GettinLocal Webinar

About the Webinar:
Learn about the first-ever self-serve, mobile-marketing ad platform, GettinLocal is designed to help businesses reach hyperlocal audiences. Via such features as email marketing, video ads, SEO, and data mining, agencies can reach thousands of customers at any moment based on their locations.

About the Speaker:
Peter Daly is an experienced business executive and a leader in the advancement of technologies which help accelerate mobile marketing and payments solutions. Prior to GettinLocal, he was Head of US Acquiring Sales at Visa and held roles as a senior leader at Bank of America, First Data, and CitiBank.

Free

Restaurant HVAC Best Practices for a Post COVID World

About the Webinar:
This webinar will help restaurateurs understand new ASHRAE and CDC guidelines to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and other airborne pathogens; The role of restaurant HVAC systems in managing proper ventilation; provide implementation strategies and technology options that provide a path to compliance, and discussing why COVID-Compliant HVAC systems should be a high priority for your facilities going forward.

About the Speakers:
Gerri, Gabe, and Stratos Domenikos have over a combined sixty years of experience working with HVAC for restaurants. They work together at Airlogix Commercial HVAC/R.

Free

Email Marketing for Startups and Entrepreneurs

About the Webinar:
Learn the basics of email marketing in this interactive workshop.

About the Speaker:
Sharon Lee Thony is a brand marketing executive and digital marketing instructor, with nearly two decades of experience creating award-winning marketing campaigns for travel, beauty and luxury lifestyle brands. Sharon is founder and principal at SLT Consulting, a boutique marketing collective that partners with savvy businesses looking to scale their efforts in various integrated marketing channels for growth: social media, search marketing, website optimization, email marketing, digital performance and brand strategy.

Free

Website Design

About the Webinar:
Does your business need a website? Are you puzzled about where to start? This class is a high-level introduction to the technologies and tools for building websites. No existing tech skills are necessary.

About the Speaker:
Lise Fracalossi has been working with tech since the dawn of the web. For the past ten years she served as a front-end engineer at a major tech publisher, developing their portfolio of sites and products, but recently left that job to pursue a new career adventure. She’s a tenacious problem solver with expert HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills.

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Health Department Issues for Restaurants

About the Webinar:
The webinar is to help restaurants as they begin to reopen. It will cover Article 81 of the NYC Food Code and the Letter Grade System, including best practices and hot topics. Additionally the webinar will include current COVID regulations, NYS and NYC guidance and additional COVID precautions necessary going forward.

About the Speaker:
Leon Lubarsky, a practicing attorney, who co-founded Letter Grade Consulting to help food service operators comply with regulations set forth by the NYC Department of Health.

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Accounting & Taxes For Tech Startup Founders

About the Webinar:
Learn fundamental accounting and tax rules for founders of tech companies including things to think about when starting your business, budgeting, setting up an accounting system, revenue recognition, R&D Tax Credits and State Incentives like QETC and Startup-NY.

About the Speaker:
Akshay Shrimanker, CPA is the CEO of SHAY CPA P.C. SHAY CPA P.C. specializing in helping technology founders with their tax compliance and accounting.

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Career Transitioning

About the Webinar:
Panel discussion with corporate career professionals who have transitioned into starting their own businesses. This discussion is designed to provide helpful advice and guidance for professionals who are interested in pursuing entrepreneurship

About the Speakers:
This webinar will have a panel of experts on transitioning to becoming business owners including Milène Jardine, owner of Milène Jardine Chocolatier, along with executive coach, consultant and facilitator Wendy Pettie.

Free

Create a Website That Tells a Story

About the Webinar:
Facilitated by Anita Srivastava of Biscuit & Chai: learn the ins-and-outs of website development and best practices. Explore how to advance your business in a tech-savvy world by optimizing your online presence and through the design of your website.

About the Speaker:
Anita Srivastava is the Director of Product at Biscuit & Chai, a digital agency. An entrepreneur with a diverse outlook in both corporate and startup strategy, Anita has helped businesses succeed through the implementation of agile and lean leadership in digital products and business strategy execution.

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PPP Loan Forgiveness

About the Webinar:
The webinar will be from a SBA official regarding the PPP forgiveness program and will have additional commentary from a CPA and business consultant about the process. These people will be assisting borrowers file their forgiveness application.

About the Speaker:
This webinar will feature a panel, including SBA representative Man-Li Kuo Lin, business consultant Charles Antonucci, and accountant Alan Chan.

Free

Your Space in the Media Space: How to Get The Most Out of Public Relations and Social Media For Your Brand.

About the Webinar:
Discuss the tools needed to create your brand image to sell to the media. Learn how to create "your story" and find your unique space in the crowded media world. Print vs online, social vs traditional, it can all be overwhelming. Learn how to cut through the noisy media landscape.

About the Speaker:
Born and bred in Flushing, Queens, Steven Hall is the epitome of a native New Yorker. Gifted with a sharp wit, tongue, and street-smart instincts, Steven created his own reality throughout his career, and has never shied away from a challenge or opportunity. Steven often says that he did not choose PR, PR chose him. Since 1996 he has tasted thousands of plates of food, drunk vast amounts of wine, spirits, zero proof cocktails, and kombucha; visited countless farms, and stayed at hundreds of hotels throughout the world, all with one objective in mind - to learn, and experience so he can be the best voice for his clients, and a leader in representing the industry he loves.

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Meet the Lenders

About the Webinar:
At this free webinar you will be able to meet with a panel of lenders from different organizations to go over what you need to get money for your business! Panelists include banks, micro-lenders and crowdfunders institutions to meet the needs of all business owners from all stages.

You will get an introduction from each of the organizations along with a description of the different amounts of money, terms and additional requirements that each lender can offer your business.

About the Speaker:
This webinar will feature a panel, including:
Rene Cruz - Senior Business Lending Officer at BOC Capital Corp
Tshering Gurung - Manager of Business Development at BCNA
Quadri Olanlege - Account Manager at Queens Business Solution, Kiva Trustee
Ricardo Rodriguez - VP Business Banking Lending Development, BNB Bank

Free

Ready, Set, Go!

About the Webinar:
Ready? Set. Go! is a 60-minute free workshop that takes you all the things you need to think about when going into business.  It provides a general overview of what it takes to start a business; legal considerations and what it takes to fund a new venture. 

About the Speaker:
Thomas Farrell is a lawyer with a great deal of experience with contracts, employment matters, and regulatory compliance. He offers a combination of programs and practices to owners of small- and medium-sized businesses, largely designed to prevent them from being sued or from being investigated by government agencies.

Free

Classes are sponsored by the Small Business Association.