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Virtual Office Hours: Writing Your Business Plan is a free one-on-one working session for Montgomery-area small business owners, hosted by REACH Women’s Business Center, an SBOSS Montgomery resource partner. This is not a class. Bring your draft, your spreadsheet, or the section you keep rewriting and get focused help on financial projections, your business model, and what a lender actually wants to see. October 14, 2026 at 10:00 AM CDT. No fee.
Scalable Steps to Success is a free virtual workshop for Montgomery-area small business owners preparing to grow. Led by Sheretha Gordon, CEO of Strategic Steps Consulting, LLC, and hosted by REACH Women’s Business Center, an SBOSS Montgomery resource partner. Learn to recognize legal and compliance risks, strengthen contracts, policies, licenses, and records, get clear on cash flow, profitability, and financial controls, remove operational bottlenecks, and build repeatable SOPs and a real roadmap for scaling. October 7, 2026 at 10:00 AM CDT. No fee.
Create A Growth Plan For Your Business is a free virtual workshop for Montgomery-area small business owners, hosted by REACH Women’s Business Center, an SBOSS Montgomery resource partner. Assess your current strengths and opportunities, set SMART growth goals, identify your ideal customer and new markets, build a sales and revenue strategy, scale operations and customer experience, and leave with a 90 day action plan and the partnerships and funding to support it. November 18, 2026 at 10:00 AM CST. No fee.
W-2 Employees vs. 1099 Contractors is a free virtual workshop for Montgomery-area small business owners who are hiring or already paying help. Presented by Ken Penn of SBOSS and hosted by REACH Women’s Business Center, an SBOSS Montgomery resource partner. Learn what actually separates a W-2 employee from a 1099 independent contractor, how the choice changes your taxes, payroll, and paperwork, and where small business owners most often get it wrong. October 1, 2026 at 10:00 AM CDT. No fee.
Disaster Preparedness for Small Business is a free virtual workshop for Montgomery-area small business owners, hosted by REACH Women’s Business Center, an SBOSS Montgomery resource partner. Learn how to identify the risks inside your own operation, build a straightforward emergency plan, protect the records and data your business runs on, and get back up and running quickly after severe weather, power outages, cyberattacks, or supply disruptions. September 24, 2026 at 10:00 AM CDT. No fee.