Home-Based businesses are the hottest business trend of the decade! Learn how to be your own boss and eliminate the stress of having a job. The benefits of working from home are endless! Earn what you deserve, be independent, have tax deductions, do away with traffic, office politics and more! Learn how to develop the entrepreneurial qualities - motivation, discipline, creativity - that you will need to succeed! This class is a great way to start your own business or enhance the one you already have.

Start or Expand Your Construction / Skilled Trade Business

Your construction business can gain a significant advantage over the competition by practicing sufficient management protocol. Learn how to build your company's business skills up to the same high level as your trade skills. This course gives you hands-on, practical management tools to help you design and construct a viable business operation that serves your customers better. It also shows you how to understand your entire operation and help improve the management process. You will see how to meet timelines and to also provide targeted project costs. As a contractor/owner will discover how each part of your efforts can affect and improve your total operations as well as how to put together a well-informed team. This course will provide you with clear and simple directions to give your contracting company the strongest possible business advantage and access to prime contractors that can give your business a chance to prove your abilities and business expertise.

Start Your Own Consulting Practice

Do you have training or knowledge that could be useful to others? Have you ever considered providing consulting services based upon your background? This course is designed to help those who wish to set up a consulting practice get started. You will learn the complete process of starting and operating a consulting practice. The course will begin with surveys and assessments designed to help you pinpoint the best consulting services to offer. The course then progresses into the business start-up process, including issues such as licensing and legalities. You will then develop a complete business plan for their consulting firm that details finances, pricing policies, contracting, and marketing. The course concludes with a discussion of record-keeping and tax concerns. The instructor will keep you updated by citing resources such as books, periodicals, and organizations designed to help small businesses.

Start Your Own Small Business (BASIC)

Learn how to take your dream of starting a business and put it into action. In this class, you'll learn everything you need to know about starting a business. You'll begin by discovering the tricks to picking the right opportunity for you. Next, you'll learn how to develop proven marketing techniques to easily build sales. Since every business needs money, we'll discuss traditional and nontraditional financing options. Finally, you'll learn easy-to-implement employee-management procedures and how to write business policies that help you build your business.

You, as a business owner, need to manage all your limited resources. One resource that often gets overlooked is your time. In the final lesson, you'll learn time-management techniques especially for entrepreneurs. While taking this course, you'll discover the secrets that separate the successful entrepreneurs from the struggling ones.