The City of Austin Small Business Program is happy to provide this special lineup of classes and events in recognition of National Small Business Week, May 4 - 8, 2015.
Small Business Week Contests
2 Chances to Win!
Breakfast with a Successful Entrepreneur
Each time you attend one of our classes or events during National Small Business Week, May 4th-8th, is an automatic entry!
FREE Small Business Class*
To enter, let us know what you love about #smallbiz by tagging us on Facebook and Twitter @SmallBizAustin
*QuickBooks classes excluded
9 AM - 11 AM | Small Business Week Kickoff Event
Tim League discusses Building Your Small Business Culture
Come early for breakfast!
Join us in celebrating National Small Business Week with our Kickoff Event at the Carver Cultural Center featuring a keynote presentation by blockbuster entrepreneur Tim League of Alamo Drafthouse. The morning will begin with networking over breakfast along with a welcome from Council Member Ora Houston of District 1. To finish strong, we're bringing in local small business assistance organizations to support your small business journey. Come meet and mingle with top small business owners and supporters of local business!
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Time League
Owner of Alamo Drafthouse |
Tim League graduated from Rice University in 1992 with degrees in
Mechanical Engineering and Art/Art History. After a two-year stint at Shell Oil in Bakersfield, California, Tim turned his back on the engineering profession and opened up his first movie theater. An unmitigated financial disaster, the Tejon Theater closed in 1995, and Tim and his wife Karrie loaded a truck with 200 seats, a projector, screen and speakers and headed to Austin to start the Alamo Drafthouse, where he remains as CEO today. League also co-founded Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the United States and Drafthouse Films, a distribution label committed to releasing provocative, visionary and artfully unusual films from around the world that has released such critically acclaimed films as BULLHEAD and THE ACT OF KILLING.
George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center
1165 Angelina Street
Austin, TX 78702
Fee: $15 no-show fee | Register
9 AM - 10:30 AM | BizAid Business Orientation
This orientation provides a general overview to opening a small business or evaluating an established business for productive growth in Austin. Orientation includes a detailed overview of the small business services provided by the Small Business Program. Our primary objective is to help entrepreneurs identify local no-cost or low-cost technical assistance in addition to basic business planning concepts.
Entrepreneur Center of Austin, Brodie Oaks Shopping Center (near Toys R Us), 4029 S. Capital of TX Hwy, Suite 110, Austin, TX 78704
FREE | Register
6 PM - 8 PM | Introduction to Crowdfunding: Perks/Rewards-based
Crowdfunding is the grassroots financial frontier made popular by sites like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. It creates fundraising opportunities through the collective efforts of online contributions. There are many steps one must follow to create a successful campaign including: mental preparation, project costs analysis, social network enhancement, and perk & video development. Participants will receive a crowdfunding manual.
- Introduce the background and history of crowdfunding
- Learn the differences between different types of crowdfunding, while focusing on the mechanics of perks/rewards-based crowdfunding
- Establish a state of mental preparedness & campaign strategy
Entrepreneur Center of Austin, Brodie Oaks Shopping Center (near Toys R Us), 4029 S. Capital of TX Hwy, Suite 110, Austin, TX 78704
Fee: $25 includes manual | Register
1 PM - 2:30 PM | BizAid Business Orientation
This orientation provides a general overview to opening a small business or evaluating an established business for productive growth in Austin. Orientation includes a detailed overview of the small business services provided by the Small Business Program. Our primary objective is to help entrepreneurs identify local no-cost or low-cost technical assistance in addition to basic business planning concepts.
TechRanch, 8920 Business Park Dr., Suite 250, Austin, TX 78759
FREE | Register
9 AM - 12 PM | Hire the Right Person the First Time
This course will teach you how to develop your own structured interviewing techniques, help you to differentiate between behaviors and traits, and show you how to write effective behavioral based questions so that you can prepare to ask the right questions when interviewing a potential employee. This class also looks at the legal environment of hiring and will help you to create a defendable hiring process.
Entrepreneur Center of Austin, Brodie Oaks Shopping Center (near Toys R Us), 4029 S. Capital of TX Hwy, Suite 110, Austin, TX 78704
1 PM - 4 PM | Business Solutions Center Open House
The Business Solutions Center Open House is a special feature of National Small Business Week in Austin. All entrepreneurs are invited to join the City of Austin's Small Business Program to explore helpful resources open to small business owners. Staff will be on-site to demo all database subscriptions with document templates or market research you need to help your business succeed.
1 - 2 PM: Network and Live music
2 - 4 PM: On-site Demos
One Texas Center, 1st Floor, 505 Barton Springs Road, Austin, TX 78704
FREE
9 AM - 12 PM | High Impact Marketing: 10 Low Cost Strategies for Big Sales Returns
This class provides practical, step-by-step instruction in how to use low-budget marketing techniques to get your message out to your customers on a regular basis, and watch sales revenue grow. Because your customers need to hear your message at least seven times to influence their buying decisions, low-cost marketing techniques help to stretch your marketing dollars and repeat your core message often enough to make an impact.
Entrepreneur Center of Austin, Brodie Oaks Shopping Center (near Toys R Us), 4029 S. Capital of TX Hwy, Suite 110, Austin, TX 78704
