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Finding Profit: Practical Ways to Improve Your Bottom Line

Is your business reaching its profit potential? Join the OCIE SBDC in this new course designed to help you quickly understand the overall financial health of your business and to identify practical opportunities for improvement. Remember: If your business isn’t profitable, you have a very expensive hobby.

Class 1: Fundamentals of Financial Health

  • How profitable are you now?
  • How profitable should you be?
  • Is your business model inherently flawed?

    Class 2: Profit Driver One: Managing Expenses
  • Is your cost of goods sold reasonable?
  • Are your fixed overhead and administrative expenses appropriate?
  • Are you managing debt properly?

    Class 3: Profit Driver Two: Optimizing Your Top Line
  • Is your pricing right?
  • Are your revenue streams balanced?
  • Do you have a sales strategy that works?

    Class 4: Profit Driver Three: Boosting Operational Efficiency
  • Adopting a business process improvement mindset
  • Optimizing inventory management
  • Technology as a productivity tool

Date

Sep 04 2024
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Time

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

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Finding Profit: Practical Ways to Improve Your Bottom Line

Mike Daniel is the network director of the Orange County Inland Empire SBDC Network, which assists aspiring entrepreneurs and current business owners throughout Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties. Mike was formerly the director of the SBDC office at Long Beach City College. As business owner and entrepreneur himself, he started his career as the owner of a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory location in Manhattan Beach and went on to open a second location in Long Beach in 2001. In 2007, Mike sold the Manhattan Beach store for an above-market offer then invested in several additional locations as a minority shareholder. Mike further expanded his candy empire with venture located in Shoreline Village in Long Beach called Sugar Daddies Sweet Shoppe, based on fill-it yourself candy options.

Mike has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from California State University, Fullerton.