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SUMMARY:Foodie Friday: Cottage Foods
DESCRIPTION:Join us for insights and dos and don’ts around Colorado Cottage Food requirements. This is your chance to ask any and all questions about your cottage foods business and have them answered by a local health inspector! \nWest Central SBDC and the Montrose County’s Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) bring area food enthusiasts “Foodie Friday”\, the first Friday of each month. Online webinar facilitated by Montrose County Environmental Health Director Jim Austin\, is free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required. \nSpeaker(s): Jim Austin\, director of Montrose County Health \nFoodie Friday\nwith Jim Austin\nFriday\, March 1st\, 9:00 am – 10:00 am\nOnline\, no cost \nREGISTER TODAY!
URL:https://region10.net/event/foodie-friday-cottage-foods-4/
LOCATION:Online\, 145 S Cascade Avenue\, Montrose\, CO 81401\, Montrose\, CO\, 81401
CATEGORIES:for business
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SUMMARY:Smart Start: How to Start a Business
DESCRIPTION:Thinking about starting a business in Western Colorado? Starting a business takes more than being great at something or having a good idea. Come and learn what is required by state and local officials to get started and the ins and outs of running a successful business.  This 2-hour webinar provides an overview of everything you need to know to start and grow your business. \nTopics include: \n* How running a business is different than being an employee; \n* Things to consider as a business owner;  \n* Trade name search; \n* Legal structure selection; \n* State registration; \n* Licensing requirements; \n* Business plan over view;  \n* Marketing for your Target market(s); \n* Market research; \n* Financing options;  \n* Enterprise Zone Tax Credits; and  \n* Human Resources \nThis webinar will be presented on Zoom. Please register to receive the link to join. \nSpeaker(s): Susan Bony\, MBA \nSmart Start\nwith Susan Bony\nTuesday\, March 5th\, 12pm-2pm\nOnline\, $30 \nREGISTER TODAY! \n 
URL:https://region10.net/event/smart-start-how-to-start-a-business-6/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:for business
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SUMMARY:Grow with Google: Get Customers\, Market in Moments
DESCRIPTION:This program is a comprehensive online marketing training program that helps businesses attract and retain customers through strategic online marketing efforts. Led by expert marketer Maria\, participants will learn how to identify and engage with their target audience\, create compelling content\, optimize their website for search engines\, and more. With the knowledge and skills gained from this program\, businesses can build a strong and successful online presence. \nMeet Our Facilitator: Maria Elena Duron\nMaria is a speaker for the Grow with Google partner program. She helps businesses profitably harness their personal brand\, content\, and referral marketing. Her wide range of clients includes hotels\, restaurants\, inventors\, authors\, and web series creators. \nMaria is a guest lecturer at the University of Texas SBDC\, editor-in-chief of the award winning Personal Branding Blog\, and a contributing columnist for publications like Business Insider\, American Business Journal\, Fox Business\, US News & World Report\, Entrepreneur\, The Huffington Post\, and The Young Entrepreneurs Council. Maria was awarded the Texas Governor’s Excellence in Small Business Award and is the founder of #brandchat\, a recognized online chat focused on marketing and branding. She earned her B.B.A. in marketing from Texas Tech University and graduate work at Cornell University\, University of California in Davis\, and University of Phoenix. \nGrow with Google: Get Customers Market in Moments\nwith Maria Elena Duron\nWednesday\, March 6\, 10am-11am\nOnline\, no cost \nREGISTER TODAY!
URL:https://region10.net/event/grow-with-google-get-customers-market-in-moments/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:for business
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SUMMARY:Let's Talk: Sales Taxes
DESCRIPTION:This LIVE webinar serves to create an open forum of Q&A\, with interactive conversation among participants and our SBDC Staff and Consultants – it will not be recorded! \nIn this session: Sales Taxes Sales taxes are a requirement for any business selling a product and\, in Colorado\, they can get complicated! Sales taxes must be collected in all incorporated cities/towns\, counties\, and for the state but are collected at different rates for each of those jurisdictions. Learn more about collecting and remitting sales taxes correctly to avoid fees\, fines\, and frustration. \nMeet Our Facilitator Callie Koch\nCallie is program manager for the West Central SBDC and a former small business owner. \nLet’s Talk: Sales Taxes\nwith Callie Koch\nFriday\, March 15\, 12:00pm-1:00pm\nOnline\, no cost \nREGISTER TODAY!
URL:https://region10.net/event/lets-talk-sales-taxes/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:for business
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SUMMARY:Grow with Google: Increase Sales with Google Tools
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to promote your products online using Google tools. We’ll show how local brick-and-mortar businesses can list products on a Google Business Profile. We’ll also cover Google Merchant Center\, a no-cost tool that allows both e-commerce and brick-and-mortar businesses to create free Product Listings on Google. \nIn this session we’ll show you how to: \n\nHighlight products on your Google Business Profile\nUse Pointy to promote in-store inventory with your point of sale system\nUse Google Merchant Center to showcase in-store and online product inventory\n\nMeet Our Facilitator: Maria Elena Duron\nMaria is a speaker for the Grow with Google partner program. She helps businesses profitably harness their personal brand\, content\, and referral marketing. Her wide range of clients includes hotels\, restaurants\, inventors\, authors\, and web series creators. \nMaria is a guest lecturer at the University of Texas SBDC\, editor-in-chief of the award winning Personal Branding Blog\, and a contributing columnist for publications like Business Insider\, American Business Journal\, Fox Business\, US News & World Report\, Entrepreneur\, The Huffington Post\, and The Young Entrepreneurs Council. Maria was awarded the Texas Governor’s Excellence in Small Business Award and is the founder of #brandchat\, a recognized online chat focused on marketing and branding. She earned her B.B.A. in marketing from Texas Tech University and graduate work at Cornell University\, University of California in Davis\, and University of Phoenix. \nGrow with Google: Increase Sales with Google Tools\nwith Maria Elena Duron\nWednesday\, March 20\, 10am-11am\nOnline\, no cost \nREGISTER TODAY!
URL:https://region10.net/event/grow-with-google-increase-sales-with-google-tools/
LOCATION:Online\, 145 S Cascade Avenue\, Montrose\, CO 81401\, Montrose\, CO\, 81401
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SUMMARY:Business Plan in a Day!
DESCRIPTION:A business plan can help you get funding\, bring in new business partners\, or serve as a roadmap for each stage of starting and managing your business. During this full-day class\, we will guide you in creating your own business plan. We will cover all the elements of writing a plan including the executive summary\, company description\, market analysis\, competitive analysis\, S.W.O.T. analysis\, service or product line\, marketing plan\, operations\, management\, and financial projections. Bring your laptop or electronic notepad. We will have two short breaks and a working lunch (lunch and snacks provided). \nSpeaker(s): Susan Bony is a member of the West Central SBDC staff and a long-time consultant for the Colorado SBDC focusing on business start-up and company development and growth. Her education and experience working for both small and large multi-national corporations with a unique background in banking\, teaching and market development provide the perfect combination to support writing business plans. \nBusiness Plan in a Day\nwith Susan Bony\nTuesday\, March 26\, 9:00am-4:00pm\nOnline\, $75 \nREGISTER TODAY!
URL:https://region10.net/event/business-plan-in-a-day-6/
LOCATION:Region 10\, 145 S Cascade Avenue\, Montrose\, CO 81401\, Montrose\, CO\, 81401\, US
CATEGORIES:for business
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SUMMARY:Grow with Google: Learn the Basics of Google Ads
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop you will learn how to reach more customers and grow your business with Google Ads. \nIn this session we’ll talk about: \n\nHow to create an account and set up an ad campaign\nHow to write great ads\, refine keywords\, and include ad extensions\nHow to measure success\n\nMeet Our Facilitator: Maria Elena Duron\nMaria is a speaker for the Grow with Google partner program. She helps businesses profitably harness their personal brand\, content\, and referral marketing. Her wide range of clients includes hotels\, restaurants\, inventors\, authors\, and web series creators. \nMaria is a guest lecturer at the University of Texas SBDC\, editor-in-chief of the award winning Personal Branding Blog\, and a contributing columnist for publications like Business Insider\, American Business Journal\, Fox Business\, US News & World Report\, Entrepreneur\, The Huffington Post\, and The Young Entrepreneurs Council. Maria was awarded the Texas Governor’s Excellence in Small Business Award and is the founder of #brandchat\, a recognized online chat focused on marketing and branding. She earned her B.B.A. in marketing from Texas Tech University and graduate work at Cornell University\, University of California in Davis\, and University of Phoenix. \nGrow with Google: Learn the Basics of Google Ads\nwith Maria Elena Duron\nWednesday\, March 27\, 10:00am-11:00am\nOnline\, no cost \nREGISTER TODAY!
URL:https://region10.net/event/grow-with-google-learn-the-basics-of-google-ads/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:for business
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SUMMARY:Money Smart: Record Keeping for Small Businesses
DESCRIPTION:https://clients.coloradosbdc.org/workshop.aspx?ekey=160440046 \nDo you have questions about how to manage your small business records?  What to keep and for how long? What are Best Practices? This 1.5-hour webinar provides an introduction to record keeping concepts and helps you start working on your Money Smarts!   \nTopics include: \n\n Explain why record keeping is important to a small business.\n Identify record keeping practices\, rules\, and tools which are commonly available to a small business.\n Identify benefits a small business derives from proper record keeping.\n Explain record keeping basics for a small business.\n Identify software products available for small business record keeping.\n\nThis webinar will be presented on Zoom. Please register to receive the link to join. \nSpeaker(s): Michelle Meyers\, SBDC Consultant \nMoney Smart: Record Keeping for Small Businesses\nwith Michelle Meyers\nThursday\, March 28\, 12:00pm-1:30pm\nOnline\, no cost \nREGISTER TODAY!
URL:https://region10.net/event/money-smart-record-keeping-for-small-businesses/
LOCATION:Online\, 145 S Cascade Avenue\, Montrose\, CO 81401\, Montrose\, CO\, 81401
CATEGORIES:for business
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SUMMARY:Finance Friday
DESCRIPTION:Are you ignoring the money side of your business? Don’t leave this important area of your business for someone else to manage.  Take control! Knowledge is power! Learn tips and tricks to stay on top of your business finances and watch your profits grow. \nMeet Our Facilitator Kelly Johnston\nKelly is a valued member of the West Central SBDC workshop facilitator team\, teaching bookkeeping\, cash flow\, and accounting boot camps. She also serves as a West Central SBDC consultant. She graduated from the Leading Edge business planning series five years ago and her business has grown exponentially ever since. She is experienced in both the public accounting and private industry accounting fields. Her background includes a bachelor’s in finance and a master’s in accounting\, with experience in the healthcare industry with critical access hospitals and physician offices\, audit and tax preparation. Her education and experience add value to new start up organizations\, developing businesses\, and healthcare entities by creating a strong financial reporting set up and assisting in new financial reports. \nFinance Friday\nwith Kelly Johnston\nFriday\, March 29\, 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm\nOnline\, no cost \nREGISTER TODAY!
URL:https://region10.net/event/finance-friday-12/
LOCATION:Online\, 145 S Cascade Avenue\, Montrose\, CO 81401\, Montrose\, CO\, 81401
CATEGORIES:for business
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