Turn Your Idea into a Plan this Spring
Progress Lakeshore has teamed up with UW Green Bay’s SBDC Entrepreneurial Training Program to offer you invaluable assistance in crafting a comprehensive strategy for a successful and profitable business venture. Throughout this program, you will acquire the skills to identify your target market, assess their requirements, and utilize this valuable insight to create a practical and viable plan for launching or expanding your business.
You will learn to:
- Organize and better manage your business.
- Identify opportunities and market your business.
- Understand financials: costs, revenue streams, profit margins, and cash flow for your business.
- Learn the process to obtain funding for your business.
- Complete a business plan or workbook that can become the foundation for a full business plan.
- Connect with other entrepreneurs.
- Develop a network of small business support services.
- Receive confidential one-on-one consulting
Through instruction and guest speakers, the course serves those entrepreneurs who are considering starting a business, owners of existing businesses who want to get a handle on all the details, and those owners with successful companies who want to grow.
In-Person Class Option – Limited to 15 Participants
Class Dates: March 26 – May 21
Time: Thursday nights from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM CST
Location: Progress Lakeshore Office, 202 N. 8th St, Suite 101, Manitowoc, WI, 54220
Fee:
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) will offer qualified applicants an Entrepreneur Training Grant* that covers 75% of the $1,000 course fee, reducing the cost to $250.
Those registering for in-person participation can also apply for an additional $200 scholarship that has been generously funded by United One Credit Union and the Progress Lakeshore Foundation. Receiving this scholarship can bring your in-person participant cost down to $50!
To qualify for the grant and scholarship:
- You must apply and be accepted.
- You must complete the course and submit a business plan or workbook within 2 weeks of finishing the course
- You must attend at least 75% of classes.
Participants who do not meet these requirements will be responsible for the full $1,000 course fee.
Once registered, the Green Bay SBDC will follow up with details on the WEDC grant process.
To apply for the United One Credit Union $200 scholarship, contact Ann Flad-Jesion at ann@progresslakeshore.org.
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