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SCORE San Francisco

Empowering Entrepreneurs: Unlocking Success Together

Whether you're a budding entrepreneur with a groundbreaking idea or a small business owner looking to scale up we're here to lend a helping hand.

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Amazon Seller Success Series 2024

SCOREBoard - A new way to grow your business!

SCORE is offering a new way for you to focus the experience of successful business experts on growing your business…and at an affordable cost. We call it SCOREBoard.

A Personal Advisory Board of Experienced Advisors to Help Tackle a Specific Business Challenge or Opportunity
An intense, solution-focused, 2-3 hour workshop for the Individual owner or CEO of a small business
Focused on brainstorming solutions to a specific challenge/opportunity you identify.
Facilitated by a customized SCORE Team of 3 advisors experienced in your issue.
Affordable Workshop Admin Fee ($275)

We encourage you to sign up for your own SCOREBoard workshop and gain the insights of your own personal “Board” of experienced mentors in a meeting.

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A SCORE San Francisco Success Story

Magic Tooth Bus: Transforming Dental Care in San Francisco

Founded in 2017 by three determined women with immigrant backgrounds, the Magic Tooth Bus (MTB) addresses the dental care gap in San Francisco. Recognizing the commuting and scheduling challenges faced by low-income families, MTB brings essential dental services directly to the communities. Even amidst funding hurdles and the Covid-19 pandemic, they persisted, offering virtual oral health webinars and distributing free dental kits. Their Mobile Dental Truck serves as both a clinic and a creative playground, emphasizing culturally competent care for underserved populations. Above all, MTB stands firm on a core belief: Dental health is a human right.

Read about Magic Tooth Bus's success

April is National Volunteer Month

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Become a SCORE Mentor

As we celebrate our amazing volunteers this month, it is also an ideal time to think about how you can give back. If you’d like to become a SCORE mentor, we’d love to have you. Learn more about becoming a mentor at SCORE.

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National Small Business Week

Attend the Free Virtual Summit

On April 30 – May 1, 2024, the U.S. Small Business Administration and SCORE will host the National Small Business Week Virtual Summit. This event will feature a range of educational webinars, exhibition booths, business resources, networking opportunities, and professional guidance from SCORE mentors.

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Upcoming Events

“Shields and Swords” Against Employee Claims 240424

California employers run a wage-and-hour law gauntlet every day. Learn how to develop shields to protect yourself from employee claims, and how to keep your swords sharp to fend off claims when they arise.

This workshop will focus on five of the most popular employee claims:

meal and rest break violations
misclassification of independent contractors
pay stub violations
final pay
uncompensated time.

Registration fee $30

This is an interactive workshop for which we encourage your participation. The recording and slides will be sent only to those who attend.

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Finance: The Foreign Language for Entrepreneurs 240502

Do you know how to speak Finance?

Finding and Retaining Volunteers 240507

Volunteers are a fundamental part of our American fabric, and they play an important role in our community. Volunteer activities can include anything from caring for children, feeding the homeless, and rescuing animals to protecting our natural resources and environment.

This training explores not only the many roles that volunteers can take on within your charitable program, but also how to plan for your volunteers, how to locate volunteers, how to mitigate legal issues surrounding volunteers, and finally how to value and retain volunteers.

What you’ll learn:

Why people volunteer.
Various

Small Business Tax Secrets 240508

Seven smart ways to reduce your tax bill

Employee to Entrepreneur: Franchising 101 240508

Franchising in the Bay Area: Do's and Don'ts

Paid, Earned & Owned Media-Three Essential Elements to Marketing Success 250514

Your marketing plan is not just building a website and doing a few social media posts. Most businesses can benefit from a multi disciplined approach that includes website, SEO, social media, email marketing, PR and online advertising. This webinar will show you how these elements (What we call "Pull, Push and Amplify") work together to guide your business on a road to marketing success.

We will discuss:

PULL

-Why a properly built website is important for optimal search engine rankings

- What is SEO. How to organically improve search engine rankings.

-Google Ads vs Facebook Ads. Why, when and where

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SCORE Empowers All Entrepreneurs

We believe that anyone can start and manage a successful small business. We also know that the road is harder for some than for others. Diverse backgrounds, different voices and unique needs may call for specialized resources and mentoring approaches.

SCORE is listening, recognizes these diverse needs, and provides personalized support in a wholly-inclusive platform called SCORE for All.

Visit SCORE for All

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Impact Your Community

Since 1964, SCORE has educated and mentored more than 11 million small business owners and entrepreneurs. We're looking for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to serve in a variety of roles — from knowledgeable business mentors to local community advocates.

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Sunshine Flowers International

Sunshine Flowers International: Since 1986, importing premium roses & hydrangeas from Colombia and Ecuador. Personalized service for florists and event planners.

Ladies Who Launch

Competing for and retaining top-tier talent in the current market is a major pain point for many small businesses and entrepreneurs. In this 2022 Ladies Who Launch Resilient Leadership Summit session, you’ll learn from those who are making strides in this space with limited resources, including what has worked (and not worked) and how to implement these tactics in your own business context.

Irene Li, Co-Founder, Mei Mei Restaurant Group & Co-Founder, Prepshift
Amy Peterson, Co-Founder & CEO, Rebel Nell
Susan Ruth Lundy, Chapter Chair & Certified Mentor, SCORE San Francisco

Goal Setting

Whether you are an individual entrepreneur or a team leader in a company, running a large organization within a company, or running the company itself, every year you will need to set goals for the coming year.

How do you do this will depend on your role in the company. Your input and setting goals will be very different if you are an individual entrepreneur versus someone running a team or a larger organization within a company.

Let us start with defining goals for a startup.

Setting goals for a startup company

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