Picture Yourself as a Small Business Owner
Imagine yourself owning your own successful small business and earning an attractive income. You started small but grew steadily and quickly until now you have a staff of a dozen and plans for expansion. The first few months were particularly challenging, but thanks to your Start Your Own Business training course, you understood the wide variety of management functions that needed careful planning and implementation. You managed to maximize the opportunities and minimize the potential pitfalls. You feel a sense of pride that comes from knowing that you are very good at a very important job, and that you are fulfilling your dreams of starting your own business.
Career Outlook
Small business is the very backbone of our economy. Opportunities continue to abound for people with the right training: opportunities in virtually every type of product or service specialty. Success or failure is almost always related to planning and training, not opportunity. For those who receive small business training, the future is virtually unlimited, both with regard to income potential and to personal satisfaction and sense of achievement.
According to the United States Small Business Administration, in 2003 there were approximately 23.7 million small business in the U.S., and small businesses are providing between 60 –80% of the net new jobs added to the economy in the past decade.
Small Business Owners Require:
• General knowledge about entrepreneurship, business plans, and forms of business organization
• Detailed knowledge about managing finances, managing personnel, and marketing
• Understanding of business law and business insurance
Stratford’s Start Your Own Business home study course will provide you with the skills you need to get started on the right course toward a new moneymaking career as a small business owner. Enroll now! |
| * Source: Based on 2003 figures provided at www.sba.gov |
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| I have gained knowledge of human resources, laws and regulations, and the risks that come with a business. I also liked the real-life situations that were shared in the reading. — T.C. - Wisconsin |
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| It definitely gave me more knowledge of managing a business. — D.K. - Iowa |
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