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Book a 1-hour time slot for a 1-on-1 video call with a librarian! Learn how you can access the library’s online business resources including directories, databases with demographics, mapping tools, market and industry reports, and more. Register at www.cmlibrary.org/calendar, select “Business Development” and pick a date. You’ll be sent a zoom link for the meeting.
You have a great idea but how do you know if it can make money? You need to figure out your financials! Learn how to develop a startup budget, an income statement and calculate the break-even point. When starting it can be difficult to make assumptions and projections but this session will help to minimize the guesswork and maximize accuracy.
Speaker: Dan Gotte
Hosted by The Women’s Business Center of Charlotte.
Topic: 5 Key Steps to Starting and Designing Your Business
Are you an entrepreneur thinking of starting a business or are you already in business and not sure if you have completed all the necessary steps to be an established entity or successful business? This workshop is designed to help entrepreneurs with start-ups and established businesses to examine the feasibility of their small business idea in the current market, examine entrepreneur readiness, business plan development, entity formation, managing risk, and various ways to fund or bootstrap the business.
Speaker(s): Sonya Miller-Ray
A workshop to help start-ups and established entrepreneurs examine the feasibility of their small business idea in the current market. The discussion centers on business plan development, entity formation, managing risk, and various ways to fund or bootstrap the business.
Book a 1-hour time slot for a 1-on-1 video call with a librarian! Learn how you can access the library’s online business resources including directories, databases with demographics, mapping tools, market and industry reports, and more. Register at www.cmlibrary.org/calendar, select “Business Development” and pick a date. You’ll be sent a zoom link for the meeting.
Is Crowdfunding right for my business?
Tuesday, June 29, 5:30-7:30 pm
Crowdfunding is a new source of business funding as well as a way to get pre-sales of your products. This is a new and fast growing area that allows small businesses and average investors to get involved in an area that was previously open only to very large businesses and wealthy investors. Find out how crowdfunding works and if it is right for you. We will review and compare the five forms of crowdfunding and also compare crowdfunding to traditional methods of financing.
The methods discussed will include:
- Donation-based Crowdfunding
- Rewards-based (or Affinity) Crowdfunding
- Debt Crowdfunding
- Equity Crowdfunding
- Revenue Sharing Crowdfunding
KEY TOPICS
Accounting & Cash Flow Business Plans/Startup Assistance Financing/Capital
Registration: https://charlotte.score.org/event/crowdfunding-right-my-business-6
Don’t Miss This Official Grow With Google Marketing Webinar Designed to Grow Your Business in 2021!
Times are challenging. We want to help. SCORE Charlotte, the Southwest Region of the Small Business Center and the Union County Public Library have partnered with the official Grow With Google team to present this special marketing webinar designed to continue to grow your business in 2021.
In this workshop you will learn how to reach more customers and grow your business with Google Ads.
In this session we’ll talk about:
How to create an account and set up an ad campaign
How to write great ads, refine keywords, and include ad extensions
How to measure success
Led by Grow With Google Speaker and Trainer Demming Bass, this is a “can’t miss” webinar customized for local businesses and nonprofits including additional ideas and strategies on how to market online during and after the COVID-19 crisis.
KEY TOPICS
Marketing, Public Relations & Sales Other Technology
Book a 1-hour time slot for a 1-on-1 video call with a librarian! Learn how you can access the library’s online business resources including directories, databases with demographics, mapping tools, market and industry reports, and more. Register at www.cmlibrary.org/calendar, select “Business Development” and pick a date. You’ll be sent a zoom link for the meeting.
Developing a financially healthy nonprofit is key to creating sustainability. This webinar provides information on basic financial requirements that impact nonprofit operation. Participants will learn the stages of Nonprofit Growth & Development, board fiduciary duties, and nonprofit budgeting concepts.
So you understand what a pitch is and its necessary components. The next step is developing your unique pitch and building out a pitch deck.
Juan Garzon Headshot Speaker: Juan Garzon, Executive Director, Pitch Breakfast & Executive Director, Innovate Charlotte
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BEFCOR is a non-profit corporation providing business owners with long-term, fixed-rate financing for owner-occupied real estate and other fixed assets.
The Brian Hamilton Foundation provides free entrepreneurship education for all, whether you already own a business or want to start one.
Carolina Business Capital (formerly Centralina Development Corporation) partners with banks to finance real estate and heavy equipment for small businesses across North Carolina.
Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce (CLGBTCC) provides its members with transformational networking and educational opportunities that increase the financial, intellectual, and social capital of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender business community.
Catapult™ (formerly The Employers Association) is a trusted membership association founded on the drive, purpose and mission to serve North Carolina employers and create vital, successful workplaces.
The Charlotte Regional Business Alliance is a membership, volunteer-led organization that creates competitive advantage by growing the economy, advocating pro-business public policies and delivering innovative programs and services.
The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library offers a wide variety of resources for businesses and non-profit organizations.
The workforce development board offers services and programs to support your business’s growth potential: customized recruiting assistance, training grants for new and incumbent workers, labor market information and more.
The City of Charlotte provides business development support through a variety of services and programs.
City Startup Labs (CSL) has a mission of reimaging of African American millennials (Black Adults 18-34 yrs.) as a new class of entrepreneurs and innovators.
The Central Piedmont Corporate Learning Center provides training and development opportunities for businesses and organizations. They offer hundreds of courses and hands-on programs, all of which can be customized to meet each entrepreneur’s needs.
The Small Business Center at CPCC provides expert assistance and valuable resources to prospective and existing small business owners and non-profit organizations.
The purpose of the Latin American Chamber of Commerce of Charlotte (LACCC) is to offer a sustainable bilingual platform of programs, events and services that engages, empowers and supports both Latino and non-Latino businesses, entrepreneurs and professionals.
Mecklenburg County oversees many business license and permit processes and seeks to increase participation of MWSBE firms in the business community.
The National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA), Charlotte Chapter, a non-profit organization established in 1985, is a professional development organization serving the Charlotte community at large.
NAWBO Charlotte is a professional organization specifically designed to fuel the success of the 42,000 women-owned businesses in the greater Charlotte area.
About our Partner Prospera is an economic development, non-profit organization specialized in providing bilingual assistance… Read More
SCORE counselors and mentors are dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and small business owners start and grow successful businesses.
The nonprofit Center for Community Self-Help and its financing affiliates provide business loans and technical support to businesses throughout the Charlotte region.
The SBTDC is here to help small business owners meet the challenges of today’s business environment – manage their ever-changing world, and plan for the future of their business…
The SBA provides a variety of assistance to small businesses including loans and loan guarantees as well as counseling and training workshops – bond guarantees and business advocacy.
About our Partner The Center for Private Business at Wake Forest University is a membership… Read More
Ventureprise is a broad-based hands-on strategic effort to help high growth startups and early stage companies grow.
The Women’s Business Center provides tools and support to help women-owned businesses start and grow.
