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Description
If you have always wanted your own business website, it doesn’t get any easier than this. This interactive course will guide you through setting up your own website using WordPress. Learn how to customize the look and feel of the site, add widgets, drive traffic, and more.
Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:
- Understand the basics of website design
- Build and maintain a WordPress website for their small business
- Edit and upload images and content to their website
The NC Department of Revenue and Internal Revenue Service will co-present this seminar to assure you have a solid understanding of your business tax responsibilities. As a business owner, it is critical you understand your tax obligations and operate in compliance with state and local laws. During this session, you will learn about business income, sales and use, and withholding taxes.
Speaker(s): Karen Bargsley, NC DOR
Evette Davis, IRS
Pre-registration is required
Is Starting a Business Right for You? SCORE Workshop Series 2-5 ($150)
Session 2: Business Concept – March 6
The first workshop focuses 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.
Session 3: Marketing Plan – March 12
The second workshop provides you with an introduction to marketing communication methods and tools to maximize your customer reach. The discussion in the Marketing Plan 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.
Session 4: Financial Projections – March 19
The third workshop uses exercises to help you better understand financial concepts. This session reviews sales and prices, financial risks and rewards, true start-up costs, ongoing operating expenses, setting benchmarks for tracking progress and the organization of all your financial information. Using a hands-on approach, you learn how to use our financial model to forecast sales revenue and build solid pro-forma financial forecasts.
Session 5: Funding Sources and Next Steps – March 27
The final workshop offers information on how to finance your small business. In this 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. A bank loan officer will give an inside view of how a banker assesses the merit of business plans and loan application. At the end of the series, you have all the tools necessary to decide whether or not to launch your small business.
Attend all four sessions for $150.00 (A second person from the same company is an additional $50.00)
Description
If you have always wanted your own business website, it doesn’t get any easier than this. This interactive course will guide you through setting up your own website using WordPress. Learn how to customize the look and feel of the site, add widgets, drive traffic, and more.
Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course the student will be able to:
- Understand the basics of website design
- Build and maintain a WordPress website for their small business
- Edit and upload images and content to their website
En este seminario de usted aprednderá sobre las herramientas y tendencias actuales para hacer un análisis de mercado y desarrollar una estrategia efectiva para su mercado target y así incrementar las ventas de su negocio.
Description
Stand out from the crowd as a QuickBooks® Certified user. The exam prep will provide you with a review if you have completed QuickBooks Levels 1 and 2 and will prepare you for success on the exam. The exam validates your knowledge of QuickBooks Pro financial software, and if you score 80 percent or above, you will earn the industry recognized “QuickBooks Certified User” designation. The credential is ideal to add to your résumé or to gain instant credibility as a bookkeeper, office manager or business owner.
Prerequisite: Students seeking to sit for the examination are required to have completed SBX7440 and SBX7460.
Objectives
Upon successful completion of this class, students will be able to:
- Work efficiently and effectively within QuickBooks Pro financial software
- Demonstrate QuickBooks Pro capabilities to current and future employers
- Receive an official QuickBooks Certified User certificate upon scoring 80 percent or above on the exam
- Identify themselves as a QuickBooks Certified User on their resume
Certification Test must be taken between 3/39/19-4/28/19 only available at the CPCC Testing Center.
All information will be given during this class to student.
LACCC Job Fair 2019- Feria de Trabajo
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A workshop to help start-ups and established entrepreneurs examine the feasibility of their small business idea in the current market. The discussion centers on steps to devise a business plan, entity formation, managing risk, and your regional small business resources.
Description
Baffled with the thought of grants and not sure where to begin. This class helps you learn how to do the research, weigh the options, build relationships, incorporate what is needed in the proposals, and submit for funding. With step-by-step guidance you will become an effective grant seeker and will be on your way to writing a winning proposal.
Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand the overall process of grant seeking and writing
- Know the information that should be included in their proposal and financial section
- Know how to build relationships
- Understand how to communicate financial needs to prospective funders
- Evaluate their reasons for wanting to submit for a particular grant
- Identify the variety of funding resources and opportunities
This is a dual seminar you can attend in person or online.
Is Starting a Business Right for You?
Session 1: Start-Up Basics – FREE SCORE Charlotte Workshop
This introductory workshop focuses on the basics of testing your business idea and identifying the key factors that influence start-up success. The Start-Up Basics Workshop provides you with an overview of the skills and tools you need when deciding to start a business.
In this session, you learn about the advantages and disadvantages of owning a business, the most profitable form for your business, and the fundamentals of formation, organization, marketing, cash flow and funding sources.
Presented by SCORE Charlotte Certified Mentors at no cost to you.
TO REGISTER, GO TO https://charlotte.score.org/local-workshops-4
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OUR PARTNERS
BEFCOR is a non-profit corporation providing business owners with long-term, fixed-rate financing for owner-occupied real estate and other fixed assets.
Carolina Business Capital (formerly Centralina Development Corporation) partners with banks to finance real estate and heavy equipment for small businesses across North Carolina.
CMSDCs mission is to expand business opportunities for Minority Business Enterprises.
Charlotte Business INClusion is a City of Charlotte program that seeks to increase utilization of Minority, Women and Small Business Enterprises in local contracting opportunities.
The Charlotte Regional Business Alliance is a membership, volunteer-led organization that creates competitive advantage by growing the economy, advocating pro-business public policies and delivering innovative programs and services.
We are a non-profit organization serving black-owned businesses in the Charlotte Mecklenburg region.
The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library offers a wide variety of resources for businesses and non-profit organizations.
The workforce development board offers services and programs to support your business’s growth potential: customized recruiting assistance, training grants for new and incumbent workers, labor market information and more.
The City of Charlotte provides business development support through a variety of services and programs.
City Startup Labs (CSL) has a mission of reimaging of African American millennials (Black Adults 18-34 yrs.) as a new class of entrepreneurs and innovators.
The Small Business Center at CPCC provides expert assistance and valuable resources to prospective and existing small business owners and non-profit organizations.
The purpose of the Latin American Chamber of Commerce of Charlotte (LACCC) is to offer a sustainable bilingual platform of programs, events and services that engages, empowers and supports both Latino and non-Latino businesses, entrepreneurs and professionals.
Mecklenburg County oversees many business license and permit processes and seeks to increase participation of MWSBE firms in the business community.
The National Black MBA Association (NBMBAA), Charlotte Chapter, a non-profit organization established in 1985, is a professional development organization serving the Charlotte community at large.
NAWBO Charlotte is a professional organization specifically designed to fuel the success of the 42,000 women-owned businesses in the greater Charlotte area.
About our Partner Prospera is an economic development, non-profit organization specialized in providing bilingual assistance… Read More
SCORE counselors and mentors are dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and small business owners start and grow successful businesses.
The nonprofit Center for Community Self-Help and its financing affiliates provide business loans and technical support to businesses throughout the Charlotte region.
The SBTDC is here to help small business owners meet the challenges of today’s business environment – manage their ever-changing world, and plan for the future of their business…
The SBA provides a variety of assistance to small businesses including loans and loan guarantees as well as counseling and training workshops – bond guarantees and business advocacy.
About our Partner The Center for Private Business at Wake Forest University is a membership… Read More
The Employers Association is Charlotte’s premier partner for human resource solutions, helping employers build successful workplaces.
Ventureprise is a broad-based hands-on strategic effort to help high growth startups and early stage companies grow.
The Women’s Business Center provides tools and support to help women-owned businesses start and grow.
