Prison Education Program

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

(4.73 stars) · 55 learner reviews

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. 6,891 people in prison have spent 96,790 hours using the Level program inside 1,060 prisons across the country.

Testimonials for this guide:

Level is the best educational programming available to incarcerated learners, and this was my favorite Level guide so far. The course organization and resources were excellent! The content was applicable to both those who want to own their own business and those who may work within an existing one.

- Colin, in a federal prison in Illinois

I learned a lot from this entrepreneurship guide. There were some concepts related to business that I didn't know enough about. Thank you very much. What you do matters. Level is one of the organizations I mention to inmates when they show interest in learning something new or doing something productive.

- Sergio, incarcerated in Texas

The curriculum was elaborate, detailed, and covered everything I wanted to learn. My facility does not provide a business program such as this one. Anybody who wants to learn how to start and grow a business can find it here. It’s straight to the point and covers everything they need to know. Keep up the good work.

- Eric, in prison in Illinois