Kitchen Table Webinar Series
This Study May Save You Millions: Writing a Quality Feasibility Study for Your Meat Business
Before you leap into buying a new meat business, erecting a building, or purchasing an existing meat business, you should start with a solid understanding of whether or not the project is viable. Is there a market? What are the projected profits? How will you assure throughput? A good quality feasibility study will help you answer those questions before you leap.
Budget Building for Farm Operations
This webinar covers the step by step process for building a budget for your farm using information from your accounting system. We will provide an overview of the process, then create an actual budget by walking through each step with explanations.
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Download the Excel Spreadsheet of the Eastbound Farm Profit and Loss Budget
This program is presented in collaboration with the University of Connecticut Extension and Solid Ground Farmer Trainings.
Farm to Institution Wholesaling Workshop
Interested in selling to schools, but having a hard time knowing if it’s right for your farm from a business perspective? This webinar explores the way the Farm to Institution Growers Workshop on December 6th, 2017 will provide practical, repeatable tools to analyze new sales channels and determine if wholesaling is the right fit for your business. We’ll have a look at the current and potential growth of this market, and how you could fit into it. And we’ll take a few moments during the webinar to touch on the most common barriers you could face when approaching and selling to schools, and a GAP certification reality check.
Presented by Rebecca Frimmer, Jennifer Brodsky, and Elaine Lemmon of Kitchen Table Consultants.
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Setting Up QuickBooks: How to Build Your Chart of Accounts to Tell You HOW You Make a Profit
Walk through a simple layout for your chart of accounts that allows you to really understand where you are making or not making money in your business. Clarify variable vs fixed expenses and their impact on the business. A clear P&L tells you the story of your business to anyone else about how you make a profit. Stop building your COA based on your tax returns, or whatever invoices or payments come in. COA is a TOOL to understanding your business. It’s your planting plan. Think of your bank account like your fields.
Presented by Ted LeBow of Kitchen Table Consultants.
Download a PDF of the Webinar
Download a PDF of the Chart of Accounts Example
Download a PDF of the Basic Chart of Accounts
This program is presented in collaboration with Penn State Extension and is funded in part by a grant from AgConnect, an initiative of the Chester County Economic Development Council, through a grant from the PA Department of Community and Economic Development.
Building a Budget from Scratch, in 60 minutes or less.
In today’s 1 hour webinar we’ll address building your annual budget by walking through the nuts and bolts of a budgeting template. We will talk about how to get started, using your chart of accounts as a template – along with chart of account best practices – and take the methodical approach to sales forecasting. Ultimately, we will build a flexible budgeting tool that you can use year after year. Our template uses sensitivity analysis, which allows us to play out various “what if” scenarios for our businesses in just a few seconds by changing one cell in your excel based budget.
Presented by Rebecca Frimmer.
Download the Excel Spreadsheet of the Budget Workshop Example by Enterprise
Download a PDF of the Simplified Chart of Accounts
Download a PDF of Webinar Slides
Finding Cash in Your Business, Just by Using Your Balance Sheet
Are you struggling to solve your business cash mysteries? Let’s learn how to find the cash in the crevices of your balance sheet and understand how to use this report to judge the health of your business. Then we will move from theory to tactics as we show you how to manage cash by developing a simple 13 week rolling cash flow spreadsheet in Excel. We will share templates with all attendees – bring your questions for this interactive session!
Presented by Ted LeBow of Kitchen Table Consultants.
Download a PDF of the Webinar
Download a PDF of the Rolling Cash Flow Example
This program is presented in collaboration with Penn State Extension and is funded in part by a grant from AgConnect, an initiative of the Chester County Economic Development Council, through a grant from the PA Department of Community and Economic Development.
Creating an On-Farm Events Program to Drive Sales and Traffic to Your Farm
Ever wondered what it really took to develop a farm to table dining experience, a farm summer camp, seasonal festivals, cooking classes and innovative workshops on your farm? In this interactive session you will learn what it takes to develop programming on your farm to drive traffic and sales, as well as avoiding common pitfalls when hosting events on the farm. We will discuss low cost ways to increase public engagement and create opportunities during slower hours, shoulder seasons, as well as celebrate the bounty of the summer season.
Presented by Jennifer Brodsky of Kitchen Table Consultants.
This program is presented in collaboration with Penn State Extension and is funded in part by a grant from AgConnect, an initiative of the Chester County Economic Development Council, through a grant from the PA Department of Community and Economic Development.
Demystifying Social Media Marketing
Learn best practices for social media sites like Facebook, Yelp and Instagram, and get some straightforward answers to social media mysteries like “how does the newsfeed work?” and “what does facebook advertising really cost?”. Then we’ll look at a framework for designing and writing your campaigns and share templates to make the job easier. This is a great webinar for businesses that are ready to begin thinking about social media as a pro-active tool to drive traffic and sales.
Presented by Rebecca Frimmer of Kitchen Table Consultants.
Download a PDF of the Webinar
Download a PDF of the Marketing Calendar Template
Download a PDF of the Worksheet
This program is presented in collaboration with Penn State Extension and is funded in part by a grant from AgConnect, an initiative of the Chester County Economic Development Council, through a grant from the PA Department of Community and Economic Development.
“We have neglected the truth that a good farmer is a craftsman of the highest order, a kind of artist.”
― Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good Land: Further Essays Cultural and Agricultural