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Family-Friendly Workplaces In Practice

SLO Public Market 3845 S Higuera St, San Luis Obispo

Insight Studio and the Family-Friendly Workplace Accelerator Program are coming together to offer a special event aimed at helping businesses increase employee recruitment, retention, overall productivity, and workplace culture. This workshop will put you face-to-face with organizations that are successfully implementing family-friendly practices including: Flexible and predictable scheduling Onsite childcare Parental leave Infants at work and lactation support Recruitment and onboarding You’ll leave the event with new ideas, resources and processes to best assess and act on your employees’ needs and interests, increase your bottom line, and enhance your reputation as a family-friendly workplace. SLO CHAMBER WEBSITE REGISTRATION

$25

Avila Beach Community Center Doggie Parade

Avila Beach Avila Beach

Avila Beach 4th of July Doggie Parade Start off your holiday celebration with a delicious pancake breakfast with your puppies in the garden of the Avila Beach Community Center, 191 San Miguel Street, from 8:30-11 am then come down to the Avila Beach Promenade for our annual Doggie Parade. All dogs must be registered to walk in the parade. They can be pre-registered by completing the registration form available on our website www.avilabeachcc.com or during the Pancake Breakfast (see separate event) from 8:30 – 10:00 am at the Community Center or at the Registration Table from 10:00 – 10:45 am on the Promenade. The Parade is held on the Avila Beach Promenade starting at the corner of San Miguel Street and the Promenade starting at 11 am. Categories for the Costume Contest are: Best Costume Best Dog/Owner Look Alike Costumes Best Theme of Avila Funniest Costume Best of Show All participants will receive a “Doggie Parade Participant Ribbon” and a delicious goodie bag of treats donated by Petco Arroyo Grande for each entrant. For more information, call 805-627-1997 or email avilabeachcc@gmail.com.   LEARN MORE

Stop Selling and Start Educating (SCORE)

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Join SCORE and small business expert and entrepreneur Ramon Ray for part 2 of the 4-part marketing series. We'll take you through the ultimate marketing essentials you will need for your business to be a success. Ramon will show you the power of educating your customer instead of trying to “sell” your customer. By educating your customer you’ll be guiding them to buy from you instead of trying to convince them. In this webinar you will learn: The importance of building an attraction to your business. How to build a lead capture system for your business. How and why to educate your customers and nurture them to a sale. How to wow your customers so they want to buy from you over and over again. ABOUT THE PRESENTER Ramon is a serial entrepreneur, keynote speaker and author of several books, including Celebrity CEO. He's the founder of SmartHustle.com. Get to know more about Ramon at www.RamonRay.com Ramon Ray Entrepreneur, Founder, Author   SCORE WEBSITE REGISTRATION

Free

Video Marketing Strategies That Generate Engagement and Leads (SCORE)

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With so many different types of cameras, audio equipment, and lighting kits, video marketing can be a complex medium to break into. Still, video can be a huge marketing tool, and without it, you will see a significant impact on your leads and income. In this webinar, business consultant, speaker, and success coach Holly Jean Jackson will show you step-by-step tried and true video strategies that generate awareness and leads. You will learn: Simple ways to produce video content How to use video to generate leads How to grow your email list ABOUT THE PRESENTER(S) Holly Jean Jackson helps business owners and entrepreneurs love their life and their business again. With over 12 years of technology and business experience, she helps business owners get their groove back physically, mentally and emotionally. Holly Jean Jackson Success Coach, Speaker, Business Consultant   SCORE WEBSITE REGISTRATION

Free

Coffee & Conversation with Kiki Wilkinson

CIE HotHouse + Zoom 872 Higuera St, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States

Kristen (Kiki) Wilkinson, will share best practices learned from her experience at Airbnb in the Learning & Development (L&D) space and why she decided to start her own business, Thrive Mind Collaborative. At Airbnb, she founded and scaled their internal Trust & Safety (T&S) training teams, programs, systems, and within a high-growth, complex, multi-level, and global environment. Now, Kiki provides Leadership Coaching services that support leaders and their teams in developing their unique Thrive MindsetTM within themselves and their programs, to cultivate sustainable and innovative success. REGISTER HERE

Ask an Expert – Retail Strategies (SCORE)

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Ask an Expert - Retail Strategies that Address Supply Chain, Automated Technology, Social Commerce and More Supply-chain, digital disruption, evolving customer expectations, retaining employees, modern marketing and inflation are just a few of the many challenges that retail owners are facing in today's times. In celebration of National Independent retail month, we have dedicated a full hour to answering any question you might have about running a retail business. Join us for a live Q&A led by retail expert Ritchie Sayner, who will address your important questions using his decades of industry knowledge. ABOUT THE PRESENTER(S) Mr. Ritchie Sayner is a SCORE mentor in the Kansas City, MO chapter offering his expertise in retailing to SCORE clients as well as in-business retailers. Ritchie Sayner SCORE Mentor, SCORE Kansas City SCORE WEBSITE REGISTRATION

Free

Ask an Expert – Rural Business Ownership

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“The economic potential of small businesses in rural America is far-reaching and has the potential to be a significant contributor to the country’s sustained economic growth.” Amazon While this may be the case, there are significant barriers entrepreneurs in rural environments face, some of which include access to capital, connectivity and labor. Join us for this hour-long session solely dedicated to answering your questions by an expert panel, including members from the USDA and SCORE Mentor Kent Adams, who specializes in assisting rural business owners. ABOUT THE PRESENTER(S) • Experienced in Agriculture and regenerative operations include water, carbon sequestration, and carbon credits. • Experienced in packaged goods marketing including OTC, Skin Care, Personal Care, and first aid. • Experienced in industrial adhesives, cleaner, and specialty chemical products direct to large users and through distribution. • Work in SCOPE 2 and SCOPE 3 carbon analysis.... Kent Adams SCORE WEBSITE REGISTRATION

Free

SLO Chamber Member Mixer

Bank of America 1102 Higuera St, San Luis Obispo, CA

Every month SLO Chamber members gather after hours to catch up, meet new members, do a bit of networking and get an inside glance at a local business. Membership Mixers happen on the third Wednesday of every month and provide an opportunity for members to get to know each other and share business contacts all in the friendly confines of a member business. A benefit to all Chamber members, these networking events provide the opportunity for the host to showcase their digs, show off what they do and maybe even boast a little about the services they offer. All members are welcome to invite a non-member as a one-time guest. The guest will be contacted at a later date about the benefits of a membership. Please see Mixer Guidelines for potential hosts. REGISTRATION

Small Business Cybersecurity (SCORE)

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Small Business Cybersecurity and Scam Defense Strategy Update for 2022-2023 As cyber threats and scams increased rapidly in the past 12 months, Trend Micro and Scamadviser experts team up to provide important updates about today's digital technology landscape and how to keep your business protected. Join this webinar to hear Mitchel Chang, Jon Clay and Jorij Abraham go into detail about: Digital transformation and its impact to cyber defenses, such as a zero-trust strategy Threat updates and an introduction to the cyber “risk” index How criminals are leveraging various technological advancements and social engineering to commit fraud and scams BROUGHT TO YOU BY Trend Micro For over 33 years, Trend Micro’s unwavering vision has been to make the world safe for exchanging digital information. This single-minded passion has inspired our innovations that keep up with the bad guys despite a changing IT landscape, riskier user behavior, and constantly evolving threats. Trend Micro Initiative for Education includes all of our community outreach efforts working to provide digital safety education and user awareness. Trend Micro Initiative for Education | Facebook | Twitter More from Trend Micro ABOUT THE PRESENTER(S) Mitchel Chang VP of Corporate Social Responsibility & Education, Trend Micro Mitchel heads Trend’s CSR and the Trend Micro Initiative for Education—bringing his […]

Free

Manufacturing: Building a Process Improvement Mindset

CIE HotHouse + Zoom 872 Higuera St, San Luis Obispo, CA, United States

In this workshop, we will cover topics related to continuous improvement and the associated Lean and Six Sigma thinking, and how they relate to both product and process design. A quick overview on some specific lean tools will also be discussed in order for many of the starting companies to envision their production and scaling up phase. Dr. Deif has a diverse portfolio in his industrial experience ranging from automotive to steel to electronic industries, and finally assembly industry at various engineering and consultancy capacities. As a lean and six sigma certified expert, Dr. Deif helped various industries in improving their production performance and conducted various lean and six sigma trainings in North America, Africa and Asia over the last 20 years. REGISTER LEARN ABOUT PART TWO

$20