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Learn How to Grow Your Business and Skills with these 5 webinars

What’s up Boss Squad?

We know growing a small business is a full-time job, so we wanted to share with you some webinars you can attend this month to learn how to do it.

Title: A Basic QuickBooks Guide for Small Business Owners
Date: April 16, 2024
Time: 1:00 pm EDT

If you’re a small business owner, chances are you’ve heard about QuickBooks. That’s because QuickBooks is the most popular accounting software on the market.

In this webinar, our expert presenter will walk you through the basic features of QuickBooks and explain how to use it to streamline your financial management. Whether you’re new to QuickBooks or looking to enhance your exisiting skills, this webinar provided practical strategies to manage your business finances with QuickBooks effectively.

Learning objectives:

How to get started with QuickBooks
How to track your sales and expenses
How to pull reports
How to create invoices

This event will be presented by Phyllis Johnson, owner and CEO of PKJ Consulting in 2015. PKJ Consulting is an accounting and consulting services company for small businesses that provides accounting, bookkeeping, consulting, taxes, payroll, and startup services.

You can register for the event here.

Title: Summer Hiring – Compliance Considerations and Tips for Success
Date: April 18, 2024
Time: 1:00 pm EDT

Experiencing an increase in demand during the summer can be exciting for small business owners, but finding the right hire to meet the demand can be challenging.

In this webinar, we’ll dive into the fundamentals of hiring a seasonal worker and the strategies you can use to hire the right employee fast while staying compliant with regulations. From posting job listings to on the job training, we’ll cover everything you need to know about the hiring process.

Learning objectives:

How and where to put your job postings
What new hire paperwork do you need
What to consider when determining wages
The different types of employee classification
What to consider when training your employee

The presenter for this event is Meryl Gutterman. Gutterman advises on ADP’s HR solutions relating to workplace policies, HR best practices and new laws and regulations impacting ADP’s clients.

You can register for the event here.

Title: Accelerate Business Growth with the Help of AI
Date: April 30, 2024
Time: 11:00 am EDT

On top of all that small business owners and entrepreneurs balance daily, continuing to grow their businesses can be even harder when access to funding seems scarce and new fraud risks have emerged. Enter AI.

Visa has invited a roundtable of experts to explore how business owners can harness the power of AI to help not only protect against fraud but also help find new funding opportunities.

Cosponsorship Authorization #24-1-C. SBA’s participation in this Cosponsored Activity does not endorse the views, opinions, products, or services of any Sponsor or other person or entity. All SBA programs and services are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis.

The presenters for the event will include Mark Madrid, Mike Lee, Alex Burgin, and Kristopher Stuart.

Madrid is the Associate Administrator for the Office of Entrepreneurial Development (OED) at the U.S. Small Business Administration. In this role, Madrid will lead the OED, which is the SBA’s technical assistance arm with a national resource network including Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs), Women’s Business Centers (WBCs), SCORE, and the Office of Entrepreneurship Education.

Lee is CEO and co-founder of Fundica. He has been helping SMBs with government funding support for over 15 years.

Burgin is Vice President at Visa’s Authorize.net and is responsible for Authorize.net revenue.

Stuart is the Chief Operations Officer at Bloomin’ Binds, managing the strategic and operational aspects of Bloomin’ Blind’s expanding franchise network, which has grown from 3 to 60 locations since 2014.

You can register for the event here.

Title: Securing Your Small Business in a Work-From-Anywhere World
Date: April 30, 2024
Time: 11:45 am EDT

Rapid digitalization and heightened security risks demand a multi-faceted approach. Learn how to protect your organization’s data and minimize risks while supporting work-from-anywhere.

Specific topic areas covered in this session will include:

-Wi-Fi protection and secure 5G connectivity

– How to secure data and devices

– Identifying and mitigating the security challenges of hybrid work

– How to defend against cyberattacks

Cosponsorship Authorization #24-1-C. SBA’s participation in this Cosponsored Activity is not an endorsement of the views, opinions, products or services of any Cosponsor or other person or entity. All SBA programs and services are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis.

The presenters are Vinod Sundarraj and Craig Ward. Sundarraj is T-Mobile for Business’s Senior Director of Product Management. He is responsible for the development of a portfolio of industry-leading solutions around Modern Communications and Secure Connectivity for SMB, Enterprise, Education, State/Local Governments, and Federal Government customers.

Ward is the Director of Solutions Engineering at T-Mobile for Business; his organization is focused on providing World-Class Un-Carrier solutions and support to current and future customers.

You can register for the event here.

Title: Learn About the No-Cost SBA T.H.R.I.V.E. Educational Program
Date: April 30, 2024
Time: 1:00 pm EDT

SBA T.H.R.I.V.E. (Train. Hope. Rise. Innovate. Venture. Elevate.) Emerging Leaders Reimagined offers U.S. small business owners at least one employee, $250,000 or more in annual gross revenue and have been in existence at least three years, the opportunity to learn timely and valuable skills in business management, business development and adminstration.

Over the course of the over 30 hours of online learning, and 8, four-hour in-person discussions with dedicated business coaches and small business owner peers, T.H.R.I.V.E. participants receive guidance on topics such as business leadership and planning, financial documents, human resources, and company culture, marketing strategies, sales tactics, and legal compliance.

Since its inception, the program has empowered over 8,000 alumni, which have created more than 11,000 jobs, generated over $1 billion in new financing, and secured over $4 billion in new government contracts.

We invite you to learn more about this no-cost program, qualifications, learning goals, and-most importantly-success testimonies from T.H.R.I.V.E. Additionally, the SBA T.H.R.I.V.E. team will preview the experience, timeframes and what to expect from the program.

Cosponsorship Authoirization #24-1C. SBA’s particpation in this Cosponsored Activity is not an endorsement of the views, opinions, products or services of any Cosponsor or other person or entity. All SBA programs and services are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis.

The presenter is Todd Smith. Smith is an entrepreneur from Los Angeles and founder of Dubb Hubb Marketing Group LLC.

You can register for this event here.

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