Business Briefs

SCORE, Counselors to America's Small Business and a resource partner of the United States Small Business Administration, has joined together with Web Alliance International Inc. to produce a seminar that shows small businesses how to generate significant economic results from a Web site. Sovereign Bank, a strong supporter of small business, is the sponsor of this seminar.

Tom Forgione, president of the Web Alliance International Inc., will address a range of topics during the seminar. These include how to sell products and services on a Web site, increasing Web site traffic using traditional and Web marketing techniques, targeting the right customers, important features of a Web site needed to keep customers coming back, and more.

The seminar will be held March 27, 6:30-9:30 p.m., at the Quality Inn, 815 Route 37 west, Toms River. The registration fee is $40 in advance or $45 at the door. by March 20. Details: (732) 505-6033 or www.oceancountyscore.org.

The Ocean County Library, the American Library Association and Woman's Day magazine want to know how people in our community have used the library to start their small businesses. Every year more than 500,000 entrepreneurs start new businesses in the United States and many get the resources and support it takes to succeed at their local library. From now until May 10, women entrepreneurs over the age of 18 can tell their story in 700 words or less to womansday@ala.org. Four stories will be featured in the March 2008 issue of Woman's Day. The initiative is part of a program sponsored by Woman's Day magazine and the American Library Association's Campaign for America's Libraries, a multi-year public awareness and advocacy campaign designed to promote the value of libraries and librarians in the 21st century. Ocean County Library is the largest public library system in New Jersey, with 21 locations throughout the county. Ocean County Library's Web site, www.oceancountylibrary.org, offers its customers information that is accessible from home or business. Electronic resources provide up-to-the-minute stock prices and business information along with national business directories, links to trade associations and much more.

WoW! Work Out World, a family owned and operated chain of health clubs started out with one club in 1993 and has successfully grown to a total of 45 licensed and family owned locations over the past decade. The Roma family, who own and operate nine WoW! Work Out World health clubs in New Jersey, with their main office in Brick, have announced the opening of four additional licensed locations in Japan. WoW! Licensee, Hideoshi Masuda opened his 21st, 22nd and 23rd locations in Moriokaminami, Japan in September of 2006 and Takatsuki, Japan in December 2006.