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Do you know what your purpose is? Knowing your purpose will allow you to succeed in your business. In this session, we will help you identify WHAT your purpose is, HOW it aligns with your life and business, and how YOU can utilize practical and effective strategies, strengths, and opportunities to build your business. Your purpose is the glue that makes it all stick together. It’s time to audaciously B.O.S.S. U.P.!
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.
Having challenges with understanding where to begin with your business plan, and what components are required? The Business Plan Overview session will give business owners the ability to walk-away knowledgeable of the key objectives needed for a professional plan.
What exactly is a business model? Learn how to design and develop your business idea using the world’s leading tool – the business model canvas. Instead of starting with complex business plan, the canvas will allow you to easily sketch your ideas and work to identify a profitable and repeatable model for your business. It will also help you to better communicate your idea or “pitch” it to partners, lenders, vendors or the judges of the 53 Ideas competition!
Speaker:Â LaShon Harley, Director, Durham Tech Small Business Center
En este seminario gratuito y en español vamos a cubrir los pasos necesarios para establecer mejores practicas para combatir los desafios de negocios de temporada.
Un desafÃo bien conocido que cualquier emprendedor podrÃa enfrentar es navegar por las fluctuaciones estacionales en los negocios. La clave para hacerlo con éxito implica el desarrollo de habilidades y prácticas que permitirán a la empresa seguir con éxito durante las temporadas bajas.
Esta sesión se ofrece con el apoyo de Truist y Mecklenburg County.
Para registrarse visite: https://rb.gy/x5h6yx
Is Starting a Business Right for You?
Session 1: Start-Up Basics – FREE SCORE Charlotte Workshop
This introductory workshop focuses on the Business Start-Up Basics of testing your business idea and identifying the key factors that influence start-up success. The Business Start-Up Basics Workshop provides you with an overview of the skills and tools you need when deciding to start a business.
In this session, you learn about the advantages and disadvantages of owning a business, the most profitable form for your business, and the fundamentals of formation, organization, marketing, cash flow and funding sources.
Presented by SCORE Charlotte Certified Mentors at no cost to you.
TO REGISTER, GO TO https://charlotte.score.org/content/take-workshop-249
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.
