BUSINESS RESOURCES
Starting a business is overwhelming, not matter how well prepared you think you are. Not sure what you need or where to begin to sift through the hundreds of decisions you’ll need to make before you can ever open your doors? Check out OpenStax’s “Types of Resources,” a resource that breaks down all the different categories of resources you might need to consider for your small business, complete with definitions, and helps you begin to weed through what matters to your business and what you don’t need to worry about right now.
Entrepreneur.com’s “25 Essential Entrepreneur Resources” takes you through an overview of resources designed to get you started and help you think of everything you might need. There are tons of links to additional information venues to assist you in making the right decisions.
Don’t have time to read? Do you work better visually? Check out UVU’s “Starting Your Business” video library. Full of videos curated from events, lecture series, and speaker recordings, this library is your perfect video resource.
As always, Powerhouse Planning has resources and services to help. If you find you need an expert team for the cost of one full-time employee, we have a vast wealth of help we can provide. Our total remote team solution works alongside you to realize your entrepreneurial goals. Read some of our case studies to learn how we’ve helped other entrepreneurs or contact us today to see how we can help you build the business of your dreams.
Have you? Have you checked out Powerhouse online recently? Our website has undergone a facelift! (And it’s more than skin deep.) New (free) resources, case studies, and more can help you determine how Powerhouse can best help you. Not only are we constantly updating our website, but we’re ever-present on social media as well. Check us out on Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Who knows? You may even get a chance to interact with our president. She’s currently scheduling one-on-one 30-minute sessions where she will speak directly to you and offer advice/mentoring on any of those thorny business issues you might be facing.
CASE STUDY SPOTLIGHT
Alpha Coffee and Powerhouse Planning Mission: Grow Success
Alpha Coffee needed marketing division management support as well as website assistance as they sought to expand their business to additional locations and vendors as well as strengthen their brand recognition. By working with Powerhouse’s remote team solution, Alpha Coffee was able to realize their goal of growing their brand while retaining their family-owned business identity.
Read the full case study here.
POWERHOUSE: OUT & ABOUT
POWERHOUSE: OUT & ABOUT
Powerhouse Planning President Jessica Bertsch will once again be a featured speaker at PILLAR: Digital Retreat for Deployment Countdowns. Presented online November 4-6, PILLAR is the online retreat resource for military spouses when it comes to deployments. Jessica’s Coast Guard husband has spent almost half their marriage at sea, leaving her to manage the home and family for 16 years through eight moves. If you are interested in learning more about PILLAR or Jessica’s talk, “Dealing (and Thriving) with Rapid, Frequent, Back-to-Back Deployments,” visit PILLAR’s website and Facebook page.
GIVING BACK & GETTING INVOLVED
Gulfside Healthcare Services Supports Local Families When They Need It Most
By: Julie Kirchner
Founded in 1988, Gulfside Healthcare Services (Gulfside) is a community-based, nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice, non-hospice palliative care, and skilled home health care throughout Pasco County and the Tampa Bay area of Florida.
Powerhouse was recently blessed with an opportunity to partner with Gulfside to support business growth and help expand Gulfside’s capacity for local community impact. When Powerhouse President Jessica Bertsch first learned about the nonprofit’s work and mission, she knew she had to get involved with this amazing organization and its people.
Gulfside President and CEO Linda Ward speaks passionately about the team of nearly 400 staff and over 200 volunteers at Gulfside. She shares, “Our people are what make this organization magical. We can share story after story of the compelling effects that every single person makes on patients and families.” (more…)
New Powerhouse Team Member
Amanda Thurn is the daughter of a retired airman, a veteran spouse, and a lifetime resident of Brevard County. Amanda understands and values the significance of serving and is excited to join the Powerhouse team as a business development specialist. She brings a passion for service before self with over 10 years of experience supporting nonprofits in leadership, coordinator, and volunteer roles. Amanda is a passionate advocate and a strong connector, and she is gifted in the development of effective and genuine relationships. In her free time, Amanda enjoys reading, spending time with her family, and finding the best seafood in town.
Spotlight on Powerhouse’s Emily Anderson
Spotlight on Powerhouse’s Emily Anderson
Emily Anderson, one of the newer freelancers to join team Powerhouse, has been with us for the last nine months. As one of our marketing specialists and grant writers, Emily is currently working on behalf of two of our clients. In the short time she’s been with Powerhouse, she has impressed all of us with her support, exceptional work ethic, and talent.
That feeling is mutual, according to Emily: “My favorite thing about Powerhouse? The people most definitely! I work with an amazing group of people that I have come to admire and look up to so much.” She goes on to say that she learns so much from everyone at Powerhouse and feels privileged to work “with such a kind, driven, caring, and intelligent group of people.” What can we say? Emily fits right into that definition!
When she’s not working on behalf of her Powerhouse clients, Emily loves to challenge herself or find a new adventure. For example, her first job in high school was working in a tobacco field. “I was challenged to go into the tobacco fields and work,” she explains, “so I accepted the challenge and technically that was my first job.” Emily is all about the adventure, the challenge, and the discovery of new things about herself and the world around her. “I love having fun,” she says. But even more than having fun, Emily loves spending time with her friends and family. “They’re the most important things in my life,” she says. That connection to others, and deep desire to see others happy, is what sparks her enjoyment in helping others. “I just enjoy watching them grow and succeed,” she says.
Emily and her new husband got married just the two of them at the courthouse in 2019 (“Yes, we’re COVID people,” she says with a laugh) and then had the big family wedding in 2021. (We’re not kidding when we say she’s a family person.) This outdoors-loving couple lives in the city but right next to a park they take full advantage of along with their dog. When not outdoors, they enjoy cooking and trying new things. “You might find us playing real-life food ninjas in the kitchen when it comes to cutting fruit and vegetables,” she says by way of explaining that while they have no children themselves, they act enough like children to feel like the family is complete.
Emily is passionate about the work/life balance that Powerhouse strives so hard to achieve. She believes that when you work remotely it’s important to create boundaries. “One thing I do,” she explains when asked about maintaining a positive work/life balance, “is I have my ‘work hours’ and my ‘no-work hours.’ I make time to sit at my computer and work, and I schedule time to spend with friends and family. Create boundaries and don’t feel guilty for not always being readily available to work.” She points to some fantastic free resources one of our clients, HelloHealth, provides designed to help achieve positive work/life balance as well as the free resources Powerhouse has created.
Another work passion project Emily has discovered is working with nonprofit clients. In her time with Powerhouse so far, Emily cites working on grants for Camp Cranium as her favorite: “Being able to find grants for such a great cause really makes it worth every moment we work on the project. Being able to make an impact and help really means a lot to me.” Which may be why she says that one of her favorite things about Powerhouse is our grant library, a resource those who work for our nonprofit clients have access to in order to save on research time and streamline the grant-writing process. “Powerhouse sets you up for success at every turn,” Emily states. Still, her absolute favorite resource at Powerhouse is the people. “The women at Powerhouse are a great resource for any project and bring their past experiences and current to the table,” she says. Emily just adds to that collective knowledge.
As we always do, we asked Emily if there was anything others might not know about her that she could share. Most often, we get fun trivia or unbelievable personal history anecdotes, but Emily shared that she’s lived with a chronic condition for over 20 years, which can be extremely challenging. But after only a short time with Powerhouse, she has felt comfortable sharing her journey with us, which, she says, “has meant a lot to me.” That, right there, is exactly the kind of work culture we strive to cultivate every day, and we’re honored Emily is a part of it.
Want to know more about how Powerhouse can help your small business? Contact us today or visit our website. Want to see if you can bring your skills to our dynamic team? Check out what a Powerhouse career could look like for you.
