Central Arkansas Area

ASBTDC Lead Center

To register for any of the following programs, contact the ASBTDC Lead Center at 1-800-862-2040 or 501-683-7700 or click on the Register Now button to register online.

Seminar Highlights: The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center presents "Inbox Impact: Constant Contact & Email Marketing." Email marketing doesn't cost much. It doesn't take a lot of time. And it's effective. A perfect fit for small businesses! Target the customer you want to reach and get results with email marketing. Learn how to get your email opened, how to grow you list, and how to use Constant Contact software to create professional-looking email campaigns in a snap. No technical expertise is needed.

Speaker: ASBTDC Communications Coordinator

Seminar Highlights: The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center presents "Big Marketing Ideas for a Small Budget." Many business owners consider marketing to be just advertising and selling. They don't consider additional techniques available to them. In this presentation, the speaker shares approaches that are not only practical and low cost, but also effective for any size business.

Speaker: ASBTDC Representative

Cosponsor: University of Arkansas Community College at Morrilton

Seminar Highlights: Notaries verify signatures on legal and business documents to deter fraud and ensure the proper execution of these documents. The Arkansas Secretary of State Charlie Daniel Office will walk participants through the notary public application process, talk about the issues facing notaries today and outline best practices and procedures from current and future notaries public.

Speaker: Jarrod Johnson, SOS Representative

Cosponsor: Secretary of State Charlie Daniels' Office

Seminar Highlights: Notaries verify signatures on legal and business documents to deter fraud and ensure the proper execution of these documents. The Arkansas Secretary of State Charlie Daniel Office will walk participants through the notary public application process, talk about the issues facing notaries today and outline best practices and procedures from current and future notaries public.

Speaker: Jarrod Johnson, SOS Representative

Cosponsor: Secretary of State Charlie Daniels' Office

Seminar Highlights: The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center presents "How to Write a Business Plan." No matter how large or small, all businesses must have a business plan! A business plan will help you define your concept, evaluate your competition, determine risks, and estimate your costs. This seminar will explain and illustrate the business plan format.

Speaker: ASBTDC Representative, SCORE Representative, and Metropolitan National Bank

Cosponsor: Metropolitan National Bank & SCORE

Seminar Highlights: The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center presents "Starting a Business in Arkansas." This seminar prepares you for the intensive business planning process, identifies major steps crucial to starting a business, discusses key issues that affect the success of your business, and discusses start-up requirements and common pitfalls that you will face as an entrepreneur. Free New Business Guide and Feasibility Workbook!

Speaker: SCORE Representative & Metropolitan National Bank Representative

Cosponsor: Metropolitan National Bank & SCORE

Seminar Highlights: The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center presents "How to Write a Business Plan." No matter how large or small, all businesses must have a business plan! A business plan will help you define your concept, evaluate your competition, determine risks, and estimate your costs. This seminar will explain and illustrate the business plan format.

Speaker: ASBTDC Representative, SCORE Representative, and Metropolitan National Bank

Cosponsor: Metropolitan National Bank & SCORE

Seminar Highlights: Small businesses receive more than $2 billion in federal grants and contracts each year through the SBIR and STTR programs. The Phase I Proposal Writing Workshop being offered by Arkansas Small Business an Technology Development Center can help your business move from SBIR applicant to awardee.

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program provides federal funding for business and product strategies that meet federal research and development needs. Covering all 11 agencies that participate in SBIR and STTR (a sister program), the eight-hour workshop is for early-stage, first-time or unsuccessful writers of SBIR Phase I proposals. The event will be held at ASU ABI Building at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. Instructor Sharon Ballard will focus on two areas key to winning SBIR funding: the work plan and the commercialization plan. Ballard will explain how to integrate knowledge of the state-of-the-art with the work plan, and how to master requirements unique to different federal agencies. Participants will receive guidance in researching government organizations, topics and financial and administrative requirements and will explore some specific steps to attract commercialization partners, even at the Phase I stage of the SBIR Program.

In addition, the workshop will offer tips for approaching and structuring working arrangements with large corporations on government contracts.

In contrast to informational seminars, this is an interactive, hands-on workshop, with in-class exercises using tools and techniques that help in writing more successful proposals. Proposal outlines from various agencies will be used, and each major proposal section will be considered in detail, with methods and techniques for covering each section. You will walk away with the essential elements of your Phase I proposal outlined.

Speaker: Sharon C. Ballard, President/CEO of EnableVentures, Inc.

Cosponsor: EnableVentures, Inc.