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LevelUp

Is it time to take your business to the next level? Allow us to help you make the process easier with our LevelUp program.

Are You Ready to LevelUp?

How do you know when it is time to expand your business?

The Orange County Inland Empire Small Business Development Center created the program SBDC LEVEL UP to aid small business owners in growing their company as well as to figure out when it is time to expand. With Level Up, business owners asses and develop their metrics, teams, finances, triggers, and strategies. The assessment allows owners to evolve and reach the next level of their company. Individuals will be trained on how to lower the risk of expansion and how to become proactive in the growth of your business.

Some of the greatest barriers in developing your business are:

Some of the greatest barriers in developing your business are:
  • Growth
  • Cash
  • People
  • Customers
  • Infrastructure
Areas of growth include:
  • New location
  • New and existing products
  • Acquirement of new equipment or technology
  • Merges and acquisitions
  • Strategic partnerships
  • Currently in a plateau

Features

4 Month Program

Custom Research Briefs

1:1 Coaching with Business Consultants

Peer-Networking Events

Custom Growth Plan

Visits to Growth Partner Sites

The Program

Every business faces a series of challenges on its path to growth. This module covers a variety of successful approaches to growth. You will find out how to grow your business as you learn about successful growth opportunities, identify failure in growth and pitfalls to avoid, and take actions setting your growth plan as aligned with your vision. Are you ready to grow? TOPICS COVERED WILL INCLUDE:
  • Growth model & categories
  • Case studies
  • Why are you growing now?
  • What does growth mean to you?
  • What are key drivers growth in your business?
  • What are essential standards you need to grow your business?

DELIVERABLES:
  • Market research report
  • Assignment to 1:1 consultant

HANDOUTS:
  • Action plan template
  • Reference document/checklist for standardization process
  • KPIs Checklist
  • KPAs Checklist

ACTION ITEMS:
  • Schedule meeting for 1:1 consulting session with assigned consultant to work through handouts

Cash is king. But the question is: cash for growth or growth for cash? To grow, you need to maintain adequate cash flow. In this module, you will understand your numbers through your P&L and build your financial projection to support your growth plan. This class will teach out how to accurately project out growth, model it, and stress test it to make sure capital will work effectively with your growth plan. Numbers do not lie!

TOPICS COVERED WILL INCLUDE:

  • Financial models – How to develop your financial projections to meet your growth plans?
  • Stress testing your P&L –
    • Where do you currently stand in terms of cash flow?
    • What are your sources of revenue?
  • How to develop your financial strategy to support your growth plan?


DELIVERABLES:

  • Options to fund your growth (self funding, adjusting projections, and/or raise capital)


HANDOUTS:

  • Financial projection template


ACTION ITEMS:

  • Schedule meeting for 1:1 consulting session with assigned consultant to work through handouts
There is only one boss: CUSTOMERS! Growth in your business is all about attracting new customers and/or expanding what your existing customers are buying from you. This module will take your growth plan and help you hon in your efforts on bettering the outcomes of your current marketing efforts, defining your target areas that you are trying to reach and developing a strategy to grow your customer base.

TOPICS COVERED WILL INCLUDE:

  • How to assess your current marketing (acquisition, retention, channels & ROI)?
  • Evaluate your competition
  • Size up your target market
  • How effective is your sales process?

DELIVERABLES:
  • Channels for acquisition

HANDOUTS:
  • Marketing effectiveness tool (Channels,ROI, retention and acquisition)

ACTION ITEMS:
  • Schedule meeting for 1:1 consulting session with assigned consultant to work through handouts
Your people are one of the most tools you have to grow your business. This module will address how to choose and develop your team members wisely and strategically. You will learn how to assess your current team and grow it to support your growth plan while making sure that they understand your vision.

TOPICS COVERED WILL INCLUDE:

  • Who is your current team?
    • Categorize your employees
    • Define roles and goals
  • Identify missing talent
  • Develop an organizational chart that supports your growth plan
  • Steps to communicate your growth plan with your team

DELIVERABLES:
  • Talent mapping process

HANDOUTS:
  • Organizational chart template

ACTION ITEMS:
  • Schedule meeting for 1:1 consulting session with assigned consultant to work through handouts
One day or day one? Through this course, you decide. Through this module, you will present your action plan that sets you on the path to roll out your growth plan addressing cash, customers, and people. Congratulations on stepping forward towards growth!

TOPICS:

  • Your action & execution plan
    • Growth – Timeline
    • Cash – Choice to fund your growth
    • Customers – channels, acquisition, retention, & ROI
    • People – organizational chart

DELIVERABLES:
  • Presentations to showcase participants action plans for growth

HANDOUTS:
  • Certificates of completion

ACTION ITEMS:
  • Schedule meeting for 1:1 consulting session with assigned consultant to move forward with action plan

Ways We Can Help

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More Programs

Our suite of programs are designed to guide businesses in the early stages to receive the information, resources, and assistance necessary to enter their given market in just a few weeks.

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Services

At OCIE SBDC Network, our team of qualified consultants provide high-quality expertise to help your business succeed in both the short-term and long-term. We are a well-known provider of small business consulting, education, and resources.

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Resources

Find the tools you need to get your business up and running, with government resources, guides, templates, and more.

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Funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration. Funding is not an endorsement of any product, opinion, or service. All programs are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis.

Funded in part through a Grant with the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development. All opinions, conclusions, and/or recommendations expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development.

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