Learn To Soar Seminars
Presented by SCORE and Sam's Club

America’s outstanding resources for small business - SCORE and Sam’s Club —are joining forces to deliver a program designed to engage, inform, and excite in-business entrepreneurs: Learn to Soar seminars.

Building upon the enormously successful education provided by SCORE for nearly 50 years, the Learn to Soar seminars will provide small business owners free, unbiased, and personal SCORE mentoring, peer learning and networking and great educational workshop sessions in a fun, but focused environment.

Attendees will experience an impressive morning filled with resources tailored for small businesses, including: FREE small business workshops on topics of interest expressed by in-business owners - including social media and marketing strategies. FREE small business resources and materials from SCORE. FREE participation in a session with a SCORE business mentor in roundtable mentoring settings. FREE networking opportunities with other small business owners. FREE continental breakfast.

Free Educational Sessions

SWAG: How To Protect Your Greatest Asset

Coach Micheal Burt is a well-known author, successful entrepreneur, and top-class business coach to corporate leaders, industry tycoons, and business owners from around the world.  He is a frequent motivation presenter at sales meetings and conferences, host of “Zebras and Cheetah’s” TV show on YouTube, and his latest book is “SWAG, 6 Battle Tested Strategies to Build and Protect Your Confidence”.  You can learn more about Coach Burt at www.coachburt.com

Funding and Financing Alternatives for Small Business 

How are successful businesses really funded? We will show you. Are bank loans the best answer to your company's start-up needs? How does a banker look at your business? What other capital sources are available? Let us show you the best ways to approach commercial lenders.  Learn from our panel of SBA lenders, community development capital experts and attorneys to discover funding and growth options for your financial needs. 

Your Panelists Include:

• Chris Spence, Pinnacle Financial Partners
• Brad Pinson, Fifth Third Bank
• Gwen Schaefer, Senior Credit Analyst with MADC (Mid-Cumberland Area Development Corporation
• Maria Lloyd, SBA
• R. Houston Akins, Attorney with Maloney Law Firm

HR Pitfalls On The Road To Success

In working with small businesses for almost 30 years we have helped them with a multitude of HR related problems.  We will touch on the most common and most costly pitfalls that we see time and time again.  Our clients always tell us, “We don’t know what we don’t know” when it comes to their employees and employment regulations.  This presentation will outline many of the things that can get a small business owner into trouble or cause him/her the biggest headaches.  Topics include:

• Hiring Process
• Training and Development
• Discrimination
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
• Inadequate or Inappropriate policies
• No Performance management process
• Termination liability

Email Marketing Strategies and Best Practices (including Social Media)

In this presentation, you will learn the most effective strategies for creating and launching an efective email marketing campaign. You will learn how to create great content, get your emails opened (and read), the best time to send, how often to send, list building techniques, and MORE! You will also learn how to use email marketing to amplify your social media efforts. Social media is an important compnent of your overall marketing strategy. This is a great opportunity to learn how to use email marketing and socila media to get more clients and keep that top of mind presence that is esential in today's world.

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