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Essential Steps for Starting a Business (In-Person/Webinar) Plano Library
An introductory Workshop that is designed for the entrepreneur and small business owner to learn what’s really needed of them to start and run a successful business.
However, there’s a number of factors to keep in mind before starting your own business.
We’ll introduce you to key business considerations, like the myths and realities of entrepreneurship, different business options to pursue, the components of business ownership, legal & financial considerations, and business plan basics.
Discussions will include:
- the need for personal skills
- products/services
- legality
- financing & planning
- learn how committed you need to be to make the business successful
Financials for Non Financial Managers- A Veritex Sponsored Event
Come learn the terminology and put into practice what you learn. We’ll spend time working with the Income Statement and show you what it means and how it relates to the Balance Sheet. We’ll spend considerable time looking at the Cashflow statement and making sure you can create one for your future use.
A Veritex Representative, Erika Hersh, will give you a banker’s point of view and offer advise that every small business owner should know when it comes to understanding financials for your business.
Erika Hersh joined the Veritex Community Bank team in 2020. She is an SBA Lender and responsible for assisting businesses with loans up to $5MM. Prior to Veritex, Erika was the Regional Lending Manager for PeopleFund, a Community Development Financial Institution. She has extensive experience in SBA Lending, Small Business Consulting, & Business Education. Erika has been honored by Fort Worth Inc. Magazine as one of the Top 400 Most Influential People in Fort Worth for the past 3 years.  She is Chair of the Burleson Area Chamber of Commerce Power of Heels Division. Erika has a passion for helping business owners reach their full potential. Outside of the office, she enjoys volunteering her time as a counselor and spending time with family.
Funding Your Non Profit Organization
This Workshop is where you can learn how to research the various funding options that are available for your non profit organization. In addition, you’ll learn about the Fundraising laws, how to market on social platforms, and so much more! We can give some basic guidance in order to help you make your fundraising journey a success!
We will cover the following funding options:
- Funding Your Non profit
- Monetary Donations
- In-Kind Donations
- Service Fees
- Unrelated Income
- Grants & Grant Writing
Business Plan 101: How to Write a Business Plan
This is a basic introduction designed to help you get started on writing a Business Plan. We’ll introduce some of the essential elements needed to put you on the right path. This Workshop is a prerequisite to the “Advanced Business Plan Writing”. We highly recommend that you take both Workshops for creating a plan that is specific to your business.
Raising FINANCING is a key skill for all businesses including startup, growth and managing ups and downs and this session will focus on helping you prepare to get it. Some of the topics that will be covered are:
Key Business Starting Actions / Business Viability
Preparing for Financing:Â Â
- Initial Questions,Â
- How much money do you need,Â
- Creating financials,Â
- Qualifying for financing
Types of Financing
- Personal Funds and Income
- Debt Financing
- Equity Financing
- Government/Private Industry Financing
Materials, services or products offered by providers to SBDC clients are available as a resource for you to locate professionals who can assist you with business concerns. Making these sources available to you does not imply or constitute a recommendation or endorsement by the SBDC, but is only intended to be a convenience for you. You must perform your “due diligence” by interviewing the individuals or companies to determine if they meet your needs. If you do retain their services, be sure to obtain your agreement in writing: who is responsible for what; what work is to be performed; what is not included; what is the cost.
A partnership program of the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Bill Priest Campus of El Centro College, a division of the Dallas County Community College District. Funded in part through Cooperative Agreement # 9-603001-0046-22 with the U.S. Small Business Administration. All opinions, conclusions, or recommendations expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA. It is the policy of the Dallas County Community College District and Collin College that all persons have equal opportunity and access to its educational programs, services, activities, and facilities without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or ancestry, marital status, parental status, sexual orientation, disability or status as a veteran.
Reasonable accommodations will be made to those individuals with disabilities, as well as to clients with limited English proficiency, who request such accommodations in advance.
Women-Owned Small Business Certification Info Session
To level the playing field in the federal marketplace for Women Owned and Economically Disadvantaged Women Owned Small Businesses (WOSB/EDWOSB) to sell to the government, the federal government has established a 5 percent goal. In FY20, WOSB/EDWOSB businesses sold $27 billion dollars (4.85%) in federal contracts to the government. But women entrepreneurs left .15% of federal government sales opportunities on the table.
To take advantage of the benefits of being certified as a WOSB or EDWOSB, you must get certified. This information session will help you know what to do.
Nancy N. Alvarez, Supervisor Business Opportunity Specialist with the SBA Dallas/Fort Worth District Office will facilitate the workshop and will be available to answer specific questions on the certification eligibility and process.
Presented by: Nancy N. Alvarez serves as the Head of the 8(a) Business Development Program for the U.S. Small Business Administration, Dallas/Fort Worth District Office.  She is instrumental in providing leadership, management and oversight to optimize the deployment of SBA’s Federal Contracting programs and serves the small business communities within a 72 county geographical area in North Texas. As the SBA’s Women Ownership Business Representative, she is responsible for increasing participation of women owned small businesses in Federal Contracting Programs and advocates to local Federal agencies on behalf of Women Owned Small Businesses (WOSBs). Nancy graduated from Jacksonville University with a Bachelor degree in Business Administration (Magna Cum Laude). She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor.  She served on the Board of the City of Jacksonville, Mayor’s Hispanic American Advisory Board and the Mayor’s Small & Emerging Business Advisory Council.  Additionally, she served as an advisory board member in the Beaver Street Enterprise Center, Jacksonville’s first business incubator.  Nancy is currently an advisory board member of the Dallas/Fort Worth Federal Agency Small Business Advocacy Council (FASBAC), a small business professional’s forum where federal agencies share, gather, and create ideas that promote small businesses’ interest and participation in the federal marketplace.