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Online Learning
 SmallBizU teaches the "3Ms" - Money, Marketing, and Management through 24 online tutorials.
Can't make it to one of our workshops? Here you'll find online tutorials covering a range of topics, with targeted content responding to several critical areas for small businesses. The best part? It’s all available 24/7—and free.
Intuit Community
Learn from other small business owners and industry experts in Intuit's live webcasts (free with registration). You can also sign up for a newsletter to be alerted about upcoming events.
Inspiration
What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur? The U.S. Small Business Administration and Dell present Strategies for Growth: Advice for Expanding Your Business, a video series that includes real-world insight and topic-specific advice from small business owners who’ve succeeded, in good and bad economic times.
In Case of Emergency
Institute for Business & Home Safety
US Small Business Administration
Internal Revenue Service
- Continuity Planning and Other Tips to Stay in Business After a Major Disaster (Audio, Transcript)
- Insurance Coverage and Other Emergency Planning Tips to Help Your Business Survive a Major Disaster (Audio, Transcript)
- Recordkeeping and Reconstructing Business Records to Help Your Business Survive a Major Disaster (Audio, Transcript)
- Disaster and Emergency Relief - Webinar Archive (Video, Transcript, Presentation slides, Q&A)
First Steps to Starting a Business
- Our Online Tutorial for Starting a Business will walk
you through several key areas that you need to fully understand in order to successfully manage a small business. With registration, you can save your progress and generate a copy of your work file.
- Need a business plan? The Pitch Then Plan™ tool can help you quickly translate your ideas into a plan.
Find out how the SBDC can help you start your business.
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Recession-Busting: Surviving in a Down Economy
SCORE also offer a free online tutorial to help you plan ahead for cash squeezes by focusing on the financial things you can do to save or generate money.
SBA has developed a number of training materials and tools to help small businesses counter the effects of a slowing economy.
Mired in debt? Our partners at Corporate Turnaround offer a video tutorial to help:
Our friends at the Famee Foundation offer another free tutorial to help you boost your marketing efforts, presented in 10 short emails delivered over 10 consecutive days:
We have more recession-busting tips online too.
Technology Tutorials
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Tax Webinars
- The IRS Video Portal contains video and audio presentations on topics of interest to small businesses, including business expenses, filing, reitrement plans and more.
- The US Small Business Administration offers an audio overview of the many new tax incentives available to small businesses as a result of the economic stimulus.
- Our friends at Business Owner's Toolkit also offer a Small Business Tax Workshop that introduces new small business owners and self-employed entrepreneurs to IRS tax law in an easy-to-understand format.
Get the latest regarding new changes in our Tax Center.
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Government Marketing & Procurement
Government marketing and contracting can be a large and complex undertaking for any small business. Find out how the SBDC's Goverment
Marketing Assistance service can help you.
- The Basics of Government Marketing Tutorial will help you to identify the strategic and logistical concerns related to pursuing
government contracts.
- SBA offers the following training opportunities:
Recovery Act Opportunities: How to Win Federal Contracts
Business Opportunities: A Guide to Winning Federal Contracts
Winning Federal Contracts: A Guide for Women Entrepreneurs
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International Trade
Is this your first time you've considered international markets? Our Exporting:
First Steps to Success video will introduce you to the basics and help you to evaluate your company's export
readiness.
The US Small Business Administration also offers a series of podcasts to help you think outside the U.S. borders. You can even subscribe to podcast feeds to deliver audio broadcasts to your desktop.
Our counterparts in Georgia just unveiled Export-U.com, which provides free access to several webinars on useful export topics.
Check out our international trade page for more resources.
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Finance Tutorials
The US Small Business Administration offers free online courses to help small business owners with the basic principles of
finance and borrowing.
- The Finance Primer gives an overview
of the SBA’s loan guaranty programs to help small businesses understand the variety of financial resources, including those from
the SBA.
- How to Prepare a Loan Package offers
links to related information, and refers course participants for direct support in preparing a loan request to appropriate
resources that include SBA’s district offices, SBA resource partners and lenders.
- Wells Fargo also offers a webcast series featuring industry insiders
discussing financing options and other issues relevant to small businesses.
Our friends at Business Owner's Toolkit offer several financing and financial management webinars:
Follow up with your local SBDC for confidential, one-on-one assistance.
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Small Biz U
 SmallBizU is created especially for small businesses and entrepreneurs, offering a no-frills, utilitarian curriculum that provides small businesses with real-world tools and information.
Visit your local Small Business Development Center's webpage to access over 4,000 animated slides accompanied by voice-over narration, PowerPoint presentations, worksheets, toolsets, and access to a comprehensive knowledgebase on topics of Money, Marketing, and Management.
All tutorials are free with registration. In order to access Small Biz U online learning programs, it is recommended that you install
Adobe Acrobat Reader and
Microsoft Internet Explorer on your
computer.
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Small Business Marketing
Our friends at the Famee Foundation offer several free tutorials that break down subjects into manageble pieces with notes emailed to you.
Social Media
HubSpot®, an inbound marketing company targeting small and medium-sized businesses, offers some very thorough free webinars covering Search Engine Optimization, blogging for business, web redesign, and how to attract customers through social media.
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