Business /Careers/
Professional Development
Fall 2008
Small Business
Make Priofit Finding Hidden Gold, Silver and Platinum (KTD)
Start a Specialty Food Business (KTD)
Importing as a Small Business (KTD)
How to Start Your Own Business (KTD)
Online Small Business Class:
Import Export Now!
Career Development
Creativity in Business (KTD)
Find Your Inner Editor (KTD)
Marketing
Online Marketing Classes
Mystery Shopping (Online)
Patents, Prototypes and Profits (Online)
Rights, Royalties and Revenue Streams (Online)
A License to Print Money (Online)
How to Make Profit Finding Hidden Gold, Silver and Platinum
Learn how to identify jewelry and other items made of gold, silver and/or platinum. We will cover
the best places to find hidden gold, silver and/or platinum; how to determine value; the best places to sell for
maximum profit; how to read karat marks and hallmarks; how to use a jeweler's loupe, weight scale and testing equipment;
how to identify items of historical or antique value; where to get metals price quotes. In this time of diminished
resources and record prices for precious metals, here is a fun way to add extra income! A brief overview of historical
periods in jewelry designs is included.
Text, The Urban Gold Miner, and jeweler's
loupe will be distributed in class and are covered by the materials fee.
Hank Friedman, alumnus of Gemological Institute of America, offers
information, advice and tips from his 30 years of experience buying in the field and selling for profit.
- Saturday, 9am-1pm
- Oct. 25
- Kentfield Campus, Harlan Center 173
- Fee $78 (Includes $30 materials fee)
- Course #85041
Importing as a Small Business
Learn how you can become an importer now in a one day seminar highly rated for the instructor's
experience, pace, candor and humor. You will be guided through licensing, selecting products, finding suppliers;
working with governments, bankers, brokers, carriers; financing, costing and pricing and gaining orders for your
products. This knowledge becomes the basis for an export business as well. After the seminar, help via email with
instructor and past students is included. Travel! Work out of your home to start!
Recommended text, How Small Business Trades Worldwide, is available at Kentfield Campus bookstore.
John Spiers has worked and traveled extensively worldwide with import-export
companies since 1974, in virtually every position. Since 1984, John is self-employed trading internationally.
- Saturday, 9am-5pm
- Nov. 1
- Kentfield Campus, Harlan Center 173
- Fee $69 (Includes $4 materials fee)
- Course #85042
So You Want to Start a Specialty Food Business
Perhaps your friends and family have encouraged you to sell your delicious BBQ sauce, homemade
cookies or jams; perhaps you have already begun and want information on expanding; or maybe you just love food
and need an overview of the marketplace to point you in the right direction. Whatever your motivation, you will
gain a competitive edge by learning the ups and downs, the ins and outs of the trendy specialty food industry from
an insider.
Topics include the planning and production process, contacts to get you started, capitalization
options, creative marketing ideas, unraveling the distribution network and more. Course fee includes a packet containing
worksheets, resource guides and current trend analyses.
Anni Minuzzo is a 27-year veteran in the food trade, has owned a
wholesale baking company for over 18 years, teaches in four regional counties and is a business coach.
- Thursday, 5:40-8:30pm
- Oct. 16
- Kentfield Campus, Harlan Center 161
- Fee $55 (Includes $5 materials fee)
- Course #85043
How to Start Your Business-Fast
To move fast on a business, you have to put momentum on your side. This course will cover all
the basics involved with starting a new business, such as DBAs, legal forms, bank accounts, business cards, licenses,
insurance and outside help -- but it will focus on how to move fast on a budget!
We will cover:
- How to choose a business
- Three ways to move forward if you don't have the money you need
- Finding customers
- How to make the RIGHT mistakes
- Finding free help and partners
- Online businesses
- Three types of test retail space
- Manufacturing tricks and resources
Dr. Rick Crandall has helped hundreds new businesses get up and
running profitably and quickly through the Community Entrepreneurs Organization.
- Saturday, 1-5pm
- Sept. 13
- Kentfield Campus, Harlan Center 161
- Fee $60 (Includes $10 materials fee)
- Course #85044
Another course of interest . . .
How to Buy and Sell on eBay
is listed under Computers.
ONLINE SMALL BUSINESS CLASS
For registration information, please refer to "Register for Online Classes" on page ??, or go to www.marincommunityed.org.
Import Export Now!
Do you want to import and/or export goods or services and could benefit from a step-by-step course?
This nine-week seminar course is appropriate for people with zero business background as well as established businesses
looking for new trade. Learn how to develop your product or service, find the best suppliers and customers and
work with banks, insurance companies, government agencies and other trade agencies. You will be taken through licensing
and permits, setting yourself up for properly conducting trade worldwide at the small business level.
- John Spiers
- Fee $95
- 9 Wednesdays, 6-8am
- Oct. 8-Dec. 9
- Course #85173
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Creativity in Business
Ideal for entrepreneurs, artists and professionals who wish to discover and consistently tap
into their full creative potential. This evocative workshop introduces participants to the experience that voted
this the most popular course in the Stanford MBA program for over twenty-five years. You will learn key tools that
will:
- Challenge you to remove blocks to your creativity, passion and purpose
- Inspire increased risk taking, innovative problem solving and consistent breakthrough thinking
- Re-ignite motivation and passion for work through exploring the alignment between your profession
and legacy
- Develop a vision and action plan around your goals and challenges to make your vision a reality
Malaya Llewellyn Quinn, MA, is a certified Creativity In Business
teacher. She has been a creativity coach, artist, expressive arts therapy educator and entrepreneur for over twenty-five
years.
- Saturday, 10am-4pm
- Oct. 18
- Kentfield Campus, Harlan Center 161
- Fee $77 (Includes $12 materials fee)
- Course #85046
Find Your Inner Editor: Introduction to Editing and Proofreading
When you are reading a magazine, does your eye automatically find typos? Do you have knowledge
of grammar, spelling and punctuation? If so, you may have inherited good grammar genes and may want to consider
becoming an editor or proofreader. We will cover job skills, training and terminology/vocabulary, as well as the
inner workings of the editorial business, including pay rates, expectations, computers, self-marketing, definitions
of editorial functions, handling criticism, deadlines and part-time and freelance opportunities. Fun and challenging
exercises help you practice editing and proofreading skills.
John Maybury is a freelance copy editor and proofreader for a number
of publications, advertising agencies, nonprofit organizations and corporations.
- Saturday, 1-5pm
- Sept. 20
- Kentfield Campus, Harlan Center 173
- Fee $65 (Includes $5 materials fee)
- Course #85047
MARKETING
ONLINE MARKETING CLASSES
For registration information, please refer to "Register for Online Classes" on page ??, or go to www.marincommunityed.org.
The dates shown below are the starting dates for the associated course number.
Mystery Shopping
Get paid to go shopping as a freelance mystery shopper! Mystery shopping is used by hundreds
of well-known businesses in the United States to ensure consistent, top-quality customer service from their employees.
Paid shoppers earn from $10-$40 per hour and are in regular demand. This four week, Internet-based, online course
will provide you with information about how to become a freelance shopper or to set up your own business service.
The course has four modules and includes case studies, exercises and handouts.
- Rick Sheridan
- Fee $79
- Sept. 17/Course #85161
- Oct. 15/Course #85162
- Nov. 12/Course #85163
Patents, Prototypes and Profits
This four-week course covers patent dos and don'ts; patent searches; patent infringement; filing
a patent application for $75; creating prototypes; finding markets for your product; trade secrets; public domain
and trademark definitions; doing it yourself vs. attorneys or invention marketing companies; and doing your own
manufacturing vs. selling or licensing. We use a step-by-step process to cover material and include most forms.
- Claudia M. Doege
- Fee $59
- Sept. 17/Course #85164
- Oct. 15/Course #85165
- Nov. 12/Course #85166
Rights, Royalties and Revenue Streams
Artists, authors, crafters, musicians, photographers, publishers! Focusing on copyrights and
trademarks, we cover the step-by-step process from idea or design to ownership of the work, the forms needed, and
the ultimate sale or license. "Fair Use," public domain items, trademarks and new copyright laws are
all explained and a list of 365 ways to distribute your work is included.
- Claudia M. Doege
- Fee $59
- Sept. 17/Course #85167
- Oct. 15/Course #85168
- Nov. 12/Course #85169
A License to Print Money
How do you bring that great idea or product to market that you've already copyrighted or patented,
especially without the time or finances to risk manufacturing it yourself? You license it! This four-week course
gives specific information and forms on where and how to obtain license fees for your ideas or products.
- Claudia M. Doege
- Fee $59
- Sept. 17/Course #85170
- Oct. 15/Course #85171
- Nov. 12/Course #85172
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