Learn About Starting or Managing a Small Business with These Tips from the SBA

Whether you’ve always dreamed of opening your own coffee shop or you’d like to own and operate a roofing company, these helpful tips from the U.S. Small Business Administration can help you on the path to getting started.

Thinking About Starting a Business?
This SBA website offers an informative guide full of tips for anyone thinking of starting a small business. Here, you’ll find articles that will help you decide if entrepreneurship is for you, lists of questions to ask yourself before making any business decisions, and guides to necessary steps to take to ensure the success of your new business.

Create Your Business Plan
Once you decide to jump in and open that boutique or start that design firm, the Small Business Administration can then help you to create a lucrative business plan. This webpage can aid you in developing medium term goals for your new business, and it offers advice for writing the business plan, too.

Learn to Make Handcrafted Cocktails With These Helpful Sites

We’ve seen a recent upswing of high-quality cocktails and creative mixology in the past few years. If you’re an at-home mixologist who wants to learn to make the perfect Manhattan or attempt to imitate that whiskey cocktail from your favorite bar, these helpful websites will show you how.

TheBar.com
This beautifully designed, easy-to-navigate website allows visitors to search for cocktails by name, event, flavors, spirits or brands to plan the perfect drink menu for any occasion. If you’re unsure of the exact drink you’d like to make, TheBar.com also allows you to browse by category to find drinks that you and your guests will love.

Cocktail Builder
Perfect for the nights when you have a few half-empty bottles in your bar and no idea of what to do with them, Cocktail Builder is an innovative website that allows you to type in the types of alcohol you have and find drink recipes based on those items. The site also features a large database of cocktail ideas if you’d rather browse on your own, from classic favorites like the Whiskey Sour to new combinations like the creamy, tropical White Dream of the Sky.

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