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Northwest Regional Small Business Development Center
Workshops
We offer a wide variety of workshops to help you grow
To register for workshops please go to:
Growing America Through Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneur Essentials GATE II Orientation*
This workshop will cover the basic steps to starting a business in the State of Minnesota and will focus on feasibility, business plan basics, legal requirements, and understanding the financial aspects of financing a business.
Price: Free-paid by your tax dollars.
Marketing for Success in a Tough Economy **
Is the slumping economy impacting your sales and bottom line? Has tightening your belt meant fewer advertising dollars? Join us as we highlight proven marketing tips and strategies for reaching your customers in these difficult economic times. Learn how to get creative, be more efficient and do more with less. In this workshop, you will learn proven strategies to recruit new customers and how to expand your relationships with your existing customer base. Tough times never last, but those companies who can reach their customers do!
Price: $35.00 (includes box lunch/dinner)
Excel 1**
Are you looking for an opportunity to improve your Excel skills? Whether you are a novice to Excel or just want to learn how to use the newest version, this is the workshop for you! Join us as we explore the basics of Excel 2007. Participants will use provided laptops to work hands-on with the instructor to create spreadsheets, embed charts, and create formulas. Excel financial functions such as averages, and payment schedules will also be covered. Only basic computer knowledge will be assumed.
Price: $35.00
Excel 2**
This workshop is a full day session designed to teach participants more advanced strategies and techniques in utilizing Microsoft Excel 2007 in the financial management of their business. Attendees are assumed to have a basic knowledge of Microsoft Excel. Students will learn how to use Excel to create templates to be used in creating budgets, tracking performance, and analyzing results. Financial functions, data tables, amortization schedules and hyperlinks will also be covered. Participants will create charts and learn how to use pivot tables. Special emphasis will be placed on using Excel to manage customer lists and track expenses. Importing information into Excel from programs such as QuickBooks, and Peachtree accounting software will also be highlighted. This will be an interactive hands-on workshop where students manipulate Microsoft Excel on trainer provided laptop computers.
Register today as space is limited!
Price: $75.00
QuickBooks**
Whether you are an existing QuickBooks user or a newcomer to QuickBooks, this is the class for you! QuickBooks is a powerful management tool that can tremendously improve your business operations and business decision making. The key to harnessing the power of QuickBooks is in customizing the program to give you the information you need! Join us as we break-down the features and functions of QuickBooks Pro 2009.
Price: $105.00 (includes lunch and workbook)
Franklin Covey: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Managers**
Are you looking to increase productivity in your organization? Do you or your employees want to feel that they are contributing to the company’s success? Interested in learning the same transforming principles that have led the world’s foremost business leaders to the professional & personal success they dreamed of? Join us as we change ineffectiveness to effectiveness with Franklin Covey’s 7 Habits for Managers.
These two days will change your life!! You will learn how to be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek first to understand, synergize, and sharpen your saw.
You will receive:7 Habits of Highly Effective People CD, manual, Participant Guide, book of resources, and meals.
Cost: please call office for pricing
Website Building With Homestead**
Have you always wanted to create a website for your small business but didn’t know where to start? Have the costs associated with professional website development deterred you in the past? Get your business online today by building your own website. In this hands-on workshop you will build and launch a professional looking website. Upon completion of the workshop, your website will be live and ready to be visited by your customers!
You will receive: A full-function informational website with five separate pages., your website FREE for 30 days, and then as low as $4.99/month if you decide to keep it., toll-free technical support., and meals.
Cost: please call office for pricing
Microsoft Word**
Have you been using the 2003 version and want to learn more about the new layout of 2007? Would it be nice to make every day projects look more professional? This course will cover how to do the basics, format your document with styles, bullets, backgrounds, borders, and different fonts. You will also learn how to add tables, footers, headers and much more.
Cost: please call office for pricing
Microsoft Access**
Have you been wondering what Access is? Do you currently use Access but you are not sure what else you can use it for? Join us as we learn the basics to Access including how to download and use templates, how to create and use forms, and reports. The course will help explain when to use Access and when to use Excel. Learn more about the Access toolbar, Microsoft Office buttons and how to work with file formatting.
Cost: please call office for pricing
* Offered in partnership with
Minnesota Workforce Centers.
**Offered in partnership with
Northwest Minnesota Foundation
