The SBDC at Yavapai College offers these powerful on demand pre-recorded webinar videos to all business owners, including self-employed, sole proprietors, and independent contractors. Get immediate access to the webinars by clicking on the ones important to you.
Learn ten steps to starting a business, google & Facebook marketing, and SBDC services & resources.
Learn about the new Google Business Profile, the basics of SEO and why it matters to your business.
Learn about the following social media tools: Google My Business - Claim/Update your business info, Facebook Business Pages - What you need to know, Organic Marketing - Learn how to amplify your reach
You will learn about advanced planning matters, how to use multiple channels: content, social, email, video, PAID and more, videos - short and long form, trending marketing strategies for businesses, and more
You will learn Facebook & IG organic reach tips, short-form videos: reels, live streaming and videos, as well as to how to amplify your reach.
Learn how to use 3, free online tools to gain exposure for your local business. This class will cover how to come up in Google search when someone searches for what you have to offer "near me", and increase your Facebook reach despite their algorithm, Leverage User Generated Content — getting your customers to promote for you
In today's digital world, business owners need to create consistent and attractive content for a strong online presence. While we aren't all graphic designers and digital artists, there are tools that can help us strengthen our brand and tell a better story for our business.
You will learn how to: Use Canva's templates and design tools / Create brand-specific digital designs using your own photographs, logo, and color palate / Create consistent messages across all platforms / Design appealing digital media posts in line with your brand and industry
Your online presence goes beyond a website and a Google profile. Social media plays a big part. During this webinar, you will gain insights into which platforms to use based on your ideal customer, and how to create content that attracts engagement.
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To give business owners and managers an introduction to key principles in Marketing and Sales to help them understand their market and their customers so they can grow their businesses. The key questions is: Why will the customer buy?
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Strengthen your brand and your story as a small business.
Learn how organizational values can bolster a business through tough times and hard decisions.
Expect to leave this workshop with a set of defined personal/professional values and a readiness to deploy them in your business.
This webinar will focus more on intermediate topics around design and content. This includes how to use third party design tools like Canva, how to take advantage of your phones amazing camera and how to use video (and Instagram Stories).
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Human connection and trust Is crucial to successful business. Learn how to repurpose what you know to be and feel more human over video calls, in webinars and more.
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Join us to learn how to make social media work for your small business! Social media has the potential to change how you market and engage with your customers, whether you are just beginning on social media and want to learn where to start, or more advanced and want to learn how to take your social media marketing further.
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Excellent customer service will set your business apart from others. This webinar will focus on basic customer service skills such as communication, enthusiasm, empathy and knowledge and how to train your staff in these critical skills. The webinar will also provide strategies for dealing with conflict and difficult situations.
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Join the Sedona Chamber and the Yavapai College SBDC as we share some innovative ways businesses around the US are connecting with customers and fans to serve them in safe and convenient ways. We will also share seven actions you can take to emotionally connect with your customers, fans, and staff based on data from McKinsey & Co.
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The business advisors with Yavapai SBDC will be sharing ideas and resources for you to grow your business. This will be an interactive online session giving you time to work on key decision sheets to create a marketing plan of action.
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When it comes to getting potential customers to your website, few things are as powerful as search engines. In this 1-hour session, we will teach you how to write better blog posts and add content to improve your search engine rankings. Presented by Daniel Hickey, Founder of Hickey Marketing Group
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How to read a Profit and Loss statement
Learn to protect you and your business by Jon Haas.
Learn, how to determine the value of your business, reduce your taxes through entity selection, AZ tax credits to reduce your AZ tax owed.
Business Analyst will discuss the 10 quick steps to starting a business in Arizona.
Business Analyst will discuss the 10 quick steps to starting a business in Arizona.
This course will discuss the often-misunderstood issues of exempt/nonexempt, independent contractors, overtime calculation for multiple pay rates or piece rates, comp time, travel time, payment at termination, and more.
Learn the requirements of the law, options for designing a compliant paid sick timeor paid time off policy, and penalties for non-compliance.
You will learn the weakest link - social engineering, antivirus versions, physical security, Wi-Fi security, phishing and spear phishing, passwords - what you need to know, firewalls - what they do and why you need one.
Employment laws, common management mistakes, potential legal land mines, and effective human resources practice, will be highlighted for each stage of the employment process: Recruiting people, hiring people, paying people, managing people, dismissing people.
Learn proven success principles that will not only get you moving forward, and achieving your big scary goals, but also give you the skills to be able be fulfilled and love your journey along the way.
Learn what to expect from this 3-year, 23-mile project from Anthem Way to Sunset Point Rest Area, project impacts, work and construction hours, and benefits.
This webinar will provide an overview of: How to use and access the online business plan writing tool LivePlan, why business plans are important, critical considerations including strategy, target market, marketing, and sales, how to create financial projections, and how to set realistic goals.
This seminar is for individuals who are about to begin using QuickBooks desktop software, or have begun using it, and need further training. The seminar will take you step by step through the process of handling sales in QuickBooks Pro and Premier.
This seminar is for individuals who are about to begin using QuickBooks Pro or Premier, or have begun using one of these programs, but are not sure they set it up correctly. The seminar will take you step by step through the process of setting up QuickBooks Pro and Premier.
The seminar will provide you with an overview of QuickBooks, so you have a basic understanding of how it works.
The seminar will provide you with an overview of: identifying the elements of a government solicitation bid package, insight to respond more effectively to government solicitations, obtaining a complete solicitation package from the Government, overview of different types of solicitations packages and the responses generally expected with them.
Overview of government contracting on all levels for small business with no knowledge of government contracting.
Event Description: Business analysts will discuss the 10 quick steps to starting a legitimate business in Arizona
Specializing in Customer Service, Sales and Management Training for over THREE decades, Gary Glenn is an Experienced Professional Trainer who has a thorough understanding of Your Sales process, having trained many thousands of people in a wide variety of industries the world over.
Gary will present a program for you and your team that have an immediate impact and a lasting effect.
Join as we explore what sustainability means, what local businesses are doing to be more sustainable, and how it can help your business in this changing economy.
You’ll hear from local economic development leaders as well as resource experts.
We will answer these questions: Why does sustainability matter to our local economy and enterprises? What are the common sustainable business practices and what are local businesses doing? What local resources are available to help your business thrive?
This webinar produced in partnership with the Yavapai College SBDC, Sustainability Alliance, City of Sedona, Town of Camp Verde, City of Cottonwood
Intimidated by financial statements? Numbers not your thing? This webinar will help you understand powerful financial concepts in an easy format that will improve both your business and personal finances. Ignorance isn’t bliss when it comes to knowing your numbers--in fact, it can be deadly. Knowledge is power. . . Know Your Numbers and become empowered!
*No prior knowledge of finance or accounting is assumed or necessary. Speaker(s): Greg Kozlowski, accomplished investor and financial consultant and Karen Eads, SBDC consultant and QuickBooks Professional
As a solopreneur, course creator, or membership site owner the life of your business is online. When your computer or website goes down... your business can go down, too. Nobody wants that!
Join the Yavapai College SBDC and the Sedona Chamber of Commerce as we host Chris Plouffe of CSP Technologies to share tips you can take now to keep your business safe.
Speaker(s): Chris Plouffe is the CEO of CSP Technologies, located in Sedona, AZ.
Chris has been in the IT field for over 22 years and has owned his full-scale Managed IT Services and Security company for the last 16. cploufffe@csp-technologies.com https://www.csp-technologies.com
Co-Sponsor(s): Sedona Chamber of Commerce
Business Bootcamp 1
- The Importance of Having a Business Plan
- Marketing Planning
- Developing Performance Metrics
- Bootcamp 1: 3 hours
Business Bootcamp 2
- Know Your Numbers
Greg Kozlowski - Employment Laws from Hiring to Firing
Laura J. Hamblin - Bootcamp 2: 3 hours
Learn how to start your business in Arizona
Expect to leave this workshop with a set of steps to create your business
Having an employee manual is a good business practice. We will go over the main categories you need to address to help keep you from the pitfalls. Specifically, what to include and who to give it to.
Do you own a small business that has been unable to obtain financing to operate and grow? In this webinar, learn about different kinds of lenders in the marketplace, types of available financing programs, how borrowing can help you repair and build your small business’s credit, how to prepare your business to borrow, and what to expect when you apply.
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Learn customer service best practices, whether you're a customer service professional, a manager, or you work with customers in your career. The old Sears motto was "the customer is always right, even if they're wrong."
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Hear from the experts at the SBDC at Yavapai College on how to cultivate a productive environment for your employees. Learn best practices on how to empower, delegate, motivate, retain and lead your employees to adapt to change within your business.
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Join us as we complete our three part webinar and focus on how to use Instagram Stories, Paid Promotions and Analytics.
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Prescott employment lawyer, Laura Hamblin, will discuss Arizona’s new recreational marijuana law and its implications for the workplace.
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With changing demographics & changing attitudes, consumers are changing. Small businesses need to target new consumer behavior. Learn about the hottest trends!
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Hosted jointly by the Yavapai College SBDC, SCORE, Laura J. Hamblin, Employment Law Attorney, and the Coconino SBDC, this will be a discussion about the impact the new minimum wage increase can have on small businesses. A particular focus on the domino effect this may have beyond just the salary increase for minimum wage staff.
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This webinar will cover the wide variety of financing, technical services, and other resources available to small and beginning farmers and ranchers in rural communities, including microloans for farmers markets, grocery stores and restaurants, and those using hydroponic, aquaponic, organic and vertical growing methods.
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This webinar provides a detailed explanation of the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL), the EIDL Advance, the Paycheck Protection Program, and other SBA Debt Relief 6-month payment program.
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This webinar presents a detailed explanation of the Federal Paid Sick Time Leave and the Family Leave policies. Employment Law Attorney Laura Hamblin explains the differences between the two and everything employers need to know so proper guidelines are followed during the pandemic.
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The USDA office of Rural Development is making available up to $1 billion in loan guarantees to help rural businesses meet their working capital needs during the coronavirus pandemic. Funding for this program comes from the CARES Act.
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If you can convert your bar to serving food as well as drinks, you can be issued a county food establishment permit. Join the Yavapai College SBDC and Yavapai County Environmental Health to learn what you must do in order to re-open providing food service.
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