SCORE Business Course Content

SCORE's Business Success Seminar
Vancouver, Washington
"Every speaker provided valuable advice & tips." ... seminar attendee

Seminar Content - Subjects Covered
business success workshop

At these seminars, you'll receive practical, money-saving ideas, valuable tips and realistic advice from 10 seasoned professionals - our presenters are experienced and qualified business people; many have owned their own businesses, operating them in good times and bad.

Seminar I: Business Success Basics
(Planning, Recordkeeping, Finance)

8:00 am	Registration & sign-in
8:30 am	Introduction: SCORE's services; small business history
8:50 am	Key Business Questions you must ask yourself about your business endeavor
9:20 am	Break
9:30 am	The Business Plan: Your success blueprint - how to create a proper, workable business plan
10:30 am	Break
10:40 am	Legal Aspects: incorporation, operation, contracts and other considerations for your business
11:45 am	Lunch (on your own)
1:00 pm	Record Keeping & Taxes: setting up practical bookeeping systems for your business
2:00 pm	Financing Your Business: how to qualify for loans, establishing a banking relationship
2:55 pm	Break
3:05 pm	Insurance and Risk Management: business insurance, bonding, employee benefits.
4:00 pm	Conclusion of Seminar I

Seminar II: Managing Your Business
(Growth, Marketing, Cash Flow)

8:00 am	Registration & sign-in
8:30 am	Introduction: sources of help for business owners
8:35 am	Web Power: using the internet for market research and information gathering, tips for creating a world class, high traffic website
9:20 am	Break
9:30 am	Marketing, Selling & Advertising: how to optimize sales and profits using modern marketing methods, making sales calls easy, time-tested advertising techniques
11:15 am	Attracting & Keeping Customers: proven tactics to build business and encourage repeat sales
12:15 pm	Lunch (on your own)
1:30 pm	Financial Modeling: utilizing numerical analysis to flesh out your business plan forecast & keep your business healthy
2:30 pm	Break
2:40 pm	Cash Flow: Your business' lifeblood - how to control and optimize cash in your company
4:00 pm	Conclusion of Seminar II

Cost

For pre-registered participants:
• Seminar I (Business Success Basics): $99 per person
• Seminar II (Growing & Managing Your Business): $99 per person
• Both Seminars: $169 per person

(At the door registration is $109 per person - subject to availability.)
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Location
Seminars are held at:
iQ Credit Union - Hazel Dell Branch
305 NE 81st Street; Vancouver, WA
(west of the NE 78th Street Exit of Interstate 5. Click here for maps.)

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SCORE Vancouver's seminars are sponsored by:

SCORE Vancouver's seminars are produced by:
SCORE - Ft. Vancouver Chapter
Vancouver, WA

(360) 699-1079
E-mail: scorevan at iinet.com

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SCORE is a nonprofit association dedicated to providing entrepreneurs and small business owners with confidential, free business help. Our Vancouver WA seminars and workshops are designed to help entrepreneurs and small business owners.

We also provide business consulting, management advice and marketing help for business owners of small to mid-size companies in the Vancouver, WA area. And conduct business seminars and workshops. SCORE has been consulting for over 40 years. SCORE is a resource partner with the U.S. Small Business Administration.