GREAT FLORIDA BANK 
By 305-756-2305 bmersel@greatfloridabank.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:GREAT FLORIDA BANK HOSTS SMALL BUSINESS BOOT CAMPHoliday Readiness Boot Camp at Great Florida Bank’s North Miami Solution Center
MIAMI LAKES, FL (October 11, 2011) – Great Florida Bank recently hosted South Florida Urban Ministries’ (SFUM) ASSETS Program Holiday Readiness Boot Camp for small business owners at its North Miami Solution Center.
SFUM is a non-profit organization that empowers people to move from poverty to prosperity through holistic youth development, small business development and hunger relief ministries in South Florida. The ASSETS program provides a broad range of business advisory services to help small business owners overcome a variety of challenges and achieve new levels of growth.
“We are extremely grateful to Great Florida Bank for hosting this event,” said Wayne Johnson of the ASSETS Program. “In these tough economic times, small businesses need all the help they
can get, and this boot camp is a great way to show small business owners how to improve their
business practices.”
Topics of the Boot Camp Program included:
o How to Improve Marketing and Client Relationships
o How to Hire New Team Members
o How to Setup QuickBooks Accounting System
o How to Get a Small Business Loan
Great Florida Bank works with non-profit organizations in South Florida focused on serving the needs of minority-owned small businesses, and low-to-moderate income neighborhoods and enhancing the overall quality of life in each community and accessibility to financial advice, products and services.
“Many small business owners are still reeling from the economic downturn and we are always looking for ways to help them,” said Mirian Vidal, Market Lead at Great Florida Bank. “Although this is the first time GFB has hosted this type of event, we are definitely planning more in the near future. Our ultimate goal is to be the corporate citizen of choice in the markets we serve.”
Great Florida Bank, headquartered in Miami Lakes, Florida was established on June 30, 2004 as a state-charted commercial bank. The Bank operates twenty-six (26) Solution Centers throughout Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Great Florida Bank is committed to providing ideas and solutions to its customers' financial needs by conveniently delivering personalized, state-of-the-art products and services, such as GFB Mobile Banking for individual consumers and cash management clients and GFB Remote Deposit Capture for business customers, all in a relaxed environment. For more information, visit www.greatfloridabank.com, or call 305-514-6900, (toll-free 866). Member FDIC.
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