Business Growth and Development Webinar

Could you use a boost to keep your business going and growing? This webinar is designed to give business owners hope and options to survive and thrive in challenging and normal times.  Topics include:

• Cashflow management, forecasting, breakeven, and contribution margin
• Funding & Capital Infusion including what you can do to prepare for a loan
• Managing Debt
• Turnaround strategies
• Financial discipline
• Survival tips
• Exit strategies including closing down, selling the business and bankruptcy

About the Presenters:

Steve Burke is the Western Washington Regional Manager and is a Washington SBDC Certified Business Advisor.  Steve has 30 years of experience in the property asset management business much of it underwriting small business financials and business plans for commercial leases. His passion is studying current trends in the economy, technology, business tools and techniques and using those to assist small business owners in South Seattle, SODO, West Seattle, Tukwila, Renton and the Eastside areas in a full range of assistance from technology, innovation and reinvention to landlord/tenant issues, business plans, marketing, finance and financing. He has 10 years of experience owning his own business including obtaining SBA loans. He has an MBA from San Diego State University and is looking forward to helping you grow your business.

Ron Nielsen is the Washington Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Eastern Regional Manager. He has over 20 years of experience as an SBDC Center Director and business advisor. Ron has 27 years of business experience; he has owned and operated three businesses. Ron is a Profit Mastery facilitator, Certified NxLevel business instructor, a NASBITE International Certified Global Business Professional, and an Economic Development Finance Professional (EDFP).

Ron can assist you with: loan packaging, all aspects of debt and equity financing, debt restructuring, financial statement analysis, identify ways to improve operational efficiency, financial forecasting, develop business plans, market positioning for small companies, human resource(HR)questions, government regulations and business expansion. Ron is a Washington SBDC Certified Business Advisor (CBA), and member of the Washington Small Business Development Center Network.