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Description:Position yourself for success. Start your business with the right legal, insurance and accounting advice. Learn how to finance your product or service, identify key customers and develop a marketing plan. This workshop will help jump start any new business

Topics Covered:

• Choosing the right legal entity 
• Conducting your own market research 
• Understanding accounting / taxes 
• Know your insurance / liability 
• How to meet your financing needs

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Description:
Speak to the buyers for: * Goods and Services *Construction Public Works * Consultant Services

• Find out if the City buys the type of product/service you offer 
• Learn about City bid processes for your product/service 
• See if there is a contract in place for those items, and if so, when will it be re-bid 
• Find out who you should market to 
• Get information about the Consultant Roster program and application process 
• Learn about the City’s Public Works contracting procedures 
• See how to access online plans and specifications for public works construction projects 
• Learn about opportunities through City Job Order Contracting 
• Hear about the City’s WMBE resources

Training Topics: Government Contracting
Description:
EASC/PTAC First Friday Follow-up Attend an open forum, round table for businesses to get answers from PTAC Experts. Bring your lunch & your questions regarding government contracting and learn from knowledgeable Small Business Experts.

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Description:In this seminar, we will discuss what it takes to create a career and life portfolio and then how to live it!

Topics Covered:

• Managing your career more by intention than circumstance 
• Recognizing and responding to changes in career priorities in different life stages. 
• Making the most of realizations ... such as reaching our career peak or grasping life is finite and time is very precious. 
• Overcoming fears associated with going after one's dreams. 
• Please join us for this broad-ranging and engaging session!

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Description:
Learn proven techniques to plan for higher sales, profits and cash flow. Learn how experts avoid the pitfalls that cause many new businesses to fall.

Topics covered:

• Keys to success 
• Writing your business plan 
• How to conduct market research 
• Fact-based financial projections 
• Operations planning

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Training Topics: Government Contracting

Description:
Join your Washington PTAC as we host our second annual SBIR/STTR Innovation Summit. Hear directly from Navy program managers on SBIR/STTR topics, engage with decision makers in one-on-one sessions, and learn more about these non-dilutive funding opportunities for your innovation. 

• NAVSEA SBIR Briefing with Paul Chandler, Team Ships SBIR Transition Manager
• Review of SBIR/STTR topics from Navy program managers
• Private one-on-one sessions with SBIR program manager
• Networking

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Training Topics: Government Contracting

Description:
Procurement Power Hour, sponsored by Jacobs, is a monthly program designed to connect government contractors/subcontractors with like-minded peers and procurement professionals to discuss ideas, challenges, success, and more, to advance their success in the government contracting arena. Each month's facilitated discussion will have a different focus, but any business is welcome. Attendance is free, and pre-registration is encouraged.

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Training Topics: Government Contracting

Description:
Reaching out to government contracting officers can be difficult at best. If selling to city, state or federal government agencies directly or via their prime con-tractors is a business objective of yours, this class is a must. This hands on class will include:

• Creating essential marketing tools 
• How to find opportunities 
• Exploring networking protocol

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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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Training Topics: Government Contracting

Description:
Learn how to read the RFP and respond to insure you're "in compliance". Learn what you need to include and what is just "fluff". And learn what to do if you are not successful.


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Workshop Description
Email can be a great medium for small business marketing. With a few simple tools and a knowledge of your target market, you can develop relationships with large numbers of potential (or current) customers easily. In this workshop, you'll learn an effective and commonly used method for gathering new subscribers, low-cost tools to manage your subscriber list, and several different ways to use it to build trust and loyalty with your audience. 

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Description:
Greater Seattle SCORE, Business Mentor’s, Albert “AL” Bodero and Mark Schlansky, will cover:

• 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.