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SAU Magnolia SBDC

To register for any of the following programs, contact the SAU Magnolia SBDC at (870) 235-5033 or click on the Register Now button to register online.

How To Write A Business Plan
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Camden

Seminar Highlights: 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: SAU ASBDC Representative

Cosponsor: CABS

 

Starting a Business in Arkansas
Thursday, May 22, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
UACCH Room 201
Hope
Cost: $30

Seminar Highlights: 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 discussed start-up requirements and common pitfalls you will face as an entrepreneur.

Speaker: SAU ASBDC Representative

Cosponsor: UACCH

 

Starting A Business in Arkansas
Thursday, May 29, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
El Dorado Chamber of Commerce
El Dorado
Cost: $30

Seminar Highlights: 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.

Speaker: Paul Considine, SAU SBDC Center Director

Cosponsor: El Dorado Chamber, SCORE, and GTEDC

 

Marketing Techniques For Small Budgets
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Camden

Seminar Highlights: Many business owners consider marketing to be just advertising and selling. They don't consider additional techniques that are available to them. In this presentation, the speaker shares approaches that are not only practical and inexpensive but also effective for any size business.

Speaker: Felicia Bozeman, SAU SBDC Training Coordinator

Cosponsor: CABS

 

Financial Strategies for Your Business Plan
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
10:00 a.m. - Noon
Texarkana

Seminar Highlights: So you aren't good with numbers? It is easier than you think. This seminar will take the mystery out of financial reporting. Participants will learn financial forecasting and the interrelationships between income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.

Speaker: Paul Considine

Cosponsor: Texarkana Chamber

 

Financial Strategies for Your Business Plan
Monday, June 09, 2008
5:30 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Texarkana

Seminar Highlights: So you aren't good with numbers? It is easier than you think. This seminar will take the mystery out of financial reporting. Participants will learn financial forecasting and the interrelationships between income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.

Speaker: Paul Considine

Cosponsor: Texarkana Chamber

 

Marketing Techniques For Small Budgets
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Camden

Seminar Highlights: Many business owners consider marketing to be just advertising and selling. They don't consider additional techniques that are available to them. In this presentation, the speaker shares approaches that are not only practical and inexpensive but also effective for any size business.

Speaker: Felicia Bozeman, SAU SBDC Training Coordinator

Cosponsor: CABS

 

Smart Borrowing
Thursday, June 12, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
El Dorado
Cost: $30

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 and other helpful tips.

Speaker: Paul Considine, SAU SBDC Center Director

Cosponsor: El Dorado Chamber, SCORE, and GTEDC

 

Cash Flow Management And Budgeting
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Cossatot Community College of the University of Arkansas - Ashdown site
Ashdown
Cost: $30

Seminar Highlights: Cash planning is a key to business survival! Do you know your cash needs for next year, next month, tomorrow? Don't gamble with your business money. Learn to take control of you cash planning now.

Speaker: SAU ASBDC Representative

Cosponsor: CCCUA/SBAE & Little River Chamber of Commerce

 

Exceptional Customer Service
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Ashdown
Cost: $30

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 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.

Speaker: Felicia Bozeman, SAU SBDC Training Coordinator

Cosponsor: CCCUA/SBAE and Little River Chamber

 

Cash Flow Management And Budgeting
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Ouachita Valley Business and Technology Development Center

Camden

Seminar Highlights: Cash planning is a key to business survival! Do you know your cash needs for next year, next month, tomorrow? Don't gamble with your business money. Learn to take control of you cash planning now.

Speaker: Paul Considine, SAU SBDC Center Director

Cosponsor: CABS

 

Exceptional Customer Service
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Camden

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 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.

Speaker: Felicia Bozeman, SAU SBDC Training Coordinator

Cosponsor: CABS

 

Marketing Techniques For Small Budgets
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Ashdown
Cost: $30

Seminar Highlights: Many business owners consider marketing to be just advertising and selling. They don't consider additional techniques that are available to them. In this presentation, the speaker shares approaches that are not only practical and inexpensive but also effective for any size business.

Speaker: Felicia Bozeman, SAU ASBDC Training Coordinator

Cosponsor: CCCUA/SBAE and Little River Chamber

 

Starting a Business in Arkansas
Thursday, July 17, 2008
5:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
Southern Arkansas University
Business/Agri Building Room 107
Magnolia
Cost: $30

Seminar Highlights: 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 discussed start-up requirements and common pitfalls you will face as an entrepreneur.

Speaker: SAU ASBDC Representative

Cosponsor: BancorpSouth, Magnolia Alliance, and GTEDC

 

Smart Borrowing
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Camden

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 and other helpful tips.

Speaker: Paul Considine, SAU SBDC Center Director

Cosponsor: CABS

 

SBA Lender Training - Module 1
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
9:00 a.m. - Noon
Magnolia
Cost: $35

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

 

How to Grow Your Business
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Camden

Seminar Highlights: Growing your business is not just a goal - it is a necessity! It can be very exciting, however there are many factors that should be taken into consideration. Have you considered the current business environment? What doe the market look like? Will you need money to grow you business? In this seminar you will learn that forecasting and planning for growth is critical to your success.

Speaker: Felicia Bozeman, SAU ASBDC Training Coordinator

Cosponsor: CABS

 

Keeping Your Restaurant Cookin'
Thursday, August 14, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
El Dorado
Cost: $30

Seminar Highlights: Owning a restaurant is a tough business that requires lots of hours and hard work on behalf of the owner and managers. This seminar is designed to give restaurant entrepreneurs a heads up on common pitfalls that restaurants face and provide participants with necessary tools to survive the industry.

Speaker: Felicia Bozeman, SAU SBDC Training Coordinator

Cosponsor: El Dorado Chamber, SCORE, and GTEDC

 

How To Write A Business Plan
Thursday, August 14, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Hope
Cost: $35

Seminar Highlights: 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: SAU ASBDC Representative

Cosponsor: UACCH

 

How To Write A Business Plan
Thursday, August 21, 2008
5:15 p.m. - 8:15 p.m.
Magnolia
Cost: $35

Seminar Highlights: 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: SAU ASBDC Representative

Cosponsor: BancorpSouth, Magnolia Alliance, and GTEDC

 

Understanding Financial Statements
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Camden

Seminar Highlights: This a hands-on course focused on the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flow. This seminar is designed to introduce financial statements to existing and potential business owners to increase understanding of the information that is generated from internal accounting software or an account. Attendees will be introduces to the uses of the financial statements, basic principles, the types of statements, how they are interrelated and analyzing statements using industry ratios.

Speaker: Paul Considine, SAU ASBDC Center Director

Cosponsor: CABS

 

Keeping Your Restaurant Cookin'
Thursday, August 28, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Hope
Cost: $30

Seminar Highlights: Owning a restaurant is a tough business that requires lots of hours and hard work on behalf of the owner and managers. This seminar is designed to give restaurant entrepreneurs a heads up on common pitfalls that restaurants face and provide participants with necessary tools to survive the industry.

Speaker: Felicia Bozeman, SAU SBDC Training Coordinator

Cosponsor: UACCH

 

 

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