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Cape Cod Score: offers Free small business advice and counseling services and business training seminars for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and Southeast Massachusetts.Cape Cod Score: offers Free small business advice and counseling services and business training seminars for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and Southeast Massachusetts. Cape Cod Score: offers Free small business advice and counseling services and business training seminars for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and Southeast Massachusetts.Cape Cod Score: offers Free small business advice and counseling services and business training seminars for Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket and Southeast Massachusetts.

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    Cape Cod Small Business Advice and Counseling:
    Workshop Details

     “Successful Small Business Management

    A Series of 7 Weekly Workshops, with Interactive Discussions to Learn the Basic Skills of Managing and Growing a Small Business, Focused on Massachusetts + Cape & Islands Regulations & Trends 

    Subjects covered in each of the 7 weeks include:

    ♦  Introduction to the Course and SCORE
        • How to get organized
        • Why 
    businesses succeed or fail
        • Selecting a business entity
        • Dealing with 
    liability
        • Properly classifying employees and sub-contractors
        • Projecting 
    start-up costs
        • Managing personnel
     

    ♦  Essential Decisions to make when Starting a Business
        • Useful tips a
    nd tools for managing a successful operation
        • Learn pricing 
    strategy
        • Understand break-even analysis
        • Managing in an economic downturn
        • A
    ccounting and tax issues
     

    ♦  Overview of Financial Management
        • The importance 
    of learning how to read and 
           use financial information to run your 
    business better
        • Managing your working capital
        • Forecasting cash needs
        • S
    ources of financing

     ♦  Learn how to Prepare a Business Plan 
         A document that communicates strategies to achieve your objectives
        • Basic elements of a business plan
        • Contents of the descriptive and financial 
    sections
        • Understand how to identify critical success factors
     

    ♦  How to Create an Effective Marketing Plan -Focus on:
        • H
    ow to identify a target market
        • Establish a competitive 
    advantage
        • Find niche opportunities
        • Develop your pricing strategy
        • Keys 
    to successful marketing
     
    ♦  The Growing Importance of E-Commerce
        • Applications that 
    deliver value
        • Website characteristics needed to achieve 
    recognition
          and buyer approval
         
    ♦  Tax-related Issues Important to the Small Business Owner                         
        • Choosing the business entity that’s right for you
        • Proper reporting of income for tax purposes
        • Take advantage of qualified deductions
        • Employee benefit p
    rograms available to the entrepreneur
     

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     2010 Schedules -
     Next Workshops starting:
        Jan. 26th   -- at: 4C's
        Feb. 23rd  -- at UCT Bourne
        Apr. 6th      -- Plymouth
        Sept 14th  -- at 4C's
        Sept 2010 -- MVY
    + Martha's Vineyard Programs

    Call: 508-775-4884

     

     

     

     

     

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    For information & appointments, contact: Cape Cod SCORE - Chapter 225
    270 Communications Way, Suite 5-B  •  Hyannis, MA 02601
    Tel: 508-775-4884  •  Fax: 508-790-2540
    E-mail: capecodscore@verizon.net  •  www.scorecapecod.com

    On Martha’s Vineyard, call: 508-696-9687  •  E-mail: mvscore@verizon.net

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