Community Futures Huron has partnered with a company called Boomers Plus to offer the Virtual Advisor Program to businesses in the Huron Perth area.
Community Futures General Manager, Paul Nichol, explains, Boomers Plus has assembled a team of hundreds of expert consultants who have knowledge of just about every issue, challenge or opportunity a business owner is likely to face.
"So, it might be a manufacturing business or a tourism or a hospitality, any type of business, any type of issue, they will have somebody on their team that can really provide some good advice."
Nichol says the businesses simply sign up for the program and Boomers Plus matches the business owners issue with the person on their team best equipped to deal with that issue.
"So then you sign up for a series of, basically, chats, conversations, a couple of hours a month for about three months and that hopefully takes our business owners from a situation where they don't know how to deal with a situation to actually resolving the problem."
Nichol says there's no cost to the business, as the program is funded through Community Futures. He says anyone in Huron or Perth can apply and they still have a few spots left. The deadline for applications is the end of November. Anyone interested in applying can contact Tina Heathers at tina@cfhuron.ca.
