FREE SMALL BUSINESS FAIR:
“Learn the Basics of Starting or Expanding Your Business”

(Honolulu, Hawaii, April 21, 2008) - Instead of dreaming about being your own boss, why not attend the Small Business Fair: “Learn the Basics of Starting or Expanding Your Business” on Saturday, May 10, 2008 from 8:30 a.m. to Noon at Chaminade University's Ching Center in Eiben Hall. Admission is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Participants may also sign up for a 30-minute free consultation with one of the fair's resources partners. An optional brown bag lunch is available for $5.00.

The event, which is sponsored as a service to small businesses by the City and County of Honolulu, First Hawaiian Bank and the Chaminade University School of Business and Hogan Entrepreneurial Program, provides information and business resources all in one convenient location to help answer questions about registering a company, choosing the right entity, tax requirements, financing, business plans, bookkeeping, marketing and much more. The Small Business Fair is designed to make it easy for people to start a business or to grow one that already exists.

The Fair will feature exhibitors from the Small Business Administration, Better Business Bureau, Business Action Center, Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, Chaminade University, DBEDT, First Hawaiian Bank, Hawaii Foreign Trade Zone #9, Hawaii Pacific University, High Technology Development Corporation, Hawaii Women's Business Center, Minority Business Enterprise Center, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Small Business Development Center, Small Business Law Corp, SCORE, the US Postal Service and more.

For more information and to register, call Naomi Masuno at 487-0205, 487-0202, 487-0224 or email nmasuno@fhb.com.

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