PCBC (Virtual) Traveling Network – Connecting Cross-County Businesses
Join PCBC members and guests for an opportunity to meet new business contacts, collaborators, and customers. Our Traveling Network events are designed to move around the county to host towns and villages, as well as offering opportunities for industry clusters to collaborate, network, and refer business. Until we safely rein in the pandemic, our “traveling” will be virtual.
Our first event takes place on Thursday, November 12th from 6:30pm – 8:30pm with our co-host, the Putnam Valley Business Network.
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WHEN: Thursday, November 12th; 6:30pm to 8:30pmLOCATION: Virtual via Zoom
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
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REGISTER in advance for this webinar:
PPP Forgiveness: Q&A on what you need to know to achieve forgiveness
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You’ve spent your Paycheck Protection Program money and you are ready to complete the loan forgiveness application. But it seems like every week SBA changes the PPP forms and rules.
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Join Beth Milito and Holly Wade, NFIB’s PPP experts, for a review of the latest SBA updates and for answers to your questions on:
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- What is the new “simplified” Form 3508S released October 8, 2020?
- Which form should you use: Form 3508, Form 3508EZ of Form 3508S?
- When should you apply for forgiveness?
- What are the limits on self-rentals and mortgage interest?
- Will Congress allow a second PPP?
- Automatic forgiveness – is there such a thing?
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DATE: Wednesday 28 OctoberTIME: 12:00 PM
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Can’t make this webinar? Don’t worry! Register now and we’ll email you an on-demand version! Submit your questions in advance here.
SCORE – Putnam County
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Practical Steps Toward Greater Business Resilience
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If you’ve guided your small business through the COVID-19 pandemic thus far, you’ve likely learned valuable lessons about business resilience and adaptation. However, even businesses that are now able to sustain a steady cash flow might be wondering how to better prepare for whatever comes next.p
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A pop-up storefront provides a multitude of benefits including meeting your customers where they are. See how this technique can help your small business.
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We’ve asked 12 small business leaders how important having a website is to them and what opportunities it has created for their organizations.
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Upcoming Webinars
2020 Year-End Tax Planning for Your BusinessP
November 3 | 1 PM ET
In the final quarter of this most unusual and challenging year, there is still time to take action and favorably impact your bottom line and your tax bill for 2020.
Re-Strategize Your Business Planning to Prevail the PandemicNovember 5 |1 PM ET
Learn how to re-strategize your business planning to maintain an adequate level of cash on hand, and get suppliers and vendors to make their payments when due.
Navigating Your Small Business through Financial UncertaintyP
November 12 | 1 PM ET
Sponsored by Deluxe. Decisions about cutting expenses, adjusting business models and finding new sources of revenue leave many owners and entrepreneurs questioning their next move.
Google Analytics 101 – Improve Your Online Business by Understanding Essential DatapNovember 17 | 1 PM ET
During this webinar, you’ll walk through the steps of how to set up Google Analytics so you can start getting data from your own website.
Building Inclusion and Diversity Strategies into Your Small Businessp
November 19 | 1 PM ET
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Best practices and strategies for small business owners to address D&I issues during these times of unprecedented change, civil unrest, and social upheaval.
DMWBD & Strategic Partners Quarterly Meeting
The Division of Minority and Women’s Business Development will be hosting a webinar for our partner organizations this Wednesday October 28 from 10:00AM-11:00AM. We will be sharing program updates and information on upcoming events. There will be a Q&A session following the presentation.
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This webinar will be recorded. If you cannot attend, please let us know and we will send you the meeting recording and presentation. Below you will find the zoom link and dial in information.
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DATE: Wednesday 28th OctoberTIME: 10:00 AM
#MaskUp Campaign & COVID News
As we continue to fight against COVID-19, it’s clear that masks help stop the spread and save lives. I’m proud to announce with my daughter Mariah Kennedy Cuomo that New York is partnering with the company The RealReal and dozens of New York fashion designers to create limited edition made-in-New-York masks. Drawing from the diversity and creativity that New York’s fashion industry is famous for, these unique masks will benefit COVID-19 relief efforts and remind the public that we all still need to Mask Up.p
Profits from this campaign will be donated to Feeding America, Nurse Heroes and the New York COVID Relief Fund to help New Yorkers and Americans in need. Read more about the campaign HERE.
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Particularly now, as the virus surges in parts of the country, it’s critical that we continue to wear masks and take the simple everyday measures that reduce the spread — stay distant and wash your hands often. #MaskUp
The positivity rate in the “micro-cluster” focus areas was 3.25 percent.
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The statewide positivity rate excluding these areas was 1.18 percent. Of the 82,117 tests reported yesterday, 1,191, or 1.45 percent, were positive. There were 1,059 total hospitalizations. Sadly, we lost 12 New Yorkers to the virus.
As we face the latest front in our long fight against COVID, New York has a battle-plan.
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In an op-ed in the New York Daily News, I lay out a roadmap for getting through the months ahead, a future vaccine and New York’s plan to mitigate outbreaks of the virus as we transition into the colder season. Read it HERE.
There are six days of Early Voting left in New York.
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Early Voting runs through Sunday, November 1st. Also, completed absentee ballots can be dropped off in-person at any early polling site (and at your local Board of Elections office). Look up your early polling place HERE.
The test positivity rate is below 3 percent in every region of the state.
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In New York City, the positivity rate yesterday was 1.4 percent. In Long Island, it was 1.2 percent. In the Capital Region, 1.5 percent. In Central New York, 1.4 percent. In the Finger Lakes, 2.3 percent. In the Mid-Hudson Region, 2.4 percent. In Mohawk Valley, 0.7 percent. In the North Country, 1.4 percent. In the Southern Tier, 1.0 percent. And finally, in Western New York, 1.3 percent. See more data HERE.
