Business Operations
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Join our virtual workshop series as experts share how to take your business to the next level.
BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Safeguard your data.
Thursday, June 9, 2022 at 1:00pm ET. Small businesses are big targets for cyberattacks, which can cause big headaches for your business. Lost privacy, lost customer trust, and lost revenue are just some of the common outcomes. Fortunately, learning how to prioritize customer privacy and data protection doesn’t have to be time consuming. Join Kelli Hooke and Suzie Rao, Managing Corporate Counsel at T-Mobile, for this workshop that covers three approaches to cybersecurity for your small business: protecting your data, protecting your devices, and avoiding scams, to help you keep your business safe.
Making Business Decisions Using Data | Thursday, June 16, 2022 at 1:00pm ET
Vanessa Pham, Co-Founder of Omsom, provides helpful tips on how you can use the data you already have to make informed business decisions.Watch a replay of the digital workshop.
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH INTUIT
Business finances made easy
Join Nayo Carter-Gray, Owner and Founder of 1st Step Accounting LLC, as she helps make accounting a little less taxing. In this workshop, she will take you through getting paid, managing the details, and what it looks like to run your business in times of uncertainty.
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Lesson 1: Getting paid.
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Lesson 2: Managing the details.
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Lesson 3: Running a business during Covid-19 and future proofing.
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH INTUIT
A beginner's guide to launching a new business
Join Al-Nesha Jones, Founder of ASE Group, as she walks through how to start a business at-home. Whether starting from scratch or taking a side-gig full time, this workshop will provide practical advice on setting new business owners up for success.
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Lesson 1: Getting ready.
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Lesson 2: Making it official.
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Lesson 3: Understanding your finances.
BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Adapting business models & operations
Join Jamira Burley, Head of Youth Engagement and Skills at the Global Business Coalition for Education, as she provides important insights about optimizing your business in challenging times. This session will challenge participants to reimagine a new normal that will enable them to move from survival to thriving mode by addressing strategies for business optimization, preparing for change, and managing health and safety risks.
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Lesson 1
Strategies for business model optimization.
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Lesson 2
Staying prepared for change.
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Lesson 3
Managing health and safety.
HUMAN RESOURCES
Recruiting and retaining talent for SMB owners
Join Ariel Lopez, Founder and CEO of Knac, as she leads a workshop full of key insights and best practices designed to help small business owners attract, recruit, and retain top talent.
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Lesson 1
Attracting top talent: creating sourcing strategies that work.
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Recruiting, retention, and making employees happy.
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Lesson 3
Diversity done right: fostering DE&I.
BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Designing efficient business operations
Join critically acclaimed producer Deniese Davis, co-founder of ColorCreative, as she provides insights based on her experience in building media and entertainment companies. She will cover how to organize all of the details of your business for maximum efficiency, whether now or in a post-Covid world.
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Lesson 1
Determining the basic elements of your business operations.
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Lesson 2
Adapting to a new normal.
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Lesson 3
Evaluating and measuring success.
More resources to help your business get ahead.
SPOTLIGHT SERIES
How BOOMBOX boxing club pivoted during Covid to keep their gym booming.
Follow the story of Reggie Smith & Angela Jennings, co-founders and owners of BOOMBOX boxing club. Take a deep dive into how Reggie & Angela built an operational strategy to support a variety of trainers and clientele as well as how they adapted to Covid-19 restrictions in a business dependent on physical interaction.
8 accounting equations to know for small business success.
Not every entrepreneur is a math wizard, and that’s ok. To help you feel more confident about managing business finances and establish a strong financial foundation from the beginning, keep these eight essential accounting equations at your fingertips.
Top 20 small business accounting tips.
Managing business finances can be a daunting aspect of being an entrepreneur, but it is a critical part of your business and helps you keep track of profits, losses, and inventory. Keep these twenty accounting tips in mind to help manage your business.
3 Keys to efficient operations through the lens of content production.
Learn the ins and outs of designing an efficient operational strategy for any small business, taught through the lens of an entertainment production company.
How to make meetings productive—and painless.
Host more productive meetings. Get simple tips for running effective meetings online and in person—and get more done in less time.
The Magenta Edge educational content experience is an initiative to help small business owners get ahead.
These eight foundational themes cover the ins and outs of the small business journey and provide resources to help you set the pace for your success.
Marketing & Communications
Find out how to market your small business through smart targeting and storytelling.
Access & Resources
Insight on local and federal resources available to aspiring small business owners.
Profit, Scalability, & Growth
Learn about driving a business to profitability, scaling up, and identifying growth opportunities.
Navigating Barriers
Acknowledging and addressing systemic barriers black business owners may face in entrepreneurship.
Business
Credit
Insights on leveraging business credit to finance a small business and building business credit during Covid-19.
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