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Training IconFEATURED SBA’s All Small Mentor-Protégé Program

This tutorial is designed to help you answer the question, “Is SBA’s All Small Mentor-Protégé Program a good fit for my business?” You will be provided relevant details to inform the answer to...

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Training IconFEATURED Taking Your High-Tech Product to Market

Your product or service is on the cutting edge of technology, a game changer. Now you need to find the best way to get your breakthrough to market. This course will introduce you to the product...

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Training IconFEATURED Understanding Your Customer

Knowing your customer is a vital part of effectively selling your product or service. This course will introduce you to tools and resources that will help you understand your customer and increase...

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Training Icon ANC Business Guide: 8(a) Business Development Program

This module is designed to inform and educate ANCs (Alaska Native Corporations) about the 8(a) Program.

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Training Icon Business Development Growth for Native American Businesses

This self-paced training exercise is an introduction to Business Development Growth for Native American Businesses.

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Training Icon Business Opportunities: A Guide to Winning Federal Contracts

This course is designed to provide an overview of federal contract procedures and describe how to sell to the government.   See the Government Contracting...

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Training Icon Buying a Business

This self-paced training provides an overview of the process of buying a business and provides resources to help you decide if buying a business is right for you. Topics include how and what to...

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Training Icon Certificate of Competency

This training program has two key objectives: (1) provide a meaningful overview of the COC program, and (2) assist contracting officers and others to better understand and to more efficiently use...

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Training Icon Competitive Advantage

What sets you apart from your competition? Learn how to get a competitive advantage with this course. Learn how to brand, study your competition, identify customers and their preferences, create...

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Training Icon Contracting Opportunities for Veteran Entrepreneurs

This self-paced training exercise is an introduction to Federal contracting opportunities for Veterans.

Topics include basic information about Veteran-owned businesses and opportunities,...

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Training Icon Counterfeit Parts – Prevention and Guidance

This presentation is about the growing problem of counterfeit parts in federal procurement.  Specifically, it is about preventing the acquisition of counterfeit parts in government contracting.

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Training Icon Crime Prevention: A Guide for Small Businesses

The course is directed to small business owners who are concerned about crimes within and around their businesses. This module will help you become aware of how crime can affect your firm and...

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Training Icon Customer Service

This self-paced training exercise is an introduction to customer service and how it impacts your business

Topics include: Defining what good customer service is, implementing good customer...

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Training Icon Cybersecurity for Small Businesses

This self-paced training exercise provides an introduction to securing information in a small business.

Topics include: Defining cybersecurity; Explaining the importance of securing...

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Training Icon Disaster Recovery: A guide to SBA's Disaster Assistance Programs

This self-paced guide is designed to provide an overview of SBA’s assistance programs, resources, tips, and regulations.

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Training Icon Encore Entrepreneurs: An Introduction to Starting Your Own Business

This course is designed for individuals planning to start a business after earlier career endeavors.

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Training Icon Encore Entrepreneurship for Women

This introduction to business planning is directed to women over the age of 50 who are interested in pursuing a second career and launching their own business.

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Training Icon Establishing Values for Your Business

The values and culture of your company have a direct effect on your employees, customers and ultimately your bottom line. What are you doing to establish, cultivate and grow this precious...

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Training Icon Financing Options for Small Businesses

This self-paced training exercise is an introduction to financing options for your business.

Topics include; determining your financial needs, loans, grants, venture capital, angel...

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Training Icon Finding and Attracting Investors

This self-paced training exercise provides an introduction to finding and attracting investors.

Topics include determining the need for outside financing, defining what an investor is and...

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Training Icon Growing an Established Company

You have started your business and now you think you are ready to grow. How do you really know if you and your company are ready for the next step? This course will help you determine if a growth...

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Training Icon How to Prepare a Loan Package

This course is designed to provide a basic overview of loan packaging. It is a practical program with real-world examples and helpful tips. The course is directed to small business owners who are...

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Training Icon How to Prepare Government Contract Proposals

This course explains the government’s contract-solicitation process and describes how to prepare a proposal in response.   See the Government Contracting...

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Training Icon How to Write a Business Plan

This course explains the importance of business planning, defines and describes the components of a business plan, and provides access to sample plans and resources that can help you develop a...

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Training Icon HUBZone Mini-Primer #1

Understanding HUBZone Designations

This HUBZone Mini-Primer is about helping firms to better understand what HUBZone designations are, how they are determined, where they...

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Training Icon HUBZone Mini-Primer #2

HUBZone Eligibility Requirements:
Principal Office – Employees – Residency 

This presentation is about HUBZone eligibility requirements, specifically principal office...

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Training Icon HUBZone Mini-Primer #3

Understanding HUBZone Protests 

This presentation is about understanding HUBZone status protests. It is the third module in a series of Mini-Primers about the HUBZone...

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Training Icon Introduction to Accounting

This course is designed to provide an overview of accounting.

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Training Icon Introduction to Crowdfunding for Entrepreneurs

Welcome to the SBA’s online training course: An introduction to crowdfunding for entrepreneurs. SBA’s Office of Entrepreneurship Education provides this self-paced training exercise as an overview...

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Training Icon Introduction to Franchising

This self-paced training exercise presents an overview of franchising, as well as how to determine if franchising is right for you, and how to choose the right one.

Topics include defining...

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Training Icon Introduction to Human Resources

Human resource management plays a critical role for small businesses, so as a small business owner it is important that you understand the main human resource management issues.  This course will...

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Training Icon Introduction to Pricing

Learn about pricing and the impact that it has on the success of your business. From determining your price to implementing your pricing strategy this course will give you the resources to sound...

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Training Icon Jóvenes Emprendedores (Young Entrepreneurs - Spanish)

Este curso les presenta a los jóvenes empresarios a los fundamentos de la creación y financiación de un negocio exitoso. Usted aprenderá a evaluar sus ideas, elegir las mejores opciones de...

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Training Icon Legal Requirements for Small Business

As a small business owner, do you know what your federal, state and local legal obligations are? This course will give you an overview of the legal requirements of small business owners.

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Training Icon Market Research

You have a great product or service, but who are your customers and how can you reach them? This course will give you an overview of how to identify your customer and how to market to them.

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Training Icon Market Research - A Guide for Contracting Officers

This course is about market research. Specifically, understanding and using market research to find qualified small business vendors.   See the Government...

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Training Icon Marketing 101: A Guide to Winning Customers

 This course provides a basic overview of marketing for small business owners who are looking to reach a broader customer base and expand their markets. Learn what marketing is and why it is vital...

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Training Icon Native American Business Primer

This course is designed to assist Native peoples who're thinking about starting a business, or who're in the early stages of starting a business.

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Training Icon NHO Business Guide: 8(a) Business Development Program

Provides an overview of the 8(a) Program for Hawaiian Native Corporations and NHO-owned businesses.

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Training Icon Non-Manufacturer Rule Primer

This course is designed to provide an overview of the Non‐Manufacturer Rule, describing what it is, why it’s important and how it’s applied.   See the ...

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Training Icon Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights

What is intellectual property and how do you protect your ideas? This course gives an overview of intellectual properties and explains how to protect them. Learn why you should protect your...

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Training Icon Price Evaluation Preference - HUBZone Program Guide for Contracting Officers

This course is about the price evaluation preference -- available for HUBZone firms.  It is intended for contracting officers and other contracting personnel, specific to the HUBZone program.  ...

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Training Icon Pricing Models for Successful Business

This course explains pricing models your business might adopt. Learn how to set prices, calculate costs, assess competitors and much more. 

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Training Icon Sales: A Guide for the Small Business Owner

You have a great product or service. Now you have to sell it. This course will give you an overview of sales plans and other tools to get your product or service into your customer/consumer’s...

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Training Icon Savings Plans for Small Businesses

This self-paced training exercise will give you an overview of savings plans and strategies for your small business.

Learn about the contingency and long-term savings, tax breaks,...

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Training Icon Selling Your Business

This self-paced training exercise will give you an overview of how to sell or close a business.

Topics covered include defining a business exit strategy, transferring ownership of a...

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Training Icon Small Business Contracting Emergency Acquisition Procedures

Guide for contracting officers and others to become more aware of emergency acquisition procedures.

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Training Icon Small Business Employee Recruitment and Retention

The talent and expertise of your employees is one of your businesses’ greatest assets. This course reveals recruiting and retaining strategies to help you locate, recruit, and retain talented...

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Training Icon Small Business Primer – Understanding Small Business Size Standards and Affiliation

This training module describes what size standards are, how they are established, why they are important, how they are used, where to find them and how to determine if a specific business concern...

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Training Icon Social Media Marketing

Are you using Social Media to help increase sales of your product or service? Do you lack the basic knowledge to take advantage of the incredible marketing reach that social media offers?  This...

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Training Icon Strategic Planning

Learn what Strategic Planning is and why it is a vital part of running your business. This course will explain why strategic planning is important and describe typical steps taken in the process....

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Training Icon Take Your Business Global - An Introduction to Exporting

This course is  intended to be a guide for small businesses to help determine if exporting, as a business strategy, makes sense and whether the basic ingredients for export readiness are in-place...

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Training Icon The HUBZone Primer - Eligibility & Certification Requirements

This course is about federal contract markets and participating in those markets as a HUBZone certified firm.  See the Government Contracting Classroom...

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Training Icon The Recovery Through Retrofit Initiative: Creating Jobs and Saving Homeowners Money

This course will provide an overview of the progress of the Recovery Through Retrofit initiative, the skills needed to make American.

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Training Icon The WOSB Advantage

This course is about increasing contract opportunities for women owned small businesses.   See the Government Contracting Classroom for more...

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Training Icon Tribal Enterprise Business Guide: 8(a) Business Development Program

Business Guide for tribal enterprises regarding the 8(a) Business Development Program.

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Training Icon Women Owned Small Business Program - A Primer for Contracting Officers

This course, for contracting officers, is about increasing contract opportunities for women owned small businesses.   See the Government Contracting...

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Training Icon Young Entrepreneurs

This course introduces young entrepreneurs to the basics of creating and financing a successful business.  You will learn to evaluate your ideas, choose the best financing options and legally...

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