Join us and our colleagues at Small Business Majority and CalSavers for an interactive webinar that covers the state’s new CalSavers Retirement Savings Program. This program provides a portable workplace retirement savings account for private-sector workers whose employers are unable to offer a retirement program. The program is operated by a private third party administrator
Category: Trainings
Your Webinar Success: Speak to Engage Virtually
Public speaking coach Lisa Braithwaite shares her tips and best practices to become an engaging speaker and bring success to your webinar program.
Improve Your Writing in 5 Steps (and learn 11 writing tips as a bonus)
Everyone writes in their job, whether for internal email exchanges or for external consumption, e.g. tweets for social media accounts, client stories, grant narratives, donor letters. For those of us in the microbusiness sector, effectively communicating our point is important to prove our impact. Join this webinar and walk through 5 steps in the writing process that will bring more punch to your writing and learn more than 10 easy-to-apply writing tips.
Cybersecurity: Mitigating Risk for Microenterprises
We love technology. It helps us do so many things more efficiently. But it’s not immune to crime. Nationally cybersecurity incidents increased about 12 fold from about 5,500 in 2006 to more than 70,000 today. Join CAMEO board member, Jesse Torres, and a panel of experts who will help us navigate the cyberworld safely.
Advocacy Day Prep & Policy Updates
With so much going on in Washington and Sacramento, we have gathered our policy friends to keep you informed of all the excitement. This webinar will prep you for our Advocacy Day later in the spring when we will advocate in Sacramento for small and micro-business issues. Get training on how best to conduct your meeting, what to say and be briefed on the issues.
Online Learning Is Here to Stay
Going online with training and consulting is not as difficult as you might think. Joy Taylor of JEDI will demystify the world of remote learning. Topics covered include: delivery method pros and cons, technology platforms, how to create engagementonline, the flipped classroom, and repurposing content. Develop a step by step approach to bring your organization’s expertise online. Ample time for questions and answers will allow you to explore if or how online learning is right for your organization.
Gig Economy 101: Samaschool and the Online Entrepreneur
About a third of the labor force is engaged in some kind of independent work, or what is popularly called the gig economy. Our challenge is to help these independent entrepreneurs be successful on these platforms and achieve viable incomes—and ultimately create wealth. Many of our members report that they are serving this cohort,
Online Learning for Microbusiness TA
Online learning is exploding. The industry will reach $325 billion in the next 5 years. This year, as part of our Coaching Academy, we will focus on implementing online learning in our space.
Global Cash Analysis – A Microlending Essential
Global Cash Flow Analysis is a critical part of small business lending underwriting that takes a holistic view of the business owner’s entire cash situation – because looking at the business alone does not provide the whole story, specially of microbusinesses. Whether you’re a microlender or business assistance provider – help your clients get the best loan they can by understanding their financial situation.
CalSavers: California’s Free Retirement Program
In July 2019, the state is launching a new retirement program that will enable employers to provide their employees with a payroll deduction Individual Retirement Account (IRA) at no cost to the employer or taxpayer. CalSavers will eliminate the three major concerns that small business owners cite as reasons for not offering a retirement plan: cost, liability, and complexity.