Video Entrepreneur Stories

Market on Main

Market on Main is a grocery store, purchased by Twyla Myrin early in 2024 in Osakis, MN. Market on Main is the only grocery store in Osakis. While Twyla sells conventional staples, she also sells local unique offerings like locally roasted coffee, candies made by a local Amish family or fresh flowers from a local flower farmer.

Twyla worked with SBDC consultant, Skip Carpenter, to develop her business plan and financial projections. “Working with Skip opened my eyes to some things that I hadn’t taken into consideration. It was really beneficial to me to walk into this with my eyes wide open.”

Aziza's Residential Care

Aziza’s Residential Care, LLC is a residential 24-hour care home in Fergus Falls, MN that provides assistance to individuals with disabilities and to elderly individuals to help with daily living.

Calvin is driven by passion to make a difference in the lives of his residents to help them to live as independently as possible.

Calvin took an entrepreneur class with Cultural Diversity Resources and was recommended to work with Bill Schalow to fine tune his business plan and financial projections.

Rolling Blue Logistics

Rolling Blue Logistics LLC is a transportation management company in Herman, MN. Brooke got into this work while earning her accounting degree.

Brooke’s husband is in the trucking industry and she did much of the back-end work for him. She realized that trucking companies were hiring out for many different types of services. Brooke thought that it would be helpful to provide all of the needed services under one house.

Brooke reached out to the SBDC for marketing assistance.

Deb McGregor helped Brooke tell her story so that all of the services Rolling Blue Logistics LLC provides fall under one umbrella.

CM Interior Design

CM Interior Design designs residential and commercial spaces that are comfortable, personal and interesting. Claudia believes that great interior design is great art that reflects who you are.

Claudia worked with both the West Central MN SBDC and Cultural Diversity Resources for assistance in starting her business. The SBDC is proud to partner with great organizations like CDR to assist entrepreneurs in West Central MN.

Abby Dahlberg Photography

Abby Dahlberg Photography photographs weddings, couples and high school seniors. Abby worked with the SBDC to get assistance with financial projections, best bookkeeping practices and setting up her LLC.

Abby created this video for the MnWest Entrepreneur Summit 2023 to share her Entrepreneurship story with other young Entrepreneurs. Give customers a reason to do business with you.

Testimonials

Children’s Corner Learning Center

Children’s Corner Learning Center provides quality care to children from ages 6 weeks to 5 years in Fergus Falls, MN. The WC MN SBDC helped the Children’s Corner Learning Center to receive disaster financing to adapt to changes brought on by the pandemic.

Inline Motion

Children’s Corner Learning Center

Inline Motion designs and engineers conveyors and, recently, face shields in Detroit Lakes, MN. Inline Motion received SBDC support with cash flow projection analysis and guidance on operations management.

Learn or Teach

Children’s Corner Learning Center

Learn or Teach

Learn or Teach is an eLearning platform that creates, as well as hosts, content for small to medium sized businesses. Learn or Teach received help from the WC MN SBDC to plan their startup and their marketing strategy.

Advertise Edge

Michael J. Burns Architects, Ltd.

Learn or Teach

Advertise Edge is a video marketing agency that started in Minnesota and moved to Fargo, ND. Advertise Edge, originally came to the WC MN SBDC to receive guidance on hiring employees. After successfully adding staff to their business, the pandemic hit and they received support and guidance from the SBDC to receive disaster financing and to pivot their operations in order to survive and thrive.

Michael J. Burns Architects, Ltd.

Michael J. Burns Architects, Ltd. is a Moorhead architecture firm who worked with the WC MN SBDC to enhance their financial management strategy and their marketing strategy.

East 10 Laundry

Michael J. Burns Architects, Ltd.

A laundromat based out of Moorhead, Minnesota, East 10 Laundry utilized the SBDC for help with the funding process and have provided a facility for community members to do their laundry ever since.