Events Calendar
Website Work: Get Expert Feedback and Tips
Join NGLCCNY and Verizon Small Business Digital Ready for a free hands-on website optimization session for small business owners with an active website. Work directly with an industry expert to improve website design, navigation, user experience and conversion performance, identify actionable site improvements, strengthen online marketing and use AI tools to support website effectiveness.
AI and Cybersecurity: Searching Your Remote Workforce with MTD
This Verizon Small Business Digital Ready session helps small business owners strengthen mobile cybersecurity across smartphones and tablets. Learn how Mobile Device Management and Mobile Threat Defense can help organize company devices, protect customer data, block malware and viruses, and improve security for remote teams without adding unnecessary operational complexity.
Create a Business Plan That Works
This Verizon Small Business Digital Ready session helps entrepreneurs and small business owners understand how a business plan can guide startup decisions, growth strategy and long-term goals. Learn how to build a clearer roadmap for your business, strengthen strategic decision-making and create a plan that supports performance, focus and sustainable growth.
Peer To Peer Check-In
This Verizon Small Business Digital Ready session gives small business owners a recurring space for accountability, peer support and practical problem-solving. Participants can define goals, share progress, celebrate wins, troubleshoot business challenges and learn from other entrepreneurs while building clarity, motivation, confidence and stronger community connections.
Breaking Through Stress: One Story At a Time
Burnout is affecting nonprofit employees, teams, and organizational capacity. This session examines the impact of workplace stress and offers practical approaches to strengthen morale, productivity, and employee retention.
Get Loan Ready: Understanding Your Balance Sheet and Income Statement
This Verizon Small Business Digital Ready webinar helps small business owners understand the financial statements lenders review when evaluating a loan application. Learn how to read a balance sheet and income statement, assess business financial health, understand key ratios, evaluate assets, liabilities and equity, and make stronger financial decisions that improve lender readiness and access to capital.
Building Accurate Marketing Personas
This Verizon Small Business Digital Ready session helps small business owners transform customer data into clear audience personas that guide stronger marketing decisions. Learn how to segment target audiences, identify meaningful customer characteristics, build more relevant personas, and use AI tools to support audience research, messaging and marketing strategy.
Building Genuine Business Relationships
This Verizon Small Business Digital Ready session helps small business owners build stronger professional networks through authentic relationship-building. Learn practical networking strategies for connecting with peers, customers and vendors, creating lasting business relationships, expanding referral opportunities and developing a trusted network that supports long-term business growth.
The AI Scheduler: Eliminate the Back-and-Forth Forever
This Verizon Small Business Digital Ready session shows small business owners how AI scheduling tools can automate calendar management and reduce repetitive administrative work. Learn how to streamline meeting coordination, improve time management, reduce operational friction, and use AI assistants to create more efficient workflows, including a live setup demonstration of an AI scheduler.
Impact Coaching for Small Business Owners
Join Jim Arnoff for an immersive virtual small business workshop focused on leadership, business strategy and growth. Small business owners will learn how to clarify their vision, build strong teams, expand professional networks, strengthen client and vendor relationships, pitch with confidence, navigate limiting beliefs, take smart risks and lead difficult conversations.
