Prison Education Program

How To Start Your Own Business: Expand, Adapt And Improve

The third guide in Level’s How To Start Your Own Business series uncovers successful strategies for growing a small business after the first year. This guide focuses on marketing, hiring, delegating, and leading others while staying true to your mission and vision.

Enrollment fee is a one-time payment that includes this guide and Level's entire prison education program including all educational and job training guides and all certificates. No hidden monthly payments or recurring fees. The enrollment fee includes shipping.

What they'll learn:

  • Understand when your business is ready to grow by measuring your business health and capacity
  • Know how to grow while staying true to what is most important to you and your community
  • Learn how to track important business metrics to guide your growth
  • Improve your marketing strategy to reach the customers who matter
  • Learn strategies for hiring new team members when the time is right
  • Understand when to delegate tasks to others on your growing team

Guide includes:

Finances
Hiring
Leadership
Quiz

Schedule

Self-guided - learners complete at their own pace

Guide length

52 pages

Time to complete

~10 hours

What is Level?

Level is a popular, independent, nonprofit prison education program that offers education, career training and personal development for people in prison and connects with family members and supporters on the outside. Our unique approach can reach nearly any person at any prison, even those in high security or solitary confinement. 6,694 people in prison have spent 92,180 hours using the Level program inside 1,050 prisons across the country.

Testimonials for this guide:

I want to thank you guys for helping us, some of us have nothing to turn to but the streets. You've given hope to the hopeless. I read the guide everyday and use my cellmates to test my answers. I already have recommended Level a few times. You are an avenue for guys to get to learn something to take home.

- LaVoy, in prison in Texas

I like the information given in this entrepreneurship guide. It showed me how to start a business from nothing. It pushes me to want to try and start a successful business from the start. I appreciate you getting content into these places and giving us ways to achieve certificates.

- Ronald, in prison in Illinois

I cannot thank Level enough for these guides and the knowledge that they contain. All of you all there at Level have given me the opportunity to show the initiative that I am putting into my rehabilitative efforts with each one of these certificates. So, from the four corners of my heart... I say thank you.

- Christopher, in prison in Illinois