Quick Start Shoreline Tuesday - creating a game plan for expansion

Join the business community for a special Quick-Start “Working Session” on Tuesday, November 10, 2015 from 12:00 to 1:30pm at Shoreline City Hall, 17500 Midvale Ave N for the kickoff of Fall 2015.

Quick-Start Shoreline is presented by Shoreline Community College Small Business Accelerator and the City of Shoreline. These workshops are designed to be helpful for start-up, existing or potential business owners. Sessions are free and open to the public. Feel free to bring a brown bag lunch.

Quick-Start Shoreline Working Session: Ramping Up Special Event with Mr. Kim Causey

Tools to go from 3 to 30 Employees

Have a Game plan? What is your vision, anticipates problems before they occur, have people around you that can give you good advice, where they can also anticipate roadblocks and problems and help with recovery plans.  Remembering how got to this first bit of success, Begin with your values, integrity on how you want to be seen and treated with respect and honesty.

1. 1, 3, 5 year written plan 
2. Anticipate problems ahead 
3. Make accounting your friend “numbers don’t lie”
4. Advisors can support you through the good and the bad
5. Sales and marketing can always bring you customers
6. Maintain your core values

Kim Causey

Kim is a business consultant who is also writing a book series and in a partnership “dabbling” in real estate. Using experience gleaned from owning and managing a business, excelling in the banking industry during the rock and roll interest rates of the 80’s for Bank of America, became their top producer in dollar volume in loan production in four states.

He was invited to head up all “sales and marketing” for a startup company, expanded their reach and later purchased the company expanding it to 34 states.

He is focusing on helping businesses better strategize their growth by looking at organizational development issues including: branding/identity, marketing, finance, operations, storefront and growth management, organizational change, strategic planning, long and short term growth planning, risk management planning, public relations, media relations, technology and network infrastructure. Kim believes in giving unsurpassed customer service while building your business on integrity, respect and honesty.

Goal of the Quick-Start Working Sessions

To provide our SCC Business Accelerator Community with access to leading experts and cutting edge business tools that can close the GAP in idea-to-expansion knowledge. These workshops will give start-ups, teams and students a chance to learn practical knowledge, as well as provide hands-on training, and networking opportunities with professionals in various branches of business.

Format of the Quick-Start Working Sessions

Each working session will focus on a single topic. Quick-Start staff and area experts providing key insights and knowledge regarding the topic in a 20 minute lecture format. After the lecture, the attendees will break into working sessions to engage with the topic as it relates to them. We will invite Quick-Start mentors and local entrepreneurs as a resource to the attendees to help answer any questions and think through any problems they may be facing.

Networking will begin at noon.

Lecture will begin at 12:15pm.

The working sessions will be open from 12:35pm to 1:30pm.