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Mentors to help you keep your cool
While your competition takes a vacation, you're working hard, sweating to make a profit. SCORE is right there with mentors and content to help you keep your cool.
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Time Management for Small Business
Thursday, July 14, 2016, 8:30am-10:30am Fee: $29 Location: Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce (150 State Street downtown Rochester)
This 2 hour program will give you an easy to implement, hands-on, proven way to identify all of your daily tasks, rank them in priority order, delegate where necessary, and lead you to a far more efficient control of your life and work.
Blogging 101 for Business Monday, August 22, 2016 5:00pm-7:00pm Fee: $29 Location: Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce (150 State Street downtown Rochester)
As a small business, an important part of your marketing strategy should be the creation of content to share with your audience on social channels.
If this content is useful, your community will more than likely freely and gladly bookmark it, download it, and pass it along to others. This workshop will provide important information on how you can begin blogging about your small business.
Small Business Start-Up & Survival - Location Greece 5 Consecutive Tuesday nights, October 4, 11, 18, 25 & November 1
Location: Greece Olympia High School, 1139 Maiden Lane, Greece, NY
This workshop provides detailed information on all the key areas associated with starting a business. You will learn about business plans, insurance, banking & finance, legal issues, and budgets & cash management.
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Operation Entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship Training for Veterans and Military Families
This full, two-day course will provide you with the basics of entrepreneurship, everything you need to help you move forward with your business idea. Nine separate modules will bring you from business ownership introduction to crafting a business plan.
WHEN: Wednesday & Thursday, July 13 & 14 8:30am-4:30pm
WHERE: Veterans Outreach Center, 447 South Ave., Rochester, NY FEE: FREE
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What does your brand stand for? How are you unique? Who is your customer?
Download this popular template to help you create your brand message.
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How are you managing your relationships with critical customers and clients? As your business grows, you may want to consider a Customer Relationship System.
There are dozens of CRM options out there, including names you might recognize like SalesForce, Oracle, SAP, Sage, Infusionsoft, Zoho and Insightly. But, which one is right for you?
Click the button below to read the full article.
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Flowfold dates back to 2005, when founder Charles Friedman, then a high school student, used sailcloth scraps to make a wallet to replace one that had fallen apart.
After Friedman partnered with Devin McNeill, they reached out to SCORE for perspective and experience to help grow their business.
"Since we first began working with SCORE, we have been able to add two employees, grow sales by 300 percent, and open up 200-plus wholesale accounts."
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In this webinar, Ritchie Sayner, a SCORE mentor and successful retail consultant, will offer ways local retailers can increase in-store sales and run more profitable, businesses despite competition from goliaths such as Amazon, Zappos, and other online markets.
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Greater Rochester SCORE
greaterrochester.score.org
585-263-6473
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SCORE is a nonprofit association dedicated to helping small businesses get off the ground, grow and achieve their goals through education and mentorship. We have been doing this for over fifty years.
Because our work is supported by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), and thanks to our network of 11,000+ volunteers, we are able to deliver our services at no charge or at very low cost.
Find out more about our Mission, Vision and Values here.
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