Our QuickBooks Po Advisor will teach you: Chart of Accounts Reconciling Credit Card Statements Customer Bids New SKUs & Price Levels and Advanced Features like: Payments & Deposits Analyzing Financial Reports Inventory Sales Tax Payroll
Paul Edmondson is a Cal Poly graduate and one of the three co-founders of HubPages. After working as an intern with Hewlett Packard, Paul began to work as part of the executive team with Mongo Music, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2000 to form MSN Music. In 2005, he launched a Search Engine Optimization service, which ultimately helped evolve the idea for HubPages. Paul will be talking about how to restart a business to grow it back to success after a downturn or difficult stage of development.
Multiple local SLO County service providers have come together to host a fantastic free hands-on workshop in Atascadero, open to the whole small business community! You'll first hear an intro to the numerous non-profit agencies that provide consulting services to local small businesses. Next, we will jump into Google's Put Your Business on the Map mini workshop, followed by an info session on Yelp for businesses, hosted by SLO County Yelp Ambassador Luke Williams. The last hour of the session will be dedicated to putting this all into practice, and consultants will assist attendees in updating their Google and Yelp profiles. Please bring a laptop, if you're able to stay for the hands-on implementation portion of the workshop. Lunch is provided. Event is free.
Multiple local SLO County service providers and the Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce have come together to host a fantastic free hands-on workshop in Morro Bay, open to the whole small business community! You’ll first hear an intro to the numerous non-profit agencies that provide consulting services to local small businesses. Next, we will jump into Google’s Put Your Business on the Map mini workshop, followed by an info session on Yelp for businesses, hosted by SLO County Yelp Ambassador Luke Williams. The last hour of the session will be dedicated to putting this all into practice, and consultants will assist attendees in updating their Google and Yelp profiles. Please bring a laptop, if you’re able to stay for the hands-on implementation portion of the workshop. Event is free.
Don't miss this fantastic small-group workshop in Arroyo Grande brought to you by the Cal Poly CIE Small Business Development Center (SBDC) and the Arroyo Grande Chamber of Commerce! You'll learn all of the in's and out's of Quickbooks for Desktop in this one-day session! Our certified QuickBooks Po Advisor will teach you: Chart of Accounts Reconciling Credit Card Statements Customer Bids New SKUs & Price Levels and Advanced Features like: Payments & Deposits Analyzing Financial Reports Inventory Sales Tax Payroll We will provide you with lunch and a laptop to utilize!
Another coffee shop in SLO? Yes, we can! How to Be Successful in a Crowded Market with Scout Coffee owners Jon and Sara Peterson. Jon and Sara Peterson, owners and operators of Scout Coffee, have spent the last 10 years exploring and thriving in the coffee industry. Their background would impress anyone: Jon was the Marketing Director for Verve Coffee Roasters and Sara the Director of Retail Operations and was the top-ranked female barista in the country. Come hear their story of how they managed to bring another coffee shop to the wildly saturated downtown San Luis Obispo, and make their business boom and expand into another new location.
Learn how to launch your very own crowdfunding campaign! Bill Trammel has gotten the crowdfunding model down to a science. Come learn from him as he walks you through all the elements of a successful campaign including: • Choosing your goal • Building an audience • Carefully crafting your pitch • Creating rewards ***Beginner to Intermediate Level Workshop***
An Emerging Strategy to Grow Your IRA: Private Placement Startups Want to help support innovative startups? Have IRA funds you want to maximize? Investors can learn how to do both by attending Coffee & Conversation at the SLO HotHouse on November 16, held by the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CIE) and The Entrust Group. Learn about emerging strategies for funding startups. Munzer Ghosheh, Regional Business Development Manager at The Entrust Group, will explain how to use certain pension plans such as IRAs as a funding source for startups. Free coffee is always included, along with plenty of time for Q&A.
