Basic Sales and Use Tax and Tax Return Preparation

This instructor led class assists taxpayers in the following areas:

• • Preparing a sales and use tax return
  • Supporting and reporting exempt sales
  • Using a resale certificate
  • Determining what is taxable and non-taxable labor
  • Maintaining adequate records

This instructor-led class also assists taxpayers in preparing a sales and use tax return. Participants are encouraged to bring in their sales and use tax return along with any documentation pertaining to that return period.

Presenter: James Barrett is an Information Officer II with the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration.

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 How to do Business with Sacramento County

What you will learn:

• Working with (or Selling to) the County of Sacramento
• Registering your Business with Sacramento County
• Tips for Successfully Responding to a BID
• Local and Small Business Assistance Defined

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Business 101: Success Starts Here

This free interactive workshop is a great place to begin if you want to start a business. Unfortunately, many people end up wasting their time and money because they don’t make the time to understand key success factors or have a plan of action. This workshop will give you the facts and allow you to make more informed choices.

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Loan Readiness with the Small Business Administration

What You Will Learn

• How does a small business get money?
• Bank loans-are they impossible?
• Doing your homework before applying for a loan and who might be able to help
• Why banks might not be able to lend to your business. How SBA might help.
• SBA loan guarantee program overview 7(a) & 504 Loan Programs
• Tips for dealing with lenders

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Wellness Series – Energizing Yourself to Success in Business and Life

Qigong (chee-gong) is an over five thousand year old Chinese health method that combines slow graceful movements with mental concentration and breathing to increase and balance a person’s vital energy. Clear your mind, body and spirit of old “stuff” and energies and build your energy with vital healing properties to “energize yourself to success”.

Additional Topics Covered:

Become Aware of Your True Passion

Grounding it to Manifest

Creating Energy to Uplift Yourself

Your Life to Success Set Intentions of Success through Meditation

Facilitated by: Michele Livingston, Karen Takayama, & Claudia Chandler

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Federal Contracting 101 with the Small Business Administration

Topics will include:

• Registering with the federal government
• Small business certifications
• Small business contracting set-asides
• Looking for opportunities
• How the government buys
• Marketing to the federal government

Presented by: Paul Tavernia, Lead Business Opportunity Specialist/8 (a), The Small Business Administration, Sacramento Office

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Getting Noticed on Social Media!

Everything you need to know to get started or to take your social media marketing to the next level… from picking platforms to creating a consistent brand message, having more engagement, creating eye-catching graphics, and more. Beginners welcome.

Taught by Michelle Sobala. She has over sixteen years business owner, website developer and marketing expert – specializing in search engine optimization, user experience. And she’s known for strategic web planning and consulting to mid-size businesses and works closely with the CEO and their teams to achieve results.

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Business 101: Success Starts Here

This free interactive workshop is a great place to begin if you want to start a business. Unfortunately, many people end up wasting their time and money because they don’t make the time to understand key success factors or have a plan of action. This workshop will give you the facts and allow you to make more informed choices.

Presented by: SCORE Sacramento Chapter

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Capital Region Small Business Week

Monday 5/6: Capital Region Small Business Week Kick-Off Event

Tuesday 5/7: BizX: “Leading like A Boss”

Wednesday 5/8: Capital Connection

Thursday 5/9:

• Small Business Awards Lunch
• May Marketplace

Friday 5/10: Small Business Start-Up Guide: Things to Consider When Starting Your New Business

For more information for each event, please visit capitalregionsmallbusinessweek.org

“Funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.”

Capital Region Small Business Week Multi- Chamber Mixer at Cowo Campus

Come and kick off Small Business Week at the Annual Multi-Chamber Mixer at Cowo Campus! Come and network with other small businesses from every chamber in the Capital Region!

CRSBW is in Partnership with: US Small Business Administration, SMUD, Sacramento Metro Chamber, The City of
Sacramento, Sacramento County, Business Environmental Resource Center (BERC), Capital Region
SBDC, The City of Elk Grove, California Capital Financial Development Corporation, Sacramento Business Journal, Cowo Campus

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