Quick Start Shoreline Tuesday - Maintaining Business Momentum through the Holidays

Join the business community for a special Quick-Start “Working Session” on Tuesday, November 17, 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: Maintaining Business Momentum through the Holidays

Special Event with  Jean Sagvold-Simpson

Learn tools and tricks to keep the cash flowing in and your company moral high, during the holidays.  Take away simple, free or low cost tips to attract customers, keep them spreading your cheer and coming back for more.  This will be a fun and interactive talk, come and join in the fun.

Learn to incorporate theses simple steps into designing your Holiday attractions, whether it is store front, online or in your mailings.

    -Lights. Camera. Action.

    -Your team, can win hearts, spread Holiday cheer while bringing in cash flow

    -Create meaningful experiences for your customers.

Jean Sagvold-Simpson

Meet the visionary strategist with passion! She gives problems new solutions while creating positive outcomes. Driven by the challenge, of managing programs, and managing her own design company, Jean delivers superb value with excellent results.

With a unique perspective gleaned from two decades of working with non-profit, for-profit and government contracts, Jean brings analytical and fresh tools, a strong professional and community service experience, formal leadership training all to create “wins” with “ positive outcome “for small to mid-size enterprises.

Having attended and delivered professional development training's and workshops throughout her career Jean is choosing to focus consulting on Business organizational development issues including: branding/identity, marketing, finance, operations, storefront and growth management.

Specializing in Organizational change, strategic planning, long and short term growth planning, utilizing LEAN practices, risk management planning, public relations, media relations, technology and network infrastructure.

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.