Programs for Small Business Owners

Small Business Owners usually have 3 or more persons involved in the business besides themselves. The extra concerns around employee hiring and training add to the stress of just operating the business on a daily basis. Toolie's presentations can help identify skilled workers and improve the skills of the employees you already have.

Better Skills for Better Business - Keynote Invest in Your Employees for Greater Profits

There is a sometimes hidden but always insideous cost associated with hiring employees whose computer skills aren't up to the task. Toolie helps you identify the skills your staff needs and teaches you how to detect when your employees are struggling.

45 Minutes

Better Skills for Better Business - Workshop Invest in Your Employees for Greater Profits

There is a sometimes hidden but always insideous cost associated with hiring employees whose computer skills aren't up to the task. Toolie helps you identify the skills your staff needs and teaches you how to detect when your employees are struggling. In this workshop participants devise a plan for updating their company job descriptions and learn where they can get help and training through online sources.

90 Minutes

Customizing Web Site Templates Updating CSS and Layout for a Better Design

A web site template is only as good as your understanding of how it's put together. In this advanced session Toolie delves into the structure of pre-selected web site templates and shows you how to make changes so that your site is unique.

Prerequisites: HTML and Cascading Style Sheet knowledge. Suggested course: Website Weekend Tech Camp.

Half-Day

Demystifying Internet Marketing 10 Steps to a Successful Online Presence

The Internet presents small businesses with the opportunity to market themselves just like big companies do. However there are specific steps you must take to lay the groundwork for communicating and attracting customers over the Internet. In this 90-minute workshop Toolie shows your audience the most important steps to ensuring a successful online presence for small businesses.

90 Minutes

I Found Your Website Now What Do I Do? Creating a User-Friendly Website

The answer to the title question starts long before you create a web site or hire web designer. If you start with a purpose statement and define what your web site will provide then visitors to your site will know what you want them to do! In this 90-minute session Toolie outlines best practices for determining what a web site should contain and how to design your site so that visitors stay once they find you.

90 Minutes

Internet Power Tips™ Making the World Come to You

Your Internet search is only as good as the keywords and phrases you feed it! Learn how to refine your seaches and zero in on the results you seek. This 90-minute session teaches you how to combine your search terms effectively so that you weed out all but the most relevant results. Stop wasting clicks and get what you need from Google.

90 Minutes

Online Sales and Marketing Tech Camp Selling Effectively Over the Internet

Combine the Writing Sales Copy for the Internet and the Shopping Cart Skills for Successful Sales half-day workshops into a full-day Tech Camp for an accelerated program on Internet communications and automated customer contact.

Prerequisites: Account with 1ShoppingCart or one of the private label versions

Full-Day

Online Services That Can Save You Money Using the Internet to Improve Business Operations

With broadband access becoming more and more prevalent it's easier now than ever to collaborate with others over the Internet. This fast-paced workshop shows you numerous ways you can manage projects meet online track business contacts store information and other important business functions with these free or low-cost services.

90 Minutes

Outlook Power Tips™ Email and So Much More

Make Outlook work for you instead of the other way around! Learn how to zip through email in half the time; organize your contacts emails and appointments using categories; and keep notes and records of client conversations using the Journal features. Fasten your seat belt; this 90-minute session will kick up your productivity in no time!

90 Minutes

PC Power Tips™ Tech Camp Get More Done in Less Time

Combine the Windows Power Tips, Outlook Power Tips and Internet Power Tips and Online Services That Can Save You Money workshops into a Full-Day Tech Camp that jumpstarts your productivity and helps you work successfully over the Internet.

Prerequisites: General computer skills; Windows XP or Windows Vista user

Full-Day

Shopping Cart Skills for Successful Sales Getting the Most from Your Online Money Machine

1ShoppingCart is one of the most strategic pieces of software you need to know and understand to successfully sell over the Internet yet many cart owners have not fully utilized its power. In this half-day workshop 1ShoppingCart owners get strategic advice and hands-on experience in setting up a sales process from product to autoresponder to sales tracking to post-sales followup.

Prerequisites: 1ShoppingCart account (or an account with any of the private-label brands) with a Starter Basic or Professional plan.

Half-Day

Small Business Website Tech Camp Building an Online Presence for Your Business

Combine the I Found Your Website Now What Do I Do? and the Demystifying Internet Marketing programs into a half-day Tech Camp for Small Business Owners who are trying to create an online presence for their businesses.

Half-Day

Weekend Website Tech Camp Getting Your Site Up and Running Now!

This two-day event is a live version of Toolie's popular Create Your Own Web Site course. Participants learn basic web design and usability HTML and Cascading Style Sheets for formatting tables for layout and learn how to manipulate and insert graphics and menus into the web site templates they create for themselves during class. Full details...

2 Days

Windows Power Tips™ Tap Into the Power of the Operating System

In this fast-paced 90-minute presentation Toolie reveals insider's productivity secrets for Windows! As a former member of the Microsoft. Windows. Team Toolie knows how to tame tune up and turbo-charge your Windows user experience. Get more done in less time with these tips and techniques.

90 Minutes

Writing Sales Copy for the Internet Communicating Your Message Online

Writing words that sell and communicate your product or service's value over the Internet is a specific and achievable skill. In this half-day workshop Toolie takes you step-by-step through the planning and thought processes that lead you to write effective sales copy.

Half-Day