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The Successful Entrepreneur Program
Helps You Plan and Run Your Business
We've taken four building blocks essential
to any business and created a course block for each (similar to a
school semester) to provide our participants with information, tools
and resources to make each building block contribute to their
successful businesses.
Course blocks generally are scheduled to be
concurrent with the traditional fall and spring school semesters.
Each course block is independent of the others (no prerequisites)
and we meet once each week for three hours in the class room.
Classroom learning methods include traditional lecture, Internet
research, guest appearances by subject matter experts and long time
business leaders in the communtity. During classroom
discussions, we learn much from each other.
In addition to classroom learning,
participants meet one-on-one with the facilitator/mentor for a total
of 13 hours during each semester. This time customizes the
learning experience to make sure we provide exactly the information
needed for each participant.
Managing by the Numbers (Successful
Entrepreneur I)
Managing your
business effectively requires that you know your business position
at a glance. A firm understanding of the inner concepts of the
accounting/information system is essential in managing any small
business in today's competitive marketplace. In this course, you
will learn to build and maintain an accurate business data system in
order to make the best business decisions.
All courses in the Successful Entrepreneur series
include special interest topics presented by guest speakers and
experts as their schedules permit.
Establishing Your
Mission and Business Plan (Successful Entrepreneur II)
Developing
products and services to meet customers' needs better and more
efficiently than the competition is essential for successful
businesses today. In this course, you'll develop your mission
statement, business plan and marketing plan to determine for
yourself and communicate to others how you'll successfully market
your products and services.
Building
a Winning Team (Successful Entrepreneur III)
Building a
winning team to help carry out your mission in serving your
customers is essential to the continued success and growth of your
business. In this course, you'll develop job descriptions; job
applications and your employment manual allowing you attract, train
and retain the very best people to join your team.
Optimizing Your Web
Presence (Successful Entrepreneur IV)
Attracting new
customers through a pleasing and well organized web site must now be
part of everyone's marketing plan. Today's customers want to learn
about you and your company, at any time, through your web site.
Many expect to be able to purchase your products through your web
site. In this course, you'll develop your web site, including all
the features to attract and retain customers as well as the
functionality to take orders and sell products.
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