Self-Employment Support
Self-employment can provide an opportunity to build work around your strengths, interests, skills, and individual needs. Living Waters Enterprises provides individualized support to help people with disabilities explore business ideas, evaluate feasibility, develop practical business plans, and take steps toward creating sustainable self-employment.
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Support may be provided in coordination with Vocational Rehabilitation and other referring agencies, or through individualized consulting services.
How We Can Help
​Business Exploration & Feasibility
​Explore whether self-employment is a good fit for your goals, strengths, interests, and circumstances. Support may include developing a business concept, identifying potential customers, researching competitors, estimating startup needs, and evaluating whether the idea has the potential to become a sustainable business.
Business Setup & Hands-On Training
​Get practical help setting up the tools and systems needed to operate your business — with individualized instruction so you can learn to manage them yourself. Support may include website and e-commerce setup, learning to update and maintain your website, bookkeeping system setup and training, payment processing, business email, digital tools, and basic business recordkeeping.
​Business Planning & Development
Turn your business idea into a practical plan. Assistance may include developing a business plan, defining products or services, identifying target customers, developing pricing and revenue strategies, estimating expenses, and planning how the business will operate.
Marketing, Operations & Ongoing Support
Build the systems and strategies needed to reach customers and keep your business moving forward. Support may include marketing and promotional materials, online presence, e-commerce support, operational processes, reviewing business progress, troubleshooting challenges, and making adjustments as the business grows.
What Our Clients Say
Vanessa, Business Owner
I honestly don't think that I could have started my business without their support. It was overwhelming to start with, and they simplified things to the point that I began to believe it was possible. It would have taken me a year to figure out how to get everything set up myself, but with their help I was operational in just a couple months."