Workshops & Seminars

 

    Small businesses represent 75% of all businesses, but one-third of new businesses fail within six months. While owning your own business is the American dream, it can be extremely difficult to succeed. With that in mind, Patrick Dugas has for the past three years offered a series of workshops and seminars to help people start and run profitable small businesses. The two series of workshops, Starting a Profitable Small Business and Running a Profitable Small Business, are offered biannually in conjunction with Wayne State University and Florida Southern College. The seminars are also available at other times of the year through special request. The seminars, offered in the evening, provide many helpful hints and answer many of your questions about starting or running a small business.

STARTING A SMALL PROFITABLE BUSINESS

    This series of seminars will answer such questions as:

  1. Should you start your own business?
  2. What kind of business should you start?
  3. How should you start your business? Buy it? Start new? Franchise?
  4. Where should you get the money to start the business?
  5. How much will it cost to start the business?
  6. How will you know if you are profitable?

    These workshops will offer information on: customer information, location, what to name your business, product pricing, inventory levels, record-keeping, legal form of the business, licenses, permits, government regulations, proper staffing, attracting investors, and much more.

RUNNING A PROFITABLE SMALL BUSINESS

    The following questions will be answered:

  1. How do you go about increasing sales?
  2. What is the right amount of advertising and in which medium?
  3. How do you control your inventory?
  4. How do you select the right employee?
  5. How do you control overhead costs?
  6. How do you survive an audit?

    This series of seminars will offer information on: cash flows, how to increase sales, customer base, advertising, pricing, inventory control and levels, proper staffing, hiring practices, fair wages for employees, reduction of overhead costs, reduction of taxes and the chance of an audit, record-keeping, evaluating performance of employees and business, loan packages, reduction of shrinkage, bad debt recoveries, and more.

 

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