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 January 20, 2006

Business Assistance Center Debuts Website

LEESBURG - Thinking of starting a new business or looking for ways to improve an existing one? The Business Assistance Center, at Lake-Sumter Community Colleges Leesburg Campus, has created a new website at www.lscc.edu/bac. Serving as an information resource for Lake and Sumter County entrepreneurs,
its portal design provides an easy-to-navigate, question-and-answer format with links to national, state and local business sites.

This is the first of a three-phase website project which will offer a unique business-to-business link between Lake and Sumter counties. Phase II will provide a listing and description of the services that businesses require including: financing information from the various lending institutions, attorneys and their specialties, commercial real estate information, CPAs, marketing firms, consultants and much more. Phase III will provide a one-stop listing of seminars and classes, a newsletter, and information on business events within the two-county area. The BACs goal is to facilitate a hub that electronically provides information and resources to help businesses prosper.

This February and March, the Business Assistance Center is partnering with the City of Leesburg to provide a series of workshops which support the USDA Rural Business Development Program. The free sessions will be funded by the Minority/Women Business Enterprise (The Alliance),
which provides loans to small and emerging businesses with less than 20 employees and less than $1 million in gross annual revenues. Please call the Business Assistance Center for further information at 365-3579.