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Spring Training for Your Business

04/29/2021 02:18 PM

#1-3: Free!

1. Gen Z Marketing Strategies: To connect with a highly digital generation, your business must have an advanced digital and social media strategy. Learn how to develop and execute yours from area experts:

2. Scenario Planning: As we have seen in the past year, uncertainty can drastically change your business. Access FFI's FREE Scenario Planning training to make your business more resilient.
Upcoming dates:

June 29 - July 1 OR
September 8 - 10

Check out more food-related training below!

3. QuickBooks Training: QuickBooks is a tool integral to managing the financial side of your business. Join SBDC at UW-La Crosse at their upcoming training to help guide your business:

April 20, 9 - 11:30AM

OR if you're looking for a full-day workshop, check out this $99 option hosted by SBDC at UW-Superior:

May 11, 9AM - 4:30PM

#4-5: Short on time?

4. Quick Chats: Patent & SBIR Data Rights: Ready to begin your commercialization journey? This Center for Technology Commercialization (CTC) Spark's Quick Chat on May 19 will get you started by helping you develop your IP strategy.

5. Coffee Breaks with Continuing Ed – Conversations with SBDC: Do you have 15 minutes to improve your business? Join the SBDC at UW-Superior every Tuesday in May, starting May 4, for Coffee Break Conversations on how to navigate your business through the pandemic.

#6-8: Farm and food focused

6. Financial Management Boot Camp for Meat Processors: The pandemic has exposed gaps in small-scale food processing, opening the market to innovation. If you have an interest in starting a meat processing business, now is the time to explore it.

Part 1: May 6 - 7 AND
Part 2: June 17 - 18

7. Brand Strategy Fundamentals: Looking to amp up your brand? Katie Mleziva of Real Food Brands is here to take your business to the next level, whether you're starting up or scaling up, with a 3-day immersion training.

April 27, 10AM - 4PM,
April 28, 10AM - 4PM AND
April 29, 10AM - 4PM

8. First Steps to Starting a Food Product Business: Join Chef Arlene Coco and SBDC at UW-Superior on May 10 to learn how you can successfully start and market your food products business.

#9-10: Managing your money

9. Understanding Your Investment: Building Value in Your Business: If YOU want to increase the value of your business, join the SBDC at UW-Madison on April 20. Learn how to value your business and increase it through various methods.

10. Buy, Build or Sell: Deciding Next Steps for your Business: There is no crystal ball to tell you the next step for your business, but the SBDC at UW-Madison is here to guide you with tools to help you make the right decision for YOU. Join them May 18.

Extra: On your own time

The Approach: Spotlight on Wisconsin Investors: Are you looking to connect to the Wisconsin investor community? Check out on this interview series that strives to help you develop relationships with people who invest in Wisconsin entrepreneurship.

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