Nov
16
Wed
SCORE: Financials for Non Financial Managers (Online)
Nov 16 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

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.

Dec
3
Sat
SCORE: Funding Your Non-Profit Organization (Online)
Dec 3 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

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
Jan
11
Wed
SCORE: Business Plan 101: How to Write a Business Plan (FREE)
Jan 11 @ 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

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.

Jan
20
Fri
SCORE: Financing Your Business
Jan 20 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

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:  

  • Initial Questions, 
  • How much money do you need, 
  • Creating financials, 
  • Qualifying for financing


Types of Financing

  • Personal Funds and Income
  • Debt Financing
  • Equity Financing
  • Government/Private Industry Financing
Feb
25
Sat
CE – Social, Local, Mobile and Email Marketing
Feb 25 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

This course will focus on the importance of local search, social media, mobile and email marketing as part of the digital marketing mix.

Mar
18
Sat
CE – Search Engine Marketing Optimization
Mar 18 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Focus on utilizing search engines to draw targeted customer traffic to a website. Employ proven Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques. Create effective mobile marketing, Pay-per-click advertising, Google AdWords, Google Analytics, and Website Copywriting.

Jul
22
Sat
CE- Accounting and Record Keeping in a Small Business
Jul 22 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Revenues, expenses, ledgers, and journals — these are the tools used in record keeping for small businesses. Learn proven methods to help you comply with reporting requirements of financial institutions and governmental agencies, such as the IRS. Class discussion will cover the selection of manual systems currently on the market.

 

 


 

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.
Feb
5
Mon
SCORE: Women-Owned Small Business Certification Info Session (Webinar)
Feb 5 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

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.

Jun
3
Mon
CE: How to Start and Operate a Small Business
Jun 3 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Starting a business can be exciting and yet challenging if you don’t know the right components to put in place. In this course you will learn what it takes to start a business, the decision making process regarding the legal entities of registering a business, the planning process when it comes to writing a business plan and marketing using the traditional route as well as social media and why knowing the financials are an important part of the process when considering starting a business.

 

 


 

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.
Jun
24
Mon
CE- How to Promote and Market Your Business
Jun 24 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Meeting and beating the competition is the ultimate game an entrepreneur must play to win. Secrets of success are covered in this course including how to gather marketing intelligence; analyze the competition; position your company and products for competitive advantage; select the channels for your sales message; create compelling messages; create brochures and other collateral; integrate direct mail with publicity, advertising, Internet, trade shows, strategic alliances and other strategies; create a sales forecast; and write a marketing plan.

 

 


 

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.