit of entrepreneurship in the Upstate, teach entrepreneurs how to market themselves, and assist all entrepreneurs in developing business and strategies that ensure success in company operations and growth,” says Haidee Stith, executive director of the S.C. Women’s Business Center. “Last year’s inaugural Expo had 90 vendors displaying their products and services, but we have added exhibit space this year to accommodate up to 400 companies.”
Exhibit space is still open and companies should contact Donna Croom at (803) 749-9011 or for information.
Luncheon keynote speaker Cathy Anderson, who is a serial entrepreneur who helped found AOL and has started two other companies – coffee bar and movie theater, Coffee Underground, and indoor climbing gym Rocks & Ropes – is now a consultant to high-tech startup companies and a lecturer at Clemson University.
Seminars, to be held throughout the day, include:

• Your Best Tool: A Business Plan
• How Rich People Think
• Business Accounting 101
• Instant Money! (a presentation by the S.C. Department of Revenue)
• Going Global With Your Products
• Get Your Marketing Message Across

The event is open to the public. Admission to the exhibit hall is $10; each seminar costs $15, and participation in the power lunch is $20. Pre-registration for all seminars is mandatory and must be completed by September 16, 2005. Register online at www.upstatebusinessexpo.com. Contact Donna Croom for more details at (803) 749-9011 or .