(Cash Plus Money Loan) Program Gives Unlikely Entrepreneurs a Lift - Kitsap Sun (Subscription)
Walton now is the Kitsap County arm of Washington CASH, a Seattle-based nonprofit that’s been quietly been training and supporting people behind fledgling Puget Sound business startups. Like Jill Paull of Bainbridge Island, who went through the Washington CASH program and today has a successful residential and commercial cleaning business in which she uses and sells homemade “green” products she makes in her kitchen. She then took the group’s peer-support training under local business luminaries associated with the program, people like marketing expert Bill Hoke and Marsh Terry, a longtime business journalist. Full of inspiration but tired as well, she sometimes works 80-hour weeks, and her business is growing so fast she passes work on to other housecleaners, if they’ll buy and use her products, plus give her a fee. A niche waiting to be filled is a landscaping business to replace workers from South Kitsap who no longer can afford to make the trip, Walton said. Ask questions, share your knowledge, and help us get the story right - If you are aware of a factual error in a story, want to share facts or background information you know about the story, or think there are issues we should follow up on, e-mail our local news desk. Find Out More
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