Presented by: Zack Zimmerman, Senior Valuation Analyst, National Business Valuations Date: 7/21/2021 Zack has worked with SBA lenders usually involved in buying and selling businesses. He shares the three big things to know about business valuation. The three things are the earnings game, risk mitigation, and market tendencies. The earnings game is the most […]
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Presented by: Mayra Phipps, Executive Director, The John Maxwell Team Date: 7/14/2021 According to Mayra and the John Maxwell team, leadership is influence– nothing more, nothing less. Influence depends on the ability to communicate and connect with people. Anyone can make every communication situation an opportunity for a powerful connection. No matter who you
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Presented by: Mark Pettit, Business Coach, Lucemi Consulting Date: 7/7/2021 According to Mark, the benefits of having goals are that goals: help clarify the future you want provide direction and focus help you manage your time better increase your productivity provide motivation and excitement give you measurements to achieve and a dimension to reach
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Presented by: Foster McCarl, Certified Business Coach, ActionCoach Date: 6/30/2021 The DiSC is a behavior assessment tool that centers on four different behavioral or communication traits. The diSC is not who you are, it’s just how you communicate. Communication is a very important part of day-to-day operations. Identifying how you communicate, and knowing how
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Presented by: Sedale Turbovsky, CEO & Cofounder, OpenGrants Date: 6/23/2021 Sadelle Tuborski is the CEO and Co-Founder of Open Grants. Open Grants is run by an experienced and passionate team of entrepreneurs, technologists, and philosophers, with a mission to build a modern infrastructure for public funding. One of the most effective things you
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In this episode, Robert Johnstone of Wayne Media joins David Oetken of the Kentucky SBDC in Louisville to discuss the benefits that podcasting offers small businesses. If you’ve ever thought about starting your own podcast or want to know how to grow your podcast following, checkout this video! You can reach Robert at https://waynemedia.com/ or
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It’s exciting to see so many “open” signs appearing in store windows across the country. But some companies making the transition to an in-person workplace may find themselves in a short-term cash flow crunch. Even before the pandemic, the FTC raised concerns about deceptive practices related to small business financing. With many companies working to regain their
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Presented by: Marcy Young, Founder & CEO, HR Alliance Date: 6/9/2021 Employees are a crucial part of any business. One statistic that may be troubling for business owners is that 31% of employees quit their jobs before making it to the half-year mark. This level of turnover could be devastating to a small
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Presented by: Ben Salisbury, President, Creative Group Inc. Date: 6/2/2021 There are two kinds of traffic that you can come to your website: paid and organic. Paid traffic comes to your website through advertisements on platforms like Facebook and Google. Organic traffic comes to your website through unpaid means. This could be through SEO
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Presented by: Syre Klenke, Partner, Wizard of Ads Date: 5/26/2021 An expected 3 million independent ventures all over the planet use Facebook to advertise. Syre encourages business owners to start using social media not only for social purposes but for business ones. Facebook can be an incredibly beneficial marketing channel for small business owners.
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