Southeast Arkansas Area

UA-Monticello SBDC

To register for any of the following programs, contact the UA-Monticello SBDC at (870) 222-4900 or click on the Register Now button to register online.

Seminar Highlights: Do you and your employees realize behavior towards customers can make or break your business? This program covers customer turnoffs and feedback, behaviors that engage customers (internal and external), exceeding expectations, and overall great service.

Speaker: Paul Smith, Hospitality Management Instructor

Seminar Highlights: Useful for any size, type, or stage of restaurant ownership. This tough business requires long hours and hard work from owners and managers. This seminar is designed to give restaurant entrepreneurs a "heads-up" on common pitfalls that restaurants face and provide tools to survive the industry. Specific topics include: marketing, financial management, budgeting, customer relationships, and details that can help create atmosphere and enhance the overall experience of your customers.

Speaker: Kathryn Peacock, Center Director; Restaurant Representative

Seminar Highlights: This hands-on workshop will get you started with the basics of Microsoft Excel and save you time by getting your data organized to make automatic calculations: Work smarter...not harder.

Speaker: Kathryn Peacock, Center Director

Cosponsor: SCORE

Seminar Highlights: Using PowerPoint, you can develop attractive, attention-grabbing sales and informational presentations. In this hands-on workshop you will discover how to create dynamic and interesting presentations, produce colorful slides, use design schemes, explore time-saving tools, and uncover how drawing tools and clip art can make your presentation stand out above the rest. Sessions I and II for $75.

Speaker: Kelly Qualls, Graphic Artist

Seminar Highlights: Go to the next level with advanced design techniques in PowerPoint. In this hands-on workshop, you'll create presentation templates, import a wide variety of graphic objects, learn advanced drawing techniques, explore additional PowerPoint customization features, work with animation and multimedia formats, and use meeting notes. Sessions I and II for $75.

Speaker: Kelly Qualls, Graphic Artist

Seminar Highlights: Accept payments, manage inventory, manage customers. Learn how to use this hardware/software program to save time and energy with bookkeeping, inventory control, and maximizing service and sales to your best customers.

Speaker: Betty Ann Beckham, QuickBooks Consultant, Beckham Squared, LLC

Seminar Highlights: Your business has a website! Now what? Regardless of your developer's sophistication, you need to know if your site has the underlying components to be recognized by the leading search engines. Their indexing formulas evolve constantly, and your best efforts to be found can actually cause your site to be disregarded.

Speaker: Kathryn Peacock, Center Director

Seminar Highlights: The rules of IRS compliance can be overwhelming. You'll learn about requirements for starting a business, legal organization, tax forms, employer taxes, filing dates, employees vs independent contractors, home-based business deductions, tax credits, and helpful websites.

Speaker: Amelia Boney, CPA

Cosponsor: Simmons First Bank of South Arkansas