How a Smiley Face in the Right Place Can Improve Audience Engagement

Smirky face, fist bump, high five, dancing emoji, etc. At some point or another… you’ve used an emoji. And if you haven’t, you can’t ignore them any longer—emoji are here to stay. They gravitated towards social media and now they’re a regular fixture even in email communications (even though you won’t find emoji images in […]

SBDC Publication Wins LACP Vision Award

The UGA SBDC’s 2018 Small Business and Its Impact on Georgia publication was named the Bronze 2018 LACP Vision Award Winner, which is administered and judged by the League of American Communications Professionals. The LACP was established in 2001 in order to create a forum within the public relations industry that facilitates discussion of best-in-class practices […]

2018 Hiring to Win & Bad Hire, Now What?

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Two Seminars. One Day! Lunch (served at 12:10pm) and networking included! Join us of one or both sessions ($75 per session or $115 for the whole day) and learn how to successfully hire and manage employees. Lunch & networking are included in registration for all programs.[/vc_column_text][block_title style=”column_title” inner_style=”inline_border” title=”Hiring to Win”][/block_title][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Have you ever hired […]

Doing Business With The University of Georgia

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][block_title style=”column_title” inner_style=”inline_border” title=”Description”][/block_title][vc_column_text]At this session, UGA staff will provide small business owners with information on how to build a purchasing relationship with UGA; information on its e-quote system, and much more. Check out the class immediately before this one: “Intro to Federal Contracting & Small Business Certifications.” COST: FREE HOURS: 2 [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][block_title style=”column_title” […]

Hispanic Entrepreneur Series

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][block_title style=”column_title” inner_style=”inline_border” title=”Description”][/block_title][vc_column_text]UGA Gwinnett Campus 2530 Sever Road, Lawrenceville, GA 30043 Este programa de formación empresarial proporciona a sus participantes las herramientas necesarias para actualizar sus conocimientos administrativos, fortalecer sus capacidades gerenciales, mejorar la toma de decisiones estratégicas y aumentar sus relaciones comerciales implementando estrategias de mercado. El curso se llevara a cabo […]

2018 SBDC GrowSMART Augusta

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Need a step-by-step evaluation of your business and markets?  Need tools to build your business now and in the future? GrowSmart™ is for you…coming in September 2018 to Augusta.  Application and acceptance required. Combined with long term one-on-one consulting with SBDC professionals, learn to apply course principles and build a business for today’s challenging […]

User Experience in Management

In case you missed the first post of this blog series, How to Connect Through Experience, this blog post is part of a three post series which serves as an overview/background for an upcoming National ABSDC Conference presentation delivered by Michael Myers (Consultant for UGA SBDC in Athens) and myself (J. Ashley Panter, Marketing Manager at […]