Turning Your Hobby Into a Business – Unit II – Understanding the Power of Marketing

Fox Meadow Apartments Club House Fox Meadow Drive, Maple Shade, New Jersey, United States

Unit 2 is all about identifying who your best customers are and how to reach them so they buy from you instead of your competition. Don’t worry if you haven’t had any sales yet. In this session, we’ll learn about    - Identifying your target customer and why this is so important     -Where...

Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Promise Neighborhood Family Success Center 580 Benson Street, Camden, NJ, United States

LAEDA's Introduction to Entrepreneurship is for individuals who are in the idea stage in their entrepreneurial journey. This seminar lays out the realities of the journey and key factors to consider before getting started. Once you know where you are, you will learn about all of LAEDA's no cost courses and counseling services and how...

Turning Your Hobby Into a Business – Unit III – Sales Channels for the Side Hustle Business

Fox Meadow Apartments Club House Fox Meadow Drive, Maple Shade, New Jersey, United States

A sales channel is the manner by which a business sells (exchange of money) its product or service to the customer. In Session Three, we review the sales channels that work best for businesses transitioning from a few, scattered sales to more frequent sales of regularly higher quantities. These channels are public market vending and...

Turning Your Hobby Into a Business – Unit IV – Money, Banking & Credit

Fox Meadow Apartments Club House Fox Meadow Drive, Maple Shade, New Jersey, United States

Whether it's seen as an opportunity or a problem, money is needed by all businesses to run. As a business owner, you need to know how to use money in ways that help you and not hurt you. In Session 4, we will cover      -Simple budgeting to help you maximize saving and manage...

Turning Your Hobby Into a Business – Unit V – Business Administration & Bookkeeping

Fox Meadow Apartments Club House Fox Meadow Drive, Maple Shade, New Jersey, United States

Committing to keeping accurate records of all sales and expenses is the foundation for ensuring your business’ future success. Written transactions serve as a documented history of your business’ daily performance. Moreover, these records are then combined at key moments of each year to present an overall picture of your business’ financial health. This session...

Procurement and Contracting

Virtual Online

Join us as we host Jonathan Sklar from Bank of America to present on banking and financial side of procurement and government contracting...

Turning Your Hobby Into a Business – Unit VI – Pitch Competition & Celebration

Fox Meadow Apartments Club House Fox Meadow Drive, Maple Shade, New Jersey, United States

Unit 6 the last session of LAEDA’s Turning Your Hobby into a Business, and the class where you get to showcase your talent! Applying everything learned in the previous five sessions, each student gets the opportunity to pitch their business. The pitch is a “show and tell” way to both market your product or service...

Network In NOIR Free Workshop

Curate Noir Shop- Camden NJ 1327 Haddon Avenue, Camden, NJ, United States

Join us for "Network in NOIR," a FREE empowering event designed to connect and educate small business owners, hosted by the Small Business Association (SBA) and LAEDA Women's Business Center...

Introduction to Entrepreneurship

Pinelands Success Center 55 Pemberton - Browns Mills Road, Pemberton Township, NJ, United States

LAEDA's Introduction to Entrepreneurship is for individuals who are in the idea stage in their entrepreneurial journey...