Join the SBA and Public Private Strategies Institute on Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. ET for a celebration of Black History Month and a conversation with business leaders and allies about opportunities for small businesses, including government contracting.

Damon Watkins, the Director of Finance & Operations for Cal Poly Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, is a motivated, personable business professional with a 15+ year track record in multiple aspects of financial control, management and policies/procedures. Learn how to create and modify financial reports, handle records, and manipulate costs, with a focus on payroll and state tax. QuickBooks Reporting lets you use your QuickBooks data to create interactive reports and gain better insight into your business.

Come find out how to build a content strategy that will appeal to your customers and to Google! We will be taking a deep dive into tools and tactics to build an SEO content strategy from the ground up!

Digital Marketing expert, Steve Burnside, will be presenting material on an internal system called Borg, a predecessor to the Open Source Software: Kubernetes. This will show how Google Engineers get code into production efficiently, and scale it up to serve billions of customers.

Host and SBDC director, Kelly Bearden will kick off the one-hour webinar with updates on Kern County’s $1.2 million Microbusiness Relief Grant Program, and additional funding for restaurants not funded by the Restaurant Revitalization Fund in 2021.

Bearden will be joined by small business development consultant Jay Thompson to discuss challenges and opportunities during the 2021 tax filing season. Thompson will also talk about issues and trends among business owners changing entities into LLCs and corporations.