Serving Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, and York Counties

Shippensburg University SBDC
Shippensburg University
1871 Old Main Drive
405 Grove Hall
Shippensburg, PA 17257

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Phone: (717) 477-1935
Fax: (717) 477-4010
Email: sbdc@ship.edu

Hours: Mon-Fri 8:00 am-4:00 pm

Affiliates

Shippensburg University
SBDC is an accredited affiliate
of the National Network of
Small Business
Development Centers

www.pasbdc.org

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Funding support and resources for the Shippensburg University SBDC program are provided by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania through the Department of Community and Economic Development; through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration; and through support from Shippensburg University. All services are extended to the public on a non-discriminatory basis. All opinions, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA. Special arrangements for persons with disabilities can be made.

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Online Learning Resources

Pennsylvania Small Business Development Center offers the following tutorials:

Online Tutorial for Starting a Small Business will walk you through several key areas that you need to fully understand in order to successfully manage a small business.

Exporting: First Steps to Success-Part 1 & Exporting: First Steps to Success-Part 2 will help you to understand the basics of international trade. These tutorials will also help you to identify whether or not your company is ready to pursue international trade.

Entering the government market can be a difficult undertaking, even for an established small business. The Basics of Government Marketing Tutorial will introduce you to the process of selling your products or services to government agencies to help you decide if your business is ready for government marketing.

Disaster Preparedness

Government Marketing & Procurement

Growth

International Trade

Export-U.com

Loans and Financial Management

Marketing

Marketing Mastery

Start-Up

Surviving in a Recession

Tax

Technology Tutorials

Technology 101: A Small Business Guide
Microsoft Training courses for all versions of its Office programs (including Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
The HP Learning Center features a comprehensive collection of free online classes for help with everything from Adobe basics to PC security and maintenance.

Small Biz Growth Video Series

Preparing for Growth Expanding your business requires planning	Federal Contracting Sell to the government to grow your company

Team Building Working together helps growth happen	Exporting Opportunities Expand your market overseas

Technology & Growth The right tools help your business grow...	Disaster Recovery After a disaster, coming back, growing stronger

Marketing Research, promotion, ads, sales, feedback and more	Profiles of Success They grew their businesses, you can too

Other Resources

Our friends at SCORE offer a free online tutorial to help you plan ahead for cash squeezes by focusing on the financial things you can do to save or generate money. Creating a Cash Reserve
SCORE offer free tutorials to help you make full use of technology for your growing business:
Technology to Enable Client Interaction
Technology to Increase Business Efficiency

Our friends at Intuit offer Intuit's live webcasts (free with registration). You can also sign up for a newsletter to be alerted about upcoming events.

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Our friends at Business Owner's Toolkit offer several financing and financial management webinars:

Bookkeeping Basics - basic overview of double-entry bookkeeping procedures.
Doing Your Payroll - walks you through the steps, and legal requirements, of paying employees.
Finding Money to Start a Business - how to identify financing strategies and secure money for a new business venture
Understanding Cash Flow - learn about inflows and outflows and how to manage them to your advantage.

Microsoft offers free training courses for all versions of its Office programs (including Word, Excel and PowerPoint).

The HP Learning Center features a comprehensive collection of free online classes for help with everything from Adobe basics to PC security and maintenance.

HubSpot®, an inbound marketing company targeting small and medium-sized businesses, offers some very thorough free webinars covering Search Engine Optimization, blogging for business, web redesign, and how to attract customers through social media.

Our friends at the Famee Foundation offer another free tutorial to help you boost your marketing efforts, presented in 10 short emails delivered over 10 consecutive days: 8 Marketing Tips for Recession Stressed Entrepreneurs