Palm Beach SCORE Hosts Summit for Small Businesses

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Oct. 3, 2017 - PRLog -- The Palm Beach SCORE chapter is hosting a complimentary summit for business owners that provides personal insight on how to grow and achieve goals that will get their companies to the top. As one of the top ranked chapters nationwide, Palm Beach SCORE will feature some of the most successful entrepreneurs and business professionals at its Summit for Small Businesses November 2, 2017, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Airport Hilton, West Palm Beach. Attendees will benefit from speakers' personal success stories detailing how to make companies prosper in the marketplace and become a successful professional.

"The summit aims to provide its attendees the support necessary to thrive as a small business owner," says Paul Gross, Co-Chair Elect of the Palm Beach SCORE chapter. "With the help from Palm Beach SCORE, the summit's featured speakers and their real-world experiences, small business owners will get off the ground, grow, and achieve their goals."

The Palm Beach SCORE Summit for Small Businesses will focus on business trends and skills needed to get companies to the top. Experts will give advice and share their successes during six 30-minute sessions. The sessions will feature:

• Be in the Know in the City of West Palm Beach – Jeri Muoio, Mayor of the City of West Palm Beach
• Access to Capital for Small Business Owners – Jonel Hein, Deputy District Director, U.S. Small Business Administration, South Florida District Office
• How to Make your Business Newsworthy – Antonio Fins, Business Editor, Palm Beach Post
• Cyber Security Risks: How to Protect Your Business – Jeffrey A. Sopshin, Ernst & Young LLP, Partner / Advisory Services, Risk Advisory Practice
• Social Media Marketing in 3 Easy Steps – Kate Volman, Host & Content Marketing Strategist
• Google: Grow Your Business Online – Pamela Starr, Speaker for Google's "Get Your Business Online Program"

According to the Palm Beach SCORE organizers, hundreds of small business owners are expected to attend the complimentary conference. The summit's speakers have experienced many of the same challenges and decisions entrepreneurs and start-ups are facing today, and will be on-site to share their lessons learned and takeaways. These speakers will provide attendees with the knowledge needed to redefine, set and achieve goals in order to qualify as one of the top competing companies in the marketplace.

The first 200 registrants for the Palm Beach SCORE Summit for Small Businesses will qualify for a drawing to win an Apple iPad Mini. Register at www.PalmBeach.SCORE.org or call 561-833-1672 to register for free.

The Summit for Small Businesses is one of many services Palm Beach SCORE offers. As a nonprofit organization, it has been mentoring and training Palm Beach County businesses as early as 1976. By providing free and unlimited training, Palm Beach SCORE helps nearly 2,000 clients each year grow their businesses, which created more than 500 new jobs in Palm Beach County last year alone. Palm Beach SCORE is just one of SCORE's 319 chapters nationwide. SCORE has helped more than 10 million clients and added nearly 79,000 new jobs to the economy.

Learn more at www.PalmBeach.SCORE.org or www.score.org

About Palm Beach SCORE

Palm Beach SCORE provides mentoring and training to Palm Beach County businesses, a service that began in 1976. It covers from Boynton Beach, north to Tequesta and the Glades. Clients receive free, unlimited mentoring at the Palm Beach SCORE office in West Palm Beach, its business site, online or by telephone. The chapter is on track to serve more than 600 new clients this fiscal year, and annually helps approximately 2,000 clients to grow their businesses. Local SCORE mentors helped launch nearly 250 new businesses last year, creating more than 500 new jobs in Palm Beach County. Learn more at www.PalmBeach.SCORE.org (https://palmbeach.score.org/workshop).