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CAREER WORKSHOP
THIS IS A 2-DAY WORKSHOP. PLAN ON ATTENDING BOTH DAYS.
Those who are looking for work, wanting to enroll in school, or starting a business will benefit from learning the concepts taught. The workshop is designed to be very interactive, motivating, and fun. Applying the skills you learn in the workshop will help you to find a job, pursue your education goals, or start a business. You will also have an increased confidence in your ability to be successful in your career goals. Individuals who take the Career Workshop and apply what they learn are able to shorten the time they spend looking for work.
THE CAREER WORKSHOP INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING FOUR SECTIONS:
My Goals
Helps you begin evaluating your talents, interests, and values. You will also set goals and develop a plan to achieve them.
My Resources
Assists you in identifying and developing the resources you will need to reach your goals.
My Interaction with Resources
Teaches how to make powerful impressions while networking, during interviews, and in writing résumés, curricula vitae, cover letters, thank-you notes, and applications.
My Continued Success
Helps you prepare to negotiate the salary and benefits of your new position, be successful in your new job, grow in the company, and advance in your career.
Small Business Professional Development Boot Camp
Learn how to become more effective in the workplace and successful in life through communication, leadership and relationships.
This highly-interactive three-session boot-camp provides in-depth lessons and a solid foundation to help you stay interested and interesting by effectively building your personal brand, becoming a successful leader and gaining an understanding of social and environmental factors that contribute to your individual success.
Registration is now open, but limited to the first 100 registrants in order to facilitate intimate, personal instruction during our breakout sessions.
More Information including registration can be found at http://web.gwinnettchamber.org/events/Small-Business-Professional-Development-Boot-Camp-2001/details
Grantsmanship Institute Training Conference
Grow Your Business with Email and Social Media
This session will help make sense of the noise:
- Learn how to make the most of the combination of email and social media for your business.
- Gain a greater understanding of marketing basics like goals and objectives.
- Learn what a “campaign” is and what to write about and offer in that campaign.
- Get simple but powerful tips for how to get your messages opened and read, shared and socially visible.
- Learn about some great tools you can use to help engage with your existing customers and supporters as well as expand your reach to new prospects.
Throughout the session you’ll be given opportunities to capture your own ideas and build out the framework of your own “next great campaign.” Join us and start to build a plan that will help you grow your business by eliciting the responses you want from your customers or supporters.
Register online at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ed6t9vx07b07aaab&oseq=&c=&ch=
The fee for this event is $25
SimpleSTEPS™ to Start a Business -1- Start-up Basics
This is a FREE event
Attend this comprehensive series of workshops to help you test your new business idea and get you started on the right path. Reinforce your workshop experience with FREE one-to-one mentoring.
Join us for five modules that help you understand the basics of:
*the concepts involved with assessing a business idea,
*marketing your product or service,
*understanding business financials and how they work,
*how to fund and finance your business.
This introductory workshop "Start-up Basics" focuses on the concept of testing your business idea and identifying the key factors that influence start-up success. Start-up Basics provides you with an overview of the skills and tools you need when deciding to start a business.
In this module, you will introduced to:
*advantages and disadvantages of owning a business
*most profitable legal form for your business
*the fundamentals of formation
*organization
*marketing
*cash flow
*funding sources
More information on the complete SimpleSTEPS™ series can be found athttp://atlanta.score.org/node/146646
Register at: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ed5bbgb69fa19b03&oseq=&c=&ch=
Content Marketing : What to Say, and How to Say It!
Heard of "location, location, location?”
For online marketing, it's "Content, Content, Content!" What you say, and the way you say it (tone, date & time, frequency) is how you will attract, engage and be share-worthy to your audiences.
What are the Keys to Great Content?
This workshop will teach you the time-saving tips, techniques, and yes, even apps that will help your content - and the way you share it - succeed! You'll learn how to:
Create
Curate
Extend ...the content that will help you achieve your goals.
We’ll cover tidbits like how many links create the most engagement, how to turn questions into high-open subject lines, tips on using graphics, pictures and videos, repurposing content across multiple platforms, and more. Plus, we’ll give you the structure and tools to make creating your content fast, easy and effective.
Information and Registration at http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=an8uarcab&oeidk=a07ed0m9u3m77e411d6
The fee for this event is $20
SimpleSTEPS™ to Start a Business -5- Funding Sources
"Funding Sources" is the fifth module in our comprehensive five part SimpleSTEPS workshop program. Attend the complete series of workshops to help you test your new business idea and get you started on the right path. Reinforce your workshop experience with FREE one-to-one mentoring.
This module offers information on how to finance your small business. In the session, discussions include sources of funds, accounting the six C's of credit, banking relations, ratio analysis, and monthly preparation and review of financial statements. At the end of the series, you have all of the tools necessary to decide whether or not to launch your small business.
Join us for one, or all five modules that will help you understand the basics of:
*the concepts involved with assessing a business idea,
*marketing your product or service,
*understanding business financials and how they work,
*how to fund and finance your business.
REGISTER ONLINE AT: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ed5emh7yaad392f5&oseq=&c=&ch=
The fee to attend this Module as a standalone workshop is $35.
If you prepaid for the complete series, use your code to register
SimpleSTEPS™ to Start a Business -1- Start-up Basics
This is a FREE event
Attend this comprehensive series of workshops to help you test your new business idea and get you started on the right path. Reinforce your workshop experience with FREE one-to-one mentoring.
Join us for five modules that help you understand the basics of:
*the concepts involved with assessing a business idea,
*marketing your product or service,
*understanding business financials and how they work,
*how to fund and finance your business.
This introductory workshop "Start-up Basics" focuses on the concept of testing your business idea and identifying the key factors that influence start-up success. Start-up Basics provides you with an overview of the skills and tools you need when deciding to start a business.
In this module, you will introduced to:
*advantages and disadvantages of owning a business
*most profitable legal form for your business
*the fundamentals of formation
*organization
*marketing
*cash flow
*funding sources
More information on the complete SimpleSTEPS™ series can be found athttp://atlanta.score.org/node/146646
REGISTER ONLINE AT: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ed8a0xl97da90ff7&oseq=&c=&ch=
How to Really Start Your Own Business
Starting a successful business requires more than a great idea, conviction and ceaseless energy to make it happen. A solid plan and the ability to act on it are equally important.
In this workshop, the experts at SCORE share startup success secrets, including ways to refine your business idea – and then turn your "concept" into a viable business. These same principles apply for early stage businesses which are ready to break out!
What you will learn:
- How to develop your idea
- Learn about business structures & financing
- Managing your money
- Begin building a plan
Rules of Thumb with Fast Company’s Co-Founder Alan Webber
Brought to you by Fast Company magazine co-founder Alan Webber, this webinar offers practical advice for working smarter, growing and succeeding in a time of dramatic, unpredictable change.
When the old rules don’t apply, don’t work and don’t help, we need to write our own rules to make sense and offer guidance going forward.
Learn down-to-earth rules of thumb that you can use in work and in life—and how to write your own rules for yourself and your business.
REGISTER online at https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=reg20.jsp∂nerref=bst&eventid=1246006&sessionid=1&key=E20AD47F14FA92F567D5A8498463B015®Tag=&sourcepage=register
Develop an Import / Export Business
Small businesses looking to increase sales and profit, reduce dependence on the domestic market and stabilize seasonal fluctuations should consider importing and exporting. With nearly 96 percent of consumers living outside the U.S. and two-thirds of the world’s purchasing power in foreign countries, opportunities await U.S. small business.
Go where the customers are. There is significant opportunity for small businesses to profit through importing and exporting operations.
Do you have what it takes to become a successful international business? Are you ready to make international sales? Importing / Exporting offers great opportunities but requires preparation and planning.
This is a two part series taught by international experts from the Georgia Small Business Development Center, a resource partner of the SBA.
Module I will aid you in assessing your readiness, understanding what you need to know and consider before pursuing an international strategy.
Module II will introduce you to those topics needed to develop and implement your strategy: international pricing and costing issues, proforma export quotations, payment terms, and risk assessment.
The workshops will help you gain the knowledge to develop and implement an international plan. You will become acquainted with the key components of an effective import / export plan. The instructors will raise questions you should answer to complete your plan and provide the resources to help you answer those questions.
* organizational and product readiness,
* market research,
* guidance for developing your strategy and marketing plan,
* promoting your products in target market, and
* complying with US and foreign regulations.
REGISTER ONLINE AT: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ed5ent5a45d192fe&oseq=&c=&ch=
Fee for Module I is $50 per person and is taught 9:30am - 12:30pm
Fee for Module II is $50 per person and is taught 1:15pm - 4:30pm
Both modules can be attended as a full day event for a single Fee of $89 per person
SimpleSTEPS™ -1- to Start a Business Start-up Basics
Attend this comprehensive series of workshops to help you test your new business idea and get you started on the right path. Reinforce your workshop experience with FREE one-to-one mentoring.
Join us for five modules that help you understand the basics of:
*the concepts involved with assessing a business idea,
*marketing your product or service,
*understanding business financials and how they work,
*how to fund and finance your business.
This introductory workshop "Start-up Basics" focuses on the concept of testing your business idea and identifying the key factors that influence start-up success. Start-up Basics provides you with an overview of the skills and tools you need when deciding to start a business.
In this module, you will introduced to:
*advantages and disadvantages of owning a business
*most profitable legal form for your business
*the fundamentals of formation
*organization
*marketing
*cash flow
*funding sources
More information on the complete SimpleSTEPS™ series can be found athttp://atlanta.score.org/node/146646
This is a FREE event
Register Online at: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ed5ep4tzd7a4c4b8&oseq=&c=&ch=
How to Identify and Select Your Ideal Business
Statistics have shown that nearly 60% of Americans want to own their own business; however, only about 10% actually do. Many are unsure they have what it takes to be a business owner. Not everyone has the next great idea or wants to build a business from scratch. But what if you could be matched to the unique business that ideally fits you, your lifestyle and your budget?
Enter franchising.
People all over the country are putting their skillset and desire to own a business to work by opening a franchise business. Franchises provide the playbook for you to execute your business ownership dreams. Statistics show that franchised businesses succeed at a much higher rate than start-up businesses.
Don’t live under the false impression that franchising is just food and costs a million dollars to get into the game. Find out the real facts as we debunk the myths of franchising. You’ll walk away more enlightened about:
- Facing the fears of business ownership
- How much does it cost to buy a franchise?
- Misperceptions about franchising
- Finding the ideal franchise for you
FranNet’s John Blair will cover everything you need to know about business ownership so that you are prepared to make an informed decision for yourself.
REGISTER ONLINE AT: https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=reg20.jsp∂nerref=bst&eventid=1262712&sessionid=1&key=AFBA7781F6A4D143E43329E9E549D0A8®Tag=&sourcepage=register
CAREER WORKSHOP
THIS IS A 2-DAY WORKSHOP. PLAN ON ATTENDING BOTH DAYS.
Those who are looking for work, wanting to enroll in school, or starting a business will benefit from learning the concepts taught. The workshop is designed to be very interactive, motivating, and fun. Applying the skills you learn in the workshop will help you to find a job, pursue your education goals, or start a business. You will also have an increased confidence in your ability to be successful in your career goals. Individuals who take the Career Workshop and apply what they learn are able to shorten the time they spend looking for work.
The Career Workshop includes the following four sections:
My Goals
Helps you begin evaluating your talents, interests, and values. You will also set goals and develop a plan to achieve them.
My Resources
Assists you in identifying and developing the resources you will need to reach your goals.
My Interaction with Resources
Teaches how to make powerful impressions while networking, during interviews, and in writing résumés, curricula vitae, cover letters, thank-you notes, and applications.
My Continued Success
Helps you prepare to negotiate the salary and benefits of your new position, be successful in your new job, grow in the company, and advance in your career.
Let’s Link-In ; How to use LinkedIn to drive small business growth!
In this workshop, you will learn:
- How to build your brand on LinkedIn via the profile,
- Tactics to grow your brand consistently,
- The insider tricks to managing your profile to attract the right kind of connections,
- The advantages of LinkedIn vs Resume.com,
- Should you have a company page?
- When you should upgrade to LinkedIn Premium,
2016 Gwinnett Small Business Summit
The 2016 Gwinnett Small Business Summit offers educational opportunities, resources, and inspiration for every industry, stage of business, title/position, or level of expertise—there’s truly something for everyone.
Get more information and register at: http://gwinnettsmallbusinesssummit.com/
SimpleSTEPS™ to Start a Business -2- Business Concept
"Business Concept" is the second module in our comprehensive five part SimpleSTEPS workshop program. Attend the complete series of workshops to help you test your new business idea and get you started on the right path. Reinforce your workshop experience with FREE one-to-one mentoring.
This module will focus on your business concept and step-by-step guidance in researching your idea, your market, and your competition. At the end of the Business Concept workshop, you are able to: identify your target markets, describe your products and services, and collect key competitive information to support your feasibility plan.
Join us for one, or all five modules that will help you understand the basics of:
*the concepts involved with assessing a business idea,
*marketing your product or service,
*understanding business financials and how they work,
*how to fund and finance your business.
The fee to attend this Module as a standalone workshop is $35.
You can register for the complete five part series for a total fee of $125
REGISTER ONLINE AT: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ed5es3wuf130b00f&oseq=&c=&ch=
Mini Business Plan : A Road Map to Entrepreneurial Success
A workshop focusing on the components of a successful business plan:
Clear, succinct writing style
Compelling business description
Importance of market research
Effective development of meaningful financial projections
The plan consists of four sections: Business Description, Management and Operations, Marketing and Sales and Financial Projections. Also included is an application for funding along with a discussion of funding resources, both conventional and alternative.
The workshop teaches you to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of your business and your competition. It will help you determine the overall feasibility of the plan. The important aspects of starting and operating a business will be discussed along with applying financial data to the decision processes.
The program includes handouts that are valuable resources in writing a successful business plan.
Register at: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ed3skkg6a0f73455&oseq=&c=&ch=
The fee for this event is $30
SimpleSTEPS™ to Start a Business -3- Marketing Plan
"Marketing Plan" is the third module in our comprehensive five part SimpleSTEPS workshop program. Attend the complete series of workshops to help you test your new business idea and get you started on the right path. Reinforce your workshop experience with FREE one-to-one mentoring.
This module will introduce you to marketing communication methods and tools to maximize your customer reach. The discussion in the workshop covers pricing strategies, positioning, the difference between features and benefits, and different marketing strategies. At the end of this session, you will know how to: outline your marketing strategy, test your marketing message, choose the right sales channel, and exercise your marketing strategy.
Join us for one, or all five modules that will help you understand the basics of:
*the concepts involved with assessing a business idea,
*marketing your product or service,
*understanding business financials and how they work,
*how to fund and finance your business.
Register online at: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ed5es4hm84dbfe0c&oseq=&c=&ch=
CAREER WORKSHOP
THIS IS A 2-DAY WORKSHOP. PLAN ON ATTENDING BOTH DAYS.
Those who are looking for work, wanting to enroll in school, or starting a business will benefit from learning the concepts taught. The workshop is designed to be very interactive, motivating, and fun. Applying the skills you learn in the workshop will help you to find a job, pursue your education goals, or start a business. You will also have an increased confidence in your ability to be successful in your career goals. Individuals who take the Career Workshop and apply what they learn are able to shorten the time they spend looking for work.
THE CAREER WORKSHOP INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING FOUR SECTIONS:
My Goals
Helps you begin evaluating your talents, interests, and values. You will also set goals and develop a plan to achieve them.
My Resources
Assists you in identifying and developing the resources you will need to reach your goals.
My Interaction with Resources
Teaches how to make powerful impressions while networking, during interviews, and in writing résumés, curricula vitae, cover letters, thank-you notes, and applications.
My Continued Success
Helps you prepare to negotiate the salary and benefits of your new position, be successful in your new job, grow in the company, and advance in your career.
Power Up Your Small Biz: Technology Trends Virtual Conference.
SCORE and Verisign have partnered to offer the Power Up Your Small Biz: Technology Trends Virtual Conference. This event is a half day of learning with 8 informative webinars on how you can leverage technology to meet your goals. You’ll hear from a number of industry experts including Web.com, ComplyRight, AT&T, Verisign and more as they share their insider tips for simplifying your efforts, securing your data, and growing your business.
Join us in this online event that has the look, feel and benefits of a local, in-person conference or trade show. Participants can visit virtual booths to collect materials, meet sponsors, ask questions, and even pick up some virtual swag. You can attend our educational sessions, exchange ideas with other business owners in the networking lounge, and download conference materials in your virtual briefcase. This event will happen live for all participants, and the virtual environment is archived for future access.
REGISTER AT: https://score.6connex.com/event/PowerUpSmallBiz/October2016/login
Effective Fund-Raising for Non-Profits in 5 Steps
In the first half of this workshop, your instructor shares strategies for creating a resilient fund-raising program, including practical strategies for both short- and long-term sustainability. The workshop offers sound advice for how to effectively establish an individual donor base, while also enlisting time management techniques and embracing generational change. You will learn how to identify potential funding sources and foster strategic partnerships in an attempt to provide outstanding stewardship.
Register online at: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ed5eufrw159293e9&oseq=&c=&ch=
The fee for this event is $35
