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e-Learning for Entrepreneurs
NH SBDC's e-Learning for Entrepreneurs provides 24/7 availability of business management and industry-related workshops, seminars, and e-Tools right in your workplace or home.
Business Plan OnLine (BPOL) is an online software product that walks you through the narrative and financial parts of your business plan. Create your start-up or growth business plan on your own, or over time with an SBDC business advisor. BPOL is available for $49 from the SBDC homepage.
SBDC's How To's for Business Owners - OnLine, AnyTime are courses in Business Management, Marketing, and Finance. These are free, 2-3.5 hour courses, which you can take in one sitting or in several via the internet. Underwritten by Citizens Bank Foundation, NH Department of Environmental Services, Public Service of New Hampshire, Daniel Webster College, and TD Banknorth.
For more information on e-Learning for Entrepreneurs and on becoming an e-Learning sponsor, contact Heidi Edwards Dunn, Educational Program Coordinator. |
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| SBDC Events
SAVE THE DATE
NH SBDC HOSTS 2009 SBA SMALL BUSINESS AWARDS LUNCHEON
Wednesday, June 3rd
11:30a.m. - 2:30p.m.
C.R. Sparks, Bedford, NH
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SBDC Resources
SUSTAIN YOUR BUSINESS with HELP FROM NH SBDC
NH small businesses continue to be the backbone of our New Hampshire economy, however they may need assistance in these challenging times of high energy costs, financial concerns and shrinking markets. The NH SBDC offers real time assistance 24/7:
with SBDC certified, professional advisors.
blue box to the left.
counseling on how to make your business
sustainable. Visit the Roadmap to Sustainability
- Website tools, resources, and information for building and sustaining your business.
- Business Startup Basics - see schedule in
e-News below.
- Build Your Business Plan in-a-Day - Using
Business Plan OnLine, SBDC business
advisors guide new and experienced
owners through developing feasibility
studies, startup, financing, and growth
business plans - in a day! March 17,
Manchester; March 31, Portsmouth (see
details below).
This is a list of Twelve Target Ideas to Success, with thanks to Kutztown, PA SBDC.
1. Reward yourself.
2. Believe in yourself.
3. Recession provides great opportunities for
entrepreneurs.
4. Define again why you went into business in the
first place.
5. Remember your original vision as you
construct a new vision based on the current
economic realities.
6. Find a mentor or coach.
7. Find free learning opportunities and seize
them.
8. Keep networking, keep selling everyday and
building relationships.
9. Find a niche and focus, focus, focus.
10. Talk to only positive people, negative
people will try to get you down in the hole
with them.
11. Maintain good health.
12. Practice prayer, yoga and meditation to
relieve stress and focus your energy on
constructive positive things that you can do
each day to improve your situation and the
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Survival Tools for Entrepreneurs
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| Timely Tools for Entrepreneurs
The Amoskeag Business Incubator's on-line "Ask-the-Expert" series is an interactive, web-based forum where questions may be asked and answered on various business topics that change each month.
The ABI's featured business expert for March is John Joyce. John is an International Trade Officer representing the SBA at the US Export Assistance Center in Boston and is offering advice on financing solutions for U.S. exporters.
The U.S. Small Business Administration issued a scam alert to small businesses, warning them not to respond to letters falsely claiming to have been sent by the SBA asking for bank account information in order to qualify them for federal tax rebates. More... |
| SBDC Educational Programs
Business Planning
BUILD YOUR BUSINESS PLAN IN-A-DAY
Take the Build Your Business Plan in-a-Day workshop.
Use NH SBDC's Business Plan OnLine.
Write your business plan in a day!
This workshop is targeted to an entrepreneur with:
- a new and early stage business
- a new business idea that needs a feasibility study
- an established business looking for financing
- an established business with a new product or service
SBDC certified business advisors will facilitate these workshops. Limited to 8 businesses per day.
March 17, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., Amoskeag
Business Incubator, Manchester
March 31, 10:15 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Daniel
Webster College, Portsmouth
To attend, you must purchase the online software Business Plan OnLine, at $49, available at www.nhsbdc.org. Workshop registration fee is $120. For information and to register, please call Heidi Edwards Dunn at 227-0417 or email h.edwardsdunn@unh.edu.
QuickBooks
All Seminars will be held at Daniel Webster College, 119 International Drive, Portsmouth, NH 03801.
April 1, 10:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
This full day course will help you set up QuickBooks correctly, discover which verson is right for you, show you how to set up your company, and ways to use QuickBooks to work with customers and vendors. Doing the basics well will help you develop sound financial recordkeeping processes: work with bank accounts, enter sales and invoices, receive payments, entering bills and analyze financial data.
April 9, 10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
For businesses currently using QuickBooks, this seminar will focus on important tips and hints to help you better utilize QuickBooks, increase your efficiency, streamline reporting, practice good security and backup habits, simplify tasks, and create a more productive working environment.
Pre-Register for Seminars 1 & 2 and pay only $129!
April 16, 10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Professional Services is a unique seminar developed just for your industry specific needs. Using QuickBooks we will focus on those areas that can help take you to that next level:
- Create invoices from estimates or proposals.
- Tracking time and applying it to clients.
- Share data with Microsoft applications.
- Management Reporting
- Review business plannin options
- Much more!
Business Basics
This workshop is for people who are interested in learning the fundamentals of starting and running a business the right way. Some subjects covered are the pros and cons of being in business, registering your business, choosing the business form (LLC, sole proprietor, etc.) basics of accounting and record keeping, understanding your market, basic business law, cash flow planning and budgeting, and how financing really works.
Amoskeag Business Incubator
33 South Commercial St., Manchester
Daniel Webster College
20 University Drive, Nashua
SBDC Environmental Management Program
The Environmental Management Program, located at the Manchester Regional Office of the NH SBDC, helps you develop best management practices to achieve sustainability.
March 31, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Ammon Center, Manchester
Presented by the NH SBDC and the
Construction Safety Roundtable
April 28, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Ammon Center, Manchester
Presented by the NH SBDC and the
Construction Safety Roundtable |
| Partner Events
Export Administration Regulations (EAR) Licensing Issues
Join the international Trade Resource Center in cooperation with Evolutions in Business in this day long seminar to understand the requirements of EAR licenses and what information and documentation is necessary for you to know.
March 19, 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
International Trade Resource Center
Portsmouth, NH
Application Writing Workshops for Nonprofits, Cooperatives, and Municipalities
The Community Development Finance Authority (CDFA) will be conducting two Pre-Application Writing Workshops for the Community Development Investment Program (CDIP), also known as the Tax Credit Program.
March 12, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Local Government Center
25 Triangle Park Drive, Concord
March 25, 8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Granite State College
Littleton Area Learning Center
646 Union Street, Littleton
Women of the Workplace Conference
Developed by the NH Division of Economic Development in partnership with the New Hampshire Mirror, Manchester Wolvesand Women Inspiring Women, this event is geared towards femal entrepreneurs, job seekers and CEO's alike.
March 19, 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Murphy's Taproom, Manchester
Occupational Injury and Illness in NH: A Status Report
March 24, 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Local Government Center
25 Triangle Park Drive, Concord
Stakeholders who should attend include:
- Occupational Health & Safety Professionals
- HR Professionals
- Risk Management Professionals
- Insurance Professionals
- Business and Industry Professionals
- State & Local Government Officials
- Public Health Professionals
Do you have questions about social media? Could social media, like Facebook and LinkedIn, fit into your business plan?
March 25, 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Hannah Grimes Center
25 Roxbury Street, Keene
Space is limited, so register today!
A top federal legislative priority for organized labor is the Employee Free Choice Act, also known as "card check." If passed, this bill would make it easier for unions to organize private sector employers and eliminate a worker's right to a secret ballot election when choosing whether or not to join a union. This workshop, featuring a luncheon and panel discussion, will cover the issues and concerns of card check.
March 25, 11:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Radisson/Center of NH, Manchester
The theme of the 2009 Made in NH Expo is Buy Local. Visitors will have a first-hand opportunity to sample, experience and buy hundreds of products that will be on display, all of which are made in the Granite State. There will be more than 150 exhibitors.
March 27, 1:00 - 8:00 p.m.
March 28, 10:0 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
March 29, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
NH National Guard Armory
1059 Canal Street, Manchester
Presented by WMUR in coordination with the State of NH and Southern New Hampshire University, the Project Economy Statewide Job and Career Expo will bring together employers and job seekers for a day of networking, workshops and career connections.
April 9, 10 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Southern New Hampshire University
Presented in partnership with UNH's Carsey Institute and the Whittemore School of Business and Economics, the annual conference brings together regional entrepreneurs with a panel of experts, including Gary Hirshberg, Chief Executive of Stonyfield Farm Yogurt, Jeffrey Hollender, President of Secenth Generation of Burlington, Vt., and Michael Swack of the Carsey Institute and WSBE.
April 16-17, New England Center, Durham |
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The NH SBDC provides
confidential business
management consulting and educational programs to more than 3,000 NH small businesses each year. The NH SBDC is the only NH agency that has full time, certified business advisors providing one-on-one, long-term management consulting to small businesses.
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