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Harvest
Profits from a Small
Business this Fall!
The following seminars
are designed with
the new start-up business
or budding entrepreneur
in mind. Learn what
it takes to be successful
in starting and operating
a small business one
week at a time. Take
one course, or take
them all! Contact
the Small Business
Center at 828-488-6413
to reserve your seat
or to request one-on-one,
confidential business
counseling.
Business
Start-up Basics:
Do you have what it
takes to be an entrepreneur?
Learn whether you
have the right stuff
to own and operate
a successful business.
Learn how to find
out if there’s
a market for your
product or service,
how to finance a new
business, the four
major issues every
business must face,
and how to design
a step-by-step plan
for success.
SCC, Macon Campus,
Room 113 T 9/22 6-9P
H Ponder $5
Writing a
Business Plan:
Learn the two main
purposes of a business
plan and why you should
write it, what a lender
really wants to see
in your plan, and
what things you do
not want to include
in your plan.
SCC, Macon Campus,
Room 113 T 9/29 6-9P
H Ponder $5
Marketing
Your Business for
Greater Success: Nothing
happens in your business
until you sell something.
Do you have a plan
to market what you
do or sell? This seminar
will help you determine
the best way to develop
a strategy for successfully
reaching the right
market.
SCC, Macon Campus,
Room 113 T 10/6 6-9P
H Ponder $5
Small Business
Tax Requirements:
Do you know what the
tax laws are that
determine what you
must pay? Do you know
how and when you must
pay your taxes? This
seminar will help
you understand these
issues, and others
like what records
you should keep and
for how long, when
you need an accountant,
and how your business
taxes relate to your
personal taxes.
SCC, Macon Campus,
Room 113 T 10/13 6-9P
H Ponder $5
Setting up
Your Home Office:
This seminar is for
people who endeavor
to run a home-based
business. Learn what
technology you need,
how to organize your
home office, how to
separate home life
and work life, how
to make your small
business look like
a big business, the
tax ramifications
of a home office,
meeting clients in
your home and more.
SCC, Macon Campus,
Room 113 T 10/20 6-9P
H Ponder $5
Collecting
Debts and Delinquent
Accounts: This
seminar is designed
to help you understand
the legal ways you
can go about collecting
those unpaid accounts
receivables. You’ll
discuss accounts receivables
as a source of cash
flow, setting collection
policies that work,
locating debtors,
preventing bad checks
and credit checks.
Learn the nine proven
steps in collecting
debts, collection
agencies and legal
options for collecting
bad debts. You may
be losing thousands
of dollars by not
taking some very simple
precautions. This
seminar is a must
for any business that
extends credit or
takes checks as payment
for goods or services.
SCC, Macon Campus,
Room 113 T 10/27 6-9P
H Ponder $5
Pricing
for Profit:
If you use your creative
skill to make items
for sale to businesses
and/or the end customer,
this workshop will
help you learn to
effectively price
your products. You’ll
learn all the factors
that go into setting
a profitable price.
The focus is on Curley
Maple, a fictitious
craftsman who makes
custom tables. After
helping Curley set
a profitable price,
you’ll walk
away with a formula
that you can use to
do the same thing
for your products!
SCC, Macon Campus,
Room 113 204
Th T 11/5
11/3 6-9P D Kanipe
$5
The
new date is Tuesday
Nov 3rd in room 204.
How to
Project Sales:
How do you know what
your business will
do in the next year?
How do you know what
it’s capable
of? Don’t just
throw your marketing
money away! You’ll
use the marketing
plan of a small business
to learn how to target
your markets, project
sales, budget for
promotions, and check
the effectiveness
of your advertising.
SCC, Macon Campus,
Room 113 T 11/17 6-9P
D Kanipe $5 Class
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