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BUSINESS STARTUP WORKSHOPS |
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This series is for all who want to start a business and increase their chance of success |
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Series of Three Workshops - $100 |
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How To Succeed
in Business
$35 |
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Do you have what it takes to success? This workshop prepares the individual by providing a personalized assessment of entrepreneurial skills. It includes information critical to the identification and analysis of customers and competitors.
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Thinking of Starting Your Own Business
$35 |
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This workshop is a PowerPoint presentation, given by counselors experienced in each of the areas discussed and will give you a clearer understanding of what is required to start a business and be successful. Key topics covered include:
- What business structure is best for you?
- What insurance should I have?
- What licenses and registrations are required?
- What tax issues do I need to address?
- Why is a business plan so important?
- Why is cash flow so important to a small business?
- What’s the best way to get into business? Start from scratch? Franchise? Acquire one?
- Why do so many businesses fail and what can you do to avoid failure?
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Effective Business Plan Writing Made Easy
$70 |
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Every business needs a business plan. This two-session workshop covers the preparation of a business plan including the overall strategy, market planning, and the financial projections required by lenders. An experienced SCORE leader will get you started on your plan. A workbook is included. It is envisioned that you will request a SCORE counselor to assist you in the completion of the plan.
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FINANCIAL
SKILLS WORKSHOPS |
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Series of Three Workshops -
$70 |
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Preparing
& Understanding Small Business Accounting Records
$35 |
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Are you getting all you can from your financial data? This workshop will show you how to measure performance from day-to-day operations, and how to satisfy tax reporting requirements at the same time. Basics of the QuickBooks computer accounting system are explained. |
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Tax Strategies, Planning, and Compliance
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Taxes have you depressed? Learn how to comply with tax regulations and benefit from legal tax strategies and planning. Your business can achieve significant savings in time, money, and aggravation by attending this workshop. |
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Managing Your Business Using Cash Flow
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How you manage cash flow can determine business success or failure. Learn the importance of developing a financial plan for your business’s health and growth. As part of this interactive workshop, you will discover how to develop cash flow projections as milestones of progress, and how to improve business performance through the use of these projections and results. |
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MARKETING: PLANNING & IMPLEMENTATION SERIES |
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Series of
Four Workshops - $100 |
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Developing Your Market Plan
$35 |
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How do I get the most out of my marketing effort? This workshop provides an approach to developing the overall marketing plan for any business. Participants will learn to define the market in which they operate, select attractive targets, and develop an overall action plan for each target. |
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Advertising and Promotion
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Uncertain about advertising and promotion? This workshop covers the “media and message” to achieve effective marketplace communication. A panel of experts will help you apply the principles to your business.
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Successful Selling: The Competitive Edge
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Why do some people always make the sale and others don’t? This workshop focuses on the art of creative selling. Learn how to define a customer’s need, target the offering to fit the need, and make a winning and creative proposal to close the sale.
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Pricing Strategy
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Setting the best price for your offering is the most overlooked element of the marketing plan, yet it can often mean the difference between success and failure. This workshop covers how to produce a winning approach to pricing. Guaranteed to challenge the way you think about pricing.
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MANAGEMENT SKILLS SERIES |
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Series of
Two Workshops - $50 |
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Successfully Growing Your Business
$35 |
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Want to grow you business, but don’t know how? A workshop designed to focus attention on way s to drive the growth of your business. The three essential parts of a growth plan are presented and a case history is used to challenge your thinking. You will leave the workshop with a good start at a plan for growth for your business.
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Hiring and Retaining Good Employees
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Is having good employees more than just luck? A workshop specifically geared to give you the workable skills needed to recruit and select quality, dependable employees for your business. Includes the skills required to retain trained employees.
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TO ACHIEVE YOUR PERSONAL OBJECTIVES |
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Toolkit
for Becoming an Effective Communicator
$35 |
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How you interact with others – customers, employees, suppliers – can impact how well you meet your personal goals. Are you a good listener? Listening is the most powerful, but least appreciated, communications skill. An interactive discussion of how to enhance your interpersonal skills. Promises to be a challenging evening. Free to SCORE clients.
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SCORE workshops are now available in Dover.
See Kent-Sussex page.
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