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A mobile business expo, designed to help entrepreneurs and fledgling business owners, will make a stop in Fallon Thursday afternoon and provide ample information for those seeking to own a business.
The Bizmobile, a large, decorated tour bus, is making a whistle stop tour of several rural counties in Nevada in a quest to jump-start small businesses in smaller communities. The tour is sponsored by the Nevada Commission on Economic Development and Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.
"Anyone who sees the bus will know we're on a mission to grow business in the Silver State," said Tim Rubald, executive director of the NCED.
The bus will stop at the Oats Park Arts Center, 151 E. Park St. The expo will be set up inside the arts center with multiple booths offering information from a variety of state and federal agencies all geared toward helping the small business owner.
Joe Locurto, the rural economic development coordinator with NCED, said visitors to the expo can expect to see representatives from his agency, Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, the state Procurement Outreach Program, the Made in Nevada program, the Community Development Block Grant program, the department of taxation, the Secretary of State's office, the state Small Business Development Center, the Nevada Global Trade office, SCORE -a group of retired business executives - and the state Job Connect office.
The Procurement Outreach Program assists small businesses in securing contracts to do business with federal, state and local government agencies. Locurto said some government agencies, like the U.S. Department of Defense, have a requirement to do a certain amount of business with rural or disadvantaged firms. According to a press release, POP has helped small Nevada businesses land $2.7 billion in government contracts during the past five years.
The Nevada Global Trade office has helped small businesses take their merchandise global by assisting with shipping logistics, taxes and tariffs information and finding distributors for products.
"We've taken significant steps in the last administration to make things more streamlined," said Secretary of State Ross Miller. "We want to make services more accessible in areas not located in Washoe and Clark counties. The focus of the Bizmobile is to put a number of different agencies in the same room."
Locurto said the touring business expo was born out of Entrepreneur Week in an effort to bring the same information to rural communities.
"It's hard to get the information out when you have federal, state and local entities trying to serve the public," Locurto said. "We try to make them interconnected to tap into those resources. This expo, for the business sector, is not by invitation only. Even people just kicking around an idea can come and find out what's really involved."
The Bizmobile, a large, decorated tour bus, is making a whistle stop tour of several rural counties in Nevada in a quest to jump-start small businesses in smaller communities. The tour is sponsored by the Nevada Commission on Economic Development and Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology.
"Anyone who sees the bus will know we're on a mission to grow business in the Silver State," said Tim Rubald, executive director of the NCED.
The bus will stop at the Oats Park Arts Center, 151 E. Park St. The expo will be set up inside the arts center with multiple booths offering information from a variety of state and federal agencies all geared toward helping the small business owner.
Joe Locurto, the rural economic development coordinator with NCED, said visitors to the expo can expect to see representatives from his agency, Nevada's Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, the state Procurement Outreach Program, the Made in Nevada program, the Community Development Block Grant program, the department of taxation, the Secretary of State's office, the state Small Business Development Center, the Nevada Global Trade office, SCORE -a group of retired business executives - and the state Job Connect office.
The Procurement Outreach Program assists small businesses in securing contracts to do business with federal, state and local government agencies. Locurto said some government agencies, like the U.S. Department of Defense, have a requirement to do a certain amount of business with rural or disadvantaged firms. According to a press release, POP has helped small Nevada businesses land $2.7 billion in government contracts during the past five years.
The Nevada Global Trade office has helped small businesses take their merchandise global by assisting with shipping logistics, taxes and tariffs information and finding distributors for products.
"We've taken significant steps in the last administration to make things more streamlined," said Secretary of State Ross Miller. "We want to make services more accessible in areas not located in Washoe and Clark counties. The focus of the Bizmobile is to put a number of different agencies in the same room."
Locurto said the touring business expo was born out of Entrepreneur Week in an effort to bring the same information to rural communities.
"It's hard to get the information out when you have federal, state and local entities trying to serve the public," Locurto said. "We try to make them interconnected to tap into those resources. This expo, for the business sector, is not by invitation only. Even people just kicking around an idea can come and find out what's really involved."
