Seminar Topics:

• Advanced email marketing tips and strategies
• In-depth uses and sizing of images, campaign styles that work, use of documents, videos, audio and landing pages.
• Web Content placement, blogs and using archive tools for your past emails
• Branding, toggling and graphics for both HTML and text emails
• Proper delivery on mobile devices

Seminar Registration:

Contact Sandra Louvier, c4e@hccs.edu

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Seminar Topics:

• Email marketing best practices
• Tips and strategies for getting and keeping high-quality prospects, customers and members
• How to increase deliverability and open rates and how to avoid spam and
• Examples of successful email campaigns

Seminar Registration:

Contact Sandra Louvier, c4e@hccs.edu

Download our flyer for yourself or to share with others!

Seminar Topics:

• Advanced email marketing tips and strategies
• In-depth uses and sizing of images, campaign styles that work, use of documents, videos, audio and landing pages.
• Web Content placement, blogs and using archive tools for your past emails
• Branding, toggling and graphics for both HTML and text emails
• Proper delivery on mobile devices

Seminar Registration:

Contact Al Barringer, al.barringer@hccs.edu

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Seminar Topics:

• Email marketing best practices
• Tips and strategies for getting and keeping high-quality prospects, customers and members
• How to increase deliverability and open rates and how to avoid spam and
• Examples of successful email campaigns

Seminar Registration:

Contact Al Barringer, al.barringer@hccs.edu

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This seminar was a resounding success at our Spring Branch and Southeast Campuses. There’s still time to sign up for our March 4th event at HCC Northline!

Seminar Topics:

• Email marketing best practices
• Tips and strategies for getting and keeping high-quality prospects, customers and members
• How to increase deliverability and open rates and how to avoid spam and
• Examples of successful email campaigns

Seminar Registration:

Contact Tiffany Champagne, tiffany.champagne@hccs.edu

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This session is open only to the following:

• Contestant Teams currently competing in the Spring 2010 HCC/Newspring Annual Business Plan Competition
• Business Advisors to each Contestant Team
• HCC Faculty Sponsors to each Contestant Team
• Newspring and HCC Center for Entrepreneurship staff

Sessions 1 and 2: Jack Barry covered the content of a business plan (with the exception of the financial section). Special emphasis was given to the target market, the customer, product and business differentiation, structure, organization and financing. The discipline required to write a concise and focused business plan was discussed.  The milestone chart was introduced.  Jack shared his vast experience and skills, and inspired you to “Dare to be Great!”

Session 3: Robert Westheimer was all about the numbers:  projected revenues and break-even, income statements, cash flows, balance sheets,  investment capital needs and other key issues to include in your Business Plan.

Session 4: Reserved to answer your specific questions and learn from other competing teams’ questions. If you’re meeting the milestone schedule, you should have a draft of your business plan complete by this fourth session.  Last year’s contestants said this session is one of the most exciting and productive of all!  Strategically timed, you’ll move forward by leaps and bounds to strengthen and polish your written Business Plan before the April 8^th due date.

All Contestant teams are required to attend! Don’t miss it!

• Entrepreneurship Classes
• Business Plan Certificate
• One-Year Certificate in  Entrepreneurship
• Workshops, Seminars & Upcoming Events
• Our Annual Business Plan Competition
• See bios on our Entrepreneurial Instructors
• See bios on our Business Advisors-Biz Plan Competition
• Connections & Resources from the local Business Community
• Win a Gift Certificate to attend one of our Summer Entrepreneur Boot Camps

…and more. Tell us about your business dreams.  Ask about the Tortoise and the Hare approach and see which one is right for you!

See You There!

• Entrepreneurship Classes
• Business Plan Certificate
• One-Year Certificate in Entrepreneurship
• Workshops, Seminars & Upcoming Events
• Our Annual Business Plan Competition
• See bios on our Entrepreneurial Instructors
• See bios on our Business Advisors-Biz Plan Competition
• Connections & Resources from the local Business Community
• Win a Gift Certificate to attend one of our Summer Entrepreneur Boot Camps

…and more. Tell us about your business dreams. Ask about the Tortoise and the Hare approach and see which one is right for you!

See You There!

• Small Business Development Center Network, Roberta Skebo
• Houston Business Development Inc., Marlon Mitchell
• SBA (Small Business Administration), Sonia Maldonado
• ACCION, Shirley Brooks
• Amegy Bank, Jevaughn Sterling
• Capital One Bank, Freddie Raines
• Whitney Bank, Charles Butler
• Frost Bank, Kathy Raia

Topics include: types of loans, preparing loan packages, establishing a productive relationship with your loan officer, excellent sources to find financing…and more. There will be opportunities for questions and answers.

Visit each representative’s table before and after the panel to learn more. Fifteen or more businesses will be available to share lots of information, including our lender panel, SCORE, Chambers of Commerce and more.

This event is open to students and the business community. We have invited SCORE counselors, Chambers of Commerce members, business advisors from our HCC/Newspring Business Plan Competition, members of the HCC Business Advisory Board, and HCC faculty and staff.

It’s a “Who’s Who” of Entrepreneurial lending in Houston!

Registration:

Click here to register online

Designed to hone contestants’ presentation skills for presentations to the HCC/Newspring Business Plan Competition judges and for presenting their plans to potential lenders and/or investors.  Open only to contestants who submitted their written plans by the Apri 8th Deadline.  Attendance is required for all finalist teams.

Past Sessions:

Sessions 1 and 2: Sections of the Business Plan:  Jack Barry covered the content of a business plan (with the exception of the financial section). Special emphasis was given to the target market, the customer, product and business differentiation, structure, organization and financing. The discipline required to write a concise and focused business plan was discussed.  The milestone chart was introduced.  Jack shared his vast experience and skills, and inspired you to “Dare to be Great!”

Session 3: The Numbers: Robert Westheimer was all about the numbers:  projected revenues and break-even, income statements, cash flows, balance sheets,  investment capital needs and other key issues to include in your Business Plan.

Session 4: Marketing and Q&A: This session included a presentation by Melaroo Marketing and also featured an extended Q&A session  to contestants’ and advisors’ specific questions.  All present learned from other competing teams’ questions and answers as well.  If contestants were meeting the milestone schedule, they had a draft of their business plan completed by the fourth session.  Strategically timed to allow teams to move forward by leaps and bounds to strengthen and polish their written Business Plans before the April 8th due date.

Session 5:  Presentation Skills: This session will help teams prepare to give an oral presentation of their plan.  The focus will be on presentation skills, how to constructively answer questions, appropriate dress, preparation of visual aids and handout materials.

All  Finalist Contestant Teams are required to attend.   Other contestant teams that submited business plans by April 8th are also allowed to attend.  Even if you didn’t make the finalists, you have a completed Business Plan and we want you to assist you in honing your presenations skills to begin seeking debt or equity investment.  The goal of the Business Plan Competition is to foster new businesses from all of you who have moved through the competition.  If you qualify to attend you should not miss this opportunity!