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Entrepreneurs & Their Communities
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- Entrepreneurs & Their Communities Webinar Series
- Mark your calendars! The eXtension Entrepreneurship webinar series is back for our fifth season. All webinars will air monthly on the second Thursday at 2:00pm...
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- Controlling the Cash Flow of Your Startup
- There are two things every new business owner would love to have more of-- time and money (not necessarily in that order). Raising the money to launch the...
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- Good Records are the Foundation of a Strong Business
- Few farmers really enjoy record-keeping but it is a critical component of good business management. If your current record-keeping system is not quite meeting...
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- Keep the Customer You Already Have
- Retaining your existing customer base is one key to the long-term growth and success of your business. “It is crucial that the business owners think not just...
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- Hobby to Business--Six Questions to Ask Before You Leap
- Many small business owners get started by developing their hobby into a business operation. Doing this can be a very good idea in that the more knowledge and...
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- Who is Buying Your Product?
- One of the costliest mistakes that new business owners can make is to be so in love with their own product that they fail to assess how the customer feels about...
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- Put Your Community to Work
- Entrepreneurial communities are not hard to find. In fact they are the places that people are drawn to--both to live and work in and to visit. But how do you...
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Youth Entrepreneurship
What do kids know about business? You'll be surprised!
E-Commerce Learning Modules
- Direct Marketing for Specialty Food Products. Learn strategies to direct market and sell specialty food products.
- Electronic Retailing. More and more of our communication and social behaviors involve computers and networks. Nonetheless, it is not as simple as it might appear to connect the dots on electronic retail and turn it into a successful venture.
- Going Global: A Guide for e-Commerce Expansion. A worksheet driven learning lesson for the established e-commerce business exploring export/import opportunities.
- A Primer for Hispanic Small Businesses. In both English and Spanish, this module was founded in the belief that e-commerce education should not only be available to Spanish Speaking business owners but also that small business stand to benefit greatly from the patronage of the Spanish speaking consumer.
- Marketing Food Specialty Products OnlineThe purpose of this learning module is to assist food retailers in making decisions on the use of online technologies in their marketing and planning strategies.
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Build Your Business
- Online Tutorial on Farm Leasing
- Strategies to Improve Farm Business Management
- Visual Merchandising: The Silent Salesperson. View a recording of a marketing workshop conducted by Glenn Muske, Oklahoma State University. The workshop covers some key aspects of display as a sales tool. The workshop is approximately 45 minutes long.
Building Entrepreneurial Communities
- E-Commerce Module:Connecting Rural Communities
- Strengthening Competitive Advantage of Rural Businesses with e-Commerce and Experience Economy Strategies
- Mini-Course: Developing Diversified & Value-Added Agribusinesses
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