Quick-Start Shoreline on Tuesday, June 4th

The Tuesday Quick-Start Shoreline Business Workshop for start-up, existing or potential business owners will be held on Tuesday, June 4th from 12noon to 1:30pm at Shoreline City Hall, 17500 Midvale Avenue N.

Quick-Start Shoreline is presented by Shoreline Community College Small Business Accelerator and the City of Shoreline. The sessions are free and open to the public; feel free to bring a brown bag lunch or a snack.

• Are you a business owner looking for new ways to engage new customers?

• Are you an artist wanting to learn how to turn what you love doing into something that pays the bills?

On January 28, the Shoreline City Council launched a pilot Business Mini-Grant program to help you do just that! The program will award up to $10,000 in matching funds for businesses to collaborate with local artists.

The program is designed to contribute to the Office of Economic Development's place-making initiative. Place-making is the thing that "turns a City from a place you can't wait to get through to a place you never want to leave." 

Artists have the unique ability to identify the thing that makes a place special, and they often possess the tools to highlight it. By tapping into this ability, Shoreline businesses will gain a competitive edge and Shoreline artists will hone their skills and gain new clients.

Both artists and business owners interested in grant funding are highly encouraged to participate in the Connect Designated Quick-Start workshops.

These workshops will cover such topics as tips on how to turn your hobby into a business, successfully applying for grant funding, how to leverage grand openings and other events to help you gain a competitive edge, and information on how to navigate the contracts and permits you need to make it all happen.

This week's Connect designated QuickStart Shoreline is entitled:

Dream to Reality - 5 Tools to help you set and accomplish your goals

This workshop is designed to arm small businesses, artists, and non profits with powerful, yet simple, tools for planning and achieving their business goals.

We will discuss:

• The four components of entrepreneurial goals setting;
• Positioning yourself for opportunities;
• How to create a path to money making;
• How to engage others in your business – without having to pay them;
• Why creating an advisory board will accelerate your success.

You'll learn what it means be an opportunity-driven entrepreneur and what tools you can use to achieve success from your efforts ~ without spending lots of time or money.

Participants will leave with five new tools from the Entrepreneurial Edge Small Business Toolkit to help you turn your business dream into reality.

1. Set holistic goals with the Entrepreneurial Goal Setting tool.

2. Stay focused with a Grounding Statement.

3. Identify your ideal customer with the four components of customer identification.

4. Know how to make money with our five step model.

5. Achieve greatness with three bold steps.

This is a great workshop for new entrepreneurs and existing business owners looking to uncover and capture opportunities to expand and grow.

Tiffany McVeety

Tiffany McVeety is CEO of Girandola, LLC, a State-Certified entrepreneurship training center providing professional entrepreneurship training and train-the-trainer programs that expand an entrepreneur's capacity to plan, design, launch and grow a successful new business. 

Tiffany is author of the Entrepreneurial Edge Small Business Toolkit  "...a must read. Use this book and grow a successful business that can thrive today, tomorrow, and into the future." Jim Thomas, CEO, Community Capital Development.

Tiffany was founding director of Grow Washington, a merchant artisan focused business incubator.

She earned her BA in Entrepreneurship and Masters of Business Administration from Seattle Pacific University and has integrated her methods and best practices into governments on a local and international level and has taught entrepreneurship including the business of art at five of our regional colleges and many conferences nationwide.