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Developing Financial Projections for Your New Small Business

You’re starting or have started your new small business. Great!! But . . . you’re worried about what your sales will be, or if you can make a profit and how you will manage your cash flow. If you need help in any of these areas, this webinar is for you! We’ll review calculating your startup costs, projecting sales, creating a projected profit and loss statement and cashflow statement.

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10 Steps to Starting a Small Business

Starting a business involves planning, making key financial decisions, and completing a series of legal activities. Have an idea for a new business but not sure where to start? How can you tell if your idea is worth pursuing? Maybe you don’t even have an idea, but you know you want to start a business.
This webinar will help you develop a strong business idea by walking you through simple steps to determine if your idea is feasible and if not, how to make it better.
Attendees will be able to:
• Utilize market research and business planning tools to prepare their business plan
• Determine their target audience
• Identify their start-up costs and business funding needs

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How To Get certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE)

Becoming certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) is about so much more than being able to attach the colorful “women owned” logo to your business card. It’s about opening up doors to a network of thousands of other women entrepreneurs and hundreds of corporate and government partners looking to work with women-owned businesses.
This free webinar is for anyone interested in certification, whether you’re just getting to know us or are already well under way in the process. We will cover:
– Why business owners get certified, and which diversity certificate is right for you.
– Eligibility requirements.
– The process, costs, documents required and what to expect.

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Impact Business: The World of B Corps, Social Enterprises, and Impact Measurement

Impact businesses come in all shapes and sizes, from certified B Corps to social enterprises, and they also come with their own unique set of challenges.
Join us for a power-packed virtual panel discussion with three entrepreneurs who will share insights from their own journey building highly successful impact businesses in Southeast PA. We’ll hear from Jennie Groff, CEO and part-owner of Stroopies Inc., an employment-based social enterprise; Kali Gibson, Impact Consultant and social impact trainer; and Peter Barber, President and founder of Two Dudes Painting Company, a certified B Corp. Some questions we’ll cover during this Webinar:

• How can you integrate sustainability and impact in your business practices today?
• What are the benefits of being a B Corp and what’s the process of becoming certified?
• What types of social enterprise business models exist?
• What are some effective methods and tools of measuring your social or environmental impact?
• What are the unique challenges facing B Corps and social enterprises today?