Road Map to Starting a Business

This certificate program is designed in cooperation with the Illinois Small Business Development Center and SCORE to help you successfully start a new business or more successfully manage your existing business.

Objectives:

• Understand the elements that are vital to starting and sustaining a small business.
• Develop a Business Plan that guides your business startup or development.
• Obtain knowledge of resources available to small business owners.
• Earn a SBCP Certificate to present to prospective lenders.

Topics covered in this non-credit course:

• Is Owning a Small Business for You?
• Expenses Sales, Profits – What Do the Numbers Mean?
• Financing a Small Business
• Writing a Business Plan and Pro-forma Projections
• How to Market and Promote a Small Business
• Human Resources
• Business Ownership Structures, Taxes and Business Insurance
• Accounting Tools
• Utilizing Technology, Internet, Email and Social Media as Business Tools
• Managing a Small Business

Register by Tuesday, Aug. 23.

10 Thursdays            Sept. 1 – Nov. 3           6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Black Hawk College   Bldg 1 Balcony Rm B13    Fee $495