Entrepreneurship Certificate (Online at your own pace)
Transform your new or small business into a success while minimizing your risks. Begin by exploring the latest methods for planning your business and generating ideas. Use a checklist to help you set up your business. Then, learn to create a business plan by assessing feasibility and preparing management and financial plans. Follow a step-by-step approach to attract and retain customers, with a focus on customer-driven marketing decisions and brand building. Identify the abilities that successful entrepreneurs possess and how to acquire them, set goals to establish your business, develop an outline for your plan, and learn techniques for managing and marketing your new business.
Courses:
- Entrepreneur Boot Camp
- The Business Plan
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Entrepreneurial Marketing
Courses are online and asynchronous, meaning students may login to the classroom anytime during the course session, day or night, 24/7. For more information, go to our Online Professional Development Certificates & Courses FAQ
Class details:
| Entrepreneur Boot Camp | ||
Unit 1: What is an Entrepreneur?
Are You A Potential Entrepreneur? Success, Self-Esteem and Goals Brainstorming Business Ideas |
Unit 2: As You Start Your Business
Licensing And Registrations Planning Your Business |
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Unit 3: Using Technology
Marketing Strategies Internet Opportunities |
Unit 4: Managing Your Business
Record Keeping And Taxes Grants And Government Programs |
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| The Business Plan | ||
Unit 1: Getting Started—Refine your concept and begin your plan
Identify product/service features and benefits. Identify limitation, liabilities, and regulations. Write your Business Description and evaluate it against a Business Description checklist. |
Unit 2: Prepare the Marketing Plan
Perform a market analysis and identify target markets and a market penetration strategy. Identify your pricing strategy. Write your Marketing Plan and evaluate it against a Marketing Plan checklist. |
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Unit 3: Prepare the Management and Financial Plans
Determine funding needs and sources. Create sales and expense estimates. Write your Management and Financial Plans and evaluate them against checklists. |
Unit 4: Complete the Business Plan and Assess Business Feasibility
Evaluate business plan against checklist and identify items in need of additional work. Assess business against feasibility checklist. Identify next steps. |
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| Entrepreneurial Marketing | ||
Unit 1: The Customer as the Driver
Positioning Your Product or Service Marketing Strategies and Goals |
Unit 2: Communicating Value to Customers
Creating Emotional Connections Personal Selling Networking: Your 30-Second Introduction |
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Unit 3: Creating a Strong Brand
Marketing on a Shoestring Budget Your Marketing Calendar Implementing Your Plan |
Unit 4: Building Customer Relationships
Online Opportunities and Social Media Checklist Generating Buzz: Word-of-Mouth Marketing Measuring Effectiveness |
Conrad Brian Law
Instructor
Conrad Brian Law, COI is an award winning speaker, author, motivational coach and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Knowledge Learning Solutions LLC, a management consulting firm. He has presented nationally on such topics as entrepreneurship, technology, career advancement, diversity and finances. His Entrepreneur Boot Camp is an expansion of his successful face-to-face class. Conrad is MOODLE Teacher Certified (MTC), A+ certified, and a Certified Online Instructor (COI). He is also an MBA candidate at the University of Maryland, University College.
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Online registration is overInstructors:
- Conrad Brian Law
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