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Description: 
Effective financial management is your key to small business success. Learn to read basic financial statements and concentrate on your key financial priorities. Understand how to use the cash-flow cycle to your business' advantage and utilize important benchmarks for maximizing your daily results. This class is crucial to your small business education. 

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Description:
This half-day interactive workshop focuses on the following topics that are key to learning and feeling comfortable with QuickBooks Online:

- Sales to Customers and their payments
- Purchases from Suppliers and payments to them
- Banking, Chart of Accounts and Year-end Closing
- Reporting from QuickBooks Online

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Description:Branding is what you do to help persuade customers to buy from you.

This two-hour highly interactive workshop will cover the basics that will help you emotionally connect with your customers, expand your opportunities, and build a profitable business. At the end of the workshop, you will be able to immediately use this framework to:

- Talk confidently and clearly about your work,
- Carve a niche in your crowded marketplace and attract your favorite customer,
- Deal with objections and risks with style and have your customer love you for it, and
- Design a well-crafted clear statement about how you help your customer achieve their desired goals.

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Description:
This workshop is all about using social media to benefit the small business entrepreneur. We’ll focus on the most popular social media sites, and how to navigate them as a first-time user for your business. This class is aimed towards individuals who are new to using social media platforms.

Taught by Business Impact NW's Steve Watts-Oelrich.

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Description:
You have a great idea. Perhaps you want to change the world or just your local community. You think you may want to form a non-profit organization. What is a non-profit organization? Why should you or shouldn’t you form a non-profit? Is a Non-Profit Organization the right way to accomplish your mission?

Information Covered:
- The formation of a nonprofit organization (NPO).
-Fundamentals of an effective NPO business plan, including how to create a budget.
-Identify the board, staff and volunteers needed to provide the community with the service(s) your new NPO will provide to address the community’s needs.
-The different types of funding and fund raising plans best suited for your NPO resource and financial needs.
-The legal, accounting and tax requirements to maintain your NPO’s status for both the federal and state governments.

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Description:
Attend a free, in-person orientation at our office. Learn more about King County's contracting process, effective marketing strategies, and tips for submitting successful bids and proposals. Chat with our contract specialists, sustainable purchasing manager, and our small business certification team.

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Description:
Planning is the key to business success, and it all comes together in a detailed business plan. This 3-hour workshop is designed to give you, the business owner, the skills and know-how needed to write a successful and detailed business plan, which will cover these main topics: 

- Describing your product or service
- Describing your product pricing, packaging and distribution
- Describing your marketing plan
- Describing your business operations
- Describing organization structure and management structure

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Description:This 2.5-hour workshop is designed to give you, the business owner, the financial skills and know-how needed to perform key tasks like to:

-Determine how to accurately compute the amount of funding you’ll need to start your business
- Learn how to project your future financial results realistically 

- Manage your cash flow successfully 
- Keep your accounting records properly 
- Understand what taxes you and your business will be susceptible to pay and how to pay taxes timely

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Description:Learn how to read and understand financial statements. Understand how they apply to your business situation and what the various parts of the Balance Sheet and Income Statement mean. Learn how to evaluate the financial health of your business through the analysis of the Balance Sheet and Income Statement.

Topics covered:

Finance/Accounting terminology
Why your Balance Sheet is so important
The relationship between The Balance Sheet & Income Statement
Cash & accrual methods of accounting
Taxes and your Income Statement

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Description:
In this hands-on workshop where you will write your “Unique Value Statement” for your new product or service. This is a concise description of your product or service and explain the unique value your product or service provides to your customers. As part of the workshop, you will receive real-time feedback from a SCORE mentor to help you fine tune your Value Statement.

 In the second part of the workshop you will use the “Lean Canvas” to begin the process of turning your product/service into a business. In this interactive session, you use the canvas to help guide you in expanding the information in the Unique Value Statement by capturing key ideas, concepts and strategies about your business in the canvas. This creates a basic framework that you can use to complete YOUR full, detailed business plan.

 Bring your laptop, a pencil or a pen as the goal of this workshop is for all participants to leave with a draft of their “Unique Value Statement” and “Lean Canvas.”

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Description:
This workshop will give you the skills to take those first critical steps in starting a successful business: 

- Understand the different business entities and choose the best one for your business.
- Understand how to properly license your business in Washington state.
- Select the correct insurance for your business.
- Understand the options for financing your business.

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The Government Marketplace is very competitive which makes it even more important to understand how to write a compelling proposal.
Successful firms which win public sector contracts approach proposal development using a repeatable process.
This workshop provides the strategies, techniques and tools used by successful contractors.

Learn How To:

Read an RFP/RPQ/RFB
Reposition your company
Plan your response
Set up your files
Target your response

Be prepared for an intense dive into the elements of proposal writing.

You will gain a deeper understanding of what's needed to make your business an effective competitor in the Government Marketplace. We will provide several tools to assist you with the proposal process now and in the future.
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Description:
Participants will quickly gain skills in setting up a new company and chart of accounts; recording transactions with customers, vendors and employees; managing lists; running reports and customizing them; changing forms and generating letters. **This class utilizes the desktop version of Quickbooks

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

- Start QuickBooks Pro Accounting
- Identify parts of the screen
- Set up QuickBooks
- Work with lists
- Enter sales and invoices
- Customize forms
- Enter payments, deposits, paying bills
- Work with bank accounts
- Analyze financial data
- Track and pay sales tax
- Create payroll

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Description: Featuring Keynote Breakfast, Keynote Luncheon, One-on-One Business Engagement Sessions, Round Table Discussions, and Information Sessions. (More information to follow)

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Description:
Attorney Celeste Monroe of Karr Tuttle Campbell will present:

- Developing and sharing internal policies and expectations
- Things to think about before hiring an employee
- Key laws protecting your employees
- What to know before you discipline or fire an employee

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Description: 
This workshop will give you the skills to take those first critical steps in starting a successful business:

- Understand the different business entities and choose the best one for your business.
- Understand how to properly license your business in Washington state.
- Select the correct insurance for your business.
- Understand the options for financing your business.

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Description:
Attend a free, in-person orientation at our office. Learn more about King County's contracting process, effective marketing strategies, and tips for submitting successful bids and proposals. Chat with our contract specialists, sustainable purchasing manager, and our small business certification team.

For More Information Click Here: www.kingcounty.gov/procurement 

Description:
This half-day workshop will give you the skills you need to successfully marketing your product or service and accomplish the following objectives: 

-Be able to identify customers and their needs
- Determine the correct pricing, packaging, and distribution of your product
- Create a promotional plan for your business
- Be able to sell your product
- Be able to get your business online

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Description: (Topics Covered)
- The Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of consulting
- 9 sales tips: Why people don’t hire you and how to get them to hire you on your terms
- 15 marketing strategies that pull clients to you
- Role plays and hot-seats to improve your performance
- 7 ways to achieve work-life balance —have a business and a life
- 3 keys to proposals that work
- 10 time management to increase your efficiency
- Providing value that accelerates your getting hired
- How to setup a consulting business
- Fees – why you charge too little and how to get more

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Description:
Do you want to learn how to do business with the Port of Seattle?

Come and meet Port of Seattle representatives from Diversity in Contracting and the various Division staff. Port staff will share information about our Diversity in Contracting Program and the Port’s divisions focusing their goals while providing an overview for his or her division. Attendees will also learn about the women and/ or minority enterprise goals for each division and upcoming contracting opportunities.

You may also have an opportunity to network.

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Description:
Each year, the Chamber focuses on a business topic or industry segment at an annual summit of business leaders. Chamber members have identified finding funds and securing loans as the #3 challenge to growth. The 2019 Summit will address Access to Capital for businesses with a series of presentations and how-to sessions.

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