+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+
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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