Verizon brings the Digital Ready experience to the Los Angeles Small Business Expo | News Release

BASKING RIDGE, N.J. – Verizon will showcase its sources for small enterprise homeowners at the Small Business Expo, an all-day experience for small enterprise homeowners to community and attend dwell instructional occasions designed to assist them improve income and scale their enterprise, in Los Angeles, California on September 6, 2023, at the Los Angeles Marriott Burbank.At Verizon sales space #109, Small Business Expo attendees can have the alternative to discover Verizon Small Business Digital Ready, a free on-line useful resource designed to give small companies the coaching and instruments they want to thrive in at the moment’s digital financial system, and obtain a free tech examine to assist determine if their present options meet the wants of their enterprise. Additionally, Verizon will host a workshop the place small enterprise homeowners can find out how to purchase, retain and have interaction clients whereas increasing their development advertising and marketing methods to increase income sustainably and strategically. To be taught extra about the occasion and to register, go to The Small Business Expo: Los Angeles.“At Verizon, we’re dedicated to making certain that small companies get digital-ready by offering them with coaching and sources to assist them thrive and develop their enterprise,” stated Carrie Hughes, Director of Social Innovation at Verizon. “The Small Business Expo in Los Angeles is a chance to deliver these sources to life and have interaction with the small enterprise homeowners that make the metropolis of Los Angeles distinctive and particular.”Launched in 2021, Verizon Small Business Digital Ready supplies customers entry to customized studying by means of over 40+ programs, mentorship, peer networking, 1:1 knowledgeable teaching and incentives resembling grant funding. In partnership with LISC and Next Street, the Verizon Small Business Digital Ready portal was created with and for small companies. Spanish language course choices, knowledgeable teaching, and group occasions are additionally obtainable. Since its launch, over 4,000 Los Angeles-based small companies have registered and engaged with the platform.“Digital Ready – and the related small enterprise grant funded by Verizon – has allowed me to spend money on paid social media advertising and marketing initiatives, which have taken my enterprise to the subsequent stage with new clients,” stated Joe Alvarez, founder of business cleansing service iCare Clean, which serves the Los Angeles space. “As a enterprise that principally depends on leads from the leisure trade, I’m grateful that amidst unsure instances with the ongoing strikes, I’ve been in a position to depend on my learnings from the platform to pivot my social media advertising and marketing efforts and entice purchasers in new industries.”This initiative is a part of Verizon’s aim to help 1M small companies by 2030 with the sources to thrive in the digital financial system, as a part of its accountable marketing strategy: Citizen Verizon. Visit CitizenVerizon.com to be taught extra about the firm’s accountable enterprise efforts.

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