Entrepreneurial Training Program

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Next Session:
September 30 - December 16, 2008

Tuesdays, September 30 - December 16, 2008

6:30 p.m. - 9:15 p.m.

UW-Eau Claire - Haas Fine Arts Building, Room 101
121 Water Street
Eau Claire, WI

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 101
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.

Registration Information

Brochure - [PDF] -

Fee

We want you to succeed. Your cost to participate in the Entrepreneurial Training Program is only $250 if you complete the program. The Wisconsin Department of Commerce will provide the remaining $750 in tuition assistance. That’s $1000 worth of concise small business training for $250!

Fill out an application to qualify for tuition assistance.

Contact Information

For more information please contact Jim Mishefske at the UW-Eau Claire Small Business Development Center at (715) 836-5811 or toll free at (800)582-5182.

E-mail: ask sbdc@uwec.edu