Business 101 Track – 2017
This track gives potential and new business owners the building blocks for success. Learn the fundamentals of operating a business and walk away empowered to take the next steps.

Your Most Important Business Decision: Who You Hire

Jennifer Brown

Presented by Jennifer Brown, EMS High Risk Merchant Services

The biggest strength and competitive advantage you can offer your clients, team and partners is the quality of your people.

Did you know that a bad hire can cost upwards of $250,000! That’s why hiring talent that aligns with your company’s values, practices, and quality of service is the most important decision you’ll make for your business. A new hire has the potential to either catapult your business to heights you never thought possible or sink it into the ground.

In this session, you’ll discover strategies and tactics for effective recruiting, interviewing, and candidate selection. In addition, you will be granted exclusive insider access to the tools you need to build the dream team your company deserves.

This “must-attend” session is for anyone who wants a recruiting and interviewing process that guarantees better hires and achieves your business goals.
 

Seven Principles of Networking

Rita Goodroe

Presented by Rita Goodroe, Women’s Business Garden, LLC

The key to networking is effective relationship building. Whether you are an introvert or extrovert, you already have everything you need to build and leverage relationships.

Master these seven principles and your:

  • Networking will be fruitful
  • Sales will increase
  • Opportunities will multiply

And, most importantly, you’ll have a healthy relationship with your business.
 

The 168 Hour Theory of Entrepreneurial Success

Nikki Trowbridge

Presented by Nikki Trowbridge, The Statements Project

Learn the four components of a project driven, balanced, fluid time budget:

  • Restorative
  • Income Producing
  • Intellectual/Educational
  • Personal/Family

In this class we will calculate the entrepreneurial investment to developing your time budget to; magnify your income producing hours and scale your business; re-establish the important role or renewing rest in your hustle; feed your potential with enhancing continued education; nurture your personal/family time to re-energize your focus.