Capacity Building On Demand

Topic: Disaster Mitigation | Provider: The Greenhouse

As the dust settles after the impactful Hurricanes Milton and Helene, many small businesses are at a critical point in their recovery. Reopening after a natural disaster requires more than repairs—it takes strategic resilience, practical know-how, and a vision to come back stronger. Join us for a powerful session to equip your business with essential strategies and resources to navigate the complex recovery process and help you emerge with renewed strength for the holiday season and beyond.

This event invites industry experts, community leaders, and fellow business owners to explore how businesses can adapt, pivot, and thrive in the aftermath of disaster. Whether you’re in the early stages of recovery or looking to fortify your business for future success, this session offers the tools, insights, and connections you need.

Join us for an empowering event to unlock new growth opportunities amidst the chaos, where you’ll discover:

• Proven tactics to quickly restore operations and meet customer demand, even with limited resources
• Ideas for expanding or modifying your business strategy to strengthen future resilience
• Recovery planning strategies to streamline costs, reduce overhead, and meet customer demand, even with limited resources
• Innovative and essential marketing strategies to navigate the complex recovery process
• Cultivating meaningful connections and how to strengthen partnerships with St. Pete’s business and nonprofit community
• Information on local and regional support programs that provide guidance and expertise on financial assistance and community-based support

Why This Session Matters: Your business is a crucial part of our local economy and the heart of our St. Petersburg community. By joining this event, you’re not just working to recover but to rebuild better with actionable insights, new connections, and a revitalized approach to navigating disaster recovery. Register for this opportunity to reclaim your path and ensure a thriving, resilient future for your business.

Speaker(s): Roger Curlin, Executive Director of the EDGE Business District Association

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Topic: Disaster Preparedness     Provider: The Greenhouse, The EDGE Business District Association

Sailing Through Economic Headwinds is an informative 60-minute webinar to help you navigate through downturns in economic cycles. Are you concerned about your finances, staffing, customers, marketing, work-life balance, and stress level? Our presentation will detail Six Key Focus Points for entrepreneurs and business owners to help successfully guide their business through any economic pattern. Nothing helps reduce anxiety like proactively creating a plan to address troubled waters.

Our presenter, Roger Curlin, has 3 decades of working at ownership/management/mentoring levels in a variety of business industries and will be sharing his insights and strategies.

Attendees are encouraged to follow-up with The Greenhouse for business mentoring support.

Speaker(s): Roger Curlin, Executive Director, The EDGE Business District Association

Fee: No Cost

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Topic: Managing Business Provider: The Greenhouse and SCORE Entrepreneurs are often so focused on the day-to-day operations needed for survival that they don't take time to look at the business as a whole. Changes can be made in every business to stimulate growth, improve competitive position, and increase customer satisfaction. In this webinar, you will receive practical advice about using the essential disciplines of Money, Marketing, and Management to build a better business. You will be able to assess how you can be more successful with updates, innovations, reviews, and pivot points after the session. You will also learn how to carry out STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES, and THREATS (SWOT) analysis of your business from top to bottom and to find ways that you can improve your services, build new business, and satisfy your clients along your way to new profitability. Speaker: Juan Fret, SCORE WATCH SESSION NOTE: Sign-in or create Greenhouse client profile to access

Topic: Business Accounting/Budget Keeping the Doors Open; The Key is in the Numbers A Discussion of the Break-even Analysis with Food Industry Entrepreneurs The uncertainty of whether or not your business will generate the revenue needed to keep the doors open can be a sobering contemplation. With your business's financial future at stake, making the best decision about next steps should be rooted in solid data. Learning to apply a Break-even Analysis could help with making that decision. Join this webinar as Toni DeMarco, CPA, and Ryan Griffin business attorney and restaurant entrepreneur collaborate to present the mechanics of the Break-even Analysis AND answer your questions about crunching the numbers and keeping the doors open! Although session examples will focus on the food industry, ALL business industries will benefit from this break-even analysis discussion. Presenters: - Toni DeMarco, MBA, CPA, CGMA, SCORE - Ryan Griffin, business attorney and restaurateur WATCH RECORDED SESSION NOTE: Sign-in or create Greenhouse client profile to access recording