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Small Business Essential: Crossing The Bridge to Brick and Mortar
Small Business Essential: Crossing The Bridge to Brick and Mortar
Are you ready to make the jump to a brick and mortar business? As a business owner, the decision to open your first physical store is an exciting and important one. Whether you’re expanding on current online or at-home operations or you’re starting a brick-and-mortar store from scratch, there are multiple factors to keep in mind.
Join The Iowa Center and Alyshea Gow, owner and interior designer of Feather Your Nest Interiors as she discusses her journey to owning a brick and mortar storefront.
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DreamMaker
DreamMaker
Writing a business plan can be intimidating. You’re juggling market research with competitor analysis, financial projections with marketing strategies. With so much to consider and organize, it’s easy to lose your drive.
DreamMaker Virtual makes it simpler.
Here’s what you’ll do during this 8-week online course:
Work to develop your business plan
Access online material as well as group + one-on-one virtual support
Build your professional network
Connect with others working toward the goal of business ownership
Learn from guest mentors (including CPAs, attorneys, marketing experts and other small business owners)
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Always Ready: Business Plan
Always Ready: Business Plan
Turn your dream into a plan with this small group, one-hour business planning class. The Iowa Center staff will help you kickstart your business plan by providing you a road map on completing your plan and taking the next steps towards business ownership. Also connect with other aspiring small business owners to refine your business ideas as you put them into real plans. This class is for aspiring small business owners who need a business plan to start moving forward with their idea now.
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DreamMaker
DreamMaker
Writing a business plan can be intimidating. You’re juggling market research with competitor analysis, financial projections with marketing strategies. With so much to consider and organize, it’s easy to lose your drive.
DreamMaker Virtual makes it simpler.
Here’s what you’ll do during this 8-week online course:
Work to develop your business plan
Access online material as well as group + one-on-one virtual support
Build your professional network
Connect with others working toward the goal of business ownership
Learn from guest mentors (including CPAs, attorneys, marketing experts and other small business owners)
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Start Something Passive Income Series: Crypto & NTFs
Start Something Passive Income Series: Crypto & NTFs
During this installment of the Start Something Passive Income Series, Scott Herren will share tips and tricks on leveraging your digital assets to bring in some extra cash.
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DreamMaker
DreamMaker
Writing a business plan can be intimidating. You’re juggling market research with competitor analysis, financial projections with marketing strategies. With so much to consider and organize, it’s easy to lose your drive.
DreamMaker Virtual makes it simpler.
Here’s what you’ll do during this 8-week online course:
Work to develop your business plan
Access online material as well as group + one-on-one virtual support
Build your professional network
Connect with others working toward the goal of business ownership
Learn from guest mentors (including CPAs, attorneys, marketing experts and other small business owners)
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Start Something Passive Income Series: Digital Products & Evergreen Online Courses
Start Something Passive Income Series: Digital Products & Evergreen Online Courses
During this installment of the Start Something Passive Income Series, Brighten Made founder Bri Summers will share tips and tricks on how to sell your creative digital products or online course on your website or Etsy shop.
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NAWBO Iowa Lunch Program
NAWBO Iowa Lunch Program
The April NAWBO Iowa lunch program will feature David J. Gion, who will talk about Better Ballot Iowa.
Learn more about the process in Iowa and how that affects small businesses.
*Also please bring your own lunch
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Always Ready: Getting Ready
Always Ready: Getting Ready
Getting started in your small business journey can be daunting…let us help you make the process and little easier as we outline some basic steps to Getting Ready!
What are the first steps needed to business ownership?
What’s a business plan and why do you need one?
What are the various types of legal business entities?
How do you register your business?
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DreamMaker
DreamMaker
Writing a business plan can be intimidating. You’re juggling market research with competitor analysis, financial projections with marketing strategies. With so much to consider and organize, it’s easy to lose your drive.
DreamMaker Virtual makes it simpler.
Here’s what you’ll do during this 8-week online course:
Work to develop your business plan
Access online material as well as group + one-on-one virtual support
Build your professional network
Connect with others working toward the goal of business ownership
Learn from guest mentors (including CPAs, attorneys, marketing experts and other small business owners)
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5 Strategies to Run a More Efficient Business
5 Strategies to Run a More Efficient Business
Starting and running a small business is no small task, but with the right strategies and tools, you can streamline your processes, increasing your productivity and ultimately leading to more profitability.
In this webinar, our expert presenters will provide a framework to help you implement these five cost-effective strategies so you can optimize your operations and continue to grow your business.
You will learn:
How to streamline your workflow, eliminate redundancies, and improve your operational processes
How to increase productivity by prioritizing tasks and delegating responsibilities
How to identify financial inefficiencies and make the most of your current resources
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