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How to Start an Online Business

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    Find out about this rapidly growing way of doing business. Learn about getting online, market research, case studies and more.

    • Sat 04 Mar
      1 day, Sat 9:00 AM - Sat 5:00 PM At Selwyn College, Auckland. David Partis
      • TEC-subsidised course fee for qualifying students: $60.00 incl. GST
      • $142.00 incl. GST
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    • Sun 29 Oct
      1 day, Sun 9:00 AM - Sun 5:00 PM At Selwyn College, Auckland. David Partis
      • TEC-subsidised course fee for qualifying students: $60.00 incl. GST
      • $142.00 incl. GST
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    Description

    Course fee

    This course offers a course fee subsidy through funding from the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) for NZ citizen and permanent migrant adults, their partners on work visas or visitor visas, and refugees. To qualify, registrants should be over the age of 16 years and not currently enrolled in a secondary school. We need to collect extra information such as age, ethnicity, educational achievement and gender for statistical purposes. You must also provide evidence of NZ citizenship, residency or refugee status if requested. A condition of accepting a course fee subsidy is that you commit to at least 80% attendance of your course.

    About the course

    This is an overview course focusing on the elements that make up digital marketing and what you need to know to start a small online business. We cover a range of different disciplines including business elements such as trademarks, domain names and we talk about the basic ways to set up a website.

    Expected learning outcomes

    On completion of this course, students should be able to demonstrate a basic understanding of the following:

    • Differences between traditional commerce and e-commerce
    • How to choose a product or service to sell online
    • The competitive landscape and how to conduct market research
    • Assessing one's own skills and what skills are needed
    • Keywords and their importance
    • Choosing an effective domain name for your business, both the business name and a keyword friendly domain name
    • Key terms related to website development and how to select a website template or web designer for your website project
    • e-Commerce and how to establish an online shop
    • The use of WordPress and PayPal
    • Freight and shipping for online shopping
    • How to monitor and measure your online business with Google web tools

    Who should attend How to Start An Online Business

    The course is designed to appeal to people who are contemplating starting an online business from home who need to get an overview of what is involved, and what skills/knowledge are necessary before undertaking such an enterprise.  Those with understanding of browsers, Microsoft applications, navigation menus and toolbars will gain more from the course.

     

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    Testimonials

    Great course giving u really good overview - and some great real examples. Kristin 

    David made the course easy to understand and created an interesting interactive session. Peter

    Excellent delivery. Well-paced and understood well.  Great humour. Connie

    This class was highly informative and engaging - the tutor was dynamic, knowledgeable and motivating! Thanks! Leonie

    Prerequisites

    Basic understanding of computers, internet browsers (eg Explorer, Chrome, Safari or Firefox) and the use of navigation menus and toolbars is essential. Basic understanding of general Microsoft applications is recommended. 

    People who attended this course also attended...

    WordPress Bootcamp, SEO for Small Business, Using Social Media to Skyrocket Your Business. How To Make More Money and Think Like an Entrepreneur, Essential Tools to Market Your Business, Xero Web-based Accounting, Accounting the Basics, Introduction to Indesign

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