Business Mentor NY – a program of Empire State Development

Program Update

Mentees and Mentors,

We appreciate your interest in mentorship. Please be advised that after March 31, 2024, the Business Mentor NY Program will cease to operate. However, you can continue to access mentoring services by contacting Entrepreneurship Assistance Centers in your area at esd.ny.gov/eac-directory to obtain one-on-one counseling with your current business idea or small business.

If you would like to continue offering pro bono mentoring services to entrepreneurs or small business owners, please email us at nylovessmbiz@esd.ny.gov with your core business skills, experience or education and your preferred service area.

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How to develop a business plan that want to offer more than one service?

I want to help organizations and groups in team development. Facilitating group activities where people grow professionally and personally. Encouraging and motivating them to become a better professional and a better person, recognizing that we need each other to achieve those goals. Also I am planning in offering day retreats for latino youth (new americans) , a population that suffer from stress and trauma. I use tools as outdoor education, group work, art as a tool to reduce that stress and to experience a break from their situation, a positive experience that make them to connect with joy, hope, friends

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If you are aiming to offer more than one service than you will need to show a link of services. Such as a location or website, main base of company mission that provides the additional services similar to the expectations of your mission. Your mission sounds like you are seeking to start a service for latino's, professionals, and personals. You should figure out what your actual main mission is and the avenues you expect to market to. This way instead of building 3-4 things at once. Your main mission can grow, then, you can use the platform to influence additional aspects. What i syour main goal? Who is the expected targets of your main goal? Why are they the targets and what could your goal do for them? where will you provide services? how will they benefit? could they benefit more than just your target? how? what connects your main mission to your sub-missions(i.e.online clothing store sub-category me, women. will you also connect auto parts? does it click or make sense) how can it bring in income? what will be the value returned?

answering questions like these will help you to organize your project and its expectations, hopefully better for business purposes.

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