Jonesboro Area

ASU Jonesboro SBDC

To register for any of the following programs, contact the ASU Jonesboro SBDC at (870) 972-3517 or click on the Register Now button to register online.

Seminar Highlights: Learn this popular computerized accounting program, hands-on! This seminar teaches how to set up necessary information to set up and use payroll features, originating paychecks and other issues. Participants must be comfortable operating a personal computer in a Windows environment.
Speaker: Linda Harvey, Jones & Company, & Sherry Hensley, Computer Tutor, Certified QuickBooks Instructors
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Joneboro Regional Chamber of Commerce; Jones & Company, Computer Tutor; and Gillmore's Camo

Seminar Highlights: This seminar is for the small business owner and manager. The seminar takes an in-depth look at the numbers on your balance sheet and income statement and helps you better understand what is happening to your business. Topics include understanding the financial position of a business and the presentation of the numbers, as well as how to use the umbers in evaluating business profitability.
Speaker: Herb Lawrence, ASU SBDC Center Director
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: Designing a web page for your business is easier than you think! Participants will develop a basic small business website and professional quality "pages" using hypertext markup language (HTML). A comprehensive workbook and disk with an HTML editor and clipart is included in the fee! Participants should have worked with word processing and Internet browsers.
Speaker: Deanna Beshears, Project Coordinator, Rural Sourcing
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: The "Starting A Business In Arkansas" workshop is recommended to anyone considering starting a business. Find out the major steps crucial to starting a business, identify key issues that affect your business success, and discuss start-up requirements as well as common pitfalls you may face as an entrepreneur. Learn what to do before you open the doors in order to be successful!
Speaker: Susan Glasgow, ASU SBDC Training Coordinator
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: This seminar will explain how and where to get financing for prospective and existing businesses. Credit requirements, places to go for funding and the Small Business Administration's loan guaranty program will be presented.
Speaker: Herb Lawrence, ASU SBDC Center Director
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: The "Starting A Business In Arkansas" workshop is recommended to anyone considering starting a business. Find out the major steps crucial to starting a business, identify key issues that affect your business success, and discuss start-up requirements as well as common pitfalls you may face as an entrepreneur. Learn what to do before you open the doors in order to be successful!
Speaker: Susan Glasgow, ASU SBDC Training Coordinator
Cosponsor: White River Planning & Development; 1st Community Bank; Batesville Area Chamber of Commerce; UACCB

Seminar Highlights: The "Starting A Business In Arkansas" workshop is recommended to anyone considering starting a business. Find out the major steps crucial to starting a business, identify key issues that affect your business success, and discuss start-up requirements as well as common pitfalls you may face as an entrepreneur. Learn what to do before you open the doors in order to be successful!
Speaker: Susan Glasgow, ASU SBDC Training Coordinator
Cosponsor: Baxter County Library; Liberty Bank; Mtn. Home Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: Do you need to learn how to create online order forms and simple shopping carts? This seminar was designed for you! Learn how to use checkboxes, radio boxes, drop down boxes, hidden fields and more. Also gain knowledge about configuring a basic shopping cart. Fee includes a 30 page workbook.
Speaker: Deanna Beshears, Project Coodinator, Rural Sourcing
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: All businesses need a business plan. A business plan will help you define your concept, evaluate the competition, determine risks, and estimate your costs. This seminar will explain and illustrate the business plan format for existing businesses.
Speaker: Laura Miller, ASU SBDC Business Consultant
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: Learn this popular computerized accounting program, hands-on! This seminar covers setting up a new company, chart of accounts, writing checks and bank reconciliation. Participants must be comfortable operating a personal computer in a Windows environment.
Speaker: Linda Harvey, Jones & Co., Ltd. and Sherry Hensley, Computer Tutor, Certified QuickBooks Instructors
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce; Jones & Company

Seminar Highlights: This seminar is designed to inform business owners of current sales tax laws, help them prevent overpayment of sales tax, educate them about the increased audit risk they all face due to increased compliance audits anticipated in the future and to show them how to protect themselves from failure to comply with the new regulations. The seminar will also discuss State of Arkansas incentives and tax credits that are available to many eligible businesses.
Speaker: David Rickman, Ted Walker, Jeff Simmons, Owners - Arkansas Tax Associates, Inc.
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce; Arkansas Tax Associates

Seminar Highlights: This seminar will explain how and where to get financing for prospective and existing businesses. Credit requirements, places to go for funding and the Small Business Administration's loan guaranty program will be presented.
Speaker: Herb Lawrence, ASU SBDC Center Director
Cosponsor: White River Planning & Development; The Citizens Bank; Batesville Area Chamber of Commerce; UACCB

Seminar Highlights: Learn this popular computerized accounting program, hands-on! This seminar covers inventory, adjusting and report inventory, invoicing, and accounts payables and receivables. Participants must be comfortable operating a personal computer in a Windows environment.
Speaker: Linda Harvey, Jones & Co., Ltd. and Sherry Hensley, Computer Tutor, Certified QuickBooks Instructors
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce; Jones & Company

Seminar Highlights: This session will describe how small businesses can use the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to fund technical research and product prototyping. It will introduce participants to issues that affect the ability to convert research results into innovations that produce business success. The SBIR program offers more than $2 billion annually to help small businesses explore their concepts for technical and scientific innovations. Come learn how to go from lab to sales.
Speaker: Mildred Holley and Dr. Steve Stanley, ASTA
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: Learn this popular computerized accounting program, hands-on! This seminar teaches how to set up necessary information to set up and use payroll features, originating paychecks and other issues. Participants must be comfortable operating a personal computer in a Windows environment.
Speaker: Linda Harvey, Jones & Co., Ltd. and Sherry Hensley, Computer Tutor, Certified QuickBooks Instructors
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce; Jones & Company

Seminar Highlights: The "Starting A Business In Arkansas" workshop is recommended to anyone considering starting a business. Find out the major steps crucial to starting a business, identify key issues that affect your business success, and discuss start-up requirements as well as common pitfalls you may face as an entrepreneur. Learn what to do before you open the doors in order to be successful!
Speaker: Susan Glasgow, ASU SBDC Training Coordinator
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: Coming up with new product (or service) ideas and getting them into the market is what keeps your business going. But over 80% of new product launches fail. How do you beat the odds? This seminar gives small businesses some common sense ideas for improving your changes of success. Just as importantly, it will explore how to keep bad ideas from getting too far down the path and wasting your time and money.
Speaker: John Riggins, Owner, The Riggins Group
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: Take an in-depth look into QuickBooks Pro and put this popular computerized accounting program to work for your small business. Learn how to use the advanced features found in payroll, accounts receivable and payable and inventory.
Speaker: Linda Harvey, Jones & Co., Ltd. and Sherry Hensley, Computer Tutor, Certified QuickBooks Instructors
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: A series of concurrent "mini-workshops" on start-up fundamentals, business plans, financing, marketing, selling to the government, state and federal assistance to veterans and much more.
Speaker: Herb Lawrence, ASU SBDC Center Director
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce; ASU Beck Pride Center

Seminar Highlights: Take an in-depth look into QuickBooks Pro and put this popular computerized accounting program to work for your small business. Learn how to use the advanced features found in payroll, accounts receivable and payable and inventory.
Speaker: Linda Harvey, Jones & Co., Ltd., and Sherry Hensley, Computer Tutor, Certified QuickBooks Instructors
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce; Jones & Company

Seminar Highlights: This seminar will explain how and where to get financing for prospective and existing businesses. Credit requirements, places to go for funding and the Small Business Administration's loan guaranty program will be presented.
Speaker: Herb Lawrence, ASU SBDC Center Director
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: All businesses need a business plan. A business plan will help you define your concept, evaluate the competition, determine risks, and estimate your costs. This seminar will explain and illustrate the business plan format for existing businesses.
Speaker: Laura Miller, ASU SBDC Business Consultant
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: Any business can provide basic customer service, but not every business owner wants or has the knowledge to get to the next level - exceeding your customer's expectations. In this program you will learn what it takes for employees to work as a team to deliver service that will keep your customers coming back again and again.
Speaker: Susan Glasgow, ASU SBDC Training Coordinator
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: It is essential for start-up and existing businesses to do some type of marketing to publicize their product or service. In fact, everything done in order to promote a business is considered marketing. This workshop gives creative and resourceful ideas for marketing your business and provides insight on how to understand customer needs and find the means by which to satisfy those needs on a small budget.
Speaker: Susan Glasgow, ASU SBDC Training Coordinator
Cosponsor: Liberty Bank; Baxter County Library; Mtn. Home Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: This training session will include an overview of the 2 basic loan programs (7a and 504), how to determine eligibility, how to prepare and submit loan applications, and how to service the loan after closing. Lenders will learn how to use the electronic website to increase their SBA participation. We will discuss actual case studies to show you how SBA can help you serve your customer and increase bank income. We will show you how to market your bank%u2019s participation in SBA programs. You will learn the advantages of becoming SBA Express and Patriot Express lenders. Sessions held later in the year will highlight the Small/Rural Lender Initiative as it becomes available. Loan officers new to SBA lending or those wishing to update their knowledge should attend.
Speaker: Pat Walker, U.S. Small Business Administration
Cosponsor: ASBDC, ACCG

Seminar Highlights: Cash planning is a key to business survival. Learn the important concepts of short-and long-term cash budgeting. Do you know your cash needs for next year, next month, tomorrow? Don't gamble with your businesses' money. Learn to take control of your cash planning now.
Speaker: Herb Lawrence, ASU SBDC Center Director
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: As the Cheshire Cat said to Alice, "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." So it is with marketing your business. Creating a marketing plan keeps you on a path toward a goal and gives you a way to measure your progress. This seminar will give you common sense ideas on creating and actually using your marketing plan to guide your business.
Speaker: John Riggins, Owner, The Riggins Group
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: This seminar will provide you with successful techniques to market your product or service via the internet. Learn to get a better response from email, how to design banners to increase "hits" and much more. Participants receive a 30 page workbook.
Speaker: Timothy Lee, ASBDC Webmaster
Cosponsor: Liberty Bank; Baxter County Library; Mtn. Home Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: This seminar is designed to inform business owners of current sales tax laws, help them prevent overpayment of sales tax, educate them about the increased audit risk they all face due to increased compliance audits anticipated in the future and to show them how to protect themselves from failure to comply with the new regulations. The seminar will also discuss State of Arkansas incentives and tax credits that are available to many eligible businesses.
Speaker: David Rickman, Jeff Simmons, Ted Walker, Owners - Arkansas Tax Associates, Inc.
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce; Arkansas Tax Associates

Seminar Highlights: This seminar is for the small business owner and manager. The seminar takes an in-depth look at the numbers on your balance sheet and income statement and helps you better understand what is happening to your business. Topics include understanding the financial position of a business and the presentation of the numbers, as well as how to use the umbers in evaluating business profitability.
Speaker: Herb Lawrence, ASU SBDC Center Director
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: The "Starting A Business In Arkansas" workshop is recommended to anyone considering starting a business. Find out the major steps crucial to starting a business, identify key issues that affect your business success, and discuss start-up requirements as well as common pitfalls you may face as an entrepreneur. Learn what to do before you open the doors in order to be successful!
Speaker: Susan Glasgow, ASU SBDC Training Coordinator
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: All businesses need a business plan. A business plan will help you define your concept, evaluate the competition, determine risks, and estimate your costs. This seminar will explain and illustrate the business plan format for existing businesses.
Speaker: Laura Miller, ASU SBDC Business Consultant
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: This seminar will explain how and where to get financing for prospective and existing businesses. Credit requirements, places to go for funding and the Small Business Administration's loan guaranty program will be presented.
Speaker: Herb Lawrence, ASU SBDC Center Director
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: Money. You can't start, operate, or expand a business without it. Acquiring the capital you need can be frustrating. This seminar will provide you with a wealth of valuable information about building a relationship with your lender by covering the loan proposal process, the five C's of credit, the do's and don'ts of borrowing money and successful borrowing habits.
Speaker: Susan Glasgow, ASU SBDC Training Coordinator
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Arkansas Small Business Development Center
University of Arkansas at Little Rock - College of Business
Donald W. Reynolds Center for Business and Economic Development
2801 S. University / Little Rock, Arkansas 72204
Phone: 501.683.7700 Fax: 501.683.7720

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