An Introduction to Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks

In 2022, US online retail sales, excluding travel, surpassed $1 trillion last year “for the first time in history”. Amazon's share of the total was 37.8%. Second place was occupied by the e-commerce site of retail chain Walmart, with a 6.3 percent market share, followed in third place by Apple, with 3.9 percent. In this workshop Ventura County SCORE will discuss the basics as it relates to if and how to set up your own Amazon Store. A Ventura County SCORE webinar.

Are you overwhelmed by what to post on social media and when? Don’t have the skills or staff to create your graphics and need an easy way to post? This is the class for you! You will learn the most important tool to take away the overwhelm…a content calendar with content ideas. We will then go “live” and show you some quick tips to create graphics for social media and other digital and print marketing materials. Lastly, you will learn a tool to quickly post your social media content in one place. All attendees will receive a complimentary 2023 content calendar ($27 value). Ventura County SCORE webinar.

Join Ventura County SCORE for the Inspiring Women Speaker Series focusing on How to Start a Business, e-Commerce, QuickBooks and Best Accounting Practices. Ventura County SCORE IN-PERSON event.

Are you working too hard to find enough profitable customers and clients for your business? Bring your pen and paper. This hands-on workshop will take you through five specific ways people are doubling and tripling their sales with low-cost and no-cost techniques you can start using almost instantly. Whether you market traditionally or through Social Media, this is one of the most important workshops you will attend this year. In this workshop for small business owners, top marketing consultant James Bond will share five secrets to growing your business, increasing your number of clients and customers, and boosting your profits almost immediately, using advanced and guerrilla marketing techniques. If you have a small or mid-sized business, you will learn a few simple ways to win more and better clients and customers for your business, easier and faster. A Ventura county webinar.

Research says that for every $1 spent on E-Mail marketing there is an average $44 return on investment. To generate such positive outcomes, businesses have to reach the right customers with targeted campaigns. If you feel your E-Mail efforts don't yet pay off, this workshop is for you! This class will teach basic and advanced techniques to propel your E-Mail efforts. A SCORE webinar.

This webinar introduces you to features within QuickBooks Online such as Receipt Capture, Accounts Payable, accounts Receivable and Budgeting. Whether a charity, government agency, membership organization or house of worship, there always seems to be someone who needs a specific report and the documentation to back it up. Ventura County SCORE will help participants learn how to process transactions and get the information they need. A Ventura county SCORE webinar.

Many business owners can easily get overwhelmed when it comes to understanding and choosing a legal entity for their own business. Which should they choose? What factors determine which entity is best? What state should they register in? In this webinar, Nellie Akalp will detail strategies for incorporating and maintaining a business.  A SCORE webinar.

Learn to build your prospect list with one great social media strategy - no matter your platform. As a speaker, coach, author, women's empowerment advocate and community founder, Lin Schussler-Williams has over 20 years of experience in helping individuals, groups, business owners and salespeople build their dreams and create fulfilling lives. Her current focus is on helping solopreneurs and small business owners increase sales and empowering women to be their best. A SCORE webinar.