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Social Media has literally turned our world upside down and often overwhelms us with its power of communication. How can we jump on the wagon and not lose our way - or our sanity? First we will talk about the basics of marketing your business. What the purpose is and what our expected outcomes are. Then we will look at Social Media as a contemporary tool and how we can best put it to use in our rural communities.
Picture this, you already have a full plate and your best employee turns in their notice. Or you already have several open positions to fill and your employees are overloaded trying to fill in for the open positions, including you. This scenario is faced every day by business owners. Your first inclination is to hire the first person that comes through the door; bad mistake.
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Are you one of the people that believe Business Plans are scary long documents filled with undecipherable useless information? In this workshop you will find that the above concept couldn?t be further from the truth! A Business Plan is simply a road map of your business and a way to communicate what you do, what your values are, and where you plan to take your business in the future. It is a working, changeable document that helps align your plans to your destination, avoid unforeseen obstacles, helps you examine areas you hadn?t considered, and a way to tell others of your vision.
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Do numbers and finances put you into a tizzy and scare you to death? It doesn?t have to be that way! QuickBooks is a widely used computerized accounting system that can make taking care of the financial end of your business an easy task. However, just because you don?t have to be an accountant to use QBs, you will need to understand just a few accounting basics in order to make sure your books give you the correct information for you to operate your business, keep track of the records you will need, and to produce the reports necessary to manage and grow your business.
