Current Webinars

Date & Time: March 9, 2021, 1:00pm EST | Duration: 1 Hour 15 Minutes

Are you considering entrepreneurship as a career option in 2021 and have decided to pursue the franchising route? Is financing this dream a mystery to you? Start the dream by joining our webinar!

Date & Time: March 10, 2021, 10:00am EST | Duration: 1 Hour 15 Minutes

Although it’s free, 70 percent of Google My Business profiles are incomplete. Optimize your exposure by understanding how you can leverage this tool. Join our webinar!

Date & Time: March 10, 2021, 9:00am EST | Duration: 1 Hour

In this 45-minute webinar, you'll learn best practices and analyze trends about how customers engage with your business online, then turn these insights into well-informed, actionable decisions. A focus on Google Analytics and how to use this tool to make better business decisions. 

Date & Time: March 11, 2021, 12:00pm EST | Duration: 2 Hours

Starting a small business requires more knowledge, skills, perseverance and planning than meets the eye. Save valuable time and money starting here! This 3-hour workshop will help you clearly understand the details, challenges, opportunities and rewards of owning and operation your own business.

idea_loading.jpgThis 3-hour workshop will help you clearly understand the details, challenges, opportunities and rewards of owning and operation your own business, through the real-life experiences of several highly successful entrepreneurs. It’s a must for new business owners.  You can build upon this worshop by following up with our free one-on-one counseling.

 The step-by-step practical workshop covers:

• Foundations for Starting Your Own Business 
• Developing the proper “Mind Sets” For entrepreneurial success 
• Components of Business Ownership
• Which legal structure is right for you?
• Insuring your business
• Introduction to Business Planning 
• Resources For Getting Started In Your Own Business

Presenters:

Len Gendron, Western Mass SCORE Chapter

Rod Clark, South Eastern Mass SCORE Chapter (SEMA)

Date & Time: March 11, 2021, 5:30pm EST

Make real connections virtually! Get to know people in a fun and interactive way. Rotate through virtual breakout rooms. Develop meaningful connections. Build relationships.

Date & Time: March 16, 2021, 10:00am EST | Duration: 1 Hour 15 Minutes

As activities become increasingly “virtual,” information typically shared in person is now being presented through video-conferencing. Great if everything works, but awkward if presentation mechanics distract from your message.

This live session looks at PowerPoint and Zoom features you can use to enhance live, on-screenpresentations, and deliver them seamlessly.

We will demonstrate and explain:

The difference between PowerPoint transitions and animation, and how you can use them to enhance your presentation and highlight key points

How to animate charts created in PowerPoint and Excel

How to control the timing of transitions and animations, and make them occur either automatically, or only when prompted

Use of PowerPoint’s built in laser pointer, magnifying glass and annotation featureswhile presenting

Use of PowerPoint’s “Presenter View"

How to use Zoom‘s whiteboard

Zoom settings needed to share PowerPoint audio and video

Why you may want to save your PowerPoint slides as a packaged slide show

How to set up your computer to facilitate navigation between PowerPoint and Zoom during your presentation.

Participants are encouraged to ask questions during the program.

Presenter: Gerald Rosenthal. You may know Gerald from his excellent Excel presentations. He gives easy to understand and organized instruction. He is the founder of ComputerImages, a Boston-based software training and consulting firm, and has been using Excel since the program debuted as Macintosh only software in 1985. His professional training is in law and finance, and he describes himself as essentially a low-tech person. His interest in computers focuses more on how they can help people work smarter and better, rather than their technology.

Date & Time: March 16, 2021, 10:00am EST | Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes

The final part of SCORE's Human Resources Essentials webinar series as we focus on employee retention/engagement.

Date & Time: March 17, 2021, 9:00am EST | Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes

Join us for a discussion about how to create or refine your social media strategy, including networks, target audiences, and tips on creating engaging content.



Date & Time: March 17, 2021, 10:00am EST | Duration: 1 Hour 15 Minutes

A purpose-built team is essential for your business to reach its goals. Join us for a webinar that will focus on the foundation of your restaurant- the people.

Date & Time: March 18, 2021, 12:00pm EST | Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes

Creating a business plan can seem like a daunting exercise. This is especially true for those running a small business, which can be an all-consuming undertaking. But it helps to have a plan.

This workshop will explore a simplified means of business and strategic planning through the use of the Business Model Canvas. Participants will leave with a practical knowledge of the essential business elements/essential activities to increase revenues and manage costs for their particular business.

Date & Time: March 25, 2021, 12:00pm EST | Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes

Sales – you don’t have a business without it! This workshop will help small business owners to define their market, develop their marketing and sales messages, prospect for qualified customers, and develop a system to reach your sales goals. Business owners are the sales drivers of their companies – learn how to sell better to grow your business.

Presenters: Score Boston Mentors, Dick Rossman and Beverly Gottlieb.

Beverly Gottlieb: Certified Public Accountant with Touche Ross (licensed no longer maintained), Owner/ president of Beverly Gottlieb and Associates--company specialized in insurance planning and benefits planning for the high tech and biotechindustry., Worked primarily with start-ups.

Dick Rossman:  VP Sales and Marketing for regional commercialprinting companies and national software company, Sales Consultant acting as part-time sales manager for numerous smallbusinesses, Sales Coach and Trainer, working with individuals and sales teams in MA

Date & Time: April 1, 2021, 12:00pm EST | Duration: 1 Hour 30 Minutes

A Cash Flow Statement helps you to make better, more timely business decisions.

This presentation will provide a brief overview of financial reports with the main focus on the cash flow statement.You will learn why it is the most important report for small businesses, what it will tell you, how to improve your cash flow and how to anticipate and prepare for future short falls.

We will work with a sample Cash Flow Statement and play what ifs. This exercise will show you how you could have better prepared for the likes of a COVID-19 event, a cyclical business or a startup.

Presenters: 

JIM DANNHAUSER is a certified SCORE mentor. Jim began his business career as a commercial attorney, then moved into investment banking, serving in an advisory capacity to family owned businesses and investor groups, and eventually became the CFO of a small company that grew over time and eventually became a public company. After leaving that company, Jim served as a senior advisor to a large private equity company and as an advisor to a number of small businesses. Jim is now retired and continues to assist small businesses through his association with SCORE.

GLORIA SPENCE, Director of Finance Northeast Region - Hearst Television, Responsible for all accounting and financial operations , of 6 TV stations, Worked closely and strategized with Sales and, Marketing, Created & implemented process changes