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The University of Missouri Extension Business Development Program assists businesses throughout the state. The programs below are what make the Missouri Business Development Program and provide assistance to most industries. Learn more by clicking on a program.

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Small Business Certifications for Federal, State & Local Government Contracts

Oct. 21, 2020

| 9:00 am - 10:30 am

MO

This virtual seminar is an overview of the current small business socio-economic certifications in federal, local state and city government. The federal government spends over $500 billion in goods and services each year, and 23% of this spend is set ...

FireUP Your HR: Blazing through the Basics of Employment Law

Oct. 21, 2020

| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm

MO

Has your emergency preparedness got you concerned and feeling uncertain about employee rights during Coronavirus? Join us to make sure your exits are well lit and ring the bell for HR compliance.For information please contact Sherry Noller - ...

Managing Forward series: Agile Marketing, Sales and E-commerce for Small Businesses

Oct. 22, 2020

| 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

MO

This course focuses on developing an effective E-commerce strategy and plan that focuses on steps every business must work through to successfully market and sell using on-line tools with distributed customers, employees, and suppliers. The series is ...

Use YouTube to Grow Your Business

Oct. 27, 2020

| 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Get the best practices for creating a YouTube Channel and compelling video content that promotes your products and services and drives engagement with your brand. Understand different video formats. Make good creative, and learn how to target and ...

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Using NRCS Technical and Financial Assistance for Agroforestry and Woody Crop Establishment Through the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP)

Publication date: Oct. 1, 2020

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that is responsible for assisting landowners to improve our soil, water, air, plants, wildlife and energy use. Ensuring productive lands in harmony ...

Landowners’ Guide to Lease Hunting in Missouri

Publication date: Sept. 1, 2020

Figure 1. A hunting lease provides an opportunity for a landowner to supplement their farm income and enhance wildlife habitat.An increasing number of landowners in Missouri are interested in providing access for sportsmen and others to hunt, fish ...

Break-even Pricing, Revenue and Units

Publication date: Sept. 1, 2020

For a value-added agricultural business, break-even pricing informs how to price a value-added product. If a product’s market-accepted sales price is greater than its break-even price, then the business can feel more confident in the financial ...

Designing a Farm Resume for Print and Online

Publication date: Aug. 1, 2020

In the past few decades, agriculture has experienced enormous change. The 2017 Census of Agriculture shows a decrease in the number of farms and a slight increase in average farm size. At the same time, the average age of all U.S. farm producers has ...

Communicating With Landowners

Publication date: Aug. 1, 2020

The 2017 U.S. Census of Agriculture indicated that 40 percent of all U.S. agricultural land is rented. Farm tenants increasingly compete for farmland as they seek to grow their operations and capture economies of scale. At the same time, a growing ...

Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy: Retailer Toolkit

Publication date: July 1, 2016

Stock Healthy, Shop Healthy is a comprehensive, community-based program that enables communities to improve access to healthy foods by working with a small food retailer.Food retailers of all sizes can play an important role in improving access to ...

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Online courses

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Starting a Small Business-The First Steps

online $0.00

This self-directed course provides information on the steps necessary to start a new business in Missouri. There are a total of ten steps addressing legal considerations, planning, licensing and registrations, and financing. The Missouri SBDC is ...

Business Plan Basics

July 1, 2020

online $0.00

Business Plan Basics is a self-paced course that describes the importance of a business plan and the planning process as well as the four fundamental topics any business plan must address. Access to LivePlan through the SBDC and the alignment of the ...

How to Understand Financial Statements

July 1, 2020

online $0.00

How To Understand Financial Statements provides self-paced instruction in how to read and interpret a balance sheet and an income statement, which is also called a profit and loss statement. The distinction between cash and accrual accounting and ...

Closing Your Business

online $0.00

The purpose of course is strictly to provide information and knowledge. There are no prerequisite knowledge and competencies. If the time comes, for whatever reason, to close a business it requires more than just locking the doors and walking away. ...

Creating a Legacy-Preparing Your Business for Succession

online $0.00

This self-paced course consisting of 3 modules, each less than 15 minutes long, will help the student understand the challenges of preparing to transition their business to a new owner when they decide it is time to leave. The transition process is ...

Fundamentals of Supervision

Aug. 3, 2020 - July 1, 2021

online $240.00

Transitioning to a supervisory role can be difficult; it can be challenging to be the boss of those who used to be your peers. As an individual contributor, you developed specific technical expertise that made you proficient in completing ...

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Featured programs

Growing Agribusiness Sustainably

The Growing Agribusiness Sustainably program strives to double the value of Missouri agriculture by 2030.

Mid-America Trade Adjustment Assistance Center

Helping manufacturers in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska respond to import competition through cost share grant funding and support.

Missouri Procurement Technical Assistance Centers

MO PTAC helps businesses - including small, disadvantaged, veteran and women-owned firms - obtain federal, state and local government contracts.

Missouri Small Business Development Centers

Helping businesses at every stage from concept to startup, growth to renewal, mature to succession succeed through counseling, training and access to technology.

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