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Start An Online Business - Online Course


Classes for Adults / Business & Technology -
Spring 2025-Adult

Whether you’re dreaming, dabbling, or dead serious, discover the basic elements of starting and running an online business. Topics include types of web-based sales; where, how, and what to sell; getting paid; shipping/fulfillment; staying local vs going national, managing time; profitability; legalities, and more. 


This class is being offered using the Zoom online platform. Before registering, make sure your device meets the minimum requirements; view minimum requirements here: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362023-System-Requirements-for-PC-Mac-and-Linux.

Please see your Class Confirmation email for your online meeting information and more information on joining meetings. 

Joanne Simons

Joanne Simons is an educator and an entrepreneur who works with business owners and individuals that are thinking of starting a business to help them plan, market, and manage their companies effectively and profitably. She has developed special expertise in small business marketing -- developing a practical, simple, effective marketing approach that can be adopted successfully by the most timid marketers. She has taught in the Small Business Management program in several state technical colleges, and for the past 20 years trained almost 600 people across the Twin Cities in small business management, marketing, finance, and planning for an economic development organization. Joanne holds a Master’s Degree in Journalism-Mass Communication from the University of Minnesota and Bachelor’s Degree in English German from Hamline University. She has also been a certified instructor in Small Business Management in the MnSCU Technical College system

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Online Course : Zoom
Tuesday, May 6
6:00 - 8:00 PM

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Min Age   16 yr.