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Business Launch: Your roadmap to starting and growing

  • The Carl Maxey Center 3114 E 5th Ave Spokane, WA 99202 (map)

SMALL BUSINESS SUPPORT WORKSHOP

Learn how to grow or start up your small business

Join the Carl Maxey Center for Business Launch: Your Roadmap to Starting and Growing, a practical workshop for aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners. Learn the basics of building a business plan, finding customers, managing startup costs, marketing your business, and planning for growth. You’ll also receive checklists, worksheets, templates, and examples to help you take your next steps with confidence. Whether you’re starting from scratch or exploring a new direction for your business, this workshop is for you.

Register to attend this event by filling out the form at the bottom of this page.

Business Launch 🚀

Your Roadmap to Starting and Growing

Have a business idea, or a business you’re ready to grow? Join the Carl Maxey Center for a practical workshop with guidance, tools, and resources to help you take your next steps.

This workshop is for people exploring a new business, preparing to launch, or considering expanding or changing an existing business. You don’t need to be part of the Center’s business network to attend.

What you’ll learn

  • How to shape and test a business idea

  • How to identify customers and understand your market

  • Business structures, registration, and licensing basics

  • How to build a simple business plan

  • Startup costs, pricing, cash flow, and funding

  • Marketing and ways to find customers

  • Day-to-day operations and planning for growth

  • How to evaluate a business expansion or change in direction

Take-home resource folder

Participants will receive practical materials to help put workshop ideas into action, including:

☑ Checklists

  • Business startup checklist

  • Registration and licensing checklist

  • Launch readiness checklist

  • First-year business tasks checklist

  • Marketing launch checklist

🧱 Templates

  • One-page business plan

  • Business model canvas

  • Startup budget and cash flow forecast

  • Pricing worksheet

  • Marketing plan

  • Customer profile

  • Business pitch

📝 Worksheets

  • Business idea worksheet

  • Customer discovery questions

  • Competitor comparison

  • Startup costs and break-even point

  • Business strengths, challenges, opportunities, and risks

  • Goals and milestones

📐 Examples and guides

  • Business model explanations, including product, service, subscription, online store, marketplace, franchise, and social enterprise models

  • Sample business plans for service, retail, and food businesses

  • Sample marketing strategies for new businesses, small budgets, and business growth

  • Sample target customer profiles, such as local families, college students, busy professionals, and other small businesses

  • Sample social media posts, flyers, and promotional offers

📖 Resource guide

  • Business advising and mentoring

  • Startup funding and lending

  • Licensing and permits

  • Tax and bookkeeping support

  • Marketing and web support

Who should attend?

  • People who have recently connected with the Carl Maxey Center for help starting a business

  • Aspiring entrepreneurs who are new to the Center’s business network

  • Current business owners exploring growth or a change in business model

Join us 😊

Date: November 30
Time: 4PM
Location: Carl Maxey Center, 3114 E 5th Ave
Cost: FREE

Bring your questions and ideas. Leave with practical next steps and resources to help move your business forward. If you’re interested in joining us, please register by filling out the form below:

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