If you’re an entrepreneur looking for advice, you’re in luck. The Perryton CDC, in partnership with the Entrepreneur Alliance, provides free and confidential business assistance. (The Entrepreneur Alliance is a nonprofit organization that offers financial and consultative business guidance through mentors, business strategists, and management and marketing consultants.)

Whether you’re looking to start, sell, or improve a business in Perryton, they can help. Spencer McElhannon, Business Development Facilitator with Entrepreneur Alliance, offers free advice in the following areas:

• Starting a business
• Expanding a business
• Buying or selling a business
• Exploring new management strategies
• New training opportunities for your employees
• Financial questions
• Marketing
• Manufacturing assistance
• Export assistance

Spencer is currently responsible for enterprise development here, as well as in Borger and Pampa. He’s been an entrepreneur for the past 25 years. He has experience in light manufacturing, personal and professional services, technology, oil and gas, and agriculture. Spencer has built businesses from New York to California and in the eastern Caribbean. In 1997, he and two partners received recognition as an Inc. 500—the Inc. magazine ranking of the 500 fastest growing private companies in America.

For more information or to schedule an appointment, call Sheryl or Shawn at 435-4014.