+Virtual: Small Business & Entrepreneurship

Select small business & entrepreneurship topics are available virtually for your remote workforce. New options are added as demand warrants with all available in a live, interactive format.
Check out popular topics, review module descriptions and contact us to schedule virtual training for your workplace.
* E-seed Express: Entrepreneurship Training
* Explore Starting a Business
* Get the Right Financing for Your Business
* Intro to the Amazon.com Selling Platform
* Marketing Made Lean
* Work for Yourself at 50+

Additional Information

• Module Options

  **E-Seed Express: Entrepreneurship Training**
  * Determining if you have a feasible idea
  * Identifying and analyzing your industry, competition and market
  * The legalities, risks and regulatory issues facing business owners
  * Developing strategies to secure talent, professional services and capital
  * Available financing including SBA Loan Guarantees, working with banks and credit unions, angel inventors, venture capitalist and more
  **Explore Starting A Business**
  * Complimentary session provides a look at what it takes to launch a start-up or small business
  * The entrepreneur/business owner mindset
  * Critical questions to consider when launching or growing a business
  * Entrepreneurship Trainings: The experience and the results
  * 12 essentials for ramping up your business
  **Get the Right Financing for Your Business**
  * The lender concept, use of a risk rating and what makes a good rating vs. a poor one
  * How daily business decisions create the cash flow of business
  * Ways to create better short-term and long-term cash flow
  * Successful techniques to negotiate with lenders and how to choose the right lender for you and your business
  * The value and benefits of projections supported with written assumptions
  * Developing an action plan to get funding
  * Submitting your financial request by presenting to a panel of lenders for feedback and insight
  **Introduction to the Amazon.com Selling Platform**
  * Amazon product sourcing vs. launching a new product
  * Amazon MFN and FBA Programs
  * Upsides and downsides to selling on Amazon
  * Critical concepts to selling on Amazon
  * Third party tools to simplify selling on Amazon
  * Strategies to move your business off the Amazon.com platform
  **Marketing Made Lean**
  * Defining your business purpose
  * Connecting with your vision
  * Positioning and developing marketing channels
  * Customer relationship strategies
  * Marketing ROI, strategic planning and implementation
  **Work for Yourself at 50+**
  * What it means to work for yourself
  * The advantages and challenges of starting a business
  * Moving your idea forward
  * Avoiding common self-employment mistakes
  * Find your focus and put your options to work
  * Discover sources of support and additional services available to entrepreneurs and/or business owners