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StartupNation’s 10 Steps to Open for Business – Step 1: Create a Life Plan
Learn about your ideal life and work style and how to shape your business around it, and more.

StartupNation's 10 Steps to Grow Your Business - Step 1: Measure and Analyze Your Current Status
It’s time to do a reality check to figure out where your business stands today. Building on a true understanding of your business’ current status, you can then create strategies to grow from where you are today to where you want your business to be in the future.

StartupNation's 10 Steps to Grow Your Business - Step 2: Get Efficient Through Technology
Making the most of your time and limited resources positions you for growth. The big enabler for that kind of efficiency is undoubtedly technology. To ensure you’ll grow your business, make the most of the technologies available to you.

StartupNation's 10 Steps to Grow Your Business - Step 3: Enhance Your Customer's Experience
If you want growth, your customers represent a major contributor. Coddle them, cater to them, treat them like they’re the most important asset of your business, and your business will be poised for growth. In this step, we take you through key principles and practices to ensure your customer experience is everything it should be.

StartupNation's 10 Steps to Grow Your Business - Step 4: Cozy Up with Vendors
Vendors can play a big role in contributing to your growth. It’s important to make sure you’re in tune with—and in the good graces of—the key vendors that might either spur or limit your growth.

StartupNation's 10 Steps to Grow Your Business - Step 5: Maximize Your Niche, Expand to a New One
This step is focused on making sure you are doing the most with your opportunity. It assumes you’ve got some momentum already with a first product or service, and gives advice on how to build on that.

StartupNation's 10 Steps to Grow Your Business - Step 6: Develop New Channels
There’s a slew of ways to get what you sell in front of customers. These are called “channels,” and in this step, we break down “channels” you may want to consider to grow your business.

StartupNation's 10 Steps to Grow Your Business - Step 7: Acquire Growth Capital
Growth capital can take your business to new heights – it enables you to carry out ambitious plans for growth.

StartupNation's 10 Steps to Grow Your Business - Step 8: Create a Culture
Some growth strategies are obvious and have immediate and tangible results. Others, like creating a culture, are “softer” or have more indirect results, but still are extremely important as you try to make your organization more dynamic, more productive, and more profitable.

StartupNation's 10 Steps to Grow Your Business - Step 9: Ramp Up Awareness and Demand
Generating more awareness and demand is critical to bringing more business in the door. This step helps you understand specific ways to ramp up interest from the market.

StartupNation's 10 Steps to Grow Your Business - Step 10: Improve Sales Techniques
At the end of the day, if you didn’t sell more, you didn’t grow your business. This step helps you with specific ideas on how to improve your selling techniques so you can sell well and reap the growth you’re after.

Finding and Hiring Superstars
Are you ready to expand your business by hiring some employees? If so, make sure they are superstars!

Entrepreneur Andrew Field, President and CEO of Printing for Less, outlines a five step process to find and hire great employees.

StartupNation’s 10 Steps to Open for Business – Step 10: Market & Sell
Learn how to talk about and sell your product to your target audience and maintain that message through effective marketing efforts.

StartupNation’s 10 Steps to Open for Business – Step 9: Establish a Brand
One of the most important things you can do for your business is to create a great brand. Developing a brand is more than just deciding on a name or picking some colors. It’s developing an image and a personality that embodies what your company is and does.

StartupNation’s 10 Steps to Open for Business – Step 8: Find Great People
Learn how to add superstars to your team.

StartupNation’s 10 Steps to Open for Business – Step 7: Organize Your Logistics
Learn how to work with accountants, web designers, bankers, and many other service providers to organize your business.

StartupNation’s 10 Steps to Open for Business – Step 6: Find the Funding
In this seminar you will learn about 7 ways to fund your business.

StartupNation’s 10 Steps to Open for Business – Step 5: Create Key Assets
Whether it's your company name, logo, latest invention or best-selling product, it's imperative that you take certain steps to secure your ownership rights.

StartupNation’s 10 Steps to Open for Business – Step 4: Select a Structure
Learn how to determine which business structure is best for you, the pros and cons of each structure, and why you should "go with the experts."

StartupNation’s 10 Steps to Open for Business – Step 3: Create a Business Plan
Learn about the tools needed to create a business plan, key components, and the steps involved to implement it.

StartupNation’s 10 Steps to Open for Business – Step 2: Select a Business Model
Learn which business model fits your life and business plan, including eBay, franchising, home-based businesses, and more.

Business Ideas – What's Hot?
We'll discuss what types of businesses are hot today and how to be a trend-spotter, so you can make certain that customers will be there when you open your doors.

StartupNation’s 10 Steps to Open for Business Overview - Online Seminar
With StartupNation's 10 Steps to Open for Business online process, you can access easy-to-use information on every aspect of starting a new business from scratch.

Girl Power – Secrets of a Multi-Millionaire Mompreneur
Discover how to find your passion and create meaningful work as a mompreneur (mom entrepreneur). Learn how to juggle it all once you have started your own company.

Email Marketing: Create an e-Zine to Increase Sales
Alexandria Brown, "The E-zine Queen", shows how to increase sales, increase website traffic, and more in this free online seminar.

Podcasts Create Brand and Site Traffic
Podcasting is the next generation of blogging. As an audio blog, podcasts may prove to be an even more valuable tool to help build your brand and drive traffic to your website. We’ll look at podcasting from a strategic standpoint.

Blogs Create Brand and Site Traffic
Blogs (web logs) have proven to be a terrific tool to help drive traffic to your website and to build your brand. You can take advantage of this tool to differentiate yourself in the crowded online, and offline, marketplace. Expert blogger, Dave Taylor will discuss this from a strategic standpoint.

Using Affiliate Marketing to Boost Your Website
If you are an entrepreneur looking for a low-cost means of online marketing, consider establishing relationships with companies, organizations and individuals that target an audience that could also benefit from your product or service: affiliate marketing.

How to Start and Grow an eBay Business
Phil Dunn, co-author of "The 7 Essential Steps to Successful eBay Marketing" teaches you how to get your own business started on eBay.

Home-Based Business Tips
Learn the fundamental things you absolutely must have in place for your home-based business to work.

Merchant Payment Services
If your business already accepts credit card payments, Merchant Payment Services can make your life even easier. And if you don't yet accept credit cards, MPS gives you a great way to build sales and enjoy a growing customer base.

Funding Your Startup with Angel Investors
Find out how to connect with angel investors, and what you need to do to get them to invest in your company.

The Secrets of Retailing…How to Beat the Large Chains
Learn how to compete in with big, retail chains.

Online Marketing: Making the Web Work for You
Learn how you can market online, whether you have a limited or generous budget.

Understanding Credit and How to Put It to Work for You
Learn about financing options for your business, choosing the right credit products, and more.

The Power of People: Grow & Keep Your Team of Stars
In a small business, the impact of a single team member can be enormous. Every single person you add to your team must be a star. Learn how to attract stars and keep them on your team.

Protect Your Great Idea
Guest expert Chas Rampenthal reviews some important steps to take to protect your great idea as you develop it and take it to market. Chas also reviews the "Evolution of an Idea".

Is Franchising for Me?
Mark Cory, franchise advisor with Franchise Network, talks about the pros and cons of franchising to help you decide if it's the way to build your dream business.

Cash Flow and Debt Service - A Lending Perspective
When looking for a bank loan, your cash flow and income are two distinct issues to consider. Washington Mutual gives you the knowledge necessary for landing that loan.

Outsourcing Your Small Business Payroll
Ever wonder if you should outsource your payroll? In this seminar, we teach you the benefits of outsourcing your business' payroll service, how a payroll service works, and common payroll pitfalls and how to avoid them.

Financing Options & How to Land a Loan
Jay Mortensen, from Washington Mutual, provides the know-how on what to do when you need working capital, and also gives tips on landing a loan.

Build Customer Loyalty With Email
Use permission-based email newsletters to build customer loyalty, market to your audience, and more.

Starting & Running a Virtual Company
Don DePalma of Common Sense Advisory shares the secrets of saving money by running a virtual company.

Need Financing? Want Better Terms? Then Clean Up To Clean Up!
Kenya Van Osten-Promin highlights the importance of separating your personal & business finances to ensure success.

Internet Security: Keep Your Company Safe From Hackers & Viruses
Don Fuller from 123SECURE.NET outlines security compliance codes and the increasing technology challenges facing your business. Don presents techniques for securing your technology from viruses, hackers, uncontrolled spam and unproductive web surfing.

Recruiting Great People
Suzanne Timma, Executive Recruiter & Career Coach, provides recruiting expertise and the essential tools that will set your organization apart from the masses.

Startup Smarts
Learn the 10 action items we recommend to help you start a business.

Inventors Smarts
We present practical examples and personal experience by outlining our invention, the Battery Buddy, in a case study format. Learn how to make your invention a success by taking this crash course.

Sales That Soar & Sure-Fire Closing Techniques
Russ Lombardo of PEAK Sales Consulting shares his insights on the science of sales.

eCommerce - How to Sell Through the Internet: Harness the Power of Online Sales
Chad Barr of CB Software Systems presents the essentials of developing an effective online presence and the necessary tools for successful e-commerce.