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SUMMARY:WordPress Website Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Join us and learn how to create and/or better manage your WordPress website!\nStuck building your WordPress website? Work with experienced WordPress business practitioner Cameron Nelson to get real-time help in this group workshop. Topics covered in this workshop include: \n\nNavigating the administrative user interface\nSelecting\, downloading\, installing\, and activating a WordPress theme\nManaging media\nEditing page content\nInstalling and configuring plugins\nSetting up new user accounts\n\nAttendees MUST have WordPress account created prior to workshop. \nCapacity for this workshop is limited to 15 people. This workshop is set up for small group interaction and discussion. \nInstructor:  Cameron Nelson\, Chief Digital Advisor\, CV SBDC and Virginia SBDC\n \nMr. Nelson has over 18 years experience in technology\, and as a senior tech consultant in Silicon Valley helping Fortune 500 companies improve their digital marketing and eCommerce. At the same time he founded several tech companies\, including a SaaS website for tree preservation and a blockchain platform for nonprofits. Cameron is accomplished in language\, culture\, has an MBA and MA and believes new technology products have the ability to help shape our world for the better. \n  \nREGISTER\n  \nOnce registered\, you will receive a confirmation email from centeric@clients.virginiasbdc.org\, our automated system. This email will contain the ZOOM LINK to join the workshop.  If you cannot find the email\, please check your spam folder.
URL:https://cvsbdc.org/events/wordpress-website-workshop/
LOCATION:VA
CATEGORIES:Managing a Business,Website Development
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SUMMARY:Trademarks: The Value of Protecting Your Business Goodwill
DESCRIPTION:You’ve spent years and significant dollars to create a product and your marketing campaign is ready to launch. But all of the innovation\, time\, and money won’t matter if a customer is tempted by a similar product and buys it instead. Protecting your brand and creating the competitive advantage to purchase or use your product is the basis for trademark law. Join this webinar to learn the steps taken to protect a great idea with legal protections and a registered trademark. Real life examples will be used to demonstrate the value of getting it right the first time! \nPresented by Woods Rogers Attorneys at Law \nREGISTER\nAbout Woods Rogers: \nAt Woods Rogers\, we focus on helping businesses\, individuals\, and our communities thrive. Our Emerging Growth practice team counsels start-up companies and entrepreneurs on all phases of the life cycle\, from start-up and formation\, to market fit\, pre-venture guidance\, IP protection\, scale\, maturity\, and exit strategies. With offices throughout Virginia in Charlottesville\, Roanoke\, Lynchburg\, and Richmond and more than 80 attorneys\, we’ve helped clients navigate what lies ahead for more than 125 years. Read more at www.woodsrogers.com \n\nPresenters: \nMichael J. Hertz\, Principal\, Woods Rogers \n \nMike Hertz practices in Woods Rogers’ Corporate and Business Law and Intellectual Property sections\, focusing his practice on startups\, and both closely held and public companies. His experience includes merger and acquisition and contract drafting and review for companies in high-tech and other industries. He files and prosecutes state and federal trademark applications and copyright applications. In that role\, he has represented clients in administrative proceedings in federal and state court as well as before the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Mike is regularly ranked as a go-to attorney for Intellectual Property matters by Virginia Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers as well as Virginia Business magazine’s Legal Elite list. Mike earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and his law degree from Wake Forest University. While in law school\, Mike served as an editor of the Wake Forest Law Review. \nNathan Evans\, Principal\, Woods Rogers  \n \nNathan Evans is a United States Patent & Trademark Office (“USPTO”) registered patent attorney with over 20 years of experience in patent prosecution and litigation. He is the Chair of the Virginia Bar Association Intellectual Property/Information Technology Council\, and was named by his peers as a “Legal Elite” in Virginia Business Magazine in 2019 and 2020. Nathan has co-chaired an American Bar Association subcommittee on changes to Indian patent law\, and he also acted as a co-chair of a subcommittee of the Patent System Policy Planning Division Committee. He is a partner at Woods Rogers PLC where he counsels clients in several areas of technology. His experience includes matters before state and federal district courts\, the USPTO (including the Patent Trial and Appeal Board)\, the U.S. International Trade Commission\, and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Nathan speaks frequently on topics related to intellectual property law and legal developments in the intellectual property industry. Nathan holds a J.D. from Emory University School of Law\, and is admitted to practice in Virginia\, the District of Columbia\, and before the USPTO. 
URL:https://cvsbdc.org/events/trademarks-the-value-of-protecting-your-business-goodwill/
LOCATION:VA
CATEGORIES:Managing a Business,Online event
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SUMMARY:QuickBooks Online Tips & Tricks
DESCRIPTION:This course demonstrates helpful tips and tricks for CURRENT USERS of QuickBooks Online (includes the Essentials\, Plus\, or Advanced plans).\nYou will come away from this class armed with helpful new techniques for every day practical uses of the platform.\nREGISTER\n  \nOnce registered\, you will receive a confirmation email from centeric@clients.virginiasbdc.org\, our automated system. This email will contain the ZOOM LINK to join the workshop.  If you cannot find the email\, please check your spam folder. \n\nPre-requisite: Using QuickBooks Online (Essentials\, Plus\, or Advanced) in your business for at least one month is required.      \nPLEASE NOTE: QuickBooks Desktop and QuickBooks Self Employed will NOT be covered in this course. \nRequired equipment: To be able to view the Zoom web conference and instructor’s screen share of the QBO sample company\, you may use any Zoom compatible device. If you would like to follow along during the class in your own QBO company\, you will need a Laptop or Desktop computer (Windows or Mac with the minimum operating system requirement requirements*). \nComputer requirements: \n\nWindows PC: Windows 7 or newer\, Intel Core i5 or comparable AMD processor with at least 4 GB of RAM\nMac: OS X 10.9 or newer\nInternet connection: 5 Mbps or higher\nInternet browser: Google Chrome is recommended for optimal operation\n\nAbout the Instructor: \nEllen Martin\, BS—Business Management\, MS—Nonprofit Management and Philanthropy\, Central Virginia SBDC Business Advisor\, and Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor–Online Advanced\, will lead this course. Ellen’s background meshes multi-faceted for-profit and not-for-profit business experience. She employs holistic and strategic thinking to advance organizational missions. Her 25-year career has encompassed private sector\, higher education\, voluntary sector\, start-up\, and entrepreneurial pursuits. Ellen is founder and Principal of Octavo LLC\, a small business bookkeeping and payroll company. \n  \nOctavo LLC is a woman-owned consulting business based in Charlottesville\, Virginia; though the business’s service range extends far beyond central Virginia. The company serves both not-for-profit and for-profit small business entities. Octavo identifies and addresses—through best practices—points of stagnation\, gaps in infrastructure\, and strategic and operational inefficiencies as represented in a company’s books. The company offers QuickBooks Online bookkeeping transition\, setup\, and cleanup\, and ongoing bookkeeping and payroll services. \nREGISTER
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LOCATION:VA
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SUMMARY:Launching Your Product With Confidence
DESCRIPTION:Join us to learn from Tom Kelly\, a collaborative\, customer-focused business leader with twenty years of cross-functional experience in both corporate and small business environments.  \nLearn the importance of really digging into your concept upfront and getting customer feedback well before the product launches in market. \nTopics covered include: \n – Hone your product / service concept upfront \n – Test and learn early with potential customers \n – Feel confident as you march towards your launch \n  \nREGISTER\n  \nTom Kelly is a versatile\, collaborative and customer-focused business leader with twenty years of cross-functional experience in both corporate and small business environments.  Throughout his career he has focused on ensuring that how is just as important as what gets delivered for any organization. Tom made a conscious decision to leave his corporate career in 2018 in order to launch his own small business.  Eager to follow his passion for organic food and do something much more hands-on\, he launched Rise Bakehouse\, an organic sourdough bakery from his home in California.  He quickly built a strong consumer and wholesale customer base and learned all the different aspects of small business ownership in addition to sourdough baking. As the pandemic was gaining strength in 2019\, Tom and his family made an adventurous move from California to the East Coast via a ten-month RV trip across the country.  During their time on the road\, he and his wife assumed the role of co-teacher to their two children while traveling 21\,000 miles across 23 states\, exploring 16 national and 14 state parks.  They found their way to Charlottesville\, VA and chose it as their new home. Tom is now focused on launching his next food business here in Charlottesville and becoming an active member of the thriving small business community in central Virginia.  
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