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Upcoming Business Classes

  • CVOEO – Real World Marketing Group
    Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010
    Time: 10am - noon
    Location: 294 North Winooski Avenue (First Floor Conference Room), Burlington
    Cost: Free
    Topic: Please join us to discuss your business, share marketing issues. As always you are encouraged to bring your marketing materials and a sample of your product(s) or service
    As always coffee and delicious treats from Panadero Bakery will be provided.
     
  • CVOEO – Growing Money Program
    All services are FREE!
    Call Molly Grover at 860-1417 x104 or mgrover@cvoeo.org to register.
     
  • What Everyone Needs to Know About Buying A Car
    Date: Monday, August 23, 2010
    Time: 6 PM
    Location: 294 North Winooski Ave., Burlington, VT
    Description: Get smart before your next car purchase with a real expert. Demeney Pollitt of Girlington Garage will speak from a mechanic's perspective about car-buying. And Growing Money staffer Gillian Franks will talk about the financial considerations of this big purchase.
     
  • What Everyone Needs to Know About Cooking Smart on a Budget
    Date: Monday, September 27, 2010
    Time: 4:30-6:30 PM
    Location: 294 North Winooski Ave., Burlington, VT
    Description: Caroline Homan, the Food and Nutrition educator at City Market, will speak about cost-effective and healthy methods of cooking for one or many. Learn which foods have the most nutritional bang for their buck. Caroline will have a dish made for sampling too!
     
  • Office Squared: Sole Circle
    Date: Tuesdays, September 7th, October 5th, November 2nd, 2010
    Time: 5:30 – 7PM
    Location: Office Squared, 106 Main St., and 156 Bistro, 156 St. Paul St., Burlington, VT
    Description: This circle group is composed of Sole Proprietor businesses that come together to learn, share, connect, and discuss what socially responsible means to you and your business. Here is what is planned for September’s Sole Circle: Effective Marketing Tactics for Sole Proprietors, Bibi Mukherjee of Curve Trends Marketing.
    To RSVP, contact Owen Milne at owenm@vbsr.org or call 802-862-8347. The maximum capacity for this first Sole Circle is set at 20, so availability is on a first-come basis.
     
  • SCORE/Office Squared: Business Roundtable
    Date: Tuesdays, September 7th, October 5th, November 2nd, 2010
    Time: 5:30 – 7PM
    Location: Office Squared, 106 Main St., Burlington, VT
    Description: September - Finding your focus-how to research the market to identify the most profitable segment for your business; October - What’s your brand?-how to develop and promote your brand; November - How to use social media effectively to promote your business.
    Register
     
  • Small Business Administration (SBA) – Virtual Loan Clinics
    When: First Tuesday of Every Month
    Next Clinics: August 3, September 7, October 5, November 2, 2010
    Time: 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. or noon to 1:00 p.m.
    Where: Participate from your home or office via a conference call. As a virtual attendee you can use your phone to hear the presenter and view the presentation on your computer.
    How: On the phone dial toll-free 1-866-740-1260. When prompted enter the access code 3015001. On the computer log on to www.readytalk.com with access code 3015001 and complete a simple registration form.
     
  • Small Business Development Center- Starting Your Own Small Business
    Date: Thursday, August 19, 2010
    Time: 9AM – Noon
    Where: Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation, 60 Main St., Burlington
    Details: The seminar is designed for individuals who are thinking about going into business but need assistance with the procedures involved and government regulations regarding starting up a business in Vermont.
    Speaker: Steve Densham
    Fee: $40
    Questions: Phone: 802-728-9101; Email: hgonyaw@vtsbdc.org
    Click here to register for this event online.
     
  • Vermont Women’s Business Center Artist’s Learning Circle
    Date: August 4, 2010
    Place: 8 South Main Street in downtown Barre
    Time: 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM
    Topic: "Original Art vs. Giclee Prints, or Both?"
    For more information visit: www.vwbc.org; email: vwbc@cvcac.org or phone: 479-9813; 877-524-1998.
     
  • Vermont Women’s Business Center – Networking Luncheon
    Date: Monday, August 2, 2010
    Place: 8 South Main Street in downtown Barre
    Time: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
    Topic: "Marketing Passionately" with Traci Pena
     
  • Women’s Small Business Program – Startup Course
    Place:  Mercy Connections, 346 Shelburne Rd., Burlington
    Date:  Semester long class starts August 26, 2010
    More information: http://www.wsbp.org/ or call Ali Marchildon at 846.7338.
     
  • Women’s Small Business Program – Getting Serious
    Place:  Mercy Connections, 346 Shelburne Rd., Burlington
    Date:  August 14, 2010
    Time:  9AM-5:30PM
    More information: http://www.wsbp.org/ or call Ali Marchildon at 846.7338.
    Download the registration form.


If your organization offers business training workshops or classes you'd like to have included in CEDO's Business Training Listing, please contact Jon Adams-Kollitz at 865-7187 or jadamskollitz@ci.burlington.vt.us.

 

Page last updated August 19, 2010

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