Free Classes For Entrepreneurs

BRIDGEPORT — The Workshop in Business Opportunities (WIBO) is now accepting application requests for the fall 2003 semester of its entrepreneurial training course. WIBO and its team of successful business owners and senior executives will conduct a tuition-free, 16-week workshop, “How to Run a Growing, Profitable Business,” at Family Services Woodfield, 475 Clinton Avenue, Bridgeport.

Classes will begin on September 9, and will meet each Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 9:30 through January 6.

WIBO, also known as “the boot camp for entrepreneurs,” started its first class in Harlem, N.Y., in 1966, and today conducts workshops throughout New York City, in Bridgeport, and in several foreign countries. Thousands of WIBO graduates now run flourishing businesses ranging from single-person operations to multimillion-dollar corporations.

WIBO is a comprehensive training program, which covers the essential aspects of starting and running a business successfully, and profitably. The subjects addressed include market research, customer development, sales, advertising, break-even analysis, purchasing, personnel, financing, record keeping, business law, business plan development, and more. At the end of the 16-week semester, students receive a WIBO certificate of completion, and more importantly, will have developed a detailed operational plan for their business, from which a formal business plan can be written.

WIBO graduates are entitled to free lifetime consulting services from an extended faculty of more than 700 business owners, and many other amenities. The course is tuition-free, but students are charged a small fee for the course workbook.

Family Services Woodfield, Inc, the organization sponsoring Bridgeport’s WIBO program, is one of the oldest and most comprehensive human service agencies in Connecticut.

For further information, or to inquire about registration, call Kevin D. Ginyard, Sr, WIBO director, at 203-368-4291.