Peninsula Association of Small Businesses

Peninsula Association of Small Businesses The Peninsula Association of Small Businesses (The Business Hot Spot) is a Not-for-Profit 501-C6 Business Organization

The Business Hot Spot is about opportunities for small businesses: networking, marketing, and education. Basically, we want your business to be the most powerful, energetic and financially healthy in its field. We want your association with The Business Hot Spot to be something you value because it proves its value to you through increased business and increased profits.

03/23/2026

Looking for new leadership for PASB. Small business networking group for the Virginia Peninsula. Virginia non-profit business association on SCC (state annual $25 filing fee and IRS annual postcard 990 without fees for modest size). Domain included, fees for that depend on where you want to have it hosted and whether you just want emails through it or also a web page, etc. page, business hot spot tagline.
If you are interested, let me know. I will start shutting it all down in a few weeks if I don't hear anything.

11/14/2025

Things changing around here and hopefully kick things off after the holidays.

11/26/2024

Looking at starting things up in January. Monthly gatherings in places that can hose us in the evening and maybe a monthly morning coffee meeting as well. Focusing on information assistance to new businesses and networking for everyone, businesses that do business with other businesses and those wanting to get the word out about their location(s) - or show off available commercial properties - would be good candidates to host. For starters, we'll assume we need a venue large enough to host 30 people. But we will probably be pulling in 75 or so once we get going.
Preference is for a location/host motivated enough to provide beverages (non-alcoholic is fine) and medium hors d'oeuvres, We will develop an attendee pricing structure to help pay for eats and beverages and locations where there are site fees. Host/site can do a 10 minute presentation, evening gatherings will include a round of brief self introduction. More on the agenda/program for these as we get them set up. If you have locations to recommend, let us know.

04/04/2024

Still looking for meeting sites around the Peninsula. Ones that charge we will need to charge attendance to beyond the cost for some beverages and snacks.

07/18/2023

Still looking for meeting places for morning meetings. I will likely approach some commercial realtors for available spaces they might allow the groups to meet. If it's clean and has light, water and power, a tour and some coffee might be just the thing to find a tenant.

06/10/2023

Meeting locations are reopening - there have been changes, of course, in the available spaces, so we will be making a new directory of potential meeting sites and presentation topics.

12/12/2021

Hopefully opportunities to hold gatherings will improve in 2022. In the meantime we will have some business card postings. Focus will be on new businesses and support of new businesses.

12/07/2021

Still waiting for the in-person meeting situation to improve or at least stabilize. We will post some cliff notes on classic business literature soon, just for grins N giggles, since there's a library of it handy.

07/31/2021

Well, it seemed like networking in person could resume for groups, but there is still a lot of spreading going on and it includes people who have been vaccinated, so in the meantime we will search up some options for meeting locations to be prepared for things to resume and we might do some zoom networking events.

09/11/2020

Miss networking? So do we. Just because we can't gather physically doesn't mean we can't network. Welcome, folks coming over from the meet-up, feel free to introduce yourself.

04/05/2020

Time to start sharpening our skills, because when the pandemic has lost it's grip on us, there will be business to conduct. Catch up on your reading, your research, your marketing strategy - we're going to be networking.

10/30/2018

Having lenders shy away from your proposal is about as bad as having a reality show begging to document the cruel demise of your dreams and the drama that includes. If lenders are not enthusiastic, review the questions they asked AS IF those items determined the survival of your business - because they do. If the lender won't sign on, your answers point to disaster. Find your way to success by whatever pointers you can find along the way. "Your financials look wrong" doesn't mean you need to argue with people who see hundreds of business loan proposals a year - with casebooks and procedures going back a lot longer - it means that your financials - look wrong. So your team is inexperienced and/or not tied in definitively enough to your success. Individuals may not have the right experience/expertise or may have other problem on their records (yes - potential investors WILL perform background checks on your team and friends will lie about embezzlement, and other toxic items in their background, etc.) Sure this can all balance out - if you and your friends have enough cash, you can spend it all on faith in your business enterprise, but if even the sharks won't come by for a usurously seasoned taste, there is no evidence that success will happen. Something is wrong. You need a stronger team and it doesn't matter what you are doing as a business because a dilapidated hotel with too many six-figure salary people with experience in nothing related to profit won't get a loan either. That kills a lot of family businesses. What you see when you look at your financials means nothing - what everyone else sees will make or break you.

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Newport News, VA
23612

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+17573735400

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