Simple Steps for Growing Your Business

The Simple Steps for Growing Your Business workshops are designed for entrepreneurs who are already in business (1-2 years and up) and need additional education and assistance in the workshop subject area.

These workshops are meant to be taken as standalone workshops, focused on education and knowledge development in specific business process areas. If you want information on how to improve your business in these areas, please sign up today!
 

Introductory Workshop Video

 
This introductory workshop is a FREE online video that will give you an overview of the Simple Steps for Growing Your Business Workshop program.
 

If you are an entrepreneur already in business, attending one or more of the offered workshops will help you formulate new goals that you can use to begin improving your business performance.

We suggest that you view this introductory workshop video and then download the Business Needs Assessment and begin your self-assessment of your business to determine which workshops woudl offer you the highest value!.  Click on the titles immediately below:

Workshop - Business Assessment and Goal Setting (Video)

Download the Self-Assessment tool

You may sign up for any or all of the Simple Steps for Growing Your Business Workshops on the Workshops and Events tab.

If you would like a SCORE mentor assigned to help you with the Business Assessment before you take any of the other workshops, you may sign up for one on the Mentoring tab, above.

 

 

Marketing Your Business

The topics covered include:
  • Identifying your marketing goals
  • Evaluating your marketing options
  • Using social media
  • Online marketing methods
  • Public relations strategies
  • Effective advertising methods
  • Retaining customers
 

Growing Your Sales

 
The topics covered include:
  • Effective distribution channels
  • Evaluating your sales process
  • Who should be on your sales team
  • Strategies to motivate your sales team
  • Benchmarking to your sales
  • Introduction to Sales and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools
 

Managing Operations

 
The topics covered include:
  •  Adjusting operations to achieve company goals
  • Identifying, managing and measuring critical processes and operations
  •  Preparing for growth
  •  Key performance indicators (KPIs) for measuring success
  •  How dashboards can help you monitor your company performance
 

Financial Management

 
The topics covered include:
  • Reading and using financial statements
  • How to measure your company’s
    financial health
  • Basics of cost accounting
  • Business risk and how to manage it
  • Using cash flow forecasts
  • Options for funding growth
 

Managing Your Time and People Resources

 
The topics covered include:
  • Assessing your Human Resource (HR) needs
  • Understanding good hiring practices to follow
  • Low-cost ideas for training employees
  • Strategies for motivating employees
  • Knowing when to hire outside professionals
  • Managing your time more effectively