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Starting A New Business
192 Animated Slides
Approx. 3.0 Hours
Cost: $30
This course provides the advice and strategies of some of the leading entrepreneurs concerning what it really takes to start a new venture. This course will show you how to protect your ideas, how to hire employees, how to find out what licenses and regulations may apply, as well as, provide more than 50 resources of free information that are available to you in making your new business a reality.
FREE Course Tools include:
Start-Up Checklist
Mission and Vision Worksheet
Goals and Objectives Worksheets
Business Plan Outline
Business Planning Guide
Company PowerPoint Presentation Template
Crafting A Business Plan
135 Animated Slides
Approx. 2.5 Hours
Cost: $30
This course is about the craft of creating a plan for your business. The business plan is the essential document used to raise money for a business and communicate your business vision and strategy to your management team, suppliers, customers, and other stakeholders.
FREE Course Tools include:
Business Planning Guide
Financial Projection Model Spreadsheet
Mission and Vision Worksheet
Goals and Objectives Worksheets
Financial Projection Worksheets
Company Presentation Template
Business Plan Outline
Choosing A Legal Structure
129 Animated Slides
Approx. 2.0 Hours
Cost: $30
Every new venture has to work the complex decision of what legal structure to choose for the business. This course breaks down this decision into its essential characteristics simplifying the decision-making process.
FREE Course Tools include:
Legal Structure Checklists
Sole Proprietorship Checklist
Partnership Checklist
'C' Corporation Checklist
'S' Corporation Checklist
LLC Checklist
Employee Considerations Checklist
Buying A Business
221 Animated Slides
Approx. 3.5 Hours
Cost: $30
A comprehensive course on how to buy the right business at the right price. Developed by entrepreneurs who buy businesses for a living, this course offers advice and wisdom in such areas as: the key questions to ask of any seller, the due diligence process, valuing a business and determining the offer, negotiation steps and tactics, and sample legal agreements.
FREE Course Tools include:
Key Questions To Ask Checklist
Due Diligence Checklist
Business Valuation Spreadsheet Model
Table of Business Valuations
Sample letter of Intent
Sample Offer To Purchase Agreement
Strategic Planning and Execution
183 Animated Slides
Approx. 3.5 Hours
Cost: $30
This course presents the fundamental devices used in crafting a strategy for a business venture. The course puts forth the innovative mechanisms of internal and external strategy which are based on the findings of a new body of research into the strategy-making processes of successful growing ventures.
FREE Course Tools include:
Strategic Planning and Execution Workbook
Activeplans Strategic Planning Software
Mission and Vision Worksheet
Future Plans, Goals, and Objectives Worksheets
Strategic Plan Presentation Template
The Entrepreneurial Strategies
160 Animated Slides
Approx. 3.0 Hours
Cost: $30
This course describes the available entrepreneurial strategies and how they are applied in the marketplace. For anyone starting or growing a business venture, the knowledge and skills underlying the entrepreneurial strategies are an essential part of any entrepreneur's toolkit.
FREE Course Tools include:
The Entrepreneurial Strategies Workbook
Entrepreneurial Strategies Worksheets
Hiring and Managing Employees
155 Animated Slides
Approx. 3.0 Hours
Cost: $30
An overview of the essential processes of managing employees. Includes best practice on the hiring process, employee forms you must file, wage and hour regulations, taxation and privacy issues, health and safety standards, benefit and retirement plans, discrimination and termination processes, and more.
FREE Course Tools include:
Sample Interview Questions
Illegal Interview Questions
Withholding Tax Calculator
Checklist for Handling Workers' Compensation Claims
Creating An Employee Handbook
Documenting Disciplinary Action
Employees' Complaint Toolkit
