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SCORE - For the life of your business 
 
 

SCORECard - July 2016
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.
 


 
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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How are you managing your relationships with critical customers and clients? As your business grows, you may want to consider a Customer Relationship System.
 
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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."
 
 
Thursday, July 7, 2016 at 2 p.m. EDT / 11 a.m. PDT
Presenter Brad Smith covers the 10 biggest benefits of social media marketing for small businesses, and then offers advice on how to make sure your company makes the most of the alluring -- yet often times perplexing -- world of social media! 

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Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 2 p.m. EDT / 11 a.m. PDT


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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