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Getting and Maintaining a Website

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Apr. 18 at 6 p.m. The process of getting a website sometimes feels like a huge task for a small business owner to conquer. The first step is to understand what it takes to get a website. This lecture will outline these steps with helpful tips, some cost concepts, and will help you understand what you will have to do to make this happen. Then, the group will discuss what it takes to be successful in maintaining your site over time. Questions? Contact 928-526-6991 or [email protected]. … [Read more...] about Getting and Maintaining a Website

FIBA Networking

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Apr. 18  FIBA Super-networking business meeting at 5:30 p.m.  This event will be held at the Flagstaff Sports Exchange. Bring your business cards & brochures for efficient, friendly 1:1 networking - meet everyone in the room in a relaxed atmostphere. Light  refreshments included. $10 for not-yet-FiBA-members, free for all members of all categories and their staff! BUSINESS OWNERS! WANT TO DONATE A DOOR PRIZE FOR THE MEETING? Let us know! Email [email protected] or … [Read more...] about FIBA Networking

Sedona Monthly Networking Mixer

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Mar. 22   Mixer will be held at the Oakcreek Country Club & Redstone Restaurant 690 Bell Rock Blvd, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Each mixer is held at a different venue each month to showcase that member's faculties/services. Twice a year we hold a "food drive" mixer to benefit the Sedona Community Food Bank and we ask that each attendee bring at least 3 non-perishable items in lieu of the entry fee.  Also twice a year, mixers are held trade-show style.  This allows our members the opportunity to … [Read more...] about Sedona Monthly Networking Mixer

Forming a Start Up

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Mar. 8  from 11:30 a.m. -1:00p.m. at NACET.  Choosing the correct business entity right from the beginning can help avoid time-consuming and costly changes in the future. Choosing a type of entity for your new venture depends on a number of considerations, including business needs and tax considerations. Intellectual Property (IP) rights can be irreversibly lost early while attention is given to start-up issues. Identifying every IP opportunity, including protectable patents, trade secrets, … [Read more...] about Forming a Start Up

Business on a Shoestring

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Mar. 21  6:00p.m. at Kickstand Kafe.  Join us for the next Flag Tech Talk entitled "Running Your Business on a Shoestring Budget" presented by Bret Carpenter.   This discussion will be all about how to run the technology part of your business on a shoestring budget. If you are a start up or an establish business looking for cost effective computing solutions, come on out. Free and low cost software will be discussed including office software, photo editing, task management, and accounting. Also, … [Read more...] about Business on a Shoestring

Learn QuickBooks

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March 6  8-12pm: Beginning QuickBooks  ($45) At the Small Business Development Center at Coconino Community College Campus on North Fourth St., toom B4. This four hour workshop is designed for individuals interested in learning the basics of QuickBooks. The course reviews some basic bookkeeping issues and accounting reports, how to set up QuickBooks for a new company, how to set up preferences for your company, entering and paying bills, invoicing customers and receiving payments, making … [Read more...] about Learn QuickBooks

From Data to Information

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Feb 15 11:30-1:00 at NACET. XML/RDF: from Data to Information is a quick overview of XML with a focus on some of the salient aspects of the grammar needed  to communicate the semantics of data.A lunch-time seminar for the experienced programmers and software engineers who are inexperienced in the ways of XML. XML is a subject that most folks have heard about but few are really using its power. It is a lot more than using angle brackets to markup a document. This seminar … [Read more...] about From Data to Information

Learn to Become an Exporter

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Feb. 23 at NACET 1:30-3:00pm   Kevin J. O'Shea, from the Arizona Commerce Authority, will discuss the STEP program.  It is based on assisting small and medium-sized businesses to become first-time exporters.  Under the program, the ACA is also assisting companies who already are exporting to enter new additional export markets.  They are doing this through a variety of services, as well as technical assistance, training/education/workshops, trade missions, among others. In addition to delivering … [Read more...] about Learn to Become an Exporter

Sedona Chamber Mixer

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Feb 23 Is the next scheduled Sedona Chamber of Commerce mixer.  It will be held from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Sedona Airport Mesa Grill, 1185 Airport Rd. Cost is $10.00 per member and $15.00 for non-members. Each mixer is held at a different venue each month to showcase that member's facilties/services. Twice a year we hold a "food drive" mixer to benefit the Sedona Community Food Bank and we ask that each attendee bring at least 3 non-perishable items in lieu of the entry fee. Also twice a … [Read more...] about Sedona Chamber Mixer