Business education alliance

This page is updated the first day of each month. We rely on the participating organizations to provide us with their information in a timely manner.

July
August

- July-

Title: Quickbooks Pro: Intro Part 1 (of 2)
Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center
Location: Small Business Development Center (UCCS Campus)
Time: 12 PM to 4 PM
Fee: $125 (total for both part 1 & 2)
Registration Required? Yes, please call above number or register on our website. Prepayment also required. Amanda or Shawna, Tel 255-3844
Website: http://www.cssbdc.org
This is a great course for the small business owner, or for assistants, who primarily handle the finances! This interactive QuickBooks Pro - Part 1 introductory course will cover: 1. How the software works and how to navigate through the program;2. How to create a new Company with QuickBooks including settings preferences, setting open balance, and entering customers, vendors, and accounts;3. How to enter vendor information, as well as descriptions & prices for products and services; 4. How to work with registers, including opening registers, making entries, and reconciliation; and 5. How to handle bills in QuickBooks, including how to enter & pay bills; entering discounts from vendors

Title: Common Legal Issues When Starting a Small Business
Date: Thursday, July 8, 2010
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center
Location: Small Business Development Center (UCCS Campus)
Time: 9 AM to 11 AM
Fee: $20
Registration Required? Yes, please call above number or register on our website. Prepayment also required. Amanda or Shawna, Tel 255-3844
Website: http://www.cssbdc.org
This workshop will cover common legal issues when starting a small business, including legal entities, business licenses and taxes, contracts and leases, marketing and advertising practices, Consumer Credit and debt collection, employment practices, intellectual property protection and bankruptcy. This is a great workshop for current small business owners, or for those who are thinking of starting a small business and struggle with the legalities of owning your own business.

Title: Should You Start Your Own Business?
Date: Monday, July 12, 2010
Sponsor: SCORE
Location: Penrose Library, Adult Meeting Room, 20 North Cascade Ave. (on the northwest corner of Cascade and Pikes Peak).
Time: 6:15 PM to 8:30 PM
Fee: Free
Registration Required? No
Website: http://www.coloradospringsscore.org/view_calendar.html
This workshop addresses many issues you will want to consider before launching a business. We talk about the rewards of starting a small business, attributes of a successful entrepreneur, business planning including how to determine your cash requirements, the legal form of your business entity, and more.

Title: Learn Why 20% of the People Make 80% of the Money
Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Sponsor:Chamber of Commerce
Location: Colorado Christian University
Time: 7 AM to 9 AM
Fee: $5 members, $10 nonmembers
Registration Required? Yes, on website
Website: www.coloradospringschamber.org

Title: Tough Times Survival Guide
Date: Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center
Location: Ent Federal Credit Union-Corporate Offices (7350 Campus Drive, 2nd floor)
Time: 3 PM to 5 PM
Fee: FREE Compliments of Ent
Registration Required? Yes, please call above number or register on our website. Prepayment also required. Amanda or Shawna, Tel 255-3844
Website: http://www.cssbdc.org
Most business owners in the United States have been impacted by the recession. Some have struggled to keep their companies afloat and others have simply been riding out the storm while attempting to maintain healthy businesses. In this important program, Laddie Blaskowski teaches participants how to take proactive steps to survive the tough time and move ahead to rebound after the recession! This timely presentation is a ''must'' for anyone who owns a business!
At this program, you will learn: 1. How to honestly assess your financial situation. 2. How to identify weaknesses and what to do about them. 3. How to develop a flexible plan that will work. 4. How to develop a process for executing your business plan (that will really work). 5. How to recognize opportunities resulting from the recession.

Title: Benefits 101
Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010
Sponsor: Better Business Bureau
Location: 25 North Wahsatch Avenue
Time: 8 AM to 9 AM
Fee: Free
Registration Required? Yes, please contact Kelly Clark at 719-636-5076 ext. 128
Website: www.southerncolorado.bbb.org
This is an introduction to the many benefits of being a BBB accredited business. Discover how our newest programs, ShopMyBBB.com and the BBBOnLine seal, can benefit your business and review our other programs to maximize your marketplace exposure. Immediately following Benefits 101 is a step-by-step training to help you edit your ShopMyBBB.com Web page.

Title: PowerPoint I
Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010
Sponsor: Pikes Peak Library District
Location: Old Colorado City Branch, 2418 West Pikes Peak
Time: 7 PM to 8 PM
Fee: Free
Registration Required: Yes, Call 389-8968
Website: www.ppld.org
Learn how to create a slide or series of slides, manipulate, and format them for reports, presentations or printouts. Prerequisites: Computer 101 or experience using a mouse and keyboard.

Title: Understanding Financial Statements to Manage Your Business
Date: Thursday, July 15, 2010
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center
Location: Small Business Development Center (UCCS Campus)
Time: 9 AM to 12 PM
Fee: $40
Registration Required? Yes, please call above number or register on our website. Prepayment also required. Amanda or Shawna, Tel 255-3844
Website: http://www.cssbdc.org
Do financial statements seem intimidating? Let us make them easy to understand! This seminar is an advanced continuation of Basics of Bookkeeping, and is taught by a local CPA. The class will cover balance sheets, income statements, statement of cash flow, financial projections, and budgeting. (Basics of Bookkeeping is recommended as a prerequisite only if you've no prior experience in bookkeeping).

Title: Quickbooks Pro: Intro Part 2 (of 2)
Date: Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center
Location: Small Business Development Center (UCCS Campus)
Time: 12 PM to 4 PM
Fee: $125 (should have been paid at part 1)
Registration Required? Yes, please call above number or register on our website. Prepayment also required. Amanda or Shawna, Tel 255-3844
Website: http://www.cssbdc.org
Since you've learned the basics of QuickBooks - Pro in Part-1, this class will build on that foundation to teach you more advanced processes within the software. This interactive course will cover: 1. Credit card accounts and transactions; how to create and track asset and liability accounts; and an introduction to equity accounts; 2. Sales and purchase forms; how to create a new invoice; the QuickBooks Item list and how to add new items; how to create invoice letters & sales orders; and how to track backorders; 3. How to record customer payments; how to handle customer discounts, partial payments, overpayments, or down payments; how to record a deposit, including cash back; how to process credit cards 4. Financial data tools: QuickReports, preset reports, and graphs; how to save reports in Excel or PDF format.

Title: Publisher
Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010
Sponsor: Pikes Peak Library District
Location: Old Colorado City Branch, 2418 West Pikes Peak
Time: 7 PM to 8 PM
Fee: Free
Registration Required: Yes, Call 389-8968
Website: www.ppld.org
Learn how to create a document integrating graphics and text boxes with various fonts, sizes and colors. Also use Publisher to create business cards, greeting cards, banners and more.

Title: The Power of Email Marketing
Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center
Location: Small Business Development Center (UCCS Campus)
Time: 1 PM to 4 PM
Fee: $40
Registration Required? Yes, please call above number or register on our website. Prepayment also required. Amanda or Shawna, Tel 255-3844
Website: http://www.cssbdc.org
This workshop is a concise and comprehensive overview of permission-based email marketing strategy and tactics. Participants will learn tips for building a quality list, getting more email opened and read, getting readers to take action, and analyzing click-behavior to improve results. Email is the most cost-effective, targeted, trackable and efficient way to build and maintain business relationships. According to the Direct Marketing Association's economic impact study released in October 2006, email returned $57.25 for every dollar spent in 2005. In contrast, print catalogs generated $7.09 and non-email Internet marketing generated $22.52. If you want your business to see similar results from email marketing, sign up for this class!

Title: Basics and Strategic Benefits of Social Media: Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn
Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Sponsor: Small Business Development Center
Location: Small Business Development Center (UCCS Campus)
Time: 9 AM to 12 PM
Fee: $40
Registration Required? Yes, please call above number or register on our website. Prepayment also required. Amanda or Shawna, Tel 255-3844
Website: http://www.cssbdc.org
“What’s a Tweet?”, “How can blogging build my business?” “Why should I ‘friend’ YOU?”, “How can I get my site to the top of the search?”, “Isn’t social networking just for kids and a colossal waste of time?” If these are questions you’ve ever asked, come hear how this small business owner harnessed the Internet and doubled her income in less than six months! With do-it-yourself determination, she strengthened her brand, broadened her reach and attracted new clients - all on a shoestring. Now she helps independent business owners leverage technology, raise revenue, and communicate value through no-cost, new media and social networking tools. This lively, interactive “nuts and bolts” program demystifies terms, shares how-to tips and step-by-step strategies so business owners can choose tools that give the best bang for the buck. By the end of this session participants will have learned how to: -Leverage blogging for immediate, relevant, page-one search results -Strike a balance between time and tangible outcomes -Integrate blogging as a business marketing strategy -Create domain names with dominant market draw -Evaluate Email, “Feeds” and RSS distribution methods -Analyze the good, bad and ugly of competitor sites -Choose tags and keywords to attract and capture qualified buyers -Use social media tools as free market research -Write provocative subject titles with headline-like appeal -Use virtual interviews, current events and guest writers to grow your blog -Evaluate pro’s and con’s of blog programs like Wordpress and Typepad -Recognize benefits of “socially acceptable stalking” -Integrate social networking tools like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn

- AUGUST -

Title: Create Your Own Linked-in Page
Date:Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Sponsor:Chamber of Commerce
Location: Colorado Christian University
Time: 7 AM to 9 AM
Fee: $5 members, $10 nonmembers
Registration Required? Yes, on website
Website: www.coloradospringschamber.org

Title: Media Training
Date:Thursday, August 26, 2010
Sponsor: Center for Nonprofit Excellence
Location:
Time: 9 AM to 11:30 AM
Fee: $65 CNE members, $95 nonmembers
Registration Required? Yes, To register please call 575-4341
Website: http://www.cnecoloradosprings.org