by Marshaun L. Quinniey
April 2, 2018
Recently, on March 28th the Community Action Organization in conjunction with the Pathstone Enterprise Center Inc. coordinated another entrepreneurship workshop in their Business Development Series to cultivate businesses in the WNY community. According to Jonathan Ling, these workshops are an initiative to immediately help cultivate business in East Buffalo and WNY.” Ms. Pam James stresses these classes are of value to fostering business growth in area outside of Downtown Buffalo during the economic resurgence in Buffalo, NY. “
The topics covered in the March 28th workshop addressed technologies that are available to help small business operate optimally. This event was a part of a series of workshops for helping startups and existing business in the target area of East Buffalo. The workshop featured Kenyana David, Sincere Lincoln, Duane Madyun, and myself (Marshaun L. Quinniey). The presenters stressed the importance of using current technologies for optimally managing a small business, because appropriate use of such technology can reduce time and save money.
Mr. Madyun touched on his service for deploying the cost-effective, Harbor Touch POS System. Mrs. Lincoln conveyed on the value branding has benefited her web site development clients. Mrs. David shared steps for creating content for social media from her newly released Digital Content Strategy Toolkit (http://bit.ly/DigitalContentStrategyToolkit) that small businesses can take immediately with little or no cost. I shared a variety of electronic tools (software, apps, & online resources that are useful for small businesses) that I uncovered from helping community stakeholders build web sites, business cards, and flyers.
The first of these workshops started March 5th and the last workshop concludes May 21st. The Business Development Series workshop topics and presentation dates include:
3/5 – Workshop 1 | Personal Budgets: How to Protect, Build, or Repair Credit
3/12 – Workshop 2 | Entrepreneurial Mindset
3/19 – Workshop 3 | Business Plan Basics
3/26 – Workshop 4 | Marketing & Research
3/27 – Workshop 5 | Technologies for Small Business
4/2 – Workshop 6 | Business Entities
4/16 – Workshop 7 | Risk Management Business Insurance
4/23 – Workshop 8 | Taxes
4/30 – Workshop 9 | Business Financials Capabilities 2
5/7 – Workshop 10 | Government Contacting
5/14 – Workshop 11 | Business Banking Financing Options
5/21 – Workshop 12 | Putting it all together
These workshops were the result of a collaborative effort by several organizations. These organizations include Consumer Credit Counselors Services of Buffalo, Buffalo& Erie County Public Library, the Small Business Developments Series, Western New York Law Center, Everything Kiea LLC, Compliance & Administrative Services of New York, New York State Department of Taxation and Finances, Pathstone Enterprise Center Inc., the Excelsior Growth Fund, and ONYX Administrative Services. For more information about the Business Development Series contact Pam James at 716.332.3773 or Jonathan Ling at 716.436.2560.