Entrepreneurial Training Program

Evolve Your Idea, Plan for Profit.

Next Session:
September 30 - December 16, 2008

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Understanding the full scope of what it takes to start and run a small business is like climbing the proverbial mountain. We understand the necessary steps to success, that’s why we developed the Entrepreneurial Training Program. It’s an efficient set of classes designed specifically to help you develop a valued business plan and recognize what it takes to build a thriving business!

A comprehensive business plan is the most critical part of your new venture

• Serves as your objective decision guide
• Reduces costly trial and error
• Required by lenders if seeking financing
• Will attract potential investors
• Greatly increase your chance of SUCCESS

Whether your business is brand-new or expanding, writing a business plan is essential. The toughest parts are doing the research, organizing the information, and taking the time to write the plan. When you finish the weekly assignments in the Entrepreneurial Training Program, you will leave with a completed dynamic business plan.

Entrepreneurial Training Program

• Designed by entrepreneurs to help you run a better business
• Lively pace, efficient design, and useful take-home materials
• Utilizes case studies, activities, readings and presentations that are pertinent to business start-ups
• Each week tackles a different concern critical to your business plan
• Facilitators provide professional services to small business (accounting, marketing, financing, legal) or are UW-Eau Claire faculty who teach business management at the university
• Feedback is given weekly by a trained business counselor

ETP Content

• Writing a Business Plan
• Financial Management
• Basic Accounting and Finance
• Legal and Risk Management
• Marketing Needs and Planning
• E-Commerce and Web site Development
• Technology involved with your small business
• Customer Service and Time Management
• Successful Selling
• Record Keeping and Taxes

Convenient format and meeting site

• Meet in the Hass Fine Arts Building, Room 105
  121 Water Street, Eau Claire
• Tuesday evenings from 6:30–9:15 p.m.;
  Conducted spring and fall in Eau Claire
• Free parking is available across Water Street the University parking lot north of the Haas Fine Arts building.
  
• Class size limited so individual questions can be addressed.

Private, confidential counseling by advisors from the Small Business Development Center is available to cover concerns which are not addressed in the ETP content.

Sponsors

Thank you to these Sponsors for supporting the Entrepreneurial Training Program

 

For more information, call SBDC business coordinator Jim Mishefske at 715-836-5811 or e-mail Ask-SBDC@uwec.edu