Safe + Sound week is rapidly approaching – Aug 15-21, 2022 - and OSHA is lobbying all industry sectors for participation in OSHA’s annual “Safe and Sound” Week. This campaign focuses on employer and employee participation in the establishments efforts to FIND & FIX hazardous conditions in the workplace.
Pick a date, plan an event and do this thing!
To ensure that your company is fully recognized for your efforts during Safe and Sound Week, please register every event planned via this link - https://www.osha.gov/safeandsoundweek#register. Multiple registrations are encouraged – your company can register each individual site/location where an event is held.
Size and duration are not important - just get that message out there. Your event DOES NOT have to be open to the public to be registered on the official site! Your “Safe and Sound” event can be private or public and it can be as simple as performing a brief safety talk on an hot industry topic or conducting a cooperative management/worker jobsite walkaround to FIND & FIX hazards.
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This series costs to participate.
It’s been proven that the entrepreneur who plans… is the entrepreneur who succeeds! During this course, participants will develop a comprehensive business plan to act as a road map for future growth and success. NXLEVEL® - How To Write A Business Plan is an intense, 10 session, 30-hour course designed for entrepreneurs who want to expand an existing business or start a new business. You will receive professional guidance in an online classroom setting taught by a certified NXLEVEL® instructor, plus one-on-one counseling.
NXLevel: How To Write A Business Plan course will provide the knowledge needed to understand what goes into a business plan. The goal is for each participant to produce a finished business plan by the end of the course.
COURSE OVERVIEW (What you’ll learn) · Introduction: Overview and Entrepreneurship · Planning and Research: Entrepreneurial Essentials · Organizational Matters: Management and Legal Structure · Marketing: Analysis and Understanding · Marketing Strategies: Tactics and Implementation · Financial Overview: Books, Records, and Controls · Managing Your Money: Financial Planning and Budgets · Managing Your Money: Understanding and Using Cash Flow Projections · Managing Your Money: Understanding and Using Financial Statements · Financing Your business: Sources of Money
Participant must be computer literate because all of the actual work will be done on online. Homework assignments will be distributed via email.
Session #1 Introduction: Overview and Entrepreneurship9/21/226:00 PM - 9:00 PM (AST)
Session #2 Planning and Research: Entrepreneurial Essentials9/28/226:00 PM - 9:00 PM (AST)
Session #3 Organizational Matters: Management and Legal Stru10/5/226:00 PM - 9:00 PM (AST)
Session #4 Marketing: Analysis and Understanding10/12/226:00 PM - 9:00 PM (AST)
Session #5 Marketing Strategies: Tactics and Implementation10/19/226:00 PM - 9:00 PM (AST)
Session #6 Financial Overview: Books, Records, and Controls10/26/226:00 PM - 9:00 PM (AST)
Session #7 Managing Your Money: Financial Planning and Budge11/2/226:00 PM - 9:00 PM (AST)
Session #8 Managing Your Money: Understanding and Using Cash11/9/226:00 PM - 9:00 PM (AST)
Session #9 Managing Your Money: Understanding and Using Fina11/16/226:00 PM - 9:00 PM (AST)
Session #10 Financing Your business: Sources of Money11/30/226:00 PM - 9:00 PM (AST)
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SCORE: Basic Accounting to Run Your Business on Aug. 17 at 6 p.m. In this informative financial webinar you will learn about the components that create a basic Accounting System. We will discuss Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable, and how it all gets incorporated into the General Ledger to produce the reports that are the cornerstone of your business. This would include the most important reports such as a Profit/Loss statement, and Balance Sheet. We will also discuss additional valuable reports that are generated by these modules. This is a must-attend for anybody in business who wants to understand their financial position. Read more.
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SCORE: Time Management on Aug. 22 at 6 p.m. Join this webinar to learn about commonly employed time management practices, including: Pareto analysis. A copy of the recording and materials will be sent to all attendees. Read more.
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Business Development Webinar Series - Starting Your Business in the USVI on Aug. 23 at 11 a.m. This webinar provides the "nuts and bolts" and beyond, for starting a business in the Virgin Islands. VI SBDC Business Counselor Mr. Greg Kopatch will go through ten questions that cover the most important issues that must be addressed by individuals interested in starting a business in the Virgin Islands. Since sixty percent of all businesses close by their sixth year, it is important to gain the information you need to know before you begin your business. Topics include: writing a business plan, legal structure options, state and local rules, regulations, licensing requirements, marketing, cash flow projections, record keeping basics and more. Read more.
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SCORE: How a Small Business Owner Can Dominate his/her Market Position on Sept. 7 at 6 p.m. In this presentation, we will focus on what we consider the five key elements to make you, as a business owner, able to create value to your business offer, and in the process, fully differentiate your business from your competitors and dominate your specific market. We will analyze why we must focus on the 20% of your business activities that generate 80% of your business results, and train you on identifying and applying the essentials of marketing and business growth fundamentals. The target in this presentation is to help you build a robust and productive business and quickly increase your business revenue/profit rate. Read more.
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SCORE: How To Increase Sales During Uncertain Times on Sept. 15 at 6 p.m. Learn how to get existing customers to buy. Replace customers that disappeared. Start up a pipeline of prospects. Learn about: The B2B Process Sale; How to approach business prospects and develop trust; How a pipeline supports consistent new accounts; Growing your business by tapping your market's potential; Why you must "Ask for the order." Read more.
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SCORE: Insurance for Small Businesses on Sept. 22 at 6 p.m. Legal Issues, Managing a Business. Identify the types of insurance required by a small business. Identify other types of insurance a small business should consider. Explain why insurance is important for a small business. A copy of the recording and materials will be sent to all attendees. Read more.
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SCORE: Turning Mad into Glad: Improving Service, Handling Complaints on Oct. 11 at 6 p.m. This dynamic four session series is full of strategies for a successful and profitable sales program. In each session Louis shares insightful and easy to initiate tools and strategies for increasing your business network and profits. Sales people compete for potential customers and this series will ensure you can separate yourself from the competition. Having educated thousands of sales and marketing professionals in the US, Canada and Europe, Louis focuses on increasing profits. In four sessions the sales series will be like no other you have ever attended - full of tips, tools and strategies for building your business. Nothing is more talked about than the service of a salesperson/organization. Learn to move a customer from mad to glad. This program is a crash course in quality service including comments to avoid, how to develop key customer service strategies, how to allow your customers to be your business consultants, the value of thanking customers for a complaint, and how to create a customer-driven mindset. Understand the difference between reality and appearance in creating the best customer service experience for your customers. Learn why one the most important parts of quality service is to “pick up the phone, since there is money on the line.” Learn how to handle complaints creating a win-win agreement for all involved. Read more.
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SCORE: Content Marketing: What to Say, and How to Say It on Oct. 27 at 6 p.m. Heard of "location, location, location"? For online marketing, it's "Content, Content, Content!" What you say, and the way you say it (tone, date & time, frequency) is how you will attract, engage and be shareworthy to your audiences. What are the Keys to Great Content? This seminar will teach you the time-saving tips, techniques, and yes, even apps that will help your content - and the way you share it - succeed! You'll learn how to: Create; Curate; Extend...the content that will help you achieve your goals. We’ll cover tidbits like how many links create the most engagement, how to turn questions into high-open subject lines, tips on using graphics, pictures and videos, re-purposing content across multiple platforms, and more. And, we’ll give you the structure and tools to make creating your content fast, easy and effective. Read more.
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SCORE: Build & Improve Your Social Media Presence: FB, TW, YT, IG on Nov. 17 at 6 p.m. Social Media marketing is a powerful and effective marketing channel—and potential game-changer. In this workshop, we’ll guide your strategy with effective tools to establish and grow your online presence. There will be social media branding tips and marketing tools. Read more.
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SCORE: Record Keeping on Dec. 5 at 6 p.m. Objectives: Explain the concept of record keeping and why record keeping is important to a small business; Identify record keeping practices, rules, and tools which are commonly available to a small business; Explain how these record keeping practices, rules, and tools work; Identify benefits a small business derives from proper record keeping; Explain record keeping basics for a small business; Identify software products available for small business record keeping; A copy of the recording and materials will be sent to all attendees. Read more.
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Lisa Hamilton
USVIHTA President
340-774-6835
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