Oregon Coast Community College SBDC

North County Center

Lincoln City

Use Blogs and Tweets to get your message out. What is Blogging? What is Twitter? How can you use Blogs and Tweets to communicate with potential clients? This workshop will answer these questions and review the basics of these powerful Internet tools. We will also explore how to connect your Blogs, Facebook fan page and Twitter to your web site. Learn how two-way communications through social networking can enhance your business and create leads. A brief overview of Linkedin is also included in this class.

The use of mobile phones has changed the landscape of small business. Business owners can now keep in constant touch with the key people in their business. New updates in mobile technology allow for GPS, data entry, e-mail, fax, linking documents, photographs, credit cards, tasks, and internet access. Any business owner that needs to be mobile will need to be competent in the use of all aspects of their mobile phone. This course concentrates on free application and synching with Google applications. This class is for the novice user. Time will be made available for sharing ideas and successes.

Using professional and social networks like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook to promote your business. Learn to use time-saving tools to speed your marketing and online social networking development. Learn how to enhance your two-way communication with clients. Learn to promote your business with client reviews, survey of clients needs, and how to handle negative reputation online. This workshop will focus on fan and follower development and how to share your business experience, passion and client trust in a growing online market.

This lab for beginning and intermediate students allows for more exploration of QuickBooks Pro software and the opportunity to explore at one's own pace. You can explore the basics of the program and/or customization. The lab has an open format with the students deciding the content and topics. The focus will be on QB Pro 2011 software, although older versions may be discussed. The lab will allow for one-on-one tutoring and/or small groups depending on student levels of experience and participation. Laptops are welcome if hardware is already installed.

This six-hour, hands-on workshop is geared towards beginning and intermediate PowerPoint users. With the new design of Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, you'll create presentations quickly and smoothly. New options for designing slide content will give your pres-entations a fresh, polished look. With one click, the background, text, graphics, charts, and tables all change to reflect the theme that you select. Have a blast designing your slides and using live preview of style galleries to view the look of backgrounds and shape for-matting before you apply them

Learn how to record the various transactions in the business, reconcile checking accounts, reconcile loans, and provide bankers with accurate reports. Learn how to understand Profit and Loss Report and a Balance Sheet. Covers year-end for governmental reporting and business analysis.

Learn how to process payroll checks, payroll taxes, payroll liabilities and payroll reports. Record the various transactions you have in your business, reconcile your checking accounts, reconcile your loans, provide your banker with accurate reports. Also, learn ways to understand your Profit and Loss Report and what a Balance Sheet tells you.