2010 Season
Our low cost workshops and free seminars provide useful, practical small business information on a variety of topics important to your business. A description of each upcoming workshop and seminar is given below. It is suggested that you review these descriptions first. Clicking on the blue button below will show the upcoming workshop and seminar schedule. This schedule will show the date, the time, the cost, the location and workshop or seminar subject for each upcoming event. The schedule web page also describes how to register for a particular event.
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| Using Social Networking To Grow Your Business |
| Description Do you understand how to use google or facebook or twitter to grow your business? How about utilizing the next great social network software as soon as it is released? Research shows that those businesses that use social networks to advertise are more successful than those that don't. Taught by an expert in social networking, this workshop will give the attendee the skills needed to market their business via social networks to successfully grow their business. |
| How To Successfully Buy Or Sell A Business |
| Description Taught by three SCORE members with extensive backgrounds buying and selling businesses, this workshop will explain both the necessary legal and regulatory steps in the process as well as the "secrets of the trade" that come only from experience. Attendees will come away with an understanding of how to prepare for success in their personal process of either buying a small business of selling their existing business. The three presenters for this workshop have extensive and varying backgrounds in buying/selling transactions. One presenter started a small business, operated and grew the business for many years, and sold it to a national chain. He will present the steps that are necessary to prepare a successful business to be sold. A second presenter bought, successfully operated, and sold two different businesses. He will present the buy/sell process from an insider's viewpoint from both perspectives. The third presenter was an officer in a large, multinational corporation responsible for acquisitions. He bought and sold many businesses for his company over the years. He will present how to conduct due diligence properly, both from the perspective of the potential buyer and also from the perspective of the seller getting the business ready to be sold. |
| How To Manage Cash For Business Success |
| Description From a financial perspective, managing cash flow should be the number one priority of any business - especially a small business. Cash is king! Without cash, a business will fail. Most business owners know of a business that had a solid income statement, but the business failed because it didn't have enough cash to continue operations. Taught by two SCORE members with extensive backgrounds in cash flow management, this workshop will equip the attendee with simple but powerful methods for forecasting and managing cash flow for business success. One of the presenters successfully operated two separate businesses, and the other presenter is a retired bank president. |
| QuickSTART Series Workshops | |||||||||||||||||||
| Description Are you thinking about trying to start a business but wondering if that’s the right thing for you? Or, do you think you have a great business idea, but don’t know how to go about starting your own business? Make a smart start, attend the SCORE QuickSTART Series Workshops and begin your journey to small business success. The SCORE QuickStart Series provides five, two-hour workshops with action steps designed to: define and evaluate your idea; develop a marketing strategy for your business idea; identify the best ways to fund your startup; turn your idea into action with tools and templates; get useful and helpful mentoring; and connect with other entrepreneurs. Successful and experienced executives will help you reach a 'go or no-go' decision for starting a business. In-class, "hands-on" development of the essentials of a business plan with SCORE mentors at your side. Proven "been-there, done-it and won" expertise and one-on-one service. Nothing like it. FOLLOW-ON MENTORING AT NO ADDITIONAL COST LOCATION: Fast Foward Comunity Technoligy Center 3223 Devine Street Columbia, SC 29205 COST: $125.00 for all 5 Nights , First Night FREE
Click "Quick Start Brochure " which will take you to a new window displaying a .pdf file about the workshop. Close that window and you will return to this web page. |
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