Events/Workshops

This workshop is part of the "Start Your Entrepreneurship Engine" series. Starting a business can be confusing, challenging, and frustrating. Whether your business is new or established - or you're just cultivating the seed of a great idea, success depends on getting the assistance you need, when you need it. Learn about programs and resources available to the small business owner or potential owner.

Speaker: Briles Johnson, Director, NC Women's Business Center

Don’t miss the opportunity to learn the basics of starting a small business. Learn how to: • assess yourself as a potential business owner • determine feasibility of your business idea • select a suitable business organization structure • obtain required licenses • arrange for business financing • develop your business plan

Speaker: Chris Conant, Assistant Counselor Small Business & Technology Development Center at Appalachian State University

If you’re thinking now is the time to start a small business, you’re right. Join Mike Collins, president of The Perfect Workday Company, as he shares tips on how to create a business idea that fits you, businesses you can start for under $100 and the “hot” businesses that will grow in the coming years. Let this seminar spark some ideas for you.

Speaker: Mike Collins, President, The Perfect Workday Company

Join us to learn how to control the holiday craziness (work, life, family, travel) Owning a small business should be a rewarding experience. Do you know anyone who wanted their business to drain the life-force from them? Unfortunately, that's what most small businesses do to their owners. The problem is that owners allow all sorts of little things to control their day. This course is designed to change the small business owner mindset to that of Small Business Executive. Managing your time with this mindset will dramatically improve your productivity, help you stay organized, eliminate procrastination, and increase the thing that matters most: Your discretionary time! (Has also been billed as, “Manage Your Time Before It Manages You”) Learn to control the use of your time and access to your time by others, all with an objective of having more discretionary time in their lives (not just at work). Too many small business owners become a slave to the needs of the business, and this quickly leads them to become ineffective, unprofitable, and unhealthy.

Speaker: Russ Seagle, Specialist in helping small business owners make more money and have more fulfilling lives.