Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:45:01 -0400
From: Gary Kibler
Subject: Free Business Seminars
This is to announce the schedule for business seminars being offered by the Small Business Center in Chatham County for this fall. These seminar topics will be offered first in Pittsboro and then, for your convenience, again in Siler City.
The sessions in Siler City start next month beginning on October 13th. For full details, go to the SBC website at: www.chathamsbc.com and check the seminar schedule under “Services.”
Below are details for the Pittsboro sessions. All Seminars are Free. However, we ask you to call 919 545 8044 to pre-register beforehand. Seminars that do not have at least 6 persons pre-registered will be canceled.
Starting a Business
Instructor: Jess Spiller. A broad overview of key issues to address
when you’re contemplating starting a business including:
Self-evaluation, viability of your business idea, why write a business
plan as well as marketing, financial and operational issues you must
first address.
Date: 09/14/11
Time: 6:30-9:00P Cost: Free
Location : Pittsboro, Chatham Community Library, Meeting Room
Financing Your Small Business
Instructor: Mary Cox. All businesses need money to operate and grow.
Most start-ups use their own money to initially get off the ground, then
use profit from operations to finance their growth. But sometimes that
doesn’t happen or isn’t enough. This course is all about two issues:
Where do you find the money? And, what do you need to do to obtain it?
Date: 09/15/11
Time: 6:30-8:30P Cost: Free
Location: Pittsboro, Chatham Community Library, Meeting Room
Why/How to Write a Business Plan
Instructor: Carl Baumann. A well thought out written business plan is
the key for successfully starting a new business. Learn why writing a
business plan is important and the components of a great plan. You will
also learn how to prepare an initial feasibility analysis to determine
if your business idea can be viable before you undertake the task of
writing a full business plan.
Date: 09/21/11
Time: 6:30-9:00P Cost: Free
Location: Pittsboro, CCCC Campus, Building 2, Conference Room 2
Marketing/Planning
Instructor: Carl Baumann. All businesses must be great marketers.
Learn how to conduct market research and write a thorough marketing (and
sales) plan for your business. We will cover how to better understand
your customer, how to develop your brand, how to write a compelling
marketing message, how to effectively deliver & communicate your
marketing message to your target audience and how to write a sales
plan.
Date: 09/28/11
Time: 6:30-9:00P Cost: Free
Location: Pittsboro, Chatham Community Library, Meeting Room
Taxes & Recordkeeping
Instructor: Eric DeJong. Designed to identify records needing to be
kept, how they are to be maintained and best format to use in doing so.
Tax implications covered. Participants will work through the various
records in the normal bookkeeping cycle.
Date: 10/05/11
Time: 6:30-8:30p Cost: Free
Location: Pittsboro, Chatham Community Library, Meeting Room
Strategies for Building Revenue
Instructor: Mike Sink. This seminar is designed to provide business
owners information and strategies to overcome risk and increase revenue.
During the seminar, we will focus on 4 different strategies to take back
to your business and apply immediately to start generating more sales.
Date: 10/12/11
Time: 6:30-9:00p Cost: Free
Location: Pittsboro, Chatham Community Library, Meeting Room
Gary Kibler
SBC Director
Chatham County
545 8013