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Small Business School
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Curriculum Overview
Getting Started! (5 modules)
- Is There A Need? : Does your customer care and does this impact them?
- Competitive Analysis: Where do you rank versus the competition?!
- Competitive Edge: Where can you pull ahead of the competition?
- Full Offering: How do you keep this edge and exceed customer expectations?
- Short Term Goals: What are you going to do this month?
Business Planning (5 modules)
- One-Page Business Plan: How to put your entire plan together?
- Create Your Vision: Where is your business headed in the next 5 years?
- What’s The Right Business Model?: How should you roll out this idea?
- How To Structure Your Business?: Will you be a corporation? Partnership? Sole proprietor?
- Projecting Sales: What sales and revenue can you expect?
Marketing & Sales (5 modules)
- Finding Your First Customer: How to get the first customer to close?
- Who Is Your Customer? : How does your customer think & act?
- Face To Face Selling: How to improve your selling technique?
- Figuring Out Price: What should be your price point?
- Mighty Marketing Plan: How to put all of the marketing pieces together into a strategy?
Operations (6 modules)
- Finding Good People: How do you find great people to work for?
- Customer Service Basics: How to keep your customers happy?
- Finding a Mentor: How to find someone who believes in you?
- Selecting A CRM: How to track customer information?
- Recruitment, Screening, and Retention: How do you keep great people?
Financials (4 modules)
- Break-Even Analysis: How many sales or revenue do you need?
- Cash Flow Management: Do you have cash in the bank?
- Get Cash Into Your Business: How to get money quicker into your bank?
- Creating Your Financial Forecasts: How to create all of your financials and how do they interact?
- Setting Up Your Accounting System: How to get your accounting ready?
Moving Forward! (6 modules)
- Risk Analysis: What could impact your business in the future?
- Risk Planning: How to plan for the future?
- Performance Metrics: How to figure out what is working?
- Time Management: How to keep up with your business?
- Action Planning: How to keep moving forward?
