Website Workshops for Small Business Entrepreneurs‪.‬

ABSTRACT The objectives of the project described in this study were to: (1) provide small business owners with useful information on the internet, valuable websites, and software and aid in the establishment of websites that would improve the bottom line of 69 small businesses in Northeast Arkansas. We discovered that our workshop effort did increase the income of these struggling small business operations over a four year period of (2) to help participants use that information in their business and (3) and to utilize university students in helping set up websites and developing presentations on that business that would improve the bottom line of those businesses. We were successful in helping them develop sales of nearly 8 million additional sales from the establishment of websites.