Fayetteville Area
UA, Fayetteville SBTDC
To register for any of the following programs, contact the UA, Fayetteville SBTDC at (479) 575-5148 or click on the Register Now button to register online.
Seminar Highlights: Gas prices rising, consumer spending dropping, and the housing market floundering describes our current environment. Small business survival in these difficult economic times is becoming more challenging every day. Is YOUR business going to survive the recession? This is one workshop you can't afford to miss. Small business owners will learn about the basics of recessions and the effect on their markets. Learn how to read the warning signs for coming recessionary periods and what your business can do to survive, even grow and prosper, despite the current economic changes. Topics will include keeping your cash flow healthy, easy marketing techniques to use, and even how to go against the grain to thrive in a recession. REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.
Speaker: SBTDC Rep
Seminar Highlights: This seminar prepares participants for the intensive business planning process. Find out the major steps crucial to starting a business, identify key issues that affect your business success, and discuss start-up requirements as well as common pitfalls you will face as an entrepreneur.Registration is Required.
Speaker: ASBDC Rept
Seminar Highlights: Looking for protection of business assets such as intellectual property, a business name or logo? This seminar is for inventors, entrepreneurs, and business owners who want to learn how to protect a logo, invention, name or artistic creation. The session is taught by a patent attorney and will give participants an overview of patent, trademark, and copyright law, processes and available resources. Registration is REQUIRED
Speaker: Representatives of Keisling, Pieper and Scott, PLC
Seminar Highlights: No matter how large or small, all businesses should have a written plan. A business plan helps to define concepts, evaluate the competition, analyze markets, determine risks and estimate financial potential. Business plans are required to obtain a small business loan. This in-depth seminar discusses the business planning process in detail. Participants will learn about the importance of planning and the elements that go into a good plan. For new entrepreneurs, Starting a Business in Arkansas is recommended as a first step
Speaker: ASBTDC Representative
Seminar Highlights: The U.S. Small Business Administration loan program has helped thousands of small companies get started, expand, and prosper. This seminar will discuss what an SBA loan is, eligibility requirements, and how to apply for an SBA loan. Those seeking to finance new business start-ups or business purchases and those seeking to expand their existing business are encouraged to attend. Registration is Required.
Speaker: Pat Walker, U.S. Small Business Administration
Seminar Highlights: Small businesses receive more than $2 billion in federal grants and contracts each year through the SBIR and STTR programs. The Phase I Proposal Writing Workshop being offered by Arkansas Small Business an Technology Development Center can help your business move from SBIR applicant to awardee.
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program provides federal funding for business and product strategies that meet federal research and development needs. Covering all 11 agencies that participate in SBIR and STTR (a sister program), the eight-hour workshop is for early-stage, first-time or unsuccessful writers of SBIR Phase I proposals. The event will be held at ASU ABI Building at Arkansas State University in Jonesboro. Instructor Sharon Ballard will focus on two areas key to winning SBIR funding: the work plan and the commercialization plan. Ballard will explain how to integrate knowledge of the state-of-the-art with the work plan, and how to master requirements unique to different federal agencies. Participants will receive guidance in researching government organizations, topics and financial and administrative requirements and will explore some specific steps to attract commercialization partners, even at the Phase I stage of the SBIR Program.
In addition, the workshop will offer tips for approaching and structuring working arrangements with large corporations on government contracts.
In contrast to informational seminars, this is an interactive, hands-on workshop, with in-class exercises using tools and techniques that help in writing more successful proposals. Proposal outlines from various agencies will be used, and each major proposal section will be considered in detail, with methods and techniques for covering each section. You will walk away with the essential elements of your Phase I proposal outlined.
Speaker: Sharon C. Ballard, President/CEO of EnableVentures, Inc.
Cosponsor: EnableVentures, Inc.
