Launch & Grow Your Business
Launch & Grow Your Business!
The 10 week course includes 7 weekly workshops followed with 3 weekly one-on-one personal consultations. The course covers all aspects of planning, starting, managing and growing your business.
During seven three-hour sessions, participants will learn how to manage, market and finance their businesses. Participants will also enjoy networking with others who are starting or running businesses, and will learn from each other through many in-class, interactive exercises. The course will be taught by an experienced instructor from the Washington Business Center. We offer all of our clients free one-on-one counseling for as long as needed to get your business launched. Our consultants can guide you through the loan process should you need a business loan to start your business.
Learn About:
- The three “M’s” of business (Money, Management and Marketing)
- Financial Statements and Pro-Formulas
- Writing your business plan
- Managing employees
- Customer service
- Time management
- Applying for a loan
- And much more!
This class meets the requirements for the Self Employment Assistance Program (SEAP): http://www.esd.wa.gov/uibenefits/specialservices/training/self-employment-assistance-program.php
The Self-Employment Assistance Program (SEAP) is a unique opportunity for you to enter into self-employment entrepreneurial training and receive business counseling while you collect unemployment benefits. If you qualify and enroll in an approved training program, you do not have to look for other work while in this program.
Featured Client
The spotlight is on
SugarPill: Full Apothecary in Capital Hill
Proprietor Karyn Schwartz crafts magic for her customers with the use of Apothecary, Culinary and Mercantile ingredients.
To the common eye, SugarPill may appear to be yet another retail shop offering souvenirs to bypassing tourists. But taking a closer look, SugarPill offers a unique and eclectic mercantile rare to Seattle, as well as free consultations.
Owner Karyn Schwartz started her company last February providing herbal supplies, natural remedies, and culinary spices. Her products appeal to a variety of people, and establishing a retail base to offer her services is something Karyn has sought for quite some time. The apothecary section features bulk herbs, the culinary area offers seasoning blends, salts and spices, and the mercantile category includes natural body and skin care products, paper goods and nutritional supplements. "What is very popular are my culinary options such as salts, honeys, preserves, chocolates, teas-all being from local vendors," explains Karyn.
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Welcome to the Washington Business Center
- Build a business plan that can help you avoid costly startup mistakes.
- Develop a loan application.
- Strategize your marketing, operations and finances.
- Provide one-on-one, confidential counseling to help you manage all aspects of your business.
- Provide training on software tools you can use in your business, such as QuickBooks, Microsoft Office, and Adobe applications.
- Provide training to help you understand your financial reports, develop cash flow projections, and use them more effective your business.
- Provide opportunities for you to network with and learn from other small business owners.
To learn more about how we can help you to get started with a counselor, please attend one of our free Work for Yourself sessions:
- 1st Wednesday of each month: 5 pm to 6:30 pm
- 3rd Wednesday of each month: 9 am to 10:30 am
Keep in mind, if you are not able to attend one of these main sessions, we do offer other sessions, please visit our calendar for those dates and locations.
To Enroll:
Call: (206) 324-4330 X 100
Email: classes@seattleccd.com
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Testimonial
"It is wonderful to meet other women who are business owners. I find starting a business very intimidating; because I don't know enough about all the reporting of taxes, working with contracted individuals, all those things and more. After leaving the seminar today; I felt like I can learn this stuff with all the resources that are out there. Thank you for the work that your organization does"
-A WBC Client-
Sponsored by Community Capital Development, the Washington Business Center is a Women's Business Center, and is partially funded by the U.S. Small Business Administration's Office of Women's Business Ownership (OWBO). SBA's funding is not an endorsement of any products.