Upcoming Events
EDC & PARTNER EVENT CALENDAR
- 14Septiembre 14, 2025No hay eventos
- 15Septiembre 15, 2025No hay eventos
- 16Septiembre 16, 2025
City of Oxnard: Ready • Set • Grow: Build it Right: Legal Structure, Licensing & Business Planning
Join the City of Oxnard and the Economic Development Collaborative Small Business Development Center, where we’ll break down the essentials every business owner needs to operate legally and strategically. During the Build it Right Workshop, you will learn about the city and state licensing requirements, draft a practical and personalized business plan, and walk away with tools and next steps you can act on immediately. Are you ready to build a business the right way? Take the first step toward building a business that lasts. Address: Oxnard Main Library, 251 S A St., Oxnard, CA, 93030. An EDC and City of Oxnard in-person event.
Let's Jump Start Your New Business This Quarter
Do you have a new business? Does Your Small Business Have New Goals? Does your established business have a new product or service? In this webinar, Hank and Sharyn Yuloff will share secrets from each of the eight modules of their course that you can use to target the right audience, create the exact right messaging, market, sell and build referrals. With proven tactics from their course for new business owners, Hank and Sharyn Yuloff will break down the most vital things you need. More importantly, bring your questions on “impossible” roadblocks you have in your way, and finally get answers. As a bonus, they have a package of free business-building tools, a free 30-minute Get Your Business Focused coaching session and time to get your questions answered. A SCORE webinar.
- 17Septiembre 17, 2025
Use AI to Turn Google Listings into a Client Magnet
Your Google Business Profile (GMB) is one of the most powerful (and NO-COST) tools to bring new customers to your business. But most small business owners don’t use it to its full potential. Your GMB is now more important than ever before for your business. In this NO-COST webinar, award-winning mentor and educator, Ines Nasri, will show you how to transform your Google listing into a client magnet by combining proven optimization techniques with simple and NO-COST AI tools. You’ll walk away with practical steps you can immediately apply to make your business stand out, attract more qualified leads and convert online searches into paying customers. A SCORE webinar.
- 18Septiembre 18, 2025
Ready to Launch Your Crowdfunding Campaign?
This live webinar will teach you how to launch a successful crowdfunding campaign and build a loyal community. In just one session, you’ll learn the differences between the crowdfunding platforms and which is right for you, proven best practices that top campaigns use to reach their goals, real-world case studies from successful campaigns and the tools you need for launch. Whether you’re a Start-Up founder, creative, nonprofit or small business owner, this webinar will give you the roadmap to crowdfunding success. Reserve your spot today — spaces are limited! A SCORE webinar.
MySBA Certification Training ~ Navigating the Application Process
This webinar will assist small business owners who have successfully submitted a MySBA certification application to navigate the application process. Presenters will discuss how to respond and resubmit an application that has been “Returned to Business”, responses to requests for information “RFI” and other frequently asked questions. An SBA webinar.
How to Do Business with Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)
Join to learn about Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)’s Small Business Enterprise (SBE) utilization goals, the vendor registration process and the LAUSD “Meet the Buyers” program
Reciprocal recertification processes. An SBA webinar.Break the Cycle of Income Taxation: An Alternative to Cash on the Balance Sheet
This workshop focuses on customizing Permanent Cash Value Whole Life Insurance policies to store a portion of your retained earnings while deferring income tax on the growth of those funds and having tax-free access to the cash value. Sometimes this strategy is called a “Richman’s Roth” but is not restricted to retirement. Whether you keep $50,000 or $5,000,000 on your business balance sheet, this concept can be one of your business toolbox’s most powerful financial tools. Please note: this webinar will not be recorded. Attendance is required. A SCORE webinar.
- 19Septiembre 19, 2025
Tax Reduction Strategies for Owners of Corporations and LLC’s
Do you feel your taxes are too high? Will taxes be higher in the future? Join SCORE to discuss how to keep more of your hard-earned money in your pocket while providing more benefits for yourself, your family and your employees. They will cover various strategies for business owners to reduce taxes now and in the future, better options for the Cal-Savers Retirement Savings Mandate and how to prepare for proposed future CA payroll tax increases with CA Assembly Bill 567. Please note: this webinar will not be recorded. Attendance is required. A SCORE webinar.
- 20Septiembre 20, 2025No hay eventos
Leading Change, Surviving Change
Leading change is never without challenges. It is human nature to fear and resist the unfamiliar landscape of change. Change management requires us to think about how to manage and mitigate risk, uncertainty and instability. Your role as a leader is to proactively address the impact of the change on your organization and your team. In this program, you will learn to equip your managers and leaders with the tools to manage change. A Workforce Development Board of Ventura County and California Employers Association virtual training.
November 13, 2025 10:00 AM
Hire Right the First Time
Poor hiring practices can be costly, with some estimates suggesting bad hires can cost up to 24 times their base compensation. CEA’s hiring system helps businesses and HR professionals avoid these expensive mistakes by streamlining the process. You’ll learn how to craft effective job ads, find the right candidates and navigate the key hiring steps from application to the first day on the job. Additionally, you’ll gain access to tools for creating legally defensible interview questions and managing on-the-job training for better hiring outcomes. A Workforce Development Board of Ventura County and California Employers Association virtual training.
December 16, 2025 10:00 AM
AI-Powered Business Planning: Create a Quick Business Plan in 3 Hours
Join SCORE and other entrepreneurs in this hands-on workshop where you will write your “Unique Value Statement” for your new product or service. This is a concise description of your product or service and explains the unique value your product or service provides to your customers. As part of the workshop, participants will receive real-time feedback from a SCORE mentor to help them fine-tune their Value Statement. In the second part of the workshop, you will use the “Lean Canvas” to begin the process of turning your product/service into a business. In this interactive session, you use the canvas to help guide you in expanding the information in the Unique Value Statement by capturing key ideas, concepts and strategies about your business in the canvas. This creates a basic framework that you can use to complete YOUR full, detailed business plan. Have paper, a pencil or a pen ready as the goal of this workshop is for all participants to leave with a draft of their “Unique Value Statement” and “Lean Canvas.” Price: $10.00. A SCORE webinar.
November 17, 2025 09:00 AM
Starting a Nonprofit: A Step-by-Step
Ready to turn your vision into reality? Join SCORE for a practical workshop that offers step-by-step guidance on establishing a nonprofit public charity. Ideal for those who have already decided to form a nonprofit, this session covers the essential stages from conception to achieving tax-exempt status and beyond. Price: $10.00. A SCORE webinar.
November 18, 2025 01:00 PM
Instagram Marketing 101: The Fundamentals
A great Instagram feed reinforces your brand, supports your marketing message, helps you engage directly and sincerely with your customers, and attracts new, loyal followers! Are you ready to “Level Up” your Instagram for your business? Price: $10.00. A SCORE webinar.
November 19, 2025 09:00 AM
Digital Marketing Basics
If you are new to Digital Marketing, this fast-paced introductory workshop will help you get started to promote your business on the Internet. Price: $10.00. A SCORE webinar.
November 20, 2025 10:00 AM
Increase Sales and Profits with Pricing and Distribution Strategies
You’ve developed a wonderful new product or service and understand the costs, but how should you price it? This workshop is part of SCORE’s Small Business Essentials series. SCORE starts by reviewing different distribution and channel strategies and helps you choose the method that best gets your product or service in front of your satisfied customers. The rest of the workshop focuses on pricing, starting with some basic pricing concepts. Then SCORE reviews a detailed process to help you determine the price of your product. Since pricing a service is very different than a product, they have a special section that covers the separate process for pricing your services. Price: $10.00. A SCORE webinar.
November 21, 2025 01:00 PM
Grant Prep Boot Camp Workshop
In three hours, you will learn how to research, prepare, write and apply for grants. At the end of this webinar, you will be able to target and learn how to organize grants to further your mission. Don’t worry if you don’t have access to the various fancy (and expensive) grant databases. SCORE will show you how to access grant information (for FREE), filter through 990 returns, uncover names and get around the “invite only” issue when determining fit. SCORE will also work on systematizing the process of grants, so you don’t have to redo it every time. Price: $10.00. A SCORE webinar.
November 24, 2025 08:00 AM
Email Marketing for Businesses and Non-Profits
See how Email Marketing can help your business and nonprofit. In this live workshop, SCORE will take a look at Email Marketing and how it can work for you. During the live session, there will be time for Q&A. Parking and directions: Please park on the 3rd floor of the parking structure. Walk towards the Kavli Theatre entrance and across the plaza towards the Box Office. Make a left down the corridor to the Oak and Park Room. Address: City of Thousand Oaks, 2100 E Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362. This event is sponsored by the City of Thousand Oaks. An in-person SCORE event.
December 03, 2025 08:30 AM
