Valley CDC June/July 2008 Entrepreneurial Workshops

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Ticket Type	Price	Fee	Quantity
June 9-30, Intro to Quickbooks 2007 more info The most popular easy-to-use accounting program for non-accountants. Learn what you should know as a business owner, whether you keep your own books or someone keeps them for you. Set up your company books, create accounts and invoices, make and receive payments, and measure your financial performance. PC-based. Pre-requisites: General MS Windows navigation skills. 12 hrs. Instructor: Sara Gross. www.accountingtechsolutions.com 4 Mondays, June 9-30 5-8 PM Eastworks, Room 368, 116 Pleasant St., Easthampton	$95.00	$0.00	Sold Out
June 10-24, Exploring Your Business Dream: Is Starting A Business Right for You? more info Look at the risks and rewards of business ownership. Determine your business and personal goals and assess your resources for starting a business. Begin exploring the market potential of your proposed venture and create an action plan for next steps. This workshop series is appropriate for anyone thinking about starting a business, whether full-time or part-time. Prerequisites: None. 9 hrs. Instructor: Howard Bronstein. www.odtmaps.com 3 Tuesdays June 10-24, 6-8 PM Florence Savings Bank, 355 Russell St. (Rt-9), Hadley	$75.00	$0.00	N/A
June 11-18, Creating Marketing Material in Word 2003 more info Create outstanding marketing materials in Microsoft Word 2003 or Publisher using graphics, text boxes, line drawings, color, and fonts. Learn skills to produce business cards, fliers, posters, brochures, and ads in-house. Experiment with page set-up and ready-made templates. PC-based. Prerequisites: Prerequisites: Familiarity with Microsoft Word; ability to create, open edit, save .doc files. This is an advanced beginner/intermediate-level course. 4 hrs. Instructor: Pauline Celetti MS Word, 2 Wednesdays, June 11-18 5-7 PM Eastworks, Room 368, 116 Pleasant St., Easthampton	$50.00	$0.00	N/A
June 12, Guerrilla Marketing more info Learn how to improve sales without spending money on advertising. Write your entire guerrilla marketing plan in seven sentences so that you can achieve maximum results from minimal resources. This program includes a 30 page workbook designed to help you implement a 30, 60 and 90 day action plan to boost profits in a manner consistent with your business and personal readiness. This program is not for startups, but rather for business owners whose revenue has plateaued, or are frustrated by lackluster results from their traditional marketing. Prerequisites: None. 3 hrs. Instructor: Sheldon Snodgrass, MBA. www.steadysales.com Thursday June 12 5-8 PM Florence Savings Bank, 355 Russell St. (Rt-9), Hadley	$35.00	$0.00	N/A
June 17-24, Intro. to Excel 2003 more info Learn the industry standard spreadsheet program. In this two-part workshop, you will learn how to navigate a basic Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, format cells, columns, and rows, create formulas and worksheets, and develop spreadsheets for budgeting and projecting cash flow as well as multi-purpose spreadsheets. PC-based. Prerequisites: General MS Windows navigation skills. 6 hrs. Instructor: June-Nate Jasper, www.iTutor.biz 2 Tuesdays, June 17-24 5-8 PM Eastworks, Room 368, 116 Pleasant St., Easthampton	$60.00	$0.00	N/A
June 19-26, Websites 102: Marketing Your Business Online more info Learn how to: measure and evaluate website performance, confirm your site's search engine friendliness, read and interpret web traffic statistics, uncover your competitors’ secrets and strategies, use “offline” marketing to your maximum advantage, use powerful free tools from Google, and market your website on a "shoestring budget". Prerequisites: None. 6 hrs. Instructor: Peter Pelland. www.pelland.com 2 Thursdays June 19-26 PM TBD 5-8 PM Eastworks, Room 368, 116 Pleasant St., Easthampton	$60.00	$0.00	N/A
July 7-14, Creating Marketing Material in Publisher 2003 more info Create outstanding marketing materials in Microsoft Publisher 2003 using graphics, text boxes, line drawings, color, and fonts. Learn skills to produce business cards, fliers, posters, brochures, and ads in-house. Experiment with page set-up and ready-made templates. PC-based. Prerequisites: General MS Windows navigation skills. 4 hrs. Instructor: Pauline Celetti MS Publisher, 2 Mondays, July 7-14 5-7PM Eastworks, Room 368, 116 Pleasant St., Easthampton	$50.00	$0.00	N/A
July 8, QuickBooks Basics - Webinar more info Learn from the comfort of your own office! This web & telephone-based QuickBooks training will teach you all the accounting youÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ll need to know to work with QuickBooks & basic company set-up. Requirements: Your own PC or MAC with Quickbooks 2000 or later installed. (QuickBooks Online is not acceptable.) High-speed internet access, telephone. (A 60-day trial version of QuickBooks Pro 2008 is available at http://quickbooks.intuit.com if you don't own the software.) Pre-requisites: General PC/Mac & internet navigation skills. 2 hrs. Instructor: Amy Grabowski, www.fiscaltraining.com Tuesday July 8 5-7 PM Your office	$25.00	$0.00	N/A
July 9-16, Intro. to Excel 2003 more info Learn the industry standard spreadsheet program. In this two-part workshop, you will learn how to navigate a basic Microsoft Excel 2003 spreadsheet, format cells, columns, and rows, create formulas and worksheets, and develop spreadsheets for budgeting and projecting cash flow as well as multi-purpose spreadsheets. PC-based. Prerequisites: General MS Windows navigation skills. 6 hrs. Instructor: Mannie White, www.ptraining.com 2 Wednesdays, July 9-16 5-8 PM Eastworks, Room 368, 116 Pleasant St., Easthampton	$60.00	$0.00	N/A
July 10, Guerrilla Marketing more info Learn how to improve sales without spending money on advertising. Write your entire guerrilla marketing plan in seven sentences so that you can achieve maximum results from minimal resources. This program includes a 30 page workbook designed to help you implement a 30, 60 and 90 day action plan to boost profits in a manner consistent with your business and personal readiness. This program is not for startups, but rather for business owners whose revenue has plateaued, or are frustrated by lackluster results from their traditional marketing. Prerequisites: None. 3 hrs. Instructor: Sheldon Snodgrass, MBA. www.steadysales.com Thursday July 10 5-8 PM TD Banknorth, 175 Main St., Northampton	$35.00	$0.00	N/A

Event Details

Thanks to our sponsor, Western Massachusetts Electric Company, for providing the resources to run these workshops. Thanks also to matching grants from TD Banknorth, Florence Savings Bank and Will Bundy/Eastworks for computer classroom space.

Directions to classes can be found through links on our event calendar.

Contact Stacy Kontrabecki at sk@valleycdc.com for more details.

Tuition refund may be requested until 48 hours before the start of the class.

If a class you want to attend is sold out, contact Stacy to be added to the waiting list.

Complete printable schedule PDF

Note special directions and parking to computer classroomat Eastworks.

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Hadley, Northampton & Easthampton, MA

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Our Mission

Valley CDC seeks to empower low and moderate income people and minorities to control and improve the quality of their lives. We accomplish this through the development of affordable housing, providing economic opportunities and encouraging community leadership.

Valley CDC currently focuses on three areas of community economic development:

Housing Services
Affordable Housing Development
Small Business Development

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