About the NxLeveL Entrepreneur course

The NxLeveL Entrepreneur course is a 12 session intensive training program designed to encourage business expansion in a community. The course focuses on teaching the art of better business practices while producing a comprehensive business plan to guide business expansion decisions and activities. Entrepreneurs will learn the following as they prepare a written business action plan:

• How and when to start an action plan
• How to organize and better manage your business
• How to indentify opportunities and market your business
• How to understand and get the business’ financials in order
• How and where to get funding for your business
• How to write a detailed, comprehensive action plan
• Networking with other entrepreneurs
• How to develop a network with small business support services

Are you finally ready to plan for the success of your business? Do you wish you better understood your business financial statements? Are you ready to take your business to the next level? If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, you should consider enrolling in the NxLeveL for Entrepreneurs course.

• introduction, overview & entrepreneurship gain an understanding of the NxLeveL™ Business Plan, and begin to develop the business mission statement, goals and objectives
• planning & research: entrepreneurial essentials begin market/industry research through identification and usage of research resources
• organizational matters: management & legal structure explore legal and organizational topics including: legal structures, government taxes and regulations, risk management and employee issues
• marketing—“behind the scenes”: analysis & understanding learn key concepts of analyzing your market including customer profiling and competitive analysis
• marketing—“on stage”: strategies, tactics & implementation develop marketing strategies around the product, pricing, promotion and distribution elements of your business
• financial overview: books, records & controls examine how your books and records become “the language of business”
• managing your money: financial planning, budgets & assumptions understand how to develop and derive feedback from budgets
• managing your money: developing and using cash flow projections learn to prepare and use the ultimate “management tool” – cash flow projections
• understanding and using your financial statements take the mystery out of the Income Statement, Balance Sheet and other financial statements by learning how to use the numbers
• financing your business: alternative sources of money evaluate financing options and determine which are best for you
• the deal making process: negotiating in the real world develop an understanding of the negotiating process and techniques
• your business future: managing growth and plan completion what’s next? growth? expansion? what’s your business’s future?