Business Briefs for June 21, 2009
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Home workshop
A workshop titled “Buy It! Keep It!-Maintaining The Dream of Homeownership” will be held 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday at Cortana Mall.
Workshops will be held on such subjects as understanding credit, first-time homebuying, investment protection and foreclosure prevention.
Homeowners facing foreclosure should attend from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Foreclosure-prevention counselors will answer questions.
Participants include appraisers, mortgage lenders, insurance companies, title companies, inspectors, home ownership center, Realtors and assistance programs.
Sponsors are Mid City Redevelopment Alliance, Chase, Capitol One and Habitat for Humanity.
For additional information, call (225) 346-1000.
Express Oil Change
Express Oil Change and Service Center has opened the company’s first location in Louisiana at 7680 Perkins Road.
The phone number is (225) 448-3188. Hours of operation are 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday.
The franchise owner is Darrell Lamb, who owns 24 centers in four states. Express Oil Change has 170 locations in 10 states.
Finance workshops
Educators who want to learn how to teach high school students about money management can attend free workshops from the LSU AgCenter during July.
The workshops are open to high school teachers, home-school parents, youth-group organizers, church youth leaders and the public.
Workshops are scheduled for July 7 in Crowley; July 8 in Baton Rouge; July 9 in Covington; July 21 in Opelousas.
All sessions will be conducted 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Advance registration is required.
Teachers can earn continued learning units.
Register online at http://www.huec.lsu.edu/hsfpp or contact Petrie Baker in the LSU AgCenter’s School of Human Ecology at (225) 578-6701.
New LBTC tenant
Red Six Media, a startup advertising agency founded by six LSU graduates, has become a tenant in the Louisiana Business & Technology Center’s business incubator.
The company will offer creative, design and Web services to small businesses and local business professionals.
Majority owner and creator Kristen Morrison formed the agency with her sister, Kayla Morrison, and classmates Trey Bartsch, Matt Dardenne, Joe Martin and James Spencer.
LBTC’s small business incubator helps grow developing businesses by providing facilities, furniture and equipment, management assistance, administrative assistance and back-office support for its tenants.
Tourism conference
A regional conference focusing on enhancing current tourism resources and creating new ones in rural areas will be held Aug. 11-13 at the Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville.
The 2009 Miss-Lou Regional Tourism Summit is being hosted by the LSU AgCenter and Mississippi State University Cooperative Extension.
The targeted region consists of 16 Louisiana parishes and 17 Mississippi counties located along the Mississippi River or near the states’ borders.
The conference theme, “Gateways to Get-A-Ways: Preserving the Past, Preparing for the Future,” will provide community and tourism leaders with skills needed to identify resources, create attractions and market rural tourism in the region, said Cynthia Pilcher, an LSU AgCenter community economic development agent.
The program will include sessions on grant and trail development, risk management, creating successful festivals, e-commerce and social marketing.
Registration is $75 before July 10. Registration forms are available online at http://srdc.msstate.edu/misslou/.
Contract awarded
HEI Hotels and Resorts has selected Baton Rouge learning solutions company, Learning Sciences Corp., to provide instructional design, creative development and courseware production to meet HEI’s learning and training objectives.
Learning Sciences Corp. will develop an e-learning solution on the use of revenue management reports for HEI.
The course is designed to teach HEI’s executive management, property managers, analysts and sales /marketing professionals, how to analyze and interpret revenue management and competitive reports utilizing the data to determine its effect on a specific hotel/resort property or market.
Learning Sciences Corp., a Baton Rouge-based company, specializes in creating electronic learning environments for corporate and government clients.
The Baton Rouge chapter of the Project Management Institute will hold a project management seminar on risk management.
The seminar will be held 8:15 a.m.-3:15 p.m. July 13 at the Burden Center at 4560 Essen Lane.
Participants will learn how to identify and manage project risks.
Cost for the seminar is $250 for PMI members and $270 for non-PMI members.
For more information go to http://www.pmibatonrouge.org.
Event handbook
The Downtown Development District has created a handbook laying out the rules and procedures for staging events downtown.
A printed copy is available at the DDD’s office at 227 Florida St. or for downloading online at http://www.downtownbatonrouge.
org/playeventprocedures.asp.
Deadline for Business Briefs is 5 p.m. Monday. Items can be mailed or delivered to the Advocate business editor, 7290 Bluebonnet Blvd, Baton Rouge, La. 70810; faxed to (225) 388-0371; or e-mailed to blamb@theadvocate.com. The opening or relocation of a business must include the address, the nature of the business and the names of the owner and/or manager. All other submissions will run at the editor’s discretion.
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