Are you interested in starting a new business, do you need help keeping your business viable or want to learn how to expand it? Through Twin Valleys Public Power District you have an opportunity to make this happen. SmallBizU is an online educational university that was created for small businesses and entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurship is the mastery of economic creativity and as a discipline it can change an entire organization. At the heart of that activity is innovation: the effort to create purposeful, focused change in a venture's economic or social potential. Entrepreneurship is not magic, it's not mysterious, and is has nothing to do with genes. It's a discipline. And, like any discipline, it can be learned and improved upon.
SmallBizU offers 18 core classes and a comprehensive entrepreneurial master class curriculum. As the largest collection of entrepreneurial training resources available on the web, SmallBizU seeks to instill a formal business intelligence—the capacity to solve problems, meet challenges, and create valued products.
SmallBizU teaches the “3Ms”—Money, Marketing, and Management. These are the core of any business and the classes have been created by small business owners and entrepreneurs who have been successful and have had business failures. Their knowledge comes from being on the front line of a business, not teaching a class at a college where the reality of business isn’t always known or appreciated.
The core course structure is as follows:
Money Courses
- Creating a Loan Package
- Creating Financial Projections
- Finding and Attracting Investors
- Finding Money to Start A Business
- Accounting 101: The Fundamentals
- Tax Seminars and Workshops
Management Courses
- Crafting A Business Plan
- Choosing A Legal Structure
- Strategic Planning and Execution
- The Entrepreneurial Strategies
- Activeplan Business Plan Software
- Starting A New Business
- Hiring and Managing Employees
- Buying A Business
Marketing Courses
- Creating Buzz: Small Budget Marketing
- Marketing 101: The Fundamentals
- Market Insight and Research
- Positioning
- Pricing Strategies and Tactics
- Understanding Intellectual Property
If you need answers to some of the following questions then SmallBizU is just what you are looking for.
- What 5 questions must an entrepreneur be able to answer?
- What are the 5 P’s of marketing?
- Why are you profitable but don’t have any cash?
- How can you reposition your competition?
- What’s the easiest way to get into the mind of your customer?
- How much are businesses like yours making in your area?
- What 5 Cs is a lender looking at when evaluating your loan request?
These are just a few of the issues that will be addressed for you when taking the courses that are offered through SmallBizU.
Each course is delivered over the internet with over 3000 animated slides accompanied by voice-over narration, PowerPoint presentations, worksheets, tool sets, and access to a comprehensive knowledgebase.
If this opportunity sounds exciting to you, check out SmallBizU. Take a tour of the web site and see what you can learn. And the best part is that all of the courses are available to you at NO COST, compliments of Twin Valleys Public Power District. Your success as a business owner and the economic viability of the communities in our district are very important to Twin Valleys Public Power District. We are committed to the success of the area that we serve.
