SCORE: Your Credit & Your Business: What Every New Entrepreneur Must Know

Dreaming about starting a business or already launching one? Understanding your credit is one of the most important steps you can take.

Join SCORE for “Celebrating Financial Literacy: Understanding Your Business and Personal Credit,” an engaging webinar designed for entrepreneurs, dreamers, and new business owners. In this session, you will learn how personal credit impacts your ability to start, fund, and grow a business.

Financial literacy does not mean knowing everything about money. It means knowing enough to make smart decisions, avoid common mistakes, and move forward with confidence. 

During this session, you will learn how to:

Understand how personal credit affects your business opportunities

Avoid financial mistakes that can slow down your business journey

Build stronger credit and financial habits

Create a simple plan for managing debt, saving money, and planning ahead

Strengthen your financial confidence as a future or new business owner

If you are thinking about starting a business, launching a side hustle, or building your financial future, this session will give you practical tools you can start using immediately.

Take the next step toward financial confidence and business success. Register today and join SCORE for this valuable learning opportunity.

Sharon K. Harvey, Lead Outreach and Marketing Specialist, is a native of Indianapolis. Sharon joined the US Small Business Administration Indiana District Office in 2008 as the Public Information Officer and assumed the role of Economic Development Specialist in 2014. Since 2019 she has been serving all 92 counties in Indiana as the Lead Outreach and Marketing Specialist. Harvey has firsthand experience with assisting small businesses during disasters by working on disaster teams during Hurricane Gustav, Galveston, TX 2008 and Hurricane Irma and Maria, St. Croix, VI 2017. Before joining the SBA, she spent 20 years working in marketing management with an emphasis on non-traditional sales and media buying. Harvey has worked at WTHR, WXIN, WTTV, Radio One, Dorna/ANC Sports Marketing and Promotus Advertising.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in Radio & Television from Butler University with a double major in Journalism.

Sharon loves working with people, especially when she can help them solve business problems or assist in their entrepreneurial goals. 

Harvey’s motto: Let us go out and support a small business today, tomorrow, and forever!