SCORE Offers Small Business Help with These April Workshops
SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties is announcing free April SCORE webinars to help small business owners.
Live In-Person Event
Starting a Small Business From Vision to Execution
Join business attorney Joe Greco on April 16, from 6 to 7:30 PM, at the Haverford Community Recreation and Environmental Center as he discusses issues to think about when starting and operating a small business.
Get your questions answered and hear Joe Greco’s insights on these important topics:
- The 8-Step Legal Checklist of Success
- Selecting a business organizational structure (and tax classification)
- LLCs, C-Corps, and Partnership considerations
- Operating agreements/bylaws
- Choosing a state of domicile
- Trademarking and intellectual property
- New Corporate Transparency Act requirements
- Hiring employees vs independent contractors
- Other related topics, as time permits.
This program is being presented in partnership with Discover Haverford.
About the Presenter
Attorney Joe Greco, a Widener Law School graduate specializing in business law, aids entrepreneurs in realizing their visions. He offers expertise in entity formation, contracts, trademarks, and more, serving startups to established businesses. Through collaborative legal planning, he’s fostered success across various industries in Philadelphia, championing the entrepreneurial spirit.
Online Free Webinars
Driving Traffic to Your Website: Tips, Tricks & Strategies
To get people to come to your website you have to pro-actively market it. Learn ways to promote your small business site at this April 11 live event webinar from 6:30 to 7:30 PM.
By the end of this webinar, you will have a better understanding of website traffic and its different types, core marketing strategies that drive website traffic, and how the use of machine learning and website technology can impact your traffic.
This session will be presented by Cary Baskin, a SCORE Chester & Delaware Counties volunteer and owner of the Marketing Department in Malvern.
How to Manage Your Debt – Strategies for Financial Health and Growth
Whether you’re just starting your business journey or looking to optimize your current financial strategy, this April 11 webinar at 1 PM is designed to help you manage and navigate your business debt to achieve financial stability and foster business growth.
In this interactive session, SCORE mentor Juliana Ramirez will provide practical tips, strategies, and best practices for handling small business debt, empowering you to make informed financial decisions and thrive in today’s competitive landscape.
Key Topics Covered:
- Understanding the different types of business debt
- Creating a debt management plan tailored to your business needs
- Strategies for improving cash flow and minimizing debt burden
- Building a solid financial foundation for long-term success
Live attendees will receive free business resources and a link to this webinar recording.
Creating a Quick Business Plan
You have a great business idea, but what is the next step? How do you turn your idea into a great product or service?
In this April 11 Noon 90-minute webinar, learn how to write your “Value Proposition” and use the “Lean Canvas” to capture key ideas, concepts and strategies about your business. When you leave the webinar, you’ll be able to draft your own one-page business plan.
All registrants will receive access to webinar materials in advance, and link to the recorded webinar after the live event.
This webinar is part of SCORE’s Small Business Essentials (SBE) Webinar Series. The series is designed to prepare anyone who is considering starting a business to make the decisions and plans you need to successfully launch your business. All webinars are taught by experienced certified SCORE Mentors.
This month’s Creating a Quick Business Plan webinar is sponsored by Visions Federal Credit Union.
About the Presenter
Kristin Sharpe founded, grew and subsequently sold an IT professional services firm with a nationwide presence. As a SCORE Certified Mentor, Kristin helps small businesses with planning, sales and marketing, finances, business growth, and exit strategies.
Setting Up a New Business Entity
If you’re grappling with questions about business registration, legal structures, and insurance needs, this April 12 12 to 1:30 PM webinar equips you with essential knowledge to ensure your business operates legally and guides you through the crucial initial steps.
All registrants will receive access to webinar materials in advance, and a link to the recorded webinar after the live event.
This webinar is part of SCORE’s Small Business Essentials (SBE) Webinar Series. The series is designed to prepare anyone who is considering starting a business to make the decisions and plans you need to successfully launch your business.
All webinars are taught by experienced certified SCORE Mentors.
About the Presenter
Cornel Mhley is a retired Certified Public Accountant with 40 years of experience. His primary responsibilities on behalf of small business clients have included the satisfactory completion of accounting and tax compliance and planning, and the handling of inquiries from federal and state regulatory agencies.
How to Secure Grant Funding
Grants are an important funding source for small businesses. By leveraging grants, small businesses can access capital and stimulate growth while reducing the burden of traditional financing methods.
In this April 16, Noon 90-minute webinar, certified grant writer Lauren Frary will explain the grant writing process and strategies on how to best win grants.
You will learn:
- The four phases of grant proposal writing and the key elements for each phase.
- About the various funding resources and how to find the best match for your organization.
- Key elements to a grant proposal narrative that will outline your company’s unique qualifications.
- How engagement, cultivation and stewardship with donors will help enhance funding opportunities.
Hosted by SCORE Northeast NJ.
About the Presenter
Lauren Frary joined SAX in 2022 as the Director of Strategic Business Transformation, where she lends her 35 years of experience to provide consultative services to nonprofits in all areas and for all levels of an organization. This includes but is not limited to Board Development, Governance, Leadership, Fundraising, Programs, Strategic Planning, Disaster Management, and team building.
In her role at Sax, Lauren takes a comprehensive approach to supporting organizations in the nonprofit sector to develop goals and objectives to improve overall functioning and processes.
Marketing Part 1: Developing Your Marketing Plan
Many entrepreneurs create products or services they can’t sell no matter how hard they work. It doesn’t have to be this way.
This April 17 Noon 90-minute webinar will help you build a roadmap you can use to identify your ideal clients and discover a value proposition that will set you above your competition.
The webinar will explain how to conduct a competitor analysis. Plus, it will review different pricing strategies and show the impact of pricing on profits.
This webinar sets the stage for the next webinar in the Small Business Essentials series, Marketing Part 2: Promoting Your Business.
All registrants will receive access to webinar materials in advance, and link to the recorded webinar after the live event.
This webinar is part of SCORE’s Small Business Essentials (SBE) Webinar Series. The series is designed to prepare anyone who is considering starting a business to make the decisions and plans you need to successfully launch your business. All webinars are taught by experienced certified SCORE Mentors.
About the Presenter
Christopher A. Taylor enjoyed a 40+ year career in the insurance industry in a variety of leadership, strategic, and management roles, retiring from Zurich as Head of Healthcare and Financial Institutions.
Marketing Part 2: Promoting Your Business
You’ve developed a wonderful new product or service and now you need to get customers to buy it!
In this April 18 Noon 90-minute webinar we’ll walk through the most common promotional methods used by entrepreneurs, including networking, referrals, social media, content marketing, email marketing and search engine optimization (SEO).
This webinar will help you decide how you can best reach your targeted customers and show you how to create your next promotional plan.
While not required, to get the most out of this webinar, please consider attending “Marketing Part 1: Developing Your Marketing Plan” first.
All registrants will receive access to webinar materials in advance, and link to the recorded webinar after the live event.
This webinar is part of SCORE’s Small Business Essentials (SBE) Webinar Series. The series is designed to prepare anyone who is considering starting a business to make the decisions and plans you need to successfully launch your business.
All webinars are taught by experienced certified SCORE Mentors.
About the Presenter
Kristin Sharpe founded, grew and subsequently sold an IT professional services firm with a nationwide presence. As a SCORE Certified Mentor, Kristin helps small businesses with planning, sales and marketing, finances, business growth, and exit strategies.
Summer Hiring – Compliance Considerations and Tips for Success
Experiencing an increase in demand during the summer can be exciting for small business owners, but finding the right hire to meet that demand can be challenging.
In this April 18, 1 PM webinar, participants will dive into the fundamentals of hiring a seasonal worker and the strategies you can use to hire the right employee fast while staying compliant with regulations.
From posting job listings to on the job training, we’ll cover everything you need to know about the hiring process.
Learning objectives:
- How and where to put your job postings
- What new hire paperwork do you need
- What to consider when determining Wages
- The different types of employee classification
- What to consider when training your employee
Live attendees will receive free business resources and a link to this webinar recording.
How To Use Local SEO to Build Your Online Presence
Download the webinar presentation. (Available 12 hours to 24 hours before the webinar)
In this free April 23 Noon 90-minute webinar, learn how to how to use local SEO (Search Engine Optimization) strategies to build your online presence. Online marketing strategist and impact influencer Jimmy Newson will explain what local SEO is, why you need it, and how to use local SEO strategies drive results.
He will cover:
- Google Business Profile
- Keyword research and content optimization
- Link building
- Citations, managing reviews and ratings, and more
About the Presenter
Jimmy Newson is the founder and CEO of Moving Forward Small Business, a membership-based digital publishing company on a mission to save a million small businesses from failure by 2050, leveraging technology, innovation, and business strategy. He is also the senior advisor for the New York Marketing Association.
How to Start a Successful Food Business
Download the webinar presentation. (Available 12 hours to 24 hours before the webinar)
Whether you want to launch a food truck, open a restaurant, be a personal chef or caterer, manufacture food products or start a ghost kitchen, there are many factors to consider when starting out.
In this April 24 Noon 90-minute webinar, an expert presenter will take you through the essential steps and things to consider when starting a food business.
You’ll learn:
- The details people overlook
- Affordable ways to start
- Licensing and other regulatory matters to consider
- Why starting small and building up might be the strategy for you
Hosted by SCORE Washington DC.
Developing Financial Projections for Your New Small Business
You’re starting or have started your new small business. Great!! But . . . you’re worried about what your sales will be, or if you can make a profit and how you will manage your cash flow. If you need help in any of these areas, this webinar is for you!
In this April 25 Noon 90-minute webinar, participants will review calculating your startup costs, projecting sales, creating a projected profit and loss statement and cashflow statement.
All registrants will receive access to webinar materials in advance, and link to the recorded webinar after the live event.
This webinar is part of SCORE’s Small Business Essentials (SBE) Webinar Series. The series is designed to prepare anyone who is considering starting a business to make the decisions and plans you need to successfully launch your business. All webinars are taught by experienced certified SCORE Mentors.
This month’s Developing Financial Projections for Your New Small Business webinar is sponsored by Visions Federal Credit Union.
About the Presenter
Cornel Mhley is a retired Certified Public Accountant with 40 years of experience. Cornel’s primary responsibilities on behalf of small business clients have included the satisfactory completion of accounting and tax compliance and planning, and the handling of inquiries from federal and state regulatory agencies.
Running a Nonprofit Like a Business
Download the webinar presentation. (Available 12 hours to 24 hours before the webinar)
A nonprofit is an actual business and needs to be managed like one. This includes all the normal financial, operational, sales (fundraising) and regulatory issues that all small organizations deal with, especially striving to break even on revenue and expenses. If not, over a period of time, the nonprofit runs the risk of using up its assets and going out of business and with it, its mission.
In this April 30 Noon 90-minute webinar, for both new and existing small profits, learn the fundamentals of running a nonprofit like a business to help your nonprofit fulfill its mission.
Topics covered include:
- Governance, Boards and Annual Reports (990’s)
- Financial and management reporting
- Taxes, compliance and other regulatory matters
- Fundraising
- Volunteers vs staff
About the Presenters
Joseph Lutes spent his entire 45-year career on the financial side of the business.
Fred Weinhold’s initial career in the federal government and TVA focused on developing new energy technologies and related government policies.
About SCORE
SCORE is the nation’s largest network of volunteer business experts. It is dedicated to helping small businesses get off the ground, grow, and achieve their goals with a variety of SCORE New Year tools like webinars and workshops.
Make a difference as a SCORE volunteer.
Since 1964, it has provided education and mentorship to more than 11 million entrepreneurs nationwide.
SCORE Chester and Delaware Counties has been operating since 1985. It has 100 dedicated volunteers today. They provide confidential mentoring at no charge. They offer business seminars, workshops, and SCORE webinars to benefit the local community.
SCORE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and a resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
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