SANDHILLS SCORE SEMINARS:

Our seminars are designed to provide the small business person the necessary knowledge for the effective operation of their business.

Each seminar employs experienced business professionals who "know their way around the territory". A copy of the presentation is always available for you to take home and many seminars have supplemental material for you. We also make available free one-on-one follow-up counseling to each attendee to help you implement what you have learned.

Our seminars are co-sponsored by the Small Business Center, Sandhills Community College (3395 Airport Road, Pinehurst, N.C.) and are conducted at the college campus in Van Dusen Hall.

Sandhills SCORE has prepared a series of seminars known as our BUSINESS BASICS package. The seminars can be attended individually or you may wish to take advantage of the complete 5 - seminar set. Seminar schedule, a brief description of each seminar, and a description of BUSINESS BASICS is presented below.

For additional seminars of interest to small business, please go to the Small Business Center's website at www.sandhills.cc.nc.us/sbc.

2008 SCHEDULE

BUSINESS BASICS

Five seminars are grouped as a "MUST DO" for anyone either in business or planning to start. Each person who completes all five seminars receives a $75 grant from SCORE - these funds to be applied to the first advertising for the business.

• GREAT BEGINNINGS
• YOUR BUSINESS PLAN
• HOW TO GET A BUSINESS LOAN
• MARKETING - WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
• ACCOUNTING FOR YOU & ME
  

Great Beginnings

This seminar is designed to point the new or potential small business owner in the right direction, providing an overview of:

• The fundamentals of a Plan for your business
• Legal structure options for your business
• Managing your business
• SBA Resources available to you
• Risk management via insurance
  

Your Business Plan

Lenders know that without a Business Plan (1) They cannot make a valid judgment about whether your business idea is a good one or not and (2) They cannot be sure that you have thought through all the essentials. Join our Business Plan seminar and learn how to assess the real chance your small business has to survive in today's hotbed economy.

Accounting For You & Me

By the end of this seminar you will have sufficient working knowledge of basic accounting skills that you can apply to your small business right away. You will be reasonably knowledgable of a Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement such that you can communicate and interact with your Accountant for the purpose of managing your business more effectively.

How To get A Business Loan

This is the practical world of what to do and how to do it. You will understand the many forms of capital that are available and how to apply. A local bank loan officer will tell you exactly what he expects from you to be successful in your loan application. A representative from the Fayetteville Women's Business Center will discuss the SBA Community Express loan program (which includes several unsecured loan options).

Marketing - What You Need To Know

Every savvy businessperson knows this: without sales a business has no financial future. This seminar, straight from the trenches of real American business experience, teaches marketing your small business to success starting the day after the seminar! The instructor ran his own highly successful business for many years as well as led marketing efforts in several Fortune 500 firms.

Do You Have The Right Stuff?

To persevere through the trials and tribulations of starting and running your own business, you will need the spirit and will of those original Mercury astronauts...The Right Stuff! In this seminar you will learn a winning formula for building a business. Sample topics include: the Michael Gerber E-Myth concept and the win-win-win Business Trifecta.