IED Texas

The purpose of this training course is to provide veteran entrepreneurs with a fundamental understanding of common terms and language related to government contracting. Conducted in a classroom setting this 3 hour course will supply a comprehensive definition of many government terms such as: Basic ordering agreement”, “Best value”, “Bilateral Contract Modification”, “Central Contractor Registration (CCR), “Change order”, “Claim”, “Commercial Item and many more. You will walk away with a general understanding of federal contracting terminology in order to equip you with the tools necessary to successfully do business with the federal government. Hands on computer learning with a fun interactive game will reinforce your skills learned during this informative session.

Fee: Free           Address: San Saba, Rm. 1.103A, San Antonio, TX 78207-3113

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Have you ever wondered what it takes to start a small business? How about what it takes to operate one? Come to this seminar and have your questions answered! Topics discussed in this class include: choosing a name and legal structure, your responsibilities and requirements as they pertain to local and federal entities, and business start up costs. If you are considering opening a small business this is your starting point.

UTSA Downtown Campus, Durango Bldg., Room 2.316

Online Fee: $30

Walk-in Fee: $50

Register online and save $20. While multiple workshop registrations can be made, only one payment can be made at a time. Please feel free to call or email for any questions.

Discuss current issues including how to cherish your customers. Main topic: “Customer Service”. Learn about practical tips to create quality relationships with your customers and clients (both internal and external) and provide superlative customer service. Designed to encourage small group communication and participation, this roundtable discussion will encompass the small business ownership experience.

Fee: $10 all payments can be made at the door the day of the event.

11:30am-1:30am
12951 Bandera, Helotes, TX 78023

This dynamic networking breakfast provides opportunities for small business owners to highlight their product/services to contractors, suppliers, and vendors. Small Business Procurement advocates from government agencies are invited monthly as guest speakers to provide valuable insights on how to do business with their agency and to announce contracting opportunity updates. This month's guest speaker: Ms. Esmeralda Rodriguez with Air Force Enterprise Sourcing Group Sponsored by: Liquid Capital

Fee: Free          Address: Pico de Gallo Restaurant -111 S. Leona, San Antonio, TX 78207

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The Green Bag Lunch and Learn is a free lunch-time series on sustainability and related topics hosted by the Sustainable Business Program. These sessions are a great way to kick back and learn about current topics related to all aspects of small business efficiency. Presented by subject matter experts, the Green Bag Lunch is designed to be short, informative, and interactive. You will learn about sustainability while networking with other small business professionals.

This month's Green Bag, presented by Bruce Hughes, the newest member of the Sustainable Business Program team, will cover creating a sustainable business with The Business Model Generation Canvas. Business plans are often necessary, but once written, many sit unread in a drawer or file cabinet and do not contribute to sustaining your business. What if you had an analytical tool that could get the assumptions and key elements of your business up on a wall so you and your team could keep them visible - and change them when circumstances change?

Location: 215 S. San Saba, Room 1.103A, San Antonio, TX 78207

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Want to start or grow an existing business? Get a PLAN. Our experienced instructors will teach you the components of a business plan using an interactive format in a computer lab setting. Walk away from this workshop with the start of a business plan written specifically for your business, an electronic template and resources to guide you through the process!

UTSA Downtown 501 W. César E. Chávez, Room 1.402

Online Fee: $40.00 Walk-in Fee: $60.00

This course introduces the basic features of QuickBooks and provides an opportunity for hands-on practice. We discuss the information the business owner needs to track, and how to enter and track it in QuickBooks. The course outcome: familiarity with the most common tasks, and where to find information about more advanced features. Lessons include: setting up Quick Books, working with lists, and working with bank accounts.

UTSA Downtown Durango Bldg., Room 1.402

Online Fee: $100 each or $250 for entire series

Walk-in Fee: $120 each or $310 for entire series

Registration and prepayment strongly encouraged as seating is limited. Please note that while multiple workshop registrations can be made, only one payment can be made at a time. Please feel free to call or email for any questions.

Monthly Breakfast Forum: Doing Business with Asia

Asian countries are becoming some of the strongest markets in today's economy. As an international business professional you will need high-value information to help you tap into these huge markets that will grow sales and expand your business.

Covering the most up-to-date topics in Asia, the Texas – Asia Business Series will provide you with the latest industry and market information presented by experts who have one result in mind - growing your business. The Texas – Asia Business Series consists of a series of monthly breakfast meetings held on the third Wednesday of every month. Each meeting will be packed with information and resources that provide a take-away value for your global enterprise, all while you enjoy coffee and breakfast.

This workshop will bring you up to date with the latest tools and techniques as they relate to making your manufacturing more lean and 'green'. Beginning with the concepts of the 'triple bottom line' and 'total product life cycle' considerations and then touching on Six Sigma techniques and terminology, this module will familiarize attendees with the ten principles of the 'lean workplace'. The module explores the impact that lean businesses can have on their supply chains and issues associated with energy use and production. The module concludes with a demonstration of several tools developed by the SBP to help small businesses make sustainable project decisions.

Location: 215 S. San Saba, Room 1.103A, San Antonio, TX 78207

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Bring your lunch to this roundtable event geared toward the Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) Federal Program that allows contracting officers to set-a-side or limit federal contracts to WOSBs or economically disadvantaged women-owned small businesses (EDWOSB). This new ruling will level the playing field for WOSBS to compete for Federal contracts. Participants will discuss government contracting concerns, share ideas, learn from each other and receive valuable resources available through the Contract Resource Center to assist you with getting self-certified and marketing to the federal government.

Fee: Free      

Location: SBDC Contracting Resource Center

215 S. San Saba Training Room 1.103A

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Looking to purchase, rent or lease commercial property? Visit us before you do. This new and exciting workshop is tailored specifically for small business owners looking for the right commercial property to complete their business dream. Discuss basic considerations in commercial real estate such as factors in negotiating a lease or sales price, and how to assess property lease vs. purchase decision. At the end of this workshop you will understand the lease or buying process from beginning to end and know how to develop a request for proposal (RFP).

UTSA Downtown Campus, Durango Bldg., Room 2.316
501 W. Cesar E. Chavez Blvd.
San Antonio, TX 78207

Online Fee: $30
Walk-in Fee: $50

Discuss current issues including how to cherish your customers. Main topic: “Customer Service”. Learn about practical tips to create quality relationships with your customers and clients (both internal and external) and provide superlative customer service. Designed to encourage small group communication and participation, this roundtable discussion will encompass the small business ownership experience.

UTSA Downtown, Room 2.316

Fee: Free/Light Lunch Provided
Registration strongly recommend as seating is limited

FEE: $25.00     

ADDRESS: 215 S. San Saba, RM 1.103A, San Antonio, TX 78207

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Want to start or grow an existing business? Get a PLAN. Our experienced instructors will teach you the components of a business plan using an interactive format in a computer lab setting. Walk away from this workshop with the start of a business plan written specifically for your business, an electronic template and resources to guide you through the process!

UTSA Downtown 501 W. César E. Chávez, Room 1.402

Online Fee: $40.00 Walk-in Fee: $60.00

Registration and prepayment strongly encouraged as seating is limited. Please note that while multiple workshop registrations can be made, only one payment can be made at a time. Please feel free to call or email for any questions.

This course completes the introduction to the basic features of QuickBooks and provides an opportunity for hands-on practice. Lessons include: using other accounts in QuickBooks (credit card, asset, liability & equity) entering sales and invoices, receiving payments and making deposits, entering and paying bills, setting up inventory, and tracking and paying sales tax.

UTSA Downtown Campus, Durango Bldg., Room 1.402

Online Fee: $100 each or $250 for three part series / Walk-in Fee: $120 each or $310 for three part series Please note that while multiple workshop registrations can be made, only one payment can be made at a time. Please feel free to call or email for any questions.

This session is a combination of the Business Start-up Essentials, Business Plan Basics and Financial Planning sessions. Topics include: Starting Your Small Business, Business Legal Structure and Name, Tax Responsibilities, Federal, City, and County Resources & Requirements, Business Plan Basics, Feasibility Process, Business Plan Structure, and Financial Analysis. Take this course and save some hours and money!

UTSA Downtown, Durango Bldg., Room 2.316

Online Fee:$100/Walk-in Fee:$120

Registration strongly recommended as seating is limited.

Have you ever wondered what it takes to start a small business? How about what it takes to operate one? Come to this seminar and have your questions answered! Topics discussed in this class include: choosing a name and legal structure, your responsibilities and requirements as they pertain to local and federal entities, and business start up costs. If you are considering opening a small business this is your starting point.

UTSA Downtown Campus, Durango Bldg., Room 2.316

Online Fee: $30

Walk-in Fee: $50

Register online and save $20. While multiple workshop registrations can be made, only one payment can be made at a time. Please feel free to call or email for any questions.

This workshop provides further detail on market research and the financial portion of the business plan. This session covers researching and analyzing the target market, developing financial projections and the loan process.

UTSA Downtown Campus, Durango Bldg., Room 1.402

Online Fee: $40

Walk-in Fee: $60

Register online and save $20. Please note that while multiple workshop registrations can be made, only one payment can be made at a time. Please feel free to call or email for any questions.

Follow up to “Restaurant Start-up” workshop. Writing a business plan for a restaurant is imperative. Design a plan that is attractive to your investors, stakeholders, and yourself by including marketing, financial projections, strategies and contingencies that will differentiate your eatery from your competition. This class is designed for those planning to start a new restaurant and for owners who have yet to write a business plan. “Restaurant Business Planning” will help owners to convey a vibrant and crisp description and strategy to get the restaurant in full swing. The advisors will share the mistakes and successes of local restaurant owners.

Washington Place Bldg., Room 1.103A

Fee: Free

Registration strongly encouraged as seating as is limited.

GSA schedules are used by most government buyers. Learn how your company can complete an application for GSA and participate in government contracting. This course discusses how the GSA Schedule works, and how you can apply for the schedule you need. A brief portion of this part will also cover the basics of the Texas Multiple Award Schedule (TXMAS) which allows State and municipal agencies to buy commodities and services based on the GSA Schedule. The Instructor discusses these three major steps to becoming a GSA Contractor: Market research and information gathering, understanding the solicitdation process and preparing the offer and getting to contract.

Fee: Free

Address: 215 S. San Saba, Training Room 1.103A, San Antonio, TX 78207-4415

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This seminar will show you how to map out the procurement opportunities as a GSA schedule contractor. The session will delve into four areas: * Understanding the GSA Government Marketplace * Schedule Contractors "Success Stories" * Taking Advantage of GSA Advertising & Marketing Help * How to Find the Buyers (Free Internet Resources)

Fee: FREE

Address: Contracting Resource Center

215 S. San Saba, Conference Room 1.103A, San Antonio, TX 78207

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This class will include the following learning objectives:

• Site reconnaissance - Understanding the key building components to any green structure
• Gathering the team - You are only as green as your subs

It will also address the following specific areas:

• Reducing sub-contractor risk by understanding the green ethos
• Key trades affected: HVAC, building envelope, electrical, plumbing, landscape, insulation

Conclusion: It's not easy being green - Learn from an actual case study.

Location: 215 S. San Saba, Room 1.103A, San Antonio, TX 78207

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This unique course provides advanced concepts and offers an introduction to customizing QuickBooks Pro. Receive one-on-one instruction with UTSA Senior Level Accounting Students and Certified QuickBooks Pro Advisors to customize QuickBooks to meet your business needs and ask specific questions. Lessons include analyzing financial data, doing payroll with QuickBooks, estimating and progress invoicing, tracking time and customizing forms and writing letters.

UTSA Downtown, 501 W. César E. Chávez, Rm. 1.402

Online Fee: $100 each or $250 for three part series / Walk-in Fee: $120 each or $310 for three part series Please note that while multiple workshop registrations can be made, only one payment can be made at a time. Please feel free to call or email for any questions.

Bring your lunch at this brown bag session where a representative from UTSA will discuss how you can best do business with the University.

Fee: Free

Address: 215 S. San Saba, Rm 1.103A, San Antonio, TX 78207

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