How to Match Your One-Page Business Bio

to the Needs of Your Potential Customers

Presented by: WBEC Florida

When: Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025 | 1 to 3 p.m. ET

Location: National Entrepreneur Center, 3201 E Colonial Dr,

Orlando, FL 32803

Cost: $10

You're ready to scale your small business with new corporate or government contracts, but sometimes you feel like you're banging your head against a wall. You know you have the know-how, but you haven't captured the buyer's interest.

It might be time to look at your Capabilities Statement. This one-page bio for your business gives your potential buyers a snapshot look at what you can do. How can you make it so effective that people understand your business in just seconds?

In this workshop, you'll learn:

• Why it's important to have a Capabilities Statement if you don't already.
• Essential information to include and how to fit it on one page.
• How to create multiple Capabilities Statements tailored to your different products, services, markets, industries or target customers.
• How to use your Capabilities Statement as a marketing tool.
• How to direct your team members to use the Capabilities Statement.
• How other small businesses have used their Capabilities Statements to get the contracts they want.

Come join us for this fun, interactive session! Bring your Capabilities Statement or some ideas to share.

June 23-26, 2025

Get With It! Take Time

to ID the Latest Trends

Affecting Your Business

Are you providing the same kind of service to your clients as you did two years ago? Are you making the same products as you were three years ago? There is value in stability and consistency, but when you don’t evolve, you run the risk of stagnating and losing market share. 

Here are 5 considerations if you want to stay top of mind to your customers: 

1. Accept and embrace change. Strive to promote discussions with people who are key to your organization, such as staff members and vendors, about what they see on the horizon. 
2. Be curious and ask questions. Put the topic of trends on the agenda of your next staff meeting. Have an open forum where you encourage questions about how the company does things and why. Could there be a different way? What is the competition doing?
3. Get advisors. Join a mastermind group. Surround yourself with other business owners who are willing to share ideas. 
4. Follow industry publications and influencers. Online and on social media, follow the people who write for your industry publications and speak at your industry conferences.
5. Network where your clients’ clients go. Spot trends your clients might not yet see and offer a solution they can use. 

Want to learn more? Read the other five tips from Chapter #7 in The Decision to Scale: 25 Tips for Women-Owned Businesses Looking to Grow by our President and CEO Nancy G. Allen. All proceeds from the book go back to WBEC Florida to support small businesses.

From our partners at Women Impacting Public Policy:

When: Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025

Where: Virtual

Join Women Impacting Public Policy and its government affairs team at Public Private Strategies (PPS) for an in-depth discussion on recent Executive Orders, Memoranda and Declarations affecting the community. This session will provide insights into recent Executive Actions from the White House and the potential implications for businesses.

Nominate Your Company

for Recognition as One of the

50 Fastest-Growing This Year

Deadline to apply: February 17, 2025

Honors presented: May 7-9, 2025

The Women Presidents Organization (WPO) and JPMorgan Chase Commercial Banking are seeking nominees for the 50 Fastest Growing Women-Owned/Led Companies™ ranking. First launched in 2007, the annual 50 Fastest list celebrates the size and growth of women-owned or -led companies worldwide, recognizing their contributions to innovation, economic development and job creation across industries.

This year's 50 Fastest honorees will be recognized at the WPO Entrepreneurial Excellence Forum on May 7-9, 2025 in San Antonio, Texas. 

To be eligible, companies must be:

• Privately owned 
• Woman-owned/led
• The business must have generated at least $500,000 USD in revenue in 2020 and every subsequent year
• Revenues must be converted to USD

All applicants will be ranked according to revenue growth from 2020 to 2024.

There is no fee to apply. Applicants and previous honorees may re-apply each year and are not required to be WPO members. 

Read the press release

Apply for the award

Intellectual Property: Patent,

Trademark and Copyright Law



Presented by SCORE of Broward County

Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025 | Noon to 1:30 p.m. ET

Location: Online

Cost: Free

Register here

As you grow your business, you build value in its name, logos, trademarks, and bylines. They can be as valuable as your business reputation and profit levels.

Are you in a creative business? Designers, illustrators, painters, software engineers, writers, and authors can all create works with long-lasting value. Are you an inventor? How do you establish proof of ownership of your invention?

Attend this workshop and learn:

• Whether you need protection for your intellectual property
• If so, which methods are appropriate to your situation?
• What processes are involved?
• How much you can do yourself, and at what point a lawyer might be needed?
• The timelines involved

A copy of the recording and materials will be sent to all attendees

WBEC Florida and WBENC Anti-Discrimination Policy

As a community of entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and economic development thought leaders, WBENC and the WBEC Florida Regional Partner Organization are committed to the elimination of discrimination in all areas of business and the provision of equal opportunity when accessing capital, contracts, and contacts. In compliance with state and federal laws and regulations, we do not discriminate on the basis of age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status in any of our policies, procedures, or practices. This anti-discrimination policy covers admission and access to, and treatment, in all programs and activities.