SmallBizU is an online academy created especially for small businesses and entrepreneurs. This online academy seeks to instill a formal business intelligence - the capacity to solve problems, meet challenges, and create valued products.
What is inside?
SmallBizU teaches the "3Ms" - Money, Marketing and Management through a no-frills, utilitarian curriculum that provides small businesses with real world tools and information. Within SmallBizU there are over 4,000 animated slides presented across 24 core classes. Each course is delivered via the internet full of animated slides accompanied by voice-over narration, PowerPoint presentations, worksheets, toolsets, and access to a comprehensive knowledgebase. A typical course ranges anywhere from 170 to 200 slides and is presented over a three to four hour period. Self administered quizzes and tests allow you to verify your comprehension of the materials.
What can it do?
Most people that start a business are technicians by trade. They know a skill or craft and seek to build a business around it. But, as Michael Gerber states in The E-Myth, "therein lies the fatal fallacy: a technician assumes because they know the trade or craft that they know how to run a business that does the technical work." As technicians, they have worked in their business, but not on it. Fortunately, the critical skills of entrepreneurship can be taught. Peter Drucker has said, "Entrepreneurship is not magic, it's not mysterious, and it has nothing to do with genes. It's a discipline. And, like any discipline, in can be learned and improved upon." SmallBizU provides skills an entrepreneur can use to allow them to work on their business rather than just in it.
