Business Ownership Strategies You Must Understand Before Starting a Business

How to Choose the Business Where You Will most succeed.

Are you considering business ownership as a career path?  If you are burned out on corporate work, or at a crossroad in your career, or retired but looking for a new chapter, or interested in an additional source of income through an absentee business while you keep your day job or pursue other priorities such as caring for your family, this workshop is for you! 

This is your chance to learn how millions of people just like you have chosen to take control of their life via business ownership and in accordance to who and what is important to them!  In this workshop we explore business ownership to achieve a better Lifestyle, Income, Freedom and Equity that supports you and your family.

Key Topics:

• Several approaches to business ownership and deciding on the best one for you: Independent Startup, New Franchise, and Resale of an Existing Business and each of their pros and cons.
• How to identify the type of business and industry where you will most succeed in your goals based on your talents, experience and personality.
• How to finance a small business including paying yourself during ramp-up.
• What resources around you will help you succeed in business.
  
  

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the pros and cons of different types of business: Startup, Resale, Franchise.
• Identify one’s goals in LIFE: Lifestyle, Income, Freedom and Equity, before you start or buy a business.
• Examine and compare 9 priorities to consider when strategizing business ownership.
• Learn an innovating way to quantify your priorities/goals in selecting a business type.
• Find out how starting a business while still employed is possible.
• Possible venues to find funding for your business including paying yourself during ramp-up.
• How to create your personalized roadmap to business ownership

Speaker:  Patricia Bottero St-Jean, MBA

About the Speaker:

Patricia Bottero St-Jean in an International Business Advisor and Speaker with 30 years of experience in the realm of small business ownership.

Bottero is founder of OPEN FOR BUSINESS, LLC a business ownership advisory practice that provides consulting services, workshops, webinars and resources for individuals who are exploring small business ownership and for those already in business.

Her expertise is to advise individuals in exploring how business ownership, in the United States, aligns with their goals in lifestyle, income, freedom, and equity. She provides American and foreign investors with the tools including business research, business plans and feasibility studies to strategize a successful investment as business owner/investor in the US.

Bottero has decades of experience as an entrepreneur, mentor, and public speaker.
Her educational background includes a BA in Political Economy – International Area Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA with a focus on Global Innovation from California State University East Bay.