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Small Business, Big Threat: How Exposed is your Business to Cyber Attacks?

Event date: Nov. 3, 2022

Event time: | 10:00 am - 11:00 am

This class discusses the realities of cyber risk and the need for cyber security. You will uncover the cyber threats that exist, explore basic best practices and review scenarios and examples to help you protect you and your business. To ...

Connect with Customers and Manage Your Business Remotely

Event date: Nov. 9, 2022

Event time: | 9:00 am - 10:00 am

Join Bryan Caplan, Speaker for Grow with Google, for an info-packed webinar dedicated to growing your business online and keeping you connected.In this 45-minute webinar, you will discover Google tools that can help business owners like you work and ...

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Vazquez Commercial Contracting, LLC – Kansas City

Published: Monday, July 17, 2017

(This story originally ran in 2013)Joe Vazquez, president and CEO of Vazquez Commercial Contracting, LLC, wasn’t thinking about construction.He wanted to be an accountant.He and his twin brother were such diligent students they were named ...

MU Extension boosts local economies by training young business owners

Published: Friday, Sept. 18, 2015

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Employment patterns over the past decade are prompting many enterprising youths to explore business ownership as an avenue for income.Fourteen-year-old Jefferson City native Rebekah Kempker typifies the trend. The high school ...

Business aims to link autistic workers with tech jobs

Published: Thursday, April 2, 2015

COLUMBIA, Mo. —Teacher Teri Walden and physician Becky Llorens met a couple of years ago and bonded over a common concern. Each has an autistic young adult son seeking work.While helping their sons find jobs, the two Columbia women did something ...

Farm business plans improve efficiency and profitability

Published: Monday, Aug. 12, 2013

EDINA, Mo.– Like any other business, a farm is more likely to succeed with a written business plan.“A business plan can serve as a road map for your business,” says Karisha Devlin, a University of Missouri Extension agriculture ...

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Starting and Operating a Farmers Market: Frequently Asked Questions

Publication date: May 20, 2021

Farmers markets are popular in Missouri and across the nation. In Missouri, over 200 farmers markets are currently in operation. In the United States, there are an estimated 8,600 markets in operation, up from just under 2,000 in 1994.This guide is a ...

Profitable Poultry: Raising Birds on Pasture

Publication date: Jan. 1, 2012

This publication features farmer experiences plus the latest research in a new "how-to" guide to raising chickens and turkeys using pens, movable fencing and pastures. A Kentucky family nets between 90 cents and $1.50 per pound from Louisville ...

Making Plans for Commercial Aquaculture in the North Central Region

Publication date: Oct. 1, 1993

Aquaculture in not a new concept. Japanese, Chinese, Romans, Egyptians and Mayan Indians farmed fish for food and recreation prior to 2000 BC. Ponds were constructed and fish were raised much in the same manner as fish are raised today.Both ...

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Fundamentals of Supervision

July 1, 2021 - Oct. 31, 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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