Video contest will showcase
successful small businesses; Winning videos to be highlighted during National Small
Business Week
WASHINGTON –
Do you have a small business story to
tell? Every business has one. Tell your story to the SBA and your video
may appear at National Small Business Week, SBA’s marquee event that
attracts hundreds of small business owners, Fortune 500 company executives,
Members of Congress and Obama Administration officials.
In celebration of National Small Business Week 2012, SBA is looking for creative videos from small businesses that show how they have been helped by an SBA program or service. The contest will raise awareness of the importance of SBA programs, and the impact the small businesses that use them have in their local communities.
Three winning
videos will also be shown during a Google+ Hangout hosted by the SBA and the
White House with SBA Administrator Karen Mills on May 24. The winners can also
participate in the event with Administrator Mills, while she answers questions
from small businesses around the country. All qualifying videos will be
showcased on SBA’s YouTube page.
Contestants can
enter the contest by producing an original video, two minutes or less, that
shares their story. The list of Contest Rules provides additional details on required video
content. All eligible videos will be judged by SBA senior officials on the
inspirational nature of the message and the creativity or uniqueness of the
video concept.
Videos will
feature small business owners from across the country discussing the SBA
assistance the company received, the most rewarding aspects of starting a
business and how the SBA assistance benefited the business and the local
community. Small businesses may have received SBA business counseling,
SBA-guaranteed financing or SBA disaster assistance or participated in a SBA
contracting program or in SBA’s online community.
The videos can be
submitted through Challenge.gov from 12pm EDT April 16 through 5pm May 11. The
contest offers the opportunity to celebrate entrepreneurship and hear directly
from small business owners how SBA has helped them grow and create jobs.
For more
information on the Small Business Week Video Contest, visit http://smallbizvid.challenge.gov
SBA Says: Tell Us Your Story!
Video contest will showcase successful small
businesses; Winning videos to be highlighting during National Small Business
Week
Release
Date: April 16,
2012
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Contact: Hayley Meadvin (202) 205-6948
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Release
Number:
12-15
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