- Have you ever thought about harnessing your skills and experience to start your own business?
- Do you want to generate, eliminate, and refine ideas for what you should sell?
- Need extra support and motivation to start the amazing, risky, exhilarating journey as a business owner?
Perhaps you are retired or you have been laid off, and you're looking for extra income or something to keep you busy. Encore Entrepreneurship is on the rise for people like you. Never before has it been easier for 50+ individuals to monetize their knowledge, skills, and experience into a rewarding small business.
Starting a business comes with many challenges, but the most important first step is figuring out what product or service your business will offer.
Finding the right idea doesn’t have to be hard. With guidance and support, you can discover and refine a viable business concept.
Encore Concept Development focuses on helping you determine what, why, and how you should sell.
Meet the Instructor
Jackie B. Peterson
Jackie B. Peterson has worked with small businesses and solopreneurs, including creative and encore entrepreneurs, for over 30 years. She's an entrepreneur herself, working as a business adviser and CPA. She was named one of the 100 most powerful women in the Northwest and recently won the Portland Chamber of Commerce's prestigious President's Award in recognition of her years of working on behalf of the small business community.
In addition to her independent consulting and small business coaching practice, she currently works as a strategic adviser for the Small Business Development Center of Portland Community College. Her book, Better, Smarter, Richer is currently used as curriculum in many of the center's classes.
As the leading authority on solopreneurship, with a special focus on one-person creative and encore ventures, Jackie urges all solos to take the plunge, to truly examine the state of their business and then work to discover what they can do to create the most rewarding and profitable business they can imagine.