Professional Development
Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Starting and managing a small business is a complex undertaking. There are many important elements that can mean success or failure. UNM Division of Continuing Education & Community Services regularly offers courses to small business persons and entrepreneurs in an effort to provide high quality training and development. The courses, taught by instructors with actual experience in small business management, offer variety, flexibility, accessibility, affordability, and teaching excellence.
2500 Successful Grant Writing and Proposal Writing
This seminar has been designed to provide essential insights into the world of grantsmanship and proposal development for the novice. This seminar will provide you with the proposal writing skills of the future by allowing you to master the techniques of the essential elements of grantsmanship. This seminar will teach you how to plan for proposal development through the techniques of working with foundations vs. government grants, module development and the use of Formative and Summative Designs.
Register Early! Learn what you need to know and how to apply it to be successful in the grantwriting process.
Topics include:
Be prepared to work; bring your questions and project ideas. Please bring hand held calculators on the last night.
$145, plus $30 book fee payable at first class
| A: | Tues,
Wed, Thurs, Sept 8, 9, 10 6:00-9:00pm |
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Cortez Williams, PhD
2502 How to Start Your Own ConsultanT Business
Do you have experience as an engineer, trainer, professor, consultant, accountant, investment advisor, real estate professional, psychologist, health care professional, attorney, military professional, or educator? Learn how to develop your work experience into a profitable business venture of your own.
Topics include:
$135, plus $25 book fee payable at first class
| A: | Tues,
Wed, Thurs, Oct 6, 7, 8 6:00-9:00pm |
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Cortez Williams, Ph.D.
2505 The Home Business Seminar
Earn money in the comfort of your own home. This seminar will help you select a business and will help you organize it. Selecting the right business for you and then organizing and operating it are major steps discussed. Examples of successful home businesses are presented.
Topics include:
$55
A: Fri, Aug 28 Continuing Education
1:00-5:00pm Complex - South
Susan Craig, MA
2508 Selling Yourself and Your Business: Sales Skills that Work
If you are going into business for yourself, you will most likely start out as a microentrepreneur: a one- or two-person business. You are the business, so you will sell yourself as well as your product or service. Do you feel your sales skills could use some help?
You will:
$85
| A: | Fri,
Sept 11 1:00-5:00pm |
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Susan Craig, MA
2510 Mail Order Business: An Exciting and Profitable Adventure
Are you currently in the Mail Order Business and feel that you could use some help? Are you looking for a business that either the whole family can work or you can work part-time? Are you looking for ways to increase your income gradually? Are you looking for a business that you can control and work at your own pace? Are you looking for a low investment business with a high yield potential? Do you have a hobby in which your peers think you are good? If your answer to any of these questions is YES, then you should attend this exciting seminar on Mail Order Business conducted by Dr. Cortez Williams, who has assisted over 3,000 individuals and businesses nationally and internationally in starting their Mail Order Business.
Topics include:
Bring a calculator and be prepared to work on the things you should know about this business.
$145, plus $25 book fee payable at first class
| A: | Tues,
Wed, Thurs, Nov 17, 18, 19 6:00-9:00pm |
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Cortez Williams, Ph.D.
2515 Starting a Business After 50: You Can Do It!
Downsized? Bored? Unfulfilled? Looking for a new challenge? Energize yourself and find a new career as an entrepreneur. Find out what motivates a person to start a business later in life and how to assess your own characteristics to see if you’d be good at running a business.
You will:
$135
| A: | Mon-Wed,
Oct 5 & 7 6:00-9:00pm |
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Susan Craig, MA
2521 Fast Fundraising Facts for Fame and Fortune
Overcome the fear of fundraising! Learn how to ask for money and in-kind contributions - successfully. This course is a must for volunteers, parents, and nonprofit agency staff. Taught by a proven fundraiser who has raised millions of dollars, the course is filled with ideas and teaches easy, practical skills for becoming successful at asking for donations of all kinds.
$95
| A: | Thurs,
Oct 1 6:00-9:00pm |
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Jean Block
2526 Speaking and Presentations: Your Key to Good Business
Good presentation skills will enhance your ability to make sales, promote your business, acquire financing and negotiate constructively. In business, you are your product or service. You will learn techniques for dealing with anxiety, knowing your audience, projecting a positive attitude and matching your presentation to its purpose.
You will:
$55
| A: | Fri,
Nov 13 1:00-5:00pm |
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Susan Craig, MA