Women's Business Center

In Person: Turning Your Hobby Into a Business Series Unit 3- Sales Channels for the Side Hustle Business
2025-03-27 18:00 - 20:30 UTC | TBD
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 selling online. We will cover what business owners need to know including but not limited to

Evaluate a vending opportunity
Build an ecommerce presences on a budget
Overview of online sales platforms
Determine the appropriate platform for the product
Equipping yourself to be a professional vendor
Preparing to be an online retailer

Registration will begin 1 month before program start

In Person: Turning Your Hobby Into a Business Series Unit 4- Money, Banking & Credit
2025-04-03 18:00 - 20:30
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 cash flow
How and why to keep your personal spending separate from all business-related spending
Why, as a small business, you want to plan to manage your money through a bank and how to choose the best one for your business
The role credit plays in guaranteeing your business’ future growth and success

Registration will begin 1 month before program start

In Person: Turning Your Hobby Into a Business Series Unit 5- Business Administration & Bookkeeping
2025-04-10 18:00 - 20:30
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 is about grounding you in these record-keeping practices and teaching you how to use your records as a tool to make future decisions about your business. Examples of what we cover include: teaching.

A simple system to record your transactions
How to create basic financial statements that will help you understand the health of your business
How to determine sales tax collection obligation
How to include business’ income & expenses on your tax return

Registration will begin 1 month before program start

In Person: Turning Your Hobby Into a Business Series Unit 6- Pitch Competition & Last Day
2025-04-17 18:00 - 20:30
Session Six is 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 as well as sell to your fellow classmates! It is a culmination of the THB course. However, LAEDA also sees it as a beginning of the next phase of your entrepreneurial journey which we look forward to accompanying you on through personalized counseling services and access to further training.

Registration will begin 1 month before program start
