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Beginning Financial Management:
Prerequisite: Must know Excel. This 4 hour workshop is a good place to start with compiling financial projections. It includes formulated spreadsheets that help create your budgets. Learn how to forecast sales and revenue, create a cash flow budget, determine time to secure funding, use financial statements to develop business plans, make better management decisions and set financial performance goals.
Business Planning for Success:
Participants will learn the basics of developing a comprehensive Business Plan for their business start-up, expansion or financing. They will also receive information about how to access small business assistance from the SBDC and other state and local resources.
Business Registration and Entity Selection:
An early morning two-hour workshop that covers business registration and forms, business entity-type selection and other timely tips every prospective entrepreneur needs before starting a new business venture.
Guide for Your Online Success:
Learn about WHAT impacts your WEBSITE: website design; intuitive navigation; analytics; search engine marketing; the life cycle of your website and more! You also have the opportunity to submit your web address ahead of time for professional critique during class.
Hands-On Quickbooks:
This class covers how to manage your checkbook, handle credit card payments, reconciliation of accounts, accounts payable, accounts receivable and analyzing your financials by using reports. Prerequisite: QuickBooks Overview is recommended but not required.
Decoding Business and Health Insurance:
This class will answer important questions that many small business owners may have, such as: What insurance do you really need? What are the differences between group and individual policies? How do I compare different plans? These questions and many more will be covered in depth.
Legal DOCS for Multi-Owners:
This workshop will discuss the importance of By-laws/Operating Agreements, Buy/See Agreements, Articles of Incorporation/Organization, Subscription Agreements and Stock Certificates for multi-owner businesses.
Quickbooks Overview:
This class will cover what QuickBooks can do for you. Other topics to be covered are backing up your system, navigating through the program, and a brief overview of setting up a sample company. This class is perfect for the person who has never used the program or is within their first year of use.
Relationship Selling:
This workshop will arm you and your sales team with the knowledge and skills to generate sales beyond your wildest expectations. Here's a selection of what you'll learn: how the sales process should flow, how to get the customer to sell themselves, and how to ask for the sale. Conversion techniques, rapport building skills and communications strategies are also discussed to cover the full spectrum of successful relationship selling!
Selling Your Uniqueness:
This workshop will guide your understanding of your unique selling proposition - the thing that sets you apart from your competitors. Zero in on your real point of difference and learn how to use it! Discover how to set yourself apart in the eyes of your customer. Find out what unparalleled businesses do differently and how it works for them. There has never been a better time to start using your uniqueness to your advantage.
Taxes and Recordkeeping:
Kevin Dryg, CPA, will present step-by-step guidelines for business record keeping and tax filing (including sales, use tax and payroll taxes) for different start-up entities.
The Changing World of Advertising:
This fun class will help you learn effective methods to increase sales and awareness of your company both locally and regionally without breaking the bank. Also covered are the pros and cons of different advertising media; including print, E-media and broadcast outlets in northern Colorado. What’s more is that you will know when each type of advertising is most effective, common sense steps in creating an advertising/ marketing budget and how to brand your products and your company by leveraging your core values across your marketing campaign.
Trademark and Copyright:
This class will round out your understanding of the interrelationships of intellectual property law.
Small Business Marketing:
This is a workshop for existing and startup businesses. This workshop covers getting to know your customers, competition and industry, positioning your business for success, developing smart marketing strategies, and developing a marketing plan.
Social Media – A Starting Point:
Get up to speed by learning what social media is and why it is important. Find out about the tools of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, blogging and social bookmarking. Learn about the powerful social media marketing plan to experience powerful results.
Want a Business And a Life?:
Join us in exploring how to set your business up for success by creating the tools necessary to do it the right way, the first time. Based in part on the best-selling business book, The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber, and our presenter's personal experiences, this workshop will walk you through creating vision, strategies, and most importantly BALANCE, so that you can have a business AND a life! At the end of this course you will have an understanding of the Turn-Key Revolution and the Business Development Process.
Not Currently on the 2010 Schedule
Top 10 Employment Issues:
Learn more about these ten employment issues: Overtime, hiring, firing, references, wage claims, independent contractors, commission disputes, covenants not to compete, avoiding unemployment, and wage claims.