[PW] Re: ?finding a small business consultant

[Dianne]

Old buzzards from SCORE?  I think they couldn't help because she doesn't 
have a clue what business she wants to go into.  I agree with Connie's 
assessment of the problem the person has...she wants to be "given" a 
business rather than doing the work of researching and starting one.  But I 
don't think it is fair to blame SCORE for her lack of ambition.  I have sat 
down with SCORE representatives and they were extremely helpful in making 
suggestions. They may have been mature individuals, but we are too quick to 
discard our older citizens (one of which I am quickly becoming) and call 
them names for no good reason than looking clever. Maybe I was just lucky, 
but I sure wouldn't call the SCORE people names on the basis of a person who 
seems to have made no effort to do her groundwork. I would set her down in 
the library in the Small Business section and suggest she do her research 
first before looking for a consultant.  Just my opinion, worth nothing these 
days.

Dianne Parham
Senior Management Analyst
San Diego Public Library
mutts at cox.net
at home, on vacation, enjoying a cooling trend (at last)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <cvj at hcvco.com>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 09:22
Subject: [PW] Re: ?finding a small business consultant


>I have operated a home based business for over 40 years.  If the old
> buzzards from SCORE "couldn't give her enough help", then she needs to go
> back to her own personal drawing board, and turn on her brain wattage.
> Running any business takes about 27 hours a day, 9 days a week, 15 months
> a year.  <snip>