STARTING A SMALL OR HOME-BASED BUSINESS

Sessions.edu
The first accredited online design school, Session.edu offers dozens of online courses in web design, web development, multimedia, digital design and new media marketing. Training is instructor-led and available whenever you wish to learn. Session.edu's courses integrate theory, practice and related software applications and run on a continual basis. Sessions.edu offers a wide variety of certificates, course packages and individual courses. Session's small business management courses include:

• Design Business Development Kit
• Included within this special kit are two courses: Graphic Design Business and Web Portfolio Design. Learn how to set up and manage your own graphic design business including how to register a company name, and establishing a proper accounting system. In the Web Portfolio Design course, learn how identify your strengths as a designer and be guided through the process of launching your own design online portfolio.

You may apply your Design Business Development Kit tuition and courses towards a Business Marketing Certificate.

Sessions.edu is the only nationally accredited fully online school of design. Sessions.edu is accredited by the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC) in Washington, DC and is the first online school licensed by the State of New York Department of Education.

• Bookkeeping Program
• Small Business Owner

• Professional Small Business Management Program

Ashworth University is an Accredited Member of the Distance Education and Training Council and is qualified under the Defense Activity for Non-Traditional Education Support, or DANTES program.

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• Starting A Business?: How To Develop An Effective Business Plan
• How to Join the Ranks of the Self-Employed in 6 Weeks
• Starting and Growing a Business on the Internet
• How to Successfully Manage a Small Business Pay Per Click Advertising Budget
• How to find legitimate home employment

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• Home Business: Choosing a Business
• Home Business: Raising Financing
• Home Business: Office Management
• Home Business: Managing Your Business
• Budgeting and Saving
• Estate Planning
• Interview Skills
• Investing Fundamentals
• Money 98
• QuickBooks
• Quicken 98
• Resumes
• Retirement Planning
• Works

Learn more about these home business training courses. One of the best values in e-learning; you'll get unlimited access to high-quality online courses for a full twelve months!

• Start Your Own Business
• Introduction To Small Business Skills Certificate
• Certificate in Business Planning
• Accounting With Computers
• Certificate in Basic Book-keeping and Accounts
• Book Keeping
• Costing and Pricing
• Credit Control

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The Internet Marketing Center
The Internet Marketing Center was one of the first websites dedicated solely to helping entrepreneurs use the Internet to reach their target markets. Over the years, they have consistently been one of the most popular sites on the web and have a great reputation for offering timely, effective marketing advice. Visit their site to learn how to use the power of the Internet to market your business.

Export Training Center USA
Training exporters around the world since 1964, the Export Training Center USA is a high quality provider of export publications, online export courses and international sales leads.

Have you recently been promoted and you need to learn about exporting quickly? Would you like to add an educational achievement to your resume for a future promotion - or for a new job? Would you like to start your own export business? You can achieve these goals by taking individual courses or by completing the comprehensive six-course package, passing the Final Examination and earning a Certificate in Export Management. The information is presented in a logical, step-by-step format that you will find easy to read, understand and use. You will be able to take advantage of the following unique features that are only available through this online certificate program:

• 4 to 8 hour course completion times to accommodate your busy schedule and immediate educational needs
• Always current information that is updated every day to reflect the most recent developments in global trade
• 1,200 links to export-related web sites that you can use to conduct international market research as you learn
• Glossary of 1000 export terms and acronyms that will quickly teach you the "jargon of international trade"

Export Training Center USA also offers a free sample course and quiz on their site.

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Youachieve.com
YouAchieve Inc. is a leading provider of competency-matched business skills content to companies and individuals. Courses allow the user to access in one place the collective wisdom of over 225 best-selling experts. Choose from a variety of formats from 5 minute courses to more intensive workshops, so you can acquire the skills you need, when you need them, in the shortest possible time.