Editor’s Choice
Video marketing tips to stay connected with your clients GINGER BELL, a best-selling author and marketing expert, will be hosting a live online webinar about how to create eye-catching, informational, marketing-oriented videos to stay connected with clients. Bell will provide a quick and simple guide to creating and sending videos to keep you in touch with your clients, as well as how to best utilize the virtual video platform. She will share how to shoot video on your phone and/or computer, post it and frame a message that is designed to keep your business operation focused while looking professional. This is a Zoom meeting with no designated end time.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 11 A.M. Free. Online webinar. INFO AND REGISTRATION:
bit.ly/2V75EE8
Learn product management THINKFUL PROVIDENCE is hosting an online webinar to provide information about what it’s like to be a product manager and the different types of roles there are in product management. Thinkful Providence will walk participants through how to get the skills to start a career in product management and focus on the different jobs that will be available once they have mastered the skill set.
SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1-3 P.M. Free. Online webinar. INFO AND REGISTRATION:
bit.ly/3edQPaF
Write successful grant proposals THE CENTER FOR WOMEN & Enterprise, a nonprofit organization providing opportunities for women entrepreneurs, will be hosting a live online webinar to provide guidance for writing grant proposals. Participants will learn how to market their organization to potential donors, where to find new grant opportunities, and how to prepare and write quality and responsive grant proposals.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 5-8 P.M. $20. Online webinar. INFO AND REGISTRATION:
bit.ly/2JYTnLM
Defense innovation VENTURE CAFÉ PROVIDENCE is hosting a virtual conference with representatives from New England’s defense industry in which they will discuss new technological ideas and innovations. This meeting will be part of Venture Café Providence’s inaugural virtual conference programming dedicated to innovation in the defense industry. This meeting will be hosted using the Zoom media platform.
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 3-6 P.M. Free. Online webinar. INFO AND REGISTRATION:
bit.ly/2XzpCsP
Business boot camp JAMILA PAYNE, an author and founder of the Daily Success Routine Productivity System, will be hosting a free nine-day virtual online workshop designed to improve business operations and productivity. This webinar will teach you how to implement systems that can handle the day-to-day operations of your business on autopilot, so you can focus on the work you do best, make an impact and still have vacation time to enjoy the results of your work. That means you’re bringing in the cash you need to cover your business and personal bills, you have systems in place that make your business an asset that creates real wealth and you have a team in place to handle the day-to-day operations.
MONDAY, APRIL 27, 6:30 P.M. TO TUESDAY, MAY 5, 7:30 P.M. Free. Online webinar. INFO AND REGISTRATION:
bit.ly/2yfqOXS
Help for women entrepreneurs SANDRA SMITH, a certified coach and author, will be hosting an online webinar offering solutions to help tackle the challenges “solopreneurs” are facing in today’s unprecedented times. The workshop will focus on teaching solopreneurs how to stay motivated when everything’s at a standstill; uncover the most important thing to do every day to keep moving forward; learn the three easy steps to tackle feeling anxious, worried and stressed; handle fear when it rears its ugly head; discover a simple tool to stay focused; and gain greater confidence and clarity. The webinar will be held using the Zoom platform.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 11 A.M. TO 12:30 P.M. Free. Online webinar. INFO AND REGISTRATION:
bit.ly/2Vtpc4z
Education discussion VENTURE CAFÉ PROVIDENCE’S Virtual Hack Education Connect program will gather students for in-depth conversations on their successes and challenges in and out of school. Youths representing schools and education nonprofits around New England will lead sessions on civic engagement, experiential learning, diversity and inclusion, and leadership in their education.
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 3-6 P.M. Free. Online webinar. INFO AND REGISTRATION:
bit.ly/2Vopav4
Improving connectivity VENTURE CAFÉ PROVIDENCE is hosting an online workshop in partnership with the R.I. Office of Innovation and Connect Greater Newport. This event will explore how internet connectivity across Rhode Island impacts business, education, medicine and innovation, and what can be done to improve connectivity for all Rhode Islanders.
THURSDAY, MAY 7, 3-6 P.M. Free. Online webinar. INFO AND REGISTRATION:
bit.ly/2Rz8csG
Innovation challenge THE 2020 VIRTUAL Innovation Challenge of Boston is hosting an online webinar conference aimed at identifying, validating and field-deploying a host of transformational technologies and next-generation solutions. The event will bring together government leaders, small-business owners and operators, and entrepreneurs, as well as science and technology experts, innovators, investors and industry advisers to identify and accelerate the development of state-of-the-art solutions for use within the government and commercial industry. The challenge will focus on analytics and data; medical, health and biotechnology; cyber solutions and resilience; and space technologies.
TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2-3:30 P.M. Free. Online webinar. INFO AND REGISTRATION:
bit.ly/34AzPqp
Sales leadership KURLAN & ASSOCIATES, a salesforce development firm in operation since 1985, is hosting a three-day virtual workshop aimed at sales coaching strategies, sales accountability strategies, sales motivation strategies and the tactics that accompany those strategies, as well as sales leadership best practices. Participants will be provided with a customized sales process; a customized, predictive, visual, staged, criteria-based sales pipeline; customized metrics to drive revenue and metrics to keep the pipeline stuffed and balanced; guidance regarding the mastery of sales leadership and a sales coaching environment; advanced sales coaching skills; and advanced sales development skills.
TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 8 A.M. TO THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1 P.M. $1,200-$1,495. Online webinar. INFO & REGISTRATION:
bit.ly/3bbcv5e
Interested in having your business-related event included in What’s Happening? Contact PBN Researcher Cassius Shuman at (401) 680-4884 or Shuman@PBN.com.
