If you have a marketable skill, you can turn it into a small business and make extra cash during the summer, part-time, or as an alternate career option. You will learn the skills necessary to start and manage your business, how to market your business idea, and how to manage the monies coming in and going out. Imagine making money doing yard maintenance & landscap- ing, providing childcare, house-sitting, running errands, painting or even dog-walking! This training will help you develop your business idea for profit. Space is limited. Class is kept small for easy networking.
Topics Include:
- Ideas & Innovation: Intro To Entrepreneurship & Idea Development Process
- Starting & Growing Your Business - The Path To Business Success
- Assessing Your Idea: Market & Financial Research and Analysis
- Defining Your Competition: Competitive Advantage, Industry, Market Size, Potential & Environment, and Target Market
- Calculating Start-up Costs, Operating Expenses, Costs of Goods Sold & Mark-ups
- Funding Your Idea – Putting Together a Business Plan, and much more…
Scholarships are available based on need.
