Small Business Essentials

This course will provide you with the principles, practices, strategies, and requirements needed to form and manage a small business. You will learn about establishing online, home-based, mobile, and commercially zoned small businesses. Topics include legal forms of organization, hiring employees, financial issues, establishing credit, securing loans, developing sales and marketing strategies, and legal issues. Additionally, you will learn how to identify and analyze the personal and business skills necessary to start a small business. Throughout this course, you will also be working in a group to analyze an existing small business startup. Not only will this give you the opportunity to network with other students interested in starting their own businesses, but it will also allow you to apply the knowledge and skills acquired to an actual small business startup. This is the first course of a two-course program. This course is all about gaining knowledge and skills (the essentials) in starting a small business. In the next course (Small Business Planning), you will be taking your business idea and planning how to launch it!