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Smart Marketing Leveraging: AI for Small Business Marketing

FOR ILLINOIS RESIDENTS ONLY. In this 1.5-hour workshop, small business owners will explore how to leverage AI—especially tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and CoPilot—to boost marketing effectiveness and productivity. You’ll start...

ChatGPT Made Simple for Business

ILLINOIS RESIDENTS ONLY: Want to get more out of ChatGPT for your business? Join the Illinois SBDC at the WBDC and Renee DelGiudice for a practical, easy to follow workshop...

Road to Success Cohort | Fall 2026

Only for those who completed the R2S Bootcamp. FOR IL RESIDENTS ONLY. Road to Success is a six-session cohort, for which the Bootcamp is a prerequisite. Road to Success cohort...