Dutchess County Economic Development Corporation presents the webinar series "Building Successful Businesses."

Featured topics and speakders include:

1. Developing goals into an overall marketing and sales plan with Andi Gray, President of Strategy Leaders.
2. Using Social Media, which is best for you with Josh Sommers, President of Focus Media.
3. Workforce Intelligence for Businesses - Workforce Intelligence for Businesses - Dutchess County and the Hudson Valley Region with Frank Surdey, Managing Economist with NYS Department of Labor.
4. Succession Planning with Larry Holfelder, CPA with Disciplined Wealth Advisors LLC.

Webinar Details:

1. Developing goals into an overall marketing and sales plan with Andi Gray, President of Strategy Leaders. Most business owners say they struggle to achieve short and long term growth goals on a consistent basis. Exiting from a long tough recession, now is the time to get your business on track with a consistent, predictable growth plan. Log in to hear practical , real world suggestions on how to accomplish exactly that.
2. Using Social Media, which is best for you with Josh Sommers, President of Focus Media. Josh will present the use of Social Media as a tool for Business to Business (B2B) communication. He will introduce best practices, creating top of mind awareness and how to develop great Public Relations channels. Josh will describe the right and wrong ways of using: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to maximize your online efforts. Join us for this interesting presentation and pick up a few tips.
3. Workforce Intelligence for Businesses - Workforce Intelligence for Businesses - Dutchess County and the Hudson Valley Region with Frank Surdey, Managing Economist with NYS Department of Labor. Frank will focus on human capital - the people and jobs of the region. Human capital is important to the business community - it represents their workers and their customers. We will briefly look at the recently released 2010 Census data and recent trends/projections in labor market conditions locally. He will also talk about workforce services that are available to businesses from the Labor Department and the One Stop System locally.
4. Succession Planning with Larry Holfelder, CPA with Disciplined Wealth Advisors LLC. Have you taken the time to consider planning for exiting your business and transferring ownership to family or outside individuals or entities? Larry will examine the issues you must consider in making the proper decisions: What are your goals? What are your risks? What are your options? How to implementing a plan and when? Ways to mitigate risk.

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