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Basic-Computer Skills Course (Weekly in April)

Solo web Business Incubation/Training

You are invited to take a four-month intensive training course in my Azaleas office. I insist on a small class of only four students at a time so that you can get detailed individual attention and training. The hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, with the first course term going from May to the end of August, 2008. (All going well the next term will start in September).

You Will Learn...
Your mornings will consist of lessons in basic virtual office assistant skills and some practical assignments working for some of my non-profit, or mission and ministry clients.

Your afternoons will be focused on helping you brainstorm, plan and start your web business in an incubator setting, with over-the-shoulder guidance and encouragement. By the end of the four month term, your business is quite likely to already be bringing you an income. (Assuming you don't go off on too many tangents and don't complete on schedule).

I have finished some sites with only one evening a week to spend on it, and been done in three months, so if you are working at it five half days a week, it should be thriving in four months!

You will learn all the basic skills necessary to run your web business from your computer at home. However, if you discover you cannot manage some aspects, you will learn to make use of others who are quite capable as virtual assistants. In fact, if you are willing, you can easily take on clients for your own Virtual Office Assistant business on the side.

Unique Training!
No one else is offering quite this kind of training. It is very unique! You can take some university or community college courses to help you learn all about computers, or all about running a business downtown. But who will train you to run your complete business from your computer at home? Never mind helping you set it up so that once it is established you only need to give an hour or two a day to keeping with the email contacts from visitors to your site, or handling sales and recording transactions - so that you have time for your family - or, starting another business on a different topic.

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Specific Online Skills
You will learn to use these for your own business, or offer to do them as a Virtual Assistant to other business owners.;

* in depth research online - finding exactly what you need to know

* brainstorming and planning your own web business and web site. (SBI or d-i-y, or both)

* setting up the site domain registration and hosting service

* creating web page templates

* creating graphics and web content for a site

* proof-reading and editing web content, business documents and articless/books

* promoting a site with listing submissions, link exchanges, press releases and articles

* setting up contact and subscribe forms

* setting up and editing, publishing blogs and ezines

* how to track your STATs and change methods when necessary

* setting up bookkeeping and online banking

* creating office stationery, business cards, and filing systems

* using email ethically to do business with the public and website visitors

* how to compile and create books and e-books

* the steps to self-publishing and promoting books for sale through a website

* research and discern the difference between a worthy online business and a scam

* installing Open Source operating systems and software on a computer

* some basic computer repairs and trouble-shooting

Whether you have an idea for a business, or just hope to find a paying job, this course is likely to be a turning point in your life. If you would like to learn ALL aspects of running your own business and to do it the most frugal and cost-effective ways, you'll get that from this course.

In 1999 I went online, determined to learn how to publish my book. I could not afford training, so I disciplined myself to sit in front of the computer 6 to 8 then to 10 and 12 hours a day, seeking out information and learning by doing and trying things out. I've inherited a strong resourceful streak from my Dad, and can usually find or make a way, even when everyone else thinks there is none.

My ideal student would be someone who is also eager to learn, and willing to follow instructions, and able to read and think well in English. If words flow easily for you and you are able to express yourself plainly and tactfully, you will find this work very fullfilling. If you are an idealist with altruistic desires to help others we will hit it off very well. I'd love to see maturity and strong Christian ethics in my students, but can be flexible and accepting. (Rude students who try to dominate and hijack the class will not be tolerated. :)

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Review of Basic Facts on this Course:

What?
A four-month course with an internship, incubator aspect for a web business of your own

Who?
Taught by Ruth Marlene Friesen - to just four students in a class.

Where?
401 33rd Street West Ste 210, Saskatoon, SK. S7L 0V5

When?
May 1, to August 29, 2008 for first term. (2nd Term to start September 2 - December 24).

How much?
Just $5 per hour. Or $2,730 + taxes for the full-term, based on number of days in this period. or $700 + taxes payable monthly. (An SBI site with SiteSell is optional but recommended. We'll watch for specials).

How to apply?
Click APPLICATION FORM to begin the interview process.

Notes: Because this is local to Saskatoon, if you live outside of this city you should contact me for an application form and interview before you make plans to move to Saskatoon.

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