Small Businesses to Compete with the Latest in Online Education and Technology!

Homestead.com Partners With The Association Of Small Business Development Centers (ASBDC) To Provide Website Training Education and Technology To Small Businesses Nationwide! There are approximately 27 million small businesses nationwide. In fact, over the past decade, small businesses accounted for anywhere from 60 to 80 percent of new jobs in the U.S. workforce. Given these figures, it may come as a surprise that small businesses are still not being given enough support. One of the most critical challenges threatening the success of Americas small businesses is that their growth potential has been reduced due to the competition from larger-sized companies engaged in online marketing. Homestead Technologies Inc. (homestead.com) and the Association of Small Business Development Centers (ASBDC) have jointly announced a new program that will provide online marketing education, training and technology to Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) whose counselors provide low and no-cost, small business consulting to 1.3 million+ small businesses at over 1,000 locations nationwide. The program was established to help address the educational and technological challenges that prevent small businesses from establishing and sustaining a successful presence online. For more information, please visit http://www.homestead.com and http://www.asbdc-us.org More About Justin Kitch : Justin founded Homestead in 1997. It evolved from KartoffelSoft, a company that he previously founded in 1994 that developed Fundamental, a children’s software programming language. Justin previously worked in the Kid’s Group at Microsoft before realizing his vision to create accessible and easy-to-use website creation and online marketing software. More About Don Wilson : Donald Wilson is the President/CEO for the Association of Small Business Development Centers (ASBDC). Prior to coming to ASBDC, Don was for fifteen years Director of Government Relations for the National Tire Dealers and Retreaders Association (NTDRA). In addition, Don has also served ten years as Chief of Staff to three different Members of the U.S. House of Representatives.