Successful Small Business Management

Code: W12-523
Price: $130.00

Instructor: Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE).
Day/Time: T • 7:00-9:00pm
Start Date: Apr 3
Fees: $130
Number of Class Meetings: 7

Course Description:

Planning to start a new business or already in one or just having business problems? Help is here. This course is a practical guide for business survival covering start ups, advertising, marketing, sales management, business plans, bank loans, insurance, bookkeeping, e-commerce, and more. Instructors are lecturers who are experts in their specific fields.

Today’s Networking Musts

Code: W12-580
Price: $29.00

Instructor: Alison Schirone, Principal and Consultant at AC Associates with over 20 years’ financial marketing experience.
Day/Time: M • 6:30-8:30pm
Start Date: Mar 19
Fees: $29
Number of Class Meetings: 1

Course Description:

Combine traditional networking with social networking and volunteering to arrive at a business development plan that equals new business for your existing business. Learn the basics in just 2 hours.

Get Your Marketing Plan Assessment

Code: W12-581
Price: $39.00

Instructor: Alison Schirone
Day/Time: M • 6:00-9:00pm
Start Date: Apr 9
Fees: $39
Number of Class Meetings: 1

Course Description:

Is your business at a standstill or just not growing at a pace you’d like? Not sure how you’re doing with your current marketing plan? Take this 3-hour class where you’ll leave with your marketing plan “grade” and next steps for business success.

To Mediate or Negotiate

Code: W12-578
Price: $49.00

Instructor: Alison Schirone
Day/Time: M • 6:00-8:00pm
Start Date: Mar 5
Fees: $49
Number of Class Meetings: 2

Course Description:

Whether it’s a business issue or problem or personal challenge you face, this short course will give you tips and techniques to practice when putting your best foot forward in business or personal negotiation. Designed as a practice, bring two examples of an experience where mediation or negotiation would have helped bring you to a resolution. Examples might include salary or job negotiation, conflict in the workplace or a dissatisfied client solution.

Payroll & Taxes

Code: W12-584
Price: $349.00

Instructor: Mary Lynch, holds a Master’s in Adult Education from the University of Maine with 28 years’ experience.
Day/Time: M • 6:00-9:00pm
Start Date: Feb 27
Fees: $349 • Textbook extra
Number of Class Meetings: 10

Course Description:

This course covers federal and state laws pertaining to wages, payroll taxes and payroll tax forms. Particular attention will be placed on determining gross earnings and payroll deductions including time and work records with emphasis on paying and recording employee earnings. Upon completion, you should be able to analyze data, make appropriate computation and complete all forms.

New! Don’t Wait: Get Your Business Started

Code: W12-586
Price: $49.00

Instructor: M • 6:30-9:00pm
Day/Time: M • 6:30-9:00pm
Start Date: Apr 9
Fees: $49
Number of Class Meetings: 1

Course Description:

You might be between jobs, under-employed, or working, but have always dreamed of starting your own business. Where? How to begin? Doing What? This course will help you find a direction that matches your personal attributes and gets you started on your way to self-fulfillment. Set your vision, target goals, start a business plan proposal and list of first steps to do today!

New! Internet Marketing for Small Businesses

Code: W12-587
Price: $29.00

Instructor: Ed McDonough, au-thor of The Complete Internet Marketing Strategy Guide.
Day/Time: T • 6:00-8:00pm
Start Date: Apr 3
Fees: $29
Number of Class Meetings: 1

Course Description:

Learn how to get more customers using the Internet. The rules for successfully marketing on the Internet have dramatically changed and it’s a lot more than understanding and using Social Media. In this discussion, Executive Coach Ed McDonough will reveal the “Must Haves” and “Should Haves” needed for a well-rounded Internet marketing strategy that will keep your customers coming back and keep your business ahead of the competition.

New! The Power of Linking In with Linked In

Code: W12-588
Price: $25.00

Instructor: Ed McDonough
Day/Time: TH • 6:00-7:30pm
Start Date: Apr 5
Fees: $25
Number of Class Meetings: 1

Course Description:

The rules for properly using social media have dramatically changed and if you are not on-board, not only will you miss out on obtaining new customers, your current so-called loyal customers will be easily lured away by your more “Internet savvy” competitors. This class will reveal the “Must Haves” needed for a well-rounded Linked In marketing strategy that will keep your customers coming back and keep you comfortably ahead of the competition.

"Ed offers fundamental, transfer-able, and UNDERSTANDABLE strategies that create success in dealing with the problem of Time Management and Productivity."

– Rich Harwood, Financial Rep

New! Facebook for Business

Code: W12-566
Price: $0.00

Instructor: Ed McDonough
Day/Time: T • 6:00-8:00pm
Start Date: Apr 3
Fees: $29
Number of Class Meetings: 1

Course Description:

With more than 750 million active users on Facebook and 50% of them login on a daily basis it’s no wonder big business in America is using Facebook as their "marketing tool of choice". In this interactive discussion, you’ll learn how a business of any size can use Facebook as a superior client acquisition tool. Discover the little-known strategies businesses are using to drive-up sales and increase revenue.