| Start Smart: Starting a Business in Oregon or
Doing It Right from the Start
Get your start-up questions answered here! This class is a must if you
have a business idea or just opened your doors but still have some questions.
What should you know before getting started?
Topics to be covered:
- Deciding on and registering a your business name
- How to structure your business-sole proprietorship, partnership, LLC,
S corp., C corp.
- State and local licensing, permitting and zoning requirements
- Taxes-keeping records and filing
- Federal ID number
- Financial management – cash flow, credit control
- Understanding you financials and what they say about your business
- When will the money roll in? – a quick exercise to determine the profitability
of your idea and how fast your profit will roll in
- Setting and attaining your business goals
- How to get people to buy your product or service
- Other free and low-cost business assistance programs available
Friday Lunch With Entrepreneurs Seminar
Series
Learn from the experience of local small business owners who have “been
there and done that.” This three part series of lunchtime presentations
is filled with topics to help you start or grow your business and introduces
you to a support group to encourage you on the path to becoming a successful
entrepreneur.
Marketing on Dime
Have you ever asked yourself these questions?
- How can I get a potential customer’s attention?
- How can I motivate them to buy?
- How can I get them to buy?
- How can I get them to buy again and again?
- How can I do this when I don’t have money to spend on advertising?
This class is perfect for you! Come learn how the answers to these questions
and more!
Networking: 4 Easy Steps to Turn Acquaintances
into Customers
Everyone talks about “networking” and everyone networks. Come learn how
to make it effective for you and your business. This three hour seminar
will cover the following:
- Demystify networking myths: Can I really only speak when I am spoken
to?
- What do I say and do when I am “networking”?:
- Elevator speeches – Can I summarize my business in 3 minutes or
less and leave people excited and wanting to learn more?
- Working the room and why it is work!
- Steps to making my networking acquaintances become my best referral
sources for new customers and clients.
- Managing my contacts: I met all of these people, now what? How do
I make it work for me and my business?
The Secret of Getting People to Buy…and Buy…and
Buy
This class is perfect for you if you want to grow your sales or if you
hate selling but know you need to do it! Come learn about the sales process
and how to use it to your advantage! You will walk away understanding…
- How to identify the need, problem or loss of a potential customer
or client
- How to determine what products or services will satisfy the identified
need
- How to present the product or service solution by using product knowledge
and persuasive presentation
- How to answer questions, clear up doubts and overcome objections
- How to close the sale while handling any further objections
How Not to Get Into Hot Water with the IRS
Find out the basic recordkeeping requirements for your small business.
Assess the various options for keeping track of the income and expenses
of your small business. Learn how to select accounting and tax professionals
for your business so that you don’t have problems with the IRS later.
Shoebox Accounting or Accounting Practices
for the Non-Accountant
This is the perfect class for small business owners who want to. . .
- get a better handle on their finances
- better understand where your money is going
- keep more precise financial records
- develop more accurate budgets
Anyone who owns a small business but isn’t an accountant, you should
take this class!
Financial Diagnosis: What Do All of These Numbers
Mean and How Can They Help Me?
To build a sound, long-lasting, profitable company, having a solid understanding
of financial statements and basic financial management concepts is essential.
Come learn. . .
- What kind of story your financial statements tell
- The importance of cash and ways to generate it
- How to gain insight into the management of your business by calculating
and analyzing liquidity ratios, operating ratios, leverage ratios, profitability
ratios, bankruptcy predictors and market valuation.
You will receive a complimentary Excel worksheet to assist you in telling
the story of your business. You will also receive a free one-on-one appointment
with a financial counselor at the MHCC SBDC to assist you in interpreting
your financial statements.
QuickBooks
Discover why this bestselling software continues its remarkable popularity.
Lessons emphasize the fastest, easiest way to use QuickBooks; producing
an accurate monthly profit and loss statement; and simulation of typical
monthly bookkeeping functions in QuickBooks.
Workers’ Compensation Employer Coverage
This seminar will cover a variety of issues related to Workers’ Compensation
from the employer’s perspective. Why do you need it? Who needs it? What
are the penalties if you don’t have it? How can I reduce my cost? Understanding
the insurance contract and the Preferred Worker Program.
Small Business Management I & II
Grow your existing business! This program includes 10 monthly workshops
designed to teach proven, breakthrough business skills and strategies.
Participants also receive 20 hours of personalized one-on-one consulting.
How Not to Get Into Hot Water with the IRS
Find out the basic recordkeeping requirements for your small business.
Assess the various options for keeping track of the income and expenses
of your small business. Learn how to select accounting and tax professionals
for your business so that you don’t have problems with the IRS later.
Business Plan Development: Setting Goals and
Objectives and Making Them a Reality
So you want to run a successful business! With no direction you get
nowhere! Learn how to map out your goals and turn your business ideas
into a solid plan for long-term success. With the support of your instructor,
you will work through all of the major components of a business plan and
emerge with your first draft in hand. Small
Business Management 1 & 2
This 10-month long series of workshops and one-on-one consulting sessions
is designed for established businesses, generally those who have been
in business a year or more. The SBM Program provides an excellent forum
for addressing the opportunities and challenges of today's business environment.
This program is structured so that ideas can be tried and results evaluated.
Topics covered include financial management, marketing, personnel management,
and systems and controls.
"Greenhouse" - Essential Training
for Entrepreneurs
The Greenhouse program is designed to help entrepreneurs successfully start up and operate any type of new business. This exciting 20-week program includes lectures, guest speakers, discussion, peer networking and individual business counseling. Using the NxLeveLª Guide and other materials, you will create a business plan to take you through each phase of starting up, funding and managing a successful business venture. Topics include
- Entrepreneurial essentials
- Management and legal structure
- Marketing analysis, strategies, tactics
- Understanding financial statements
- Keeping better books and records
- Financial planning and budgets
- Developing and using cash flow projections
- Financing--alternative sources of money
- Negotiating in the "real world"
- Managing growth
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