Jonesboro Area

ASU Jonesboro SBDC

To register for any of the following programs, contact the ASU Jonesboro SBDC at (870) 972-3517 or click on the Register Now button to register online.

Seminar Highlights: Any business can provide basic customer service, but not every business owner wants or has the knowledge to get to the next level - exceeding your customer's expectations. In this program you will learn what it takes for employees to work as a team to deliver service that will keep your customers coming back again and again.
Speaker: Susan Glasgow, ASU SBDC Training Coordinator
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: It is essential for start-up and existing businesses to do some type of marketing to publicize their product or service. In fact, everything done in order to promote a business is considered marketing. This workshop gives creative and resourceful ideas for marketing your business and provides insight on how to understand customer needs and find the means by which to satisfy those needs on a small budget.
Speaker: Susan Glasgow, ASU SBDC Training Coordinator
Cosponsor: Liberty Bank; Baxter County Library; Mtn. Home Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: This training session will include an overview of the 2 basic loan programs (7a and 504), how to determine eligibility, how to prepare and submit loan applications, and how to service the loan after closing. Lenders will learn how to use the electronic website to increase their SBA participation. We will discuss actual case studies to show you how SBA can help you serve your customer and increase bank income. We will show you how to market your bank's participation in SBA programs. You will learn the advantages of becoming SBA Express and Patriot Express lenders. Sessions held later in the year will highlight the Small/Rural Lender Initiative as it becomes available. Loan officers new to SBA lending or those wishing to update their knowledge should attend.
Speaker: Pat Walker, U.S. Small Business Administration
Cosponsor: ASBDC, ACCG

Seminar Highlights: Cash planning is a key to business survival. Learn the important concepts of short-and long-term cash budgeting. Do you know your cash needs for next year, next month, tomorrow? Don't gamble with your businesses' money. Learn to take control of your cash planning now.
Speaker: Herb Lawrence, ASU SBDC Center Director
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: As the Cheshire Cat said to Alice, "If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." So it is with marketing your business. Creating a marketing plan keeps you on a path toward a goal and gives you a way to measure your progress. This seminar will give you common sense ideas on creating and actually using your marketing plan to guide your business.
Speaker: John Riggins, Owner, The Riggins Group
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: This seminar will provide you with successful techniques to market your product or service via the internet. Learn to get a better response from email, how to design banners to increase "hits" and much more. Participants receive a 30 page workbook.
Speaker: Timothy Lee, ASBDC Webmaster
Cosponsor: UALR College of Business; North Central Arkansas Regional Economic Development; University of Arkasnas Cooperative Extension Service; Liberty Bank; Baxter County Library; Mtn. Home Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: This seminar is designed to inform business owners of current sales tax laws, help them prevent overpayment of sales tax, educate them about the increased audit risk they all face due to increased compliance audits anticipated in the future and to show them how to protect themselves from failure to comply with the new regulations. The seminar will also discuss State of Arkansas incentives and tax credits that are available to many eligible businesses.
Speaker: David Rickman, Jeff Simmons, Ted Walker, Owners - Arkansas Tax Associates, Inc.
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce; Arkansas Tax Associates

Seminar Highlights: This seminar is for the small business owner and manager. The seminar takes an in-depth look at the numbers on your balance sheet and income statement and helps you better understand what is happening to your business. Topics include understanding the financial position of a business and the presentation of the numbers, as well as how to use the umbers in evaluating business profitability.
Speaker: Herb Lawrence, ASU SBDC Center Director
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: The "Starting A Business In Arkansas" workshop is recommended to anyone considering starting a business. 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 may face as an entrepreneur. Learn what to do before you open the doors in order to be successful!
Speaker: Susan Glasgow, ASU SBDC Training Coordinator
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: All businesses need a business plan. A business plan will help you define your concept, evaluate the competition, determine risks, and estimate your costs. This seminar will explain and illustrate the business plan format for existing businesses.
Speaker: Laura Miller, ASU SBDC Business Consultant
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: This seminar will explain how and where to get financing for prospective and existing businesses. Credit requirements, places to go for funding and the Small Business Administration's loan guaranty program will be presented.
Speaker: Herb Lawrence, ASU SBDC Center Director
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: Money. You can't start, operate, or expand a business without it. Acquiring the capital you need can be frustrating. This seminar will provide you with a wealth of valuable information about building a relationship with your lender by covering the loan proposal process, the five C's of credit, the do's and don'ts of borrowing money and successful borrowing habits.
Speaker: Susan Glasgow, ASU SBDC Training Coordinator
Cosponsor: EAPDD; Jonesboro Regional Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: The "Starting A Business In Arkansas" workshop is recommended to anyone considering starting a business. 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 may face as an entrepreneur. Learn what to do before you open the doors in order to be successful!
Speaker: Susan Glasgow, ASU SBDC Training Coordinator
Cosponsor: Co-sponsors: Main Street Osceola; Osceola Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: All businesses need a business plan. A business plan will help you define your concept, evaluate the competition, determine risks, and estimate your costs. This seminar will explain and illustrate the business plan format for existing businesses.
Speaker: Laura Miller, ASU SBDC Business Consultant
Cosponsor: Main Street Osceola; Osceola Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: Did you have a successful filing season? April 15th is behind us but it is not too early to prepare for next year. This year more than 665,930 Arkansas federal tax returns were filed electronically. This is a significant increase over last year. Are you a part of this sweeping trend? If not, this tax seminar will answer questions like, What is in e-File for me? and How do I get started? Are you an established Electronic Return Originator filing the occasional electronic return or a seasoned pro at responding to rejection codes? Regardless of your level of e-file expertise, the 2008 Tax Practitioner Seminar will provide valuable information on moving your business forward with the latest e-file program enhancements.
Speaker: Greg Metcalf, Jane Fisher and Samuel Coleman IRS; Dan Brown, Department of Revenue; Charles Burton, SSA
Cosponsor: IRS, Department of Revenue, SSA

Seminar Highlights: This seminar will explain how and where to get financing for prospective and existing businesses. Credit requirements, places to go for funding and the Small Business Administration's loan guaranty program will be presented.
Speaker: Herb Lawrence, ASU SBDC Center Director
Cosponsor: Main Street Osceola; Osceola Chamber of Commerce

Seminar Highlights: It is essential for start-up and existing businesses to do some type of marketing to publicize their product or service. In fact, everything done in order to promote a business is considered marketing. This workshop gives creative and resourceful ideas for marketing your business and provides insight on how to understand customer needs and find the means by which to satisfy those needs on a small budget.
Speaker: Susan Glasgow, ASU SBDC Training Coordinator
Cosponsor: Main Street Osceola; Osceola Chamber of Commerce

Arkansas Small Business Development Center
University of Arkansas at Little Rock - College of Business
Donald W. Reynolds Center for Business and Economic Development
2801 S. University / Little Rock, Arkansas 72204
Phone: 501.683.7700 Fax: 501.683.7720

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