Quick Start Shoreline Tuesday: Working Session

Join the business community at Quick-Start “Working Session” on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2015 from 12:00 to 1:30pm at Shoreline City Hall, 17500 Midvale Ave N.

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.

Title
Connect Series: Tips and Tricks to getting the most value out of attending a trade show

 A Quick-Start Shoreline Working Session 

In this Quick Start Working Session entrepreneurs and experts will gain insights into attending industry trade show and conferences for maximum value.

As we've covered over the past "Connect Series" workshops, industry trade shows and conferences are the heart of where connections and knowledge come together for your business.

Join us for this workshop to gain tools to successfully:

1. Have private meetings with the top leaders of your industry.
2. Identify leading trends in your industry that you can bring back to your organization or your own business.
3. Keep from being overwhelmed by the huge amount of information.
4. Prepare a strategic plan before attending so that you can get maximum value out of making new connections and attending the most valuable workshops and keynotes.

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 with 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.