Create Your Virtual Business Presence

A 1-day, hands-on small business session that will give you the tools to project a professional image no matter where your little business is located. And the best part is: it won't cost you loads of time and money.

Here's what you'll leave the course with:

• A premium, easy-to-edit website (3 pages of content - FREE 2-week trial and only $9/month after! Upgrade to more pages at anytime.)

• 1-year domain name registration (included in class tuition)

• A company-branded email account - e.g., you@yourcompanyname.com - including up to 50 Email accounts with chat, calendar, and document sharing

• A virtual business phone service / automated receptionist so you and your employees can get your business calls and faxes anywhere! (2-week free trial and only $10/month after)

• 1 year of local mailbox service (optional add-on)

 

Register today for the November Virtual Presence Class!

Workshop is limited to 12 participants.

Complete the registration form at right to reserve your spot. Bring a friend and both of you receive $20 off the regular tuition!

Location: The Entrepreneurium; 1599-A Memorial Drive, Suite 100 Atlanta, GA 30317

Date / Time: November 16, 2009 6pm - 9pm (light snacks will be provided)

Cost: $145 (payment via PayPal)

Class Pre-Requisites:

  • Your own laptop
  • Internet Explorer 7 or above
  • Windows Operating System (or very self-sufficient using your Mac)
  • Intermediate or above user of MS Office or other office productivity products   What does this mean?
  • Moderate comfort using online applications   What does this mean?

Who Is this Class For?

  • Offline businesses that want a quick, affordable way to take their business online
  • Small businesses looking to save on current phone, email, and website costs without sacrificing quality or functionality
  • Solo- and home-based entrepreneurs in search of tools that are just the right size for their business but can grow as they expand
  • Startups that don’t want to pay an arm and a leg to the phone company, a website designer, and an email service provider but still want high quality service
  • Business owners with limited technical skills that still want to manage and configure their business communication tools
  • Freelancers, independent consultants, professional service providers, real estate agents, personal service businesses, etc.

What's Different About this Class?

Unlike other small business classes where you listen to a presenter for an hour or more and walk away with a little information and a lot of questions, with Create Your Virtual Business Presence you will actuall leave with functioning tools in place that you can start using in your business IMMEDIATELY! You'll learn how to use these tools by actually configuring them during the class. And you'll recieve hands-on guidance from a knowledgeable instructor who uses these tools every day!

Frequently Asked Questions

$145 seems like a lot. What do I actually get for that price?

The 'Create Your Virtual Presence' workshop tuition includes much more than the average workshop or seminar. The tuition includes:

  • A 1-month subscription to Sage Easy Site Creator - a content management tool that allows non-techies to easily create and update stunning websites, AND
  • 3 pages of website content (Home, About, Contact) that will be created during the session (add more pages for an additional monthly fee)
  • 1 year of domain name registration ($10/year)
  • Company email account powered by Google Apps  (FREE!)
  • Step-by-step, hands-on instruction on setting up your company email to work with your domain name and up to 50 user accounts
  • Virtual PBX phone service with auto-attendant, and follow-me calling (2-week trial, then $9.99/month) 
  • Step-by-step, hands-on instruction on establishing and configuring Virtual PBX
  • Optional local mailbox service
  • Light snacks and beverages
  • Opportunity to truly connect (not just network) with other small business owners

 

What do you mean by 'moderate comfort using online applications'?

I define moderately comfortable as: Someone who uses the Internet for more than light email and social media. Maybe you use online applications for work, You know how to synch your phone with online tools, calendars, etc. You use online banking and/or bill pay. You are more than comfortable making purchases online. You’ve used PayPal several times as a buyer and possibly as a seller. You may even know a tiny bit of HTML. You know what a blog is and maybe read a few – you comment on them as well. You might have created your own blog. You read news online and know how to forward articles to friends via email and social networks. You use photo sharing sites and may have previously ‘pimped’ your Myspace profile or done more than the basic configuration of your My Yahoo page, Linked In, Facebook, or Twitter account. You have taken an online learning course. You know how to save bookmarks, and RSS feeds. 

Not all of the above descriptions have to apply to you. But this should give you a general idea of what the term means. If you’re not a moderate user – this class probably isn’t for you. I’d suggest you get the one-on-one option.

 

What do you mean by 'intermediate or above user of MS Office'?

Basically, you'll need to be comfortable doing the following:

  • cutting, copying, and pasting text and images
  • inserting and resizing images,
  • creating hyperlinks,
  • modifying the look and styling of text (bullets, bold, colors, font sizes)