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Billboard Advertising

With a grant from the North Carolina Department of Commerce Division of Tourism, Film & Sports Development, New Ventures is conducting a billboard advertising campaign to promote its Olde Mill Gallery and Studios and ebizanson.org projects.

The billboard design is pictured below.

The Olde Mill Gallery and Studios, which opened May 9, 2007, is a component of the New Ventures Artisan and Business Center to drive economic development and heritage toursim for a nascent arts and crafts community in Anson County. It also uses the e-commerce site ebizanson.org to drive sales and promote the facility.

New Ventures secured billboards that fit the target demographic for Olde Mill Gallery. The billboards are at Exit 79 N. on I-77 in the Yadkin Valley, Exit 16 N. on I-77 in Charlotte near the new Northlake Mall, and on U.S. 64 W. entering Asheboro. The Olde Mill Gallery and Studios billboard advertising project will reach a cumulative equivalent circulation of 4,760,380.

New Ventures Business Development, Inc. is one of seven Business and Technology TeleCenters in North Carolina that were established under the e-NC Authority, as designated by the North Carolina General Assembly. The centers support economic development in rural counties by providing resources for new business start ups and improving existing businesses and by infusing technology into business operations. New Ventures was incorporated July 28, 2005, and is recognized as a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation by the Internal Revenue Service.

Its Artisan and Business Center, which opened in May 2007, supports arts and crafts businesses and professional and service industry businesses in the same space. Specifically, the center provides office and studio space with shared services, the Olde Mill Gallery and Studios for spurring sales and driving tourism traffic, a common and collaborative marketing plan to make the center and Anson County a heritage-tourism and entrepreneurial destination, and two e-commerce web sites, ebizanson.org and ebizunion.org, that allow the arts and crafts community and local merchants to reach markets outside their geographic boundaries. New Ventures assists virtual and real tenants with administrative services, training, and consultant services, and it monitors their progress and growth closely. The center is becoming an economic hub bringing tourism and discretionary income dollars into the area while the workforce transitions from dying agriculture and textiles industries to the new clusters driving the North Carolina economy – technology, pharmaceuticals, banking, food processing, and vehicle parts.

For more information, contact New Ventures at 704-272-5457 or online.

McNair Video

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Location

The Anson County Center is located in the South Piedmont Community College Lockhart-Taylor Center at 514 North Washington Street, Wadesboro, N.C.

Contact the center at the the Lockhart-Taylor Center at 704.272.5457.

Anson Schedule

The Anson Center currently is open Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday 9-3, and by appointment. Contact the center at 704.272.5457.

Visit the ebizanson.org and ebizunion.org sites to shop for acclaimed art and quality merchandise from local sellers.

SPCC Small Business Center maintains a resource center at the Lockhart-Taylor Center. Contact Vince Holloman at 704.694.6505.

SCORE consultants are available by appointment. Contact the NVBDI Anson Center at 704.272.5457.

Union Schedule

Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

SPCC Small Business Center staff is available by appointment. Contact Vince Holloman at 704.289.8588.

SCORE consultants are available by appointment. Contact the Union County Chamber at 704.289.4567.

Partners

South Piedmont Community College Small Business Center

SCORE, Charlotte Chapter