THIS WEDNESDAY: MARCH 30, 2016

Are you starting from scratch with social media? 

Got a new product or a new business?

Having a social media launch plan is essential.

Click "Read More" to discover a step-by-step plan for launching your new social media presence.

Are you wondering how to use Instagram for business?

Have you looked at how others are using it?

With the right tactics, Instagram can help you build awareness, boost engagement, and drive foot traffic to your business.

In this post you’ll discover four ways you can use Instagram to promote your products and services.

Click on "Read More" for a detailed step by step guide on how to set up and effectively manage Facebook Canvas.

Have you heard of Facebook’s new mobile ad experience, Facebook Canvas?

Want to learn how to create Facebook Canvas ads?

Facebook Canvas offers “a new post-click, full-screen, immersive mobile ad experience on Facebook that loads nearly instantaneously.” Facebook Canvas lets marketers combine images, video, text, and call-to-action buttons in a single, fully immersive mobile ad experience. By offering businesses a new way to reach their target audiences and create experiences, Facebook Canvas directs more traffic towards the business.

Click on "Read More" for a detailed step by step guide on how to set up and effectively manage Facebook Canvas.

The Business Solutions Center and Vermont Slauson Economic Development Corporation would like to invite you to:

Selena Gray brings many years of experience to the Los Angeles Urban League Entrepreneurship Center (LAUL-EC) to help increase the success and longevity of African-American and other ethnically diverse businesses across South Los Angeles. As Director of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development for the Los Angeles Urban League, Gray is responsible for the overall management of the Urban League’s Entrepreneurship Center which supports community-based investment and growth through facilitating entrepreneurship and business development.

Gray began her career in the construction industry with one of the largest African American general contractors in the region.  Selena has worked with clients such as the University of Chicago, Advocate Health Care, and McDonald’s.  She has also taught Construction Costs & Bidding at Purdue University Calumet and Dawson Technical Institute of the City Colleges of Chicago and has mentored young people interested in the construction industry. 

While Gray was with the Chicago Urban League Entrepreneurship Center, she worked with her team to develop and launch the Midwest Regional Teaming Program (MRTP), the organization’s first multi-state entrepreneurship program.  Under her leadership, the MRTP reached over 60 small business owners across 9 states to help form 16 small business teams which have been awarded over $100 million in Federal contracts.  The CULEC team also managed and implemented four additional signature programs including nextSTEP, the Chicago Housing Authority Business Entrepreneurship Development Program (CHA BEDP), nextLEVEL, and the Chicago Contractor Development Program.  Along with on-site counseling provided by SCORE, these programs touched over 500 businesses annually.