The ASBDC
(America’s Small Business Development Center Network) conference in New Orleans was really great! I put together a curriculum about basic web development called “I Need A Website,” answering specific questions that I know SBDC consultants get and addressing specific SBDC concerns, such as liability and meeting limitations.The entire second half of the presentation was a primer in how to get a WordPress site up and running in a short amount of time.
I presented for about three hours to about 40 folks and felt really great about it, especially since a lot of the audience came up to me after the session to tell me how much they had gotten out of it. Nevertheless, I was thoroughly delighted to get the results of the session evaluations emailed to me a few hours later!
I sometimes miss the finality (validation?) of a getting a grade, so to me this was like getting an A+. Side note: I do talk fast, but this was an especially info-packed session! Perhaps next year I can do a full day.
Aside from the conference, I really enjoyed exploring New Orleans … it’s full of awesome small businesses!
I also had a really interesting conversation with a representative from the SBA about Walmart, in which I made a case for small business vis-a-vis Walmart that I was rather surprised I needed to make. But that’s a whole different post.
Recently I received an email from an SBDC consultant who had not attended my workshop, but heard about it from a colleague who did. He is working with a small business in a rural area that doesn’t have a website and is slowly losing business. He wrote to ask if he could check out my slides in the hope that it would help his client create a website. I don’t feel my presentation slides are especially helpful without my narration. But I really want to help this small business! So I’m going to do a few write-ups in order to hopefully help my fellow consultant to help this small business. And in the hopes that it will help some other small businesses, I will post the writeups here, along with the worksheets I created. Stay tuned!
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