Small business start-up course starting July 18
Wayne County Career Center Adult Education Department will offer a 10-week course, one day a week, designed to help people take their first steps toward business ownership.
The course will cover everything one should develop and consider before starting a business including identifying one’s customers, designing one’s business name and logo, product or service development, how to market one’s business, start-up costs, risks, and what steps need to be taken to legally register and start a business. Attendees also will have the opportunity to earn a credential in customer service through this program.
Students will not just learn business theory, but also will develop their own business idea, so when the course ends, they will walk away with actual materials to use for their own business start-up. The course instructor is not only a teacher, but also owns her own small business and has 20 years of small business experience.
This course will meet Tuesdays beginning July 18 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Each week the program will focus on a specific entrepreneurship subject: marketing basics and customer identification, understanding one’s market and researching one’s competition, business organization and risk management, developing business promotional materials including logo design, product development and prototyping, sales and display/site design, and creating a business plan including start-up costs and revenue projections. Students will learn each subject, then take their own business idea and apply the subject to it, creating materials they will be able to use for their own business.
In addition to the small business start-up course, a six-week website design and social media marketing course is planned for the fall from Nov. 7 through Dec. 12. Several other courses currently offered at WCCC also are available to help small business owners such as Basic Accounting, QuickBooks and Microsoft Excel.
Call 330-669-7070 to enroll or email aeinfo@wcscc.org to receive more information including a full course outline.
Also, there will be an Adult Ed open house at the school, located at 518 W. Prospect St., Smithville, on July 19 from 4:40-6 p.m. There will be tours, meetings with instructors, and info sessions available, as well as free ice cream.
There are a lot of short-term options available if someonewants one class in electricity or fast track welding, as well as full-time office or robotics offerings.