Monday, February 4
How To Start Or Run A
Profitable Small Business (Rhode Island Small
Business Recovery Program – 875 Centerville Road, Building 2, Suite 5 in
Warwick from 6:30 – 9:00pm and is free of charge. To register please
visit www.rismallbusinessrecovery.com or call 401-447-8000):
There are many advantages to running a small
business - independence, satisfaction, sheltering income and profits. Did
you know that 89% of incomes over $100,000 a year are earned by owners of small
businesses? However, four out of five businesses don’t last five years
and few ever earn the profits they should. What is the difference between
success and failure? Knowledge.
What will you learn? The unknown secret
formula to earning substantially higher profits than others…10 Hottest
Businesses…How to slash hundreds off your taxes…20 biggest “pitfalls” in
starting and running a small business…How to price your product or service…How
to start with very little cash…Strategic Marketing Planning…Small Business
versus Traditional Marketing and Advertising…10 Website Basics and 10 SEO
Tips…and much more! Free workbook included
______________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, February 5
The Strategy &
Profits Program (Rhode Island Small
Business Recovery Program – 875 Centerville Road, Building 2, Suite 5 in
Warwick from 6:30 – 9:00pm and is free of charge. To register please
visit www.rismallbusinessrecovery.com or call 401-447-8000):
Achieving the results you want! If you
are a small business owner and you are looking to increase your profits by
doing what you love to do while working less. Then the Strategy &
Profits Program could be for you.
The Strategy & Profits Program will meet
every 90 days with a group of entrepreneurs who participate in focusing
exercises, review prior progress and plan for the next 90 days and more.
You will share your visions with your peers who will hold you accountable and
give you great advice. You will work with business owners in a variety of
industries who will help you transform your business and personal life and help
you achieve the following:
• Increase your profits on a regular basis
• Learn to delegate and focus on your best activities
• Achieve your personal and work goals
• Break thru your ceiling of complexity
• Plan great time off activities
• Increase your away from work time to enjoy a balanced life
• Learn how to navigate through these difficult ever changing times
Individuals must be in business and quarterly attendance is mandatory. Space is
limited.
______________________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, February 6
Business
Development: Develop The First Time Supervisor/Manager (Rhode Island Small Business Development Center – East Bay
Chamber of Commerce, 16 Cutler Street, Suite 102 in Warren from 12:00 – 1:30pm
and is free of charge. For more information or to register please call 401-598-2702 or visit www.risbdc.org ):
• Providing a Structure for Growing the
Individuals from Staff to Supervisor
• “Developing the Necessary Skills for Your Right Hand Person”
Program Offers an Opportunity for Assistants
and Staff to: Gain exposure to the knowledge and skill base required to
begin the process of becoming an effective manager; Acquire the techniques used
by experienced managers when they move up through the ranks of any successful
organization.; Learn how in helping their organizations succeed, they will
succeed.
This program is valuable to those individuals
who have recently been promoted to a role of manager, assistant manager or
supervisor. In addition the development work covered would benefit those
people who are being considered for management positions in the future.
Program” Takeaways”…
• Acquiring a framework for new responsibilities
• Ensuring clear expectations, roles and responsibilities
• Establishing Objectives and Measuring Performance
• Integrating experiences into your new role requirements
• Redefining the new role with previous co-workers, now “reports”
• Training needed, you think you need, they think you need
• Understanding benefits and the use of the “management structure”
• Understanding and utilizing the organization culture, “the way we have done
it before” our history
• Keeping others in the organization updated benefits of asking for input, easy
ways to ask for help
______________________________________________________________________________
Monday, February 11
1-to-1
Communication: How To Communicate With Different People, Differently (Rhode Island Small Business Recovery Program – 875
Centerville Road, Building 2, Suite 5 in Warwick from 6:30 – 8:30pm and is free
of charge. To register please visit www.rismallbusinessrecovery.com or call 401-447-8000):
To most consumers, “a mass communication” is
interrupted as “mass indifference”. Marketing is truly becoming a
one-to-one equation. Different customers want to be treated (and spoken
to) differently. Put simply, one size does not fit all. Consumers,
already inundated with 4,000 marketing messages per day, are only responding to
personal and relevant messaging that gets through this clutter. Marketing
communication is truly becoming a one-to-one equation.
In this two-hour presentation, marketing
communication specialist Bob Salvas will discuss the new and powerful
one-to-one tools that can effectively cut through the marketing clutter and
instill your message in the minds of your prospects and customer.
______________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, February 12
CEP Phase One:
Visioning (Center for Women &
Enterprise – 132 George M. Cohan
Boulevard in Providence.
Workshop consists of 4 classes that will meet every Tuesday through March 5
from 6:00 – 9:00pm. Fee for classes is $195. Partial scholarships
may be available. For more information or to register please visit www.cweboston.org or emailngirard@cweonline.org ):
If you’re considering entrepreneurship, this
is the first step in turning your dreams of owning your own business into a
reality! Register for these classes to be able to:
* Explore the challenges and rewards of self-employment
* Build definition around your business concept
* Consider your short- and long-term goals
* Discover the inner-workings of starting your own business through course
topics such as “Clarifying your Business Idea,” “Developing a Mission Statement,”
“Analyzing the Strengths and Weaknesses of your Business Idea,” “Creating Long
and Short-Term Business Goals,” and “Developing a Business Start-up Action
Plan”
Birth Of A
Business: A Step-By-Step Process Of Creating A Successful New Business(Rhode Island Small
Business Recovery Program – 875 Centerville Road, Building 2, Suite 5 in
Warwick from 6:30 – 9:30pm and is free of charge. To register please
visitwww.rismallbusinessrecovery.com or call 401-447-8000):
Conception: We'll begin with a review of your
business concept, and then help you differentiate your business from the
competition, and then help you choose a relevant and memorable name for your
new baby.
Gestation: There are reproducible tactics and
strategies that when diligently applied will increase your probability of
success from 15% to 80%. In three hours, we'll explore these tactics and
strategies, including ten marketing tactics designed to attract a steady stream
of pre-qualified and pre-sold customers, eighteen ways to differentiate your
company from your competition, four ways to enhance your referral network,
three components that must be in every marketing message, and much, much more!
Labor: Your birthing process won't be without
a little pain. At the conclusion of the seminar, there'll be homework
assignments including the completion of meaningful exercises. But
remember, our goal is not to simply provide you with knowledge, but to guide
you to take positive action toward success.
Delivery: In three-hours, you'll have all of
the know-how, confidence, and tools you'll need to successfully launch your new
business. And, you'll have the option to attend follow-up classes to help
you implement all you learn.
______________________________________________________________________________
Wednesday, February 13
Exploring Self
Employment Clinics (Rhode Island Small
Business Development Center – Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce, 6
Blackstone Valley Place, Suite 402 in Lincoln from 8:30 – 10:30am and is free
of charge. To register or for more information please visitwww.risbdc.org or call 401-598-2702):
Are you thinking about a career change to
self-employment? This clinic will provide aspiring entrepreneurs with the
information needed to decide if self-employment is the right choice for
them. Also learn about resources available to you through the Small Business
Development Center.
Participants will explore critical issues related to business planning in an
interactive group setting.
The workshop provides tools and information to
help participants learn:
• How to determine if you have a sustainable business idea
• Pros and cons of self-employment
• What running a business entails
• Is self-employment the right career choice for you?
• The four major forms of self-employment
• Introduction to market research and business planning
This clinic is appropriate for those
individuals who are not yet in business and are interested in general
information.
Business
Development: Entrepreneurs – Benefitting From 360 Support (Rhode Island Small Business Development Center – East Bay
Chamber of Commerce, 16 Cutler Street, Suite 102 in Warren from 12:00 – 1:30pm
and is free of charge. To register or for more information please visit www.risbdc.org or call 401-598-2702):
This Program Offers an Opportunity
to…
Maximize your “full potential” by tapping into
all your resources. As you know, to successfully manage a business it
requires sacrifice in terms of time away from family and personal
life. Professional studies have proven that entrepreneurs find it
extremely difficult to reach and maintain high levels of success without a
“balanced life.” Developing a life style that achieves a better balance
between business and personal responsibilities requires…
A better understanding of the dynamics of the
balance process, the joint effort required and a personalized plan a one
day at a time, mutual commitment to work at making the new balance approach
succeed.
Valuable for …
Business owners and operators, family members
and significant others; Multi/generational/Family Businesses; partnerships
made-up of individuals and their spouses/significant others and or siblings
Course Takeaways…
•Acquire a better understanding of the communication dynamics necessary to
maintain an ongoing working relationship
•Understand and maintain a respectful sense of the feelings / emotions
naturally associated with achieving this balance
•Create a frame work for establishing and agreeing on goals and plans to
sharing responsibilities
•ID methods for problem solving and sources of help when needed
•Establish and agree on a common schedule that incorporates both business and
personal activities
•Develop specific goals and strategies to increase specific amounts of time for
“critical activities” everyone has agreed upon
•Incorporate within your planning process regular evaluation, discussion and
adjustment where necessary
How To Cut Your Cell
Phone Bill In Half (Rhode Island Small
Business Recovery Program – 875 Centerville Road, Building 2, Suite 5 in
Warwick from 10:00 – 11:00am and is free of charge. To register please
visit www.rismallbusinessrecovery.com or call 401-447-8000):
Join us for a cup of coffee as we discuss
simple ways to reduce your cell phone expense by half. You’ll learn not
only how to reduce your cell phone costs, but how keep your existing network.
There’s no contract, no obligation and no nonsense. And, you can have the
latest and greatest smart phones including the iPhone®.
Don't miss this free money saving opportunity!
Do-It-Yourself Website
Workshop - The Basics (Rhode Island Small
Business Recovery Program – 875 Centerville Road, Building 2, Suite 5 in
Warwick from 6:30 – 8:30pm and is free of charge. To register please
visit www.rismallbusinessrecovery.com or call 401-447-8000):
Want to build your own website?
WordPress is a powerful website publishing platform, and it comes with a great
set of features designed to make creating your own website (or blog) as easy,
pleasant and appealing as possible. No experience with html coding is
required!
In this Introductory to WordPress training
class, you’ll learn how to:
Acquire a domain
Learn about web hosting
Choose a Wordpress theme
Navigate the Wordpress dashboard
Configure basic settings
Add and format web or blog pages, content, links and images
Configure menus
Add plugins
Add widgets
Market your website
CLASS FORMAT
Instructor will demonstrate how to build a basic WordPress website
This session is taught as a lecture, with an emphasis on questions and student
participation
______________________________________________________________________________
Thursday, February 14
How To Fine Tune Your
Business: A Step-By-Step Tune-Up For Your Existing Business(Rhode Island Small
Business Recovery Program – 875 Centerville Road, Building 2, Suite 5 in
Warwick from 9:00am – 12:00pm and is free of charge. To register please
visitwww.rismallbusinessrecovery.com or call 401-447-8000):
Is your business sputtering…not quite running
on all cylinders? Are you not yet producing the profits you
envisioned? Do you believe that unless you get a professional tune-up,
your business could quit running some day? Is 2013 the year to grow to new
levels of success fueled by increased profits?
This free three-hour seminar is the simple
solution to your immediate growth. During this program, we’ll fix four
major problems that lead to business failure. We’ll fix the four business
problems that prevent you from achieving the business of your dreams.
First, we’ll evaluate your business idea and show you how to capture your
targeted audiences’ attention so you can sell more stuff. Next, we’ll
take you through the step-by-step process of building a powerful brand identity
that penetrates the minds of your prospects. Thirdly, we’ll fix your
content and show you how to tell your story so that customers and prospects
clearly understand the benefits of doing business with you rather than the
competition. Finally, we’ll fine tune your performance to assure that your
customers not only walk away with your products or services, but they walk away
with a unique experience that they share with others.
This program will provide you with the tools
to fix your problems and develop a clear pathway to growth. The advice you
receive can be implemented with the tiniest of budgets. And, we’ll offer
you an optional program to further help implement the tactics and strategies
you will learn during this program.
______________________________________________________________________________
Friday, February 15
Start-Up Clinic (Rhode Island Small Business Development Center – Central
Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce, Slade’s Business Center, 3280 Post Road in
Warwick from 8:30 – 10:30am and is free of charge. To register or for
more information please visit www.risbdc.org or call 401-598-2702):
Are you thinking about a career change to
self-employment? This clinic will provide aspiring entrepreneurs with the
information needed to decide if self-employment is the right choice for
them. Also learn about resources available to you through the Small Business
Development Center.
Participants will explore critical issues related to business planning in an
interactive group setting.
The workshop provides tools and information to
help participants learn:
• How to determine if you have a sustainable business idea
• Pros and cons of self-employment
• What running a business entails
• Is self-employment the right career choice for you?
• The four major forms of self-employment
• Introduction to market research and business planning
This clinic is appropriate for those individuals
who are not yet in business and are interested in general information.
Lunch &
Learn: Pitfalls Of Intellectual Property: How To Reduce Liability
For Trademark And Copyright Infringement (Center for Women & Enterprise – 132 George M. Cohan Boulevard in Providence from 11:00am –
1:00pm. Fee for workshop is $55 which includes lunch. For more
information or to register please visit www.cweboston.org or emailngirard@cweonline.org ):
This workshop reviews common intellectual
property protection issues involving trademarks and copyrights and how a small
business can utilize these rights and reduce liability in the marketplace most
effectively.
Can’t make it to one of these workshops?
Visit our online communities to access more small business trainings at
your convenience!
SBA’s participation or support of this event
is not an endorsement of the views, opinions, products or services of any
co-sponsor or other person or entity. All SBA programs or cosponsored
programs are extended to the public on a non -discriminatory basis.
Date: 1/30/2013
羅德島華人協會日前在羅德島州華人基督教會慶祝蛇年新春，六百多人歡聚一堂，享用華協董事及熱心人士烹煮的各色美食，欣賞社區同胞自己上場，媲美專業水準的演出，小朋友領紅包，大人跳騎馬舞，個個開懷十分。
羅島華協董事們對當天有六百多人到會，分享他們努力籌劃的成果，十二盤年糕，滿滿一盤盤的紅燒肉、炸子雞、炒素菜等佳餚美食，全一掃而空，紛紛稱讚演出節目，都感到很欣慰。
Newport Mansions, without the summertime crowds. And this year, your opportunities are even greater, as we begin offering daily tours earlier than ever before. The Breakers, The Elms and Marble House will all be open for daily tours from February 15 on. Until then, The Breakers is open daily, with The Elms and Marble House open on weekends.
Deemed the "Eden of America" in the late 18th century, Newport's scenic beauty has attracted generations of artists seeking to capture the natural splendor of Aquidneck Island's landscape. Join Preservation Society Public Policy Fellow Kaity Ryan for an illustrated lecture that will explore the rich history of Paradise Valley through paintings, photographs and literature.
Cartographic Art Historian Christina Connett of the Rhode Island School of Design will look at a selection of different types of historic maps, their uses and the powerful impact they have on our relationship with space.
Prominently situated in the historic Point District, Hunter House (1748) exhibits the work of some of the most important 18th century Newport craftsmen. Preservation Society Decorative Arts Fellow Alice Dickinson will use its collections to examine the social connections of artisans through the objects they created. 
Society members for the annual Easter Egg Hunt and Brunch at Rosecliff, Saturday, March 30 at 10 a.m. This event sells out quickly, so don't wait to purchase your tickets. If available, tickets will go on sale to the general public on February 25.
Historian and Director of Museum Affairs, will be part of the Newport Art Museum's Winter Speaker Series on Saturday, February 9. His lecture, Newport as a Model of Urban Living: New Lessons From Old Cities, will showcase the results of intensive research on five historic cities that points the way to achieving sensible, pragmatic, yet artistic urban rebirth. Lecture begins at 2 p.m., with a reception to follow. 
settings of our Chelsea Bird tableware--inspired by a design from Kingscote--during the month of February, and you'll receive a free copy of our cookbook,Entertaining Newport Style to help you plan your first dinner party!
The Island Moving Company puts on a whimsical children's ballet at Rosecliff on Saturday and Sunday, March 2 & 3.Mother Goose at Rosecliffis designed as a treat for all ages, including adults. Join Mother Goose as she recounts the wonderful playful rhymes and see them danced by IMC's professional dancers. See magical performances of Humpty Dumpty, Miss Muffet, and Jack & Jill. New this year, Sing a Song of Sixpence. Don't miss it. Admission is $25 for adults, $15 for children 12 and under. 