Ca$hing in on Business Opportunities Training
If you are interested in the Ca$hing in on Business Opportunities training, send a message to fdrm@tamu.edu, and please include the following information:
- Your name
- Business or organization (if a business, indicate if you are home-based or commercial)
- Type of business
- Number of years in business
- If you are an educator, please include your county
- Your e-mail address
- Your mailing address
Ca$hing in on Business Opportunities is designed for Extension agent use in facilitating the development of small business, particularly micro and home based business. The curriculum is in “ready-to-use” format. Participants will receive one two-volume set of the curriculum during the training.
The curriculum is comprehensive, covering over 22 topics of interest to prospective and new owners. Each chapter contains a teaching guide, narrative in “how-to-use” format, transparencies, handouts, and two computer disks with computer-generated slides of overheads for electronic projection.
Curriculum Content
- Part I: Sharpen Your Entrepreneurial Skills
- Part II: Get Down to Business
- Part III: Plan As You Expand
- Part IV: Boost Your Bottom Line
Training will include:
- economic development basics
- on-site visits to small businesses
- curriculum subject matter content
- application to small community/urban needs and agriculture and non-farm applications
- market analysis
- identification of resources
A curriculum resource for economic/business TCFF issues,
funded by Training 2000 Professional Development Grant
and
Family Development and Resource Management,
Agricultural Economics, and Community Development
