Training Events
Here is a sample of the classes offered by GRSBDC. Classes change quarterly based on the needs of the small business community. For a current listing of GRSBDC offerings, see Events and Seminars.
Starting a Business 101 (SAB) – Self assessment of your entrepreneurial abilities, feasibility analysis, getting into business, business structure, steps to setup your business and creating a business plan
QuickBooks Part 1 (QB1) – How to get started using this excellent small business financial tool QuickBooks Sections 1 – 7 – Kelly Garrett, QuickBooks Pro Advisor of Kelly Garrett Consulting
QuickBooks Part 2 (QB2) – How to take advantage of QuickBooks Sections 8 – 15 (except for Section 11 – Payroll is a separate program) – Kelly Garrett, QuickBooks Pro Advisor of Kelly Garrett Consulting
QuickBooks Payroll (QBP) – What you need to know about setting up a payroll system and compliance with federal and state tax requirements – Kelly Garrett, QuickBooks Pro Advisor of Kelly Garrett Consulting.
Elevator Speech (ES)
An enticing 30 second introduction that creates interest in your business and you. It creates a need to know more about your business and succinctly describes what your business is all about while forming a personal and business impression.
Facebook Training (FB)
Learn how to effectively utilize Facebook social networking tool for business marketing, branding and networking in this 2 hour workshop.
Foursquare (4Sq)
Millions of times a day, people use foursquare to check in and share where they are. Whether checking out a new restaurant, meeting up with friends, or visiting a favorite boutique, they are chronicling and sharing their adventures as a business or brand on foursquare.
LinkedIn Training (LT)
Learn how to effectively utilize the LinkedIn social networking tool to effectively network and market your business on-line in this 2 hour workshop.
Twitter (TW)
An online social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets"
Human Resource Training
Overview of HR practices required in today’s highly regulated and competitive environment.
This seminar focuses on how to manage the five most common employment risks that can sink a small business owner and how to make the right hire the FIRST time around and avoid the high cost of doing it again after you’ve been disappointed.
Instructor – R. Rushton Paul, Jr., J.D., SPHR, President, R. Rushton Paul Consulting, LLC
Google Analytics (GA)
A free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. The product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew. Google Analytics is used at around 49.95% of the top 1,000,000 websites in this 2 hour workshop..
Google Key Word (GKW)
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) utilizes the four keyword matching options that will determine which Google searches will trigger your ads to appear. These options can help you control who sees your ads. You can set each search-targeted keyword to have one of those four settings. To use a keyword matching option, just add the appropriate punctuation to your keyword in this two hour workshop.
