Make Better Business Decisions with Google Analytics | Webinar Livestream

Make Better Business Decisions with Google Analytics | Webinar Livestream

by | May 3, 2023 | Training

GROW Nebraska’s® FREE Online Training

Make Better Business Decisions with Google Analytics

Description:

Learn the do’s and don’ts of website creation and how to make your website work best for you and the customer. Plus, get tips and tricks to consistently get your website to appear at/near the top of search engine results.

Key takeaways include:
-Learn tips to create killer website content
-Make your website easy to find
-How to get your website to the top of the pag

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Meet The Presenter | Maria Elena Duron

Maria Elena Duron is a digital marketing professional with more than 18 years experience in all aspects of digital initiatives for start-ups and all sized businesses. She has over a dozen years active experience in international eCommerce. Her expertise was awarded by the Texas Governor’s office with the Excellence in Small Business Award and Person of Vision award for the State of Texas. She is recognized by the Grow with Google Program and commissioned to speak professionally for Google.

  • 18+ years of practical experience in online and offline connections and developing brand communities including founding one of the Top 10 Twitter chats in the world
  • Serves as a skilled catalyst for positive conversation around your brand.
  • Delivers great brand recognition to clients and their positioning as industry experts
  • Through a partnership, provides Appreciation at Work and Appreciation in Business workshops to passionate professionals and executives.

Maria is a guest lecturer at the University of Texas SBDC, editor-in-chief of the award winning Personal Branding Blog, and a contributing columnist for publications like Business Insider, American Business Journal, Fox Business, US News & World Report, Entrepreneur, The Huffington Post, and The Young Entrepreneurs Council. Maria was awarded the Texas Governor’s Excellence in Small Business Award and is the founder of #brandchat, a recognized online chat focused on marketing and branding. She earned her B.B.A. in marketing from Texas Tech University and graduate work at Cornell University, University of California in Davis, and University of Phoenix.

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Budget to Success | GROW Nebraska’s FREE Online Training

Budget to Success | GROW Nebraska’s FREE Online Training

by | Mar 24, 2022 | Training

GROW Nebraska’s® FREE Online Training

Budget to Success

How to Livestream Your Business to New Customers

My goal is to break barriers and build futures by teaching the importance of financial literacy. It’s not about how much money you make, but managing the money you do make. I am the community favorite financial coach that promotes to have those uncomfortable conversations surrounding money.

Key takeaways include

  • Budgeting, savings, and credit
  • Teaching people how to change their relationship with money focusing on the importance of budgeting, savings, and credit.
  • Don’t go work a 9 to 5 and don’t pay yourself first.
  • Understanding what is credit, what makes up credit, and how to use credit as leverage.
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Cory Morris

Nicka Johnson is the owner and founder of Budget to Success, LLC that teaches the importance of financial literacy to help bridge the economic gap focusing on budgeting, savings, and credit. Over five years ago she began using her social media platform to help educate others about their relationship with money. This was once something she did often amongst friends and family that soon widespread to captivate a brand within itself. Growing up in poverty Nicka became no stranger to overcoming adversity. She grew up in a single parent home and quickly learned that her family dynamics may shape who she is, but they won’t determine who she will become. As she continues to break barriers and build futures, she supports individuals by helping them define their level of success they desire through budgeting, savings, and credit.

Why You Should Embrace Google | GROW Nebraska’s FREE Online Training

Why You Should Embrace Google | GROW Nebraska’s FREE Online Training

by | Mar 17, 2022 | Training

GROW Nebraska’s® FREE Online Training

Why You Should Embrace Google

How to Livestream Your Business to New Customers

This presentation will walk through why having a Google Business Profile is important and how to best optimize it for SEO.

Key Takeaways Include:

  • How to make your Google Business Profile work for you.
  • Why being visible on Google is important for SEO.
  • Google Tools to help make things easier. 
  • How Google ties it all together.
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Cory Morris

Meet The Trainer | Amanda Miller, Member Relations Coordinator for the GROW Nebraska Foundation

Amanda was born and raised in Kearney, Nebraska. She has always had a passion for entrepreneurship and small business. Working at GROW Nebraska a few years now has increased her passion for small business even more! She loves helping entrepreneurs and is a big advocate for having the right resources and connections to help businesses thrive and grow.    

She has been the in house Google expert for GROW Nebraska for over a year and strives to help entrepreneurs understand Google and other marketing topics with ease. 

GROW Nebraska Foundation launches Google Training Series in English and Spanish

GROW Nebraska Foundation launches Google Training Series in English and Spanish

by | Jan 18, 2022 | GROW Blog, Uncategorized

GROW Nebraska Foundation launches Google Training Series in English and Spanish

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Kearney, NE – The GROW Nebraska Foundation along with the Nebraska Enterprise Fund is thrilled to announce starting Wednesday, February 2, 2022, a monthly Google training series will be offered in English and Spanish. The trainings will be presented by certified Google Grow Your Business trainers Dave Meyer and Sixica Devine. The trainings will also be training on demand so even if you are unable to make the actual training time the recording will be sent out to all registered participants.

 

“Our board continues to push the GROW Nebraska team to offer training opportunities that will make a difference for our Nebraska businesses. If we can help businesses become more indexed in Google, it is a win for everyone” – Janell Anderson Ehrke GROW Nebraska CEO.  To help make these trainings possible we have partnered with the Nebraska Enterprise fund. “Partnering with Nebraska Enterprise Fund makes this opportunity even stronger. The trainings are open to the public; anyone who wants to learn more about Google should sign up. “The GROW Nebraska Foundation Board of Directors could not be happier with our newest training series”

– Kent Grisham, GROW Nebraska Foundation board member.

The Google training in English will be offered from noon to 1:00 pm CST

Topic Name: Get Your Local Business On Google Search & Maps

The Google training in Spanish will be offered 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. CST

Topic Name: Ponga Su Negocio En Google Search Y Maps

 

Sixcia Devine and Dave Meyer are the Google experts who will be presenting our training series. They are exhilarated to work with GROW Nebraska and had this to say about our upcoming training series.

“Digital education for learners and small business owners is essential for professional and personal growth. The key to implementing those tools is simplicity and that is what I hope to share with the attendees who join my workshops.”

“La educación digital para estudiantes y propietarios de pequeñas empresas es esencial para el crecimiento profesional y personal. La clave para implementar esas herramientas es la simplicidad y eso es lo que espero compartir en los talleres de Google.”

-Sixcia

“I’m excited to kick off our Grow with Google training series with our first event: Get Your Local Business on Google Search and Maps,” said Dave Meyer, speaker/trainer for Grow with Google. Showing up when customers are searching online is more important than ever. Ensure customers can find accurate, updated information about your local business on Google Search and Google Maps, no matter which device they use.”

-Dave

 

About the GROW Nebraska® Foundation

The GROW Nebraska® Foundation helps entrepreneurs get the resources they need to live in Anywhere, NE and make a sustainable living. Since the inception of GROW Nebraska® in 1998 our vision and mission has never wavered: to create viable economic development through business training, technical assistance, promotion, and access to markets. We create impactful opportunities for small business owners and entrepreneurs to live in “Anywhere”, Nebraska and make a sustainable living.

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April 13 | Members-Only Training | Google Webinar | Make Better Business Decisions with Analytics

April 13 | Members-Only Training | Google Webinar | Make Better Business Decisions with Analytics

by | Apr 6, 2021 | Uncategorized

April 13 | Members-Only Training | Google Webinar | Make Better Business Decisions with Analytics

DATE: Tuesday, April 13th

TIME: 2 p.m. CT

Learn best practices and analyze trends about how customers engage with your business online, then turn these insights into well-informed, actionable decisions.

In this session we’ll cover:

  • An introduction to Google Analytics
  • Creating and understanding reports
  • Making goals
  • Using Analytics with other Google tools
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