The LA SBDC Regional Network offers no-cost virtual business workshops for small businesses.

We serve Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties.

  • Learn CFO Skills: Financial Modeling Part 1

    Webinar – Long Beach CA

    A simple financial model can be created using your company’s financial data (historical and/or forecasted). CFOs and financial analysts use financial models to determine if/when a company will be profitable, what is the correct selling price, how many “widgets” need to be sold to be cover costs and how much money is available to pay […]

    Free
  • Live Q&A: All About Marketing Your Small Business

    Webinar – Long Beach CA

    Join the Long Beach SBDC for our Live Marketing Q&A addressing questions on how to effectively market and grow your business. SBDC advisor and Business Growth Strategist David Mitroff Ph.D. and Brad Pollak, Director of the Long Beach SBDC, will interact live with the audience via Zoom and answer questions covering a broad range of […]

    Free
  • How To Sell When You’re Not A Salesperson

    Webinar – Long Beach CA

    Business owners and entrepreneurs must promote their business or products to investors, customers or clients. Often, this is something they have never done before, and they lack training to approach the challenge. To address this situation, this workshop has been built to help you learn much of what you need to know. Topics covered include: […]

    Free
  • How To Value A Business (What Is My Business Worth?)

    Webinar – Long Beach CA

    Join our informative webinar on how to value your business, presented by financial expert and business advisor Michael DeDonato J.D., M.B.A. Why Attend: Learn the 10 essential reasons to value your business, including exit strategy planning, buy/sell agreements, and securing funding Discover the 11-step process for accurately valuing your business Understand key financial metrics like Seller’s Discretionary […]

    Free
  • Learn CFO Skills: Financial Modeling Part 2

    Webinar – Long Beach CA

    Business owners struggle with business decisions that affect the financial health of the company. “Are we selling at the right price?” “Are we making money?” “Can we afford to hire someone?” Many times, these decisions are made without a thorough understanding of the financial implications. This does not need to be the case. There are […]

    Free
  • Developing An Actionable Business Plan

    Webinar – Long Beach CA

    You can’t get there if you don’t know what or where “there” is. This class is intended to assist both startups and expanding or scaling businesses in developing an actionable and measurable plan for the next steps in growing a profitable business. In this class we will actively work on: • Defining your business model […]

    Free
  • Funding Your Growth: For Existing and Start-up Small Businesses

    Webinar – Long Beach CA

    Are you at a point where you need funding for the continued growth of your business? Are you unsure how to find the right sources of funding? Do you know the exact amount of cash-flow needed to grow your business? Join SBDC advisors Shaila Patankar and Max Ordonez for a workshop that identifies some key questions to ask when […]

    Free