Training for Entrepreneurs.com (TFE), announced today that its online business start-up mentoring program -- TFE Start-Smart Mentoring Program -- is open for enrollment.
Sarasota, Florida, USA - January 10, 2012 -- Training for Entrepreneurs.com (TFE), the online business skills training and business mentoring website, announced today that its online business start-up mentoring program -- TFE Start-Smart Mentoring Program -- is open for enrollment. This nine (9) week program is designed to accommodate a total of thirty (30) aspiring entrepreneurs who are interested in learning how to effectively start and successfully run their own businesses. The Virtual Classroom sessions begin January 23, 2012.
“The TFE Virtual Online Classrooms are the hub of our online training and mentoring activities. These state-of-the-art virtual classrooms are equipped with audio conferencing, web cams, electronic whiteboards, and application/file sharing capabilities that allow for live interaction between TFE Online Business Mentors and fellow online classmates,” said Training for Entrepreneurs.com Co-founder and Executive Director, Dolly A. Stevens.
The TFE Start-Smart Mentoring Program is a comprehensive, step-by-step blended-learning course that combines nine, 75 minute weekly online mentoring sessions with supplemental course exercises and reference material in various audio, video and electronic document formats. This blended learning approach helps novice entrepreneurs hatch their venture’s idea precisely, launch their business painlessly, and position their new business effectively for profitable growth.
“The Start-Smart Business Strategies provide a ‘nuts and bolts’ approach for creating an expandable business infrastructure so that the entrepreneur’s new enterprise will realize long-term success,” says Ms. Stevens.
The Start-Smart Program’s curriculum includes 11 key focus areas:
1. Time / Project Management
2. Pre-Start Up Feasibility
3. Legal Requirements
4. Planning and Budgeting
5. Business Startup
6. Risk Management
7. Sales and Marketing
8. Finance / Financial Mgt.
9. Stakeholder Management
10. Operations Management
11. Succession Planning
By limiting each Virtual Classroom to 10 entrepreneurs and their Mentor, the TFE Start Smart Mentoring Program provides an intimate educational exchange via an interactive forum that facilitates discussions that focus on best business practices and tactics which are essential for starting and growing a business.
“The interactive forum is an opportunity for the entrepreneur, his fellow classmates, and his TFE Mentor to brainstorm ideas and to discuss strategies that relate to various aspects of their new business venture,” says Terry H. Hill, Training for Entrepreneurs.com Co-Founder, and Chief Business Mentor.
About the Program Mentor
Terry H. Hill is the Co-Founder and Chief Business Mentor of Training for Entrepreneurs.com. As a seasoned mentor/consultant, Terry provides in-depth instruction and expert guidance for aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners. He is the author of How to Jumpstart Your Business and the soon-to-be-released e-book, How to Boost Your Productivity to New Heights. In addition, Terry regularly writes on a variety of business topics. His writings appear in Training for Entrepreneurs.com weekly Business Insights Blog and its Tech for Business Blog, as well as numerous other business publications. Terry has more than 30 years of experience in corporate and entrepreneurial business environments, both domestically and internationally.
Mr. Hill’s role as a business mentor involves listening to the concerns of his mentees, working with them on problems, providing them with feedback on their performance and behavioral demeanor, offering them recommendations on their action activities, and conducting after-action reviews with them.
About Training for Entrepreneurs.com
Training for Entrepreneurs.com (TFE) is a knowledge/relationship development website of Legacy Associates, Inc. (http://www.legacyai.com), a small business consulting and management services firm that is located in Lakewood Ranch, Florida, USA. TFE serves the world-wide web in three primary capacities: Facilitators of a web-based entrepreneurial development community, Creators & Publishers of educational content for small businesses, and Trainers & Mentors of online e-Learning courses and virtual mentoring programs.
As facilitators, TFE manages an online small business resource center and membership community that affords its Members access to digital content that is presented in text, graphics, audio, and video formats.
As publishers, TFE creates, develops, and publishes business informational and instructional content: articles, reports, e-Books, audio programs, live instructional presentations, instructor-narrated, self-paced e-Learning courses, and instructional material for virtual mentoring programs.
As trainers/mentors, TFE trainers teach a series of online, interactive soft skills business training and award certification for completion of e-Learning courses: Personal Productivity, Leadership Skills, Time Management, Interpersonal Skills, Project Management, Strategic Management, and Negotiation Skills. TFE Mentors conduct live virtual classroom mentoring programs for planning, starting, branding, growing, and exiting a business.
Contact Information:
Dolly A. Stevens
Executive Director
Training for Entrepreneurs.com
Tel: 941-556-1299
Fax: 941-866-1953
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