Program at FPU’s Center for Community Transformation aims to help entrepreneurs launch a business [Video]

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — An online course is aiming to make people’s dreams of starting a small business a reality.

Registration is open now for the “Launchpad” program to help entrepreneurs reach their goals.

Associate Director at Fresno Pacific University’s Center for Community Transformation (CCT), Bryan Feil, took me page by page through the Tink Construction website.

“This is some work I think he did down in Bakersfield, California,” Feil said.

He was showcasing the website built by the business’s owner, Ben Strickland.

Strickland created the website while taking the “Small Business Launchpad” course offered by CCT.

“He can put this link now on his business cards, on LinkedIn, Instagram or those types of things.”

The seven-week course is aimed at helping entrepreneurs learn tools to turn an idea into a new business or to improve an existing business.

“We talk about you and your business, your customer and your context, your message and how are you connecting with …