Small Business Workshops
Here are our offering of small business workshops:
Simple Steps in Starting A New Business – Full Course
Description: This is a five-part series of pre-business workshops to help clients reach a “go or no-go” decision for a start-up. The content is designed to work in conjunction with mentoring and includes homework for the client to complete.
Duration: 6 hours
Day or Evening: Saturdays Only
Term: Held Every other Saturday from 9 am to 3pm
Language: English and Spanish
Talk points: Starting Up, Business Concept, Marketing, Financial Matters, and Credit
Community Partner: Partner: Arlington Public Library & Pinnstation
Simple Steps in Starting A New Business – Concise
Description: Simple Steps for Starting Your Business is a condensed version of the series that focuses on Formation, Marketing, and Financing.
Duration: 2 hours
Day or Evening: Evenings Only Weekday
Language: English and Spanish
Term: Held Monthly weekday evenings once a month
Talk points: Starting Up, Business Concept, Marketing, and Financial Matters
Community Partner: Partner: Arlington Public Library & Pinnstation
Steps to Business Success – Marketing:
Description: Learn about the key aspects of the marketing processes such as pricing, competition, and target markets.
Duration: 2 hours
Day or Evening: Day or Evening
Language: English
Term: Held in workshop rotation
Talk points: Products and Service, Researching Market, Market Conditions, and Competition.
Community Partner: Partner: Arlington Public Library & Pinnstation
Social Media Marketing
Description: This is a step by step process in social media marketing and how to use it more effectively and get the optimal results.
Duration: 2 hours
Day or Evening: Day or Evening
Language: English
Term: Held in workshop rotation
Talk points: Knowing your platform, tricks of the trade, research, and developing content.
Community Partner: Arlington Public Library & Pinnstation Venticode. Arlington based business.
How To Start A Restaurant and Food Truck
Description: This workshop outlines the key issues unique to the ‘specialty food’ industry as well as the resources available to the entrepreneur. This presentation is set in the context of Boston but can be adapted for your region.
Duration: 4 hours
Day or Evening: Day or Evening
Language: English
Term: Held in workshop rotation
Talk points:Food Handler Permits, Equipment, Developing menu, understanding cost, marketing, food development, and site location.
Community Partner: Partner: Arlington Public Library, Pinnstation, and SCORE Fort Worth volunteers
Business Plan Writing: Get It Done in One Sitting
Description: This workshop will focus on writing a business plan in one sitting.
Duration: 4 hours
Day or Evening: Day or Evening
Language: English and Spanish
Term: Held in workshop rotation
Talk points: Food Handler Permits, Equipment, Developing menu, understanding cost, marketing, food development, and site location.
Community Partner: Partner: Arlington Public Library & Pinnstation
How to Start A Non-Profit Organization & Grant Research & Writing 101
Description: This workshop will focus on how to successfully start and maintain a nonprofit along with writing a concept implementation plan.
Duration: 4 hours
Day or Evening: Saturdays only
Language: English
Term: Held in workshop rotation
Talk points: Forming your Nonprofit entity, Applying for EIN and 501(c)(3) and looking for funding such as charitable foundations and corporate sponsorship.
Community Partner: Arlington Public Library & Pinnstation
Crowdfunding 101: Raising Capital
Description: This workshop is for creatives, artists, activists, entrepreneurs, inventors, designers, and anyone who wants to make their idea, dream, or vision a reality and be of service toward a better world.
Duration: 2 Hours
Day or Evening: Day or Evening
Language: English.
Term: Held in workshop rotation
Talking points: Understanding the in’s and out’s of crowdfunding and social enterprise concepts, how to be successful in the space, utilizing your social network to help raise funds, etc.
Community Partner: Partner: Arlington Public Library & Pinnstation
Tax Planning for Small Business
Description: This course explains that there are many tax strategies available to small business owners. Some fitting the owner’s PERSONAL tax position, and some fitted for the BUSINESS itself.
Duration: 2 Hours
Day or Evening: Day or Evening
Language: English
Term: Held in workshop rotation
Talking points: Reducing the amount of taxable income, Lowering your tax rate, Controlling the time when the tax must be paid, Claiming any available tax credits, Controlling the effects of the Alternative Minimum Tax, and Increase Your Bottom Line using your home office.
Community Partner: Arlington Public Library & Pinnstation, and Kevin Lawson, CPA
Social Media: Creating Content with Focus and Precision
Description: Unless your business is already a household name or you have more business than you can handle, chances are you engage in some form of online marketing, whether it’s writing a blog, doing email blasts or being a social media maven.
Duration: 2 Hours
Day or Evening: Day or Evening
Language: English
Term: Held in workshop rotation
Talking points: Why focusing just on building traffic to their website is misguided, How to use content – both on and off their website – to attract more website visitors and Why marketing their business is an ongoing process
Community Partner: Partner: Arlington Public Library, Pinnstation, and Venti Code – Arlington based business.
Securing Capital To Grow Your Business
Description: This course will go step by step to help businesses find the capital they need and examine the best resources to obtain it.
Duration: 2 Hours
Day or Evening: Day or Evening
Language: English
Term: Held in workshop rotation
Talking points: Find out about the different types of financing available and who provides it, Identify which financing options are right for different types of businesses – and how they get approved, Learn how to apply for financing, and what to expect after the application is submitted, Understanding and learn how to obtain a business loan, factoring, working capital, equipment leasing, investors, and more.
Community Partners: Arlington Public Library, Pinnstation, PeopleFund, Accion, and Liftfund
How To Setup Your Business LLC in One Day!
Description: This course will instruct businesses on how to set up their business in one day in Texas online.
Duration: 2 Hours
Day or Evening: Day or Evening
Language: English and Spanish
Term: Held in workshop rotation
Talking points: Understanding the different forms of corporations; LLC, Sole Proprietor, Partnership, etcc., filing your entity online, and Veterans opportunities waivers, applying for EIN number, ordering your corporate kit.
Community Partner: Partner: Arlington Public Library and Pinnstation
How To Start A Trucking and Transportation Business
Description: This is a step by step process to developing your transportation business
Duration: 4-6 Hours
Day or Evening: Saturdays Only
Language: English and Spanish
Term: Held in workshop rotation
Talking points: Forming your business, understanding compliance and regulation, the importance of getting a small business certification, setting up your authority, and buying your truck with warranties.
Community Partners: Arlington Public Library, Pinnstation, Select Trucks, Arrow Trucks, Amazon, FedEx, SBA, Trunorth Warranty and SCORE Fort Worth
Franchise 101: Everything Your Need to Know
Description: Learn the differences between launching a start-up business, buying an existing business, and investing in a franchise business; and how to decide which option is the best for a particular situation.
Duration: 2 Hours
Day or Evening: Day or Evening
Language: English
Term: Held in workshop rotation
Talking points: Understanding with it take to buy and start one from scratch, developing a business plan, using the franchise resources, and knowing your market.
Community Partners: Fran-Net, Arlington Public Library, and Pinnstation.
Credit Repair: 101
Description: This class will talk about credit and how to dispute information on your report that is not accurate.
Duration: 2 Hours
Daytime/Evening: Day or Evening
Language: English
Term: Held in workshop rotation
Talking points: How to read a credit report, understanding the laws and regulations, dispute process and building your credit.
Community Partners: Arlington Public Library, Pinnstation, and Upgrade my Credit. Arlington based small business.
HR 101: Key Issues and How to Solve Them
Description: In this introductory seminar, Human Resource professionals will present foundational knowledge for attendees on 10 key human resource issues that business owners face in today’s heavily regulated business environment.
Duration: 2 Hours
Daytime/Evening: Day or Evening
Language: English
Term: Held in workshop rotation
Talking points: We will be covered in this first seminar include: creating accurate job descriptions, filling out Form I-9 correctly for new employees, proper employee classification, the application of overtime rules, and the use of handbooks.
Community Partner: Partner: Arlington Public Library & Pinnstation
Using Technology to Grow Your Business
Description: This course will examine how technology can improve the efficiencies of your operation from automation, using bot online, cybersecurity, and protecting privacy.
Duration: 2 Hours
Daytime/Evening: Day or Evening
Language: English
Term: Held in workshop rotation
Talking points: Using bots to automate your business online business, setting up e-commerce services and platforms, and much more.
Community Partner: Partner: Arlington Public Library, Pinnstation, and SalesForce and Google
How to start an Import and Export Business
Description: This workshop will help you gain the knowledge to develop and implement an international plan. You will become acquainted with the key components of an effective export plan. The workshop will also raise questions you should answer to complete your plan and provide the resources to help you answer those questions.
Duration: 2 Hours
Daytime/Evening: Day or Evening
Language: English
Term: Held in workshop rotation
Talking points: Organizational and product readiness, Market research, Guidance for developing your strategy and marketing planning, Promoting your products in the target market, and getting set-up for trade financing and other financings.
Community Partner: SBA, PTAC, Arlington Public Library and Pinnstation
How To Obtain a Government Contracting & Get Certified
Description: The workshop will cover how the procurement system works and what it takes to land a government contract.
Duration: 8 hours
Daytime/Evening: Saturdays Only
Language: English
Term: Offered 5 times a year
Talking points: DUNS and SAM registration walk through, Registering as a vendor with the City of Arlington and other cities, Developing Your Capability Statement, Reviewing your personal resume, filing our your certification paper worth for NCTRCA, DFWMSDC, Texas Hub and exploring 8(a) and Hubzone certifications, financing, and proposal writing.
Community Partner: Partner: Arlington Public Library and Pinnstation
Call our office to get an update list at 866-611-7457.
