Upcoming Educational Experiences

March Fast Track to Small Business Training

Personal Credit: How It Impacts Your Ability to Launch & Grow a Small Business

March In-Person Training
Quickbooks Online 101: Setting Up Your Books the Right Way

Your personal credit does not just influence your financial life—it can directly affect your ability to start, fund, and expand a small business. In this workshop, participants will learn how lenders evaluate personal credit, why it plays such a significant role in business financing, and the steps you can take to strengthen your credit profile before applying for loans or launching a new venture.

Date: April 28th, 2026

Time: 12pm - 1:30pm

Location: Virtual webinar

Five Key Takeaways:

Why Personal Credit Matters for New Small Businesses
Understanding Your Personal Credit Profile
Strategies to Improve Personal Credit Before Launching Your Business
Using Personal Credit to Access Start-Up Capital
Transitioning From Personal Credit to Business Credit

NOTE: This event is IN-PERSON.

Date: March 4, 2026

This workshop is designed for small business owners who want to feel confident managing their day-to-day bookkeeping inside QuickBooks Online. We cover the foundations of a clean setup, how to categorize transactions correctly, how to reconcile accounts, and how to use QBO’s built-in tools to stay organized and understand their financials. The goal is to make bookkeeping simple, approachable, and something they can maintain on their own.

Five Key Takeaways

How to customize QuickBooks Online correctly from day one so the system works for your business.
How to categorize income and expenses so your reporting stays accurate and clean.
How to reconcile your bank and credit card accounts each month and what errors to look for.
How to manage invoices, customer payments, and vendor bills inside QBO.
How to run and read basic financial reports so you always know where your business stands.

April Pavlus is the owner of Cooper Bookkeeping, a bookkeeping firm that works with small businesses both locally and virtually. With over 14 years of experience in the financial sector, she helps business owners make sense of QuickBooks Online, clean up day-to-day bookkeeping, and understand what their numbers are actually telling them. April is a Certified Professional Bookkeeper and QuickBooks ProAdvisor who believes bookkeeping should feel practical, approachable, and empowering — not overwhelming.

The Fast Track to Business Start-Up Workshop is an intensive Hybrid 20 hour workshop* that is offered IN-PERSON or VIRTUALLY over a 3 day period. This workshop will be facilitated by a Certified Small Business Advisor, Kellie Greene, and includes a variety of presenters who are all experts in different facets of small business start-up.

Dates: March 10, 12, 17
Time: 9am - 4:30pm each day
Location: 121 East First Street, Oswego, NY 13126

Topics will include:

Business Plan Development
Legalities
Accounting/Bookkeeping
Marketing/Branding
Social Media
Financial Management
Business Financing Options
HR/Payroll
Commercial Real Estate

HYBRID means that the workshop offers both in-person and virtual attendance options.

*The Fast Track workshop also meets the requirements of the NYS SEAP (Self Employment Assistance Program) through the Department of Labor. Facilitated by Certified NY SBDC Business Advisor Kellie Greene

4926 Onondaga Road, Room 400, Syracuse, NY 13215
Phone number: 315.498.6070