July 31st, 2008
Marketing and sales are two areas in which budding entrepreneurs find themselves woefully inadequate. Yet these are usually the most important functions of any company, especially small businesses that lack abundant resources.
Questions? Contact: Dave Woods (312) 353- 4540, www.scorechicago.org
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August 7th, 2008
Join technical communication consultants and independent contractors on August 7 for a lively conversation about how to deal with difficult clients. Keeping with our goal of building a sense of “coopetition,” where independent consultants cooperate to better compete, this meeting will be in a discussion format, guided by Eric Schieler and Jill Spealman.
Topics will include:
- What makes clients difficult?
- Lessons learned by participants
- How to keep clients happy
- Strategies for handling difficult situations
- Strategies for handling late or missed payments
- When to leave the client vs. completing the project
Where
Illinois Institute of Technology
Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Campus
201 East Loop Road
Wheaton, Illinois 60187-8489
Agenda
- 6:00 Registration, networking
- 6:15 Dinner
- 7:00 Program
- 8:30 Close
Registration
Register today at http://www.stc-chicago.org/portal/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=322.
Advance registration ($ 30) ends Tuesday, August 5, at 7:00 PM. After then, you must register at the door and pay $ 40 by cash or check (payable to Chicago STC CIC SIG).
Questions? Contact: cicsig@stc-chicago.org
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August 12th, 2008
This workshop covers cash flow and break even analysis to help you achieve financial success in your business.
Questions? Contact: Dave Woods, (312) 353-4540, www.scorechicago.org
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August 28th, 2008
Taking Your Business Online is an opportunity to learn best practices for your business website. The first half will focus on the objectives, terms, technologies and tools to get a website up and running. Learn about terms like HTML, review web hosting, and understand alternative development approaches. Find out about shopping carts, shipping costs and fulfillment. The second half of the workshop will provide you with design techniques to evaluate and improve an existing website, including user interface optimizations and enhancements like blogging. If you are looking to take your website to the next level, or just get started with your first business website, this workshop is for you.
Questions? Contact: Dave Woods, (312) 353-4540, www.scorechicago.org
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August 30th, 2008
Taking Your Business Online is an opportunity to learn best practices for your business website. The first half will focus on the objectives, terms, technologies and tools to get a website up and running. Learn about terms like HTML, review web hosting, and understand alternative development approaches. Find out about shopping carts, shipping costs and fulfillment. The second half of the workshop will provide you with design techniques to evaluate and improve an existing website, including user interface optimizations and enhancements like blogging. If you are looking to take your website to the next level, or just get started with your first business website, this workshop is for you.
Questions? Contact: Dave Wopds, (312) 353-4540, www.scorechicago.org
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September 5th, 2008
Marketing is vital throughout a business to give you direction, to help you to set goals/objectives that will contribute to your success, and to ensure that everyone involved is focused on the same targets; this workshop will cover effective and strategic utilization of pricing, promotion, product planning and distribution to give you a competitive edge.
Questions? Contact: Dave Woods, 312-353-4540, www.scorechicago.org
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September 9th, 2008
Improve business results by effective use of financial tools for forward planning and analysis. This workshop covers cash flow (as different from an income statement) and break even analysis to help you achieve financial success in your business. Attendees will have access to a cash flow template in Excel format which they can customize.
Questions? Contact: Dave Woods, 312-353-4540, www.scorechicago.org
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September 16th, 2008
A thoughtful and well-executed business plan is the first step for every potential entrepreneur. Good planning increases the odds of success. This workshop covers the essential elements of business plan development. Topics include: setting goals and objectives, preparing marketing and financial plans and defining action steps to attain appropriate goals. With a good plan, build your roadmap to success.
Questions? Contact: Dave #Woods, 312-353-4540, www.scorechicago.org
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September 20th, 2008
WindyCityRails is a gathering for all who are passionate about Ruby on Rails. Developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists will interact for a full day in the Windy City. Only 150 seats are available and they are expected to sell fast. Visit http://windycityrails.org for registration and details.
Questions? Contact: http://windycityrails.org
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September 23rd, 2008
Understand the various ways you might finance your business and how to approach friends and family, angel investors, banks and venture capitalists. Learn to prepare the documents you need to submit for each. A guest banker will also present criteria to obtain financing.
Questions? Contact: Dave Woods, 312-353-4540, www.scorechicago.org
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September 27th, 2008
Once you have determined the answer to the question, \”Who is my customer\”, you then need to know how to effectively get your product or service into that customer\’s hands. Marketing and sales a
