Virtual Incubator Platform for Eastern North Carolina (VIPforENC)
Venture East offers individuals, businesses, and organizations working in the travel and tourism industry support with targeted information and services. Assistance is available through a strategic partnership with the Virtual Incubator Platform for Eastern North Carolina (VIP for ENC). The VIP for ENC is a one of a kind web portal designed to serve the needs of the region's entrepreneurial and small business community. Registration with the VIP for ENC is quick, easy and free. Members gain access to the wide array of services provided by the VIP. Features include: a searchable business directory, résumé database, job posting section, bulletin board, and resource section that includes links to other business support organizations as well as downloadable business and legal documents, templates, manuals and forms.
Travel and tourism based entrepreneurs launching new businesses who join the VIP receive assistance at every step: they learn about conducting market research and writing a business plan in the Resources section; they learn about financing and loan programs via the Links section; they market their goods and services in the Business Directory. Also with the Directory, they find partners or perspective clients; they hire employees locally through the résumé database and job posting section; they promote their sales or other events using the bulletin postings. They even find out about government contracts or other business-to-business prospects in the Opportunity section.
"Imagine a business expo you can visit anytime you want, as often as you want, at a moment's notice. A place where you can meet people who have what you need, or need what you have. A place where buyers and sellers, companies and government agencies, employers and job seekers all come together to share information and opportunity - and where special software automatically matches up needs and capabilities. It's networking like you've never seen it before."
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The Virtual Incubator Platform is a Web-based, knowledge management system designed to enhance the success of a region's business community. This state-of-the-art internet system provides opportunities, business tools, information, data, and an electronic infrastructure to streamline business success. VIP members are able to identify opportunities and to efficiently form and operate teams to compete and win in the highly competitive global marketplace.
The VIP also contains administrator tools that provide administrators with a seamless (non-technical) interface to manage all information and activity on the site.
Member Benefits
The Virtual Incubator Platform (VIP) provides the following benefits:
DEVELOP BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.
Find business-to-business and government-to-business opportunities or post one of your own. Online resources at VIPforENC.com help you streamline the proposal process and develop winning proposals.
CULTIVATE TEAMING PARTNERS.
Promote your business in our regional company database - profiles are easy to create and update. Search methods allow you to qualify potential teaming partners by a variety of different criteria.
FIND OUT WHO'S HIRING AND WHO'S LOOKING.
Post a job or apply to one on our NC Jobs page, or take advantage of our resume database. VIPforENC.com is the easy and confidential way to recruit qualified personnel or be recruited yourself.
ACCESS VALUABLE BUSINESS RESOURCES.
Find links to useful resources and download templates for business practices, contract, accounting and legal forms, interactive tutorials and more - an estimated $45,000+ worth of business documentation free to VIP members.
FIND OUT WHAT'S GOING ON.
Business events, conferences, job training, commercial property for sale or lease - if it's business-related, the VIPforENC.com bulletin board is the place to post it and the place to find it.
FREE MEMBERSHIP.
The full range of information, services and resources described here are available only to VIP members. And membership is absolutely free. So don't wait. Sign up at VIPforENC.com and start 'networking now.
