To register for any of the following programs, contact the SAU Magnolia SBTDC at (870) 235-5033 or click on the Register Now button to register online.
Seminar Highlights: The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center and SAU 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 your business success, and discusses start-up requirements and common pitfalls you will face as an entrepreneur. FREE for Veterans!
Speaker: Megan Whitehead, SAU SBTDC Center Director
Co-sponsor: BancorpSouth, Magnolia Alliance, GTEDC
Seminar Highlights: The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center presents "Facebook Timelines for Business Pages." The new Facebook pages design with Timeline has arrived. Regardless of whether you like it or not, the changes are here - it is best to prepare your page so your Timeline will shine. Make sure you are ready to take advantage of all the changes available with the new Timelines. They can make your page stand out from the competition IF you know some basic secrets! Join the SAU Small Business and Technology Development Center to learn how to put this powerful marketing tool to work for your small business! Here are just a few things you will learn about the new Facebook pages, including using the preview, timeline cover rules, how updates have changed, admin panel features, messages, featuring posts, "spying on your competitors" and what will happen to custom content on your page's tabs. FREE to all who want to attend thanks to a special sponsorship from Farmers Bank & Trust!
Speaker: Julia Nipper, SAU SBTDC Training Coordinator
Co-sponsor: Farmers Bank & Trust
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 the competition, determine risks, and estimate your costs. This seminar will explain and illustrate the business plan format.
Speaker: Julia Nipper, SAU SBTDC Training Coordinator
Co-sponsor: BancorpSouth, Magnolia Alliance, GTEDC and Magnolia Reporter
Seminar Highlights: The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center presents "Website in a Day." Does your business need a website? Have you been held back by a lack of funds or a lack of technical skills? Then, Website in a Day is the hands-on workshop for you! Come sit down with the ASBTDC's laptop lab and design a free website using Weebly. You'll be taken step-by-step through creating a free account and creating an attractive, functional, five page website. All participants receive a free 20-page workbook with detailed instructions. Register before this seminar fills up!
Speaker: Julia Nipper, SAU SBTDC Training Coordinator
Co-sponsor: SouthArk, El Dorado Chamber, SCORE and GTEDC
Seminar Highlights: The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center presents "Exceptional Customer Service." 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 customers' 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. FREE thanks to special funding from OPED!
Speaker: Julia Nipper, SAU SBTDC Training Coordinator
Co-sponsor: CABS
Seminar Highlights: The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center at SAU presents "Big Time Marketing, Small Time Budget: The Benefits of Social Media." Not sure where to begin with social media or why you should bother? Businesses of all sizes are using online tools like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs to connect with customers. We'll show you five low-cost ways social media can bolster your current marketing efforts, and you'll leave with your own social media marketing plan. Learn which social media are a good fit for you, where your target customers are looking online, and what it could mean for your business if your aren't involved in social networking.
Speaker: Julia Nipper, SAU SBTDC Training Coordinator
Co-sponsor: UACCH
Seminar Highlights: Not sure where to begin with social media or why you should bother? Businesses of all sizes are using online tools like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs to connect with customers. We'll show you five low-cost ways social media can bolster your current marketing efforts, and you'll leave with your own social media marketing plan. Learn which social media are a good fit for you, where your target customers are looking online, and what it could mean for your business if you aren't involved in social networking. FREE to all who want to attend thanks to special funding from OPED!
Speaker: Julia Nipper, SAU SBTDC Training Coordinator
Co-sponsor: CABS
Seminar Highlights: The Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center presents "Facebook Timelines for Business Pages." The new Facebook pages design with Timeline has arrived. Regardless of whether you like it or not, the changes are here - it is best to prepare your page so your Timeline will shine. Make sure you are ready to take advantage of all the changes available with the new Timelines. They can make your page stand out from the competition IF you know some basic secrets! Join the SAU Small Business and Technology Development Center to learn how to put this powerful marketing tool to work for your small business! Here are just a few things you will learn about the new Facebook pages, including using the preview, timeline cover rules, how updates have changed, admin panel features, messges, featuring posts, "spying on your competitors" and what will happen to custom content on your page's tabs.
Speaker: Julia Nipper, SAU SBTDC Training Coordinator
Co-sponsor: SouthArk, El Dorado Chamber, SCORE and GTEDC
Seminar Highlights: Not sure where to begin with social media or why you should bother? Businesses of all sizes are using online tools like Facebook, Twitter, and blogs to connect with customers. We'll show you five low-cost ways social media can bolster your current marketing efforts, and you'll leave with your own social media marketing plan. Learn which social media are a good fit for you, where your target customers are looking online, and what it could mean for your business if you aren't involved in social networking.
Speaker: Julia Nipper, SAU SBTDC Training Coordinator
Co-sponsor: BancorpSouth, Magnolia Alliance, GTEDC and Magnolia Reporter
