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Learn from the experts with SCORE’s small business training workshops

Find low or no-cost, targeted training in both in-person and online formats on topics that matter to you and your small business. Join a business expert at an interactive in-person or virtual workshop or learn at your own pace with one of our recorded webinars.

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Startup Basics - Seminar 1 of 4

Considering starting your own business? Learn from experienced business professionals, both active and retired, who can provide individual assistance if desired. Presented by SCORE (volunteers from south metro communities) and a partner of the U.S. Small Business Administrations (SBA), this comprehensive series of four workshops will help you to make a smart start. 

Startup Basics: Test a business idea and identify the key factors that influence startup success. Gain an overview of the skills and tools needed when deciding to start a business., advantages and disadvantages of owning a

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Business Concepts - Seminar 2 of 4

Considering starting your own business? Learn from experienced business professionals, both active and retired, who can provide individual assistance if desired. Presented by SCORE (volunteers from south metro communities) and a partner of the U.S. Small Business Administrations (SBA), this comprehensive series of four workshops will help you to make a smart start. 

Business Concepts: Review your understanding of business concepts and gain step-by-step guidance in researching your idea, market and competition. Identify your target markets, describe your products and services and collect key

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Marketing Plan - Seminar 3 of 4

Considering starting your own business? Learn from experienced business professionals, both active and retired, who can provide individual assistance if desired. Presented by SCORE (volunteers from south metro communities) and a partner of the U.S. Small Business Administrations (SBA), this comprehensive series of four workshops will help you to make a smart start.

Marketing Plan: Learn marketing, communication methods and tools to maximize customer reach. Understand pricing strategies, positioning, differences between features and benefits and choose the correct sales channel and exercise

Choosing the Right Business Structure

In this presentation, business attorney Kimberly Hanlon will cover the differences between the most common types of business structures for small businesses and the pros and cons of each one.

Local SEO

This webinar will walk you through the key factors and strategies to increase the visibility of your website within Google search.

Where's the Money
Where’s the Money?

Where’s the Money?

Sourcing Capital for Your Business
 

Identifying and accessing sources of debt and equity capital for small businesses and entrepreneurs is a never ending challenge.

Join us for an overview of this resource guide to sources and types of capital for small businesses in the Twin Cities to St. Cloud, Duluth and the Western Wisconsin border from Superior to Lake Pepin. 

Learn how you can use this reference resource to identify sources of capital for your business and clients. This directory is designed as a reference for entrepreneurs, small business owners, SCORE

Hiring Better, Faster

In this workshop, you'll learn some best practices and marketing tips to hire better, faster in this competitive market.

Double Your Sales While Working Less

Learn how to work less AND double your sales when you implement key business strategies and beliefs which Ursula Mentjes will share during this power-packed presentation.

Pricing for Success

This webinar will help you better understand and apply: Pricing’s roles in your business’ marketing mix, and the five critical perspectives that should influence your business’ pricing strategies and tactics.

HR Basics
HR Basics - Session 2: When Growing from Start-Up to 20+ Employees

There’s No “I” in Team:  HR Basics: When Growing from Start-Up to 20+ Employees
 

You’ve done all the work to get your business up and running, and you are starting to see the momentum build. Suddenly, you find yourself starting to overflow and feel the need to bring in your first employee. Or maybe you’ve had 5 employees the last couple years, and now see your business ready to expand to the next level.  

Then, you feel that rumble in your gut and the realization that your business’s success - and your dream - is more and more in the hands of your employees.  

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