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
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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.
• 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.
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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”
• “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
• 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
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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.
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Tuesday, February 12
CEP Phase One:
Visioning (Center for Women &
Enterprise – 132 George M. Cohan
Boulevard Providence
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”
* 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.
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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
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
• 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
•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
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
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
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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.
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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
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
• 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 Providence
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!
Center for Women &
Enterprise: http://www.cweonline.org/bStartbYourBusiness/OnlineLearning/tabid/172/Default.aspx
http://www.cweonline.org/bGrowbYourBusiness/OnlineLearning/tabid/191/Default.aspx
http://www.cweonline.org/bGrowbYourBusiness/OnlineLearning/tabid/191/Default.aspx
Rhode Island Small
Business Development Center: http://www.va-interactive.com/sbdc/ot/modules.php?state_name=RI
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
