'Back in Business' Event Targets Small Businesses in Post-Katrina Recovery
posted on: March 30, 2006
Yahoo! hosts seminar in New Orleans, and teams up with Bell South and Solid Cactus
to provide free training and website design to session attendees to help facilitate
small businesses recovery in the Gulf Coast
| WHEN: | Friday, April 7, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. |
| WHERE: | InterContinental Hotel, 444 St. Charles Ave. (at Poydras), New Orleans, LA Registration at: http://events.yahoo.com/backinbiz |
| WHO: | Local small business owners, local small business and economic development advocates, aspiring entrepreneurs, Yahoo! experts and Solid Cactus web site developers and consultants. |
| VISUALS: | Working with Yahoo!’s team of small business technology experts, see local small business owners work with Solid Cactus to launch or improve their online businesses presences. Services include websites, e-commerce sites, and search advertising – all for free and with expert personalized guidance. Interview opportunities with Yahoo!, BellSouth and Solid Cactus executives, local entrepreneurs, and small business advocates. |
| STORY: | Katrina impacted as many as 200,000 small businesses in the greater New Orleans area and along the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coasts. The Yahoo! ‘Back in Business’ event will provide local entrepreneurs and small business advocates a ‘one stop shop’ for opening their businesses online. Reporters attending the event will find all of the elements needed (including strong visuals) to develop compelling stories about small business recovery from Katrina. |
