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QuickBooks Level 1

$195

with Marcus Lander, Biddeford Adult Education

Calendar Feb 3, 2025

Get a comprehensive understanding of QuickBooks Online, one of the most popular cloud based accounting programs and preferred choice for small business managers, owners, bookkeepers and accounting professionals. In four hands-on units you will learn how to use QuickBooks Online to enter sales, purchases, receive and make payments and add inventory.

Remote Working and Communicating

$245

with William A. Draves, Biddeford Adult Education

Calendar Feb 3, 2025

Working remotely does not make you an expert on remote work. Gain new insights, experiences and advanced tips for working from home.  Find out the 5 bad habits too many remote workers and their managers acquire from lack of experience, tools and expertise. Then acquire the latest strategies for communicating with remote workers.  Come away with a deeper understanding of this enormous cultural and work shift going on in the workplace and in society. 

Social Media for Business Certificate

$495

with Travette Webster, Melissa Torres, Jo-Carolyn Goode, Biddeford Adult Education

Calendar Feb 3, 2025

Get in on this exciting and growing way to communicate, market and serve your customers and clients. For businesses, nonprofits, government, and other organizations. From Facebook to Twitter, blogging, YouTube, LinkedIn, and more, discover the new principles of communication that apply across all networks and how these specific social networks work and the possible uses for your organization. Learn how social networks are used to develop a two-way communication and marketing strategy for your organization. Then find out what you can be doing, what you should be doing, and take back a plan to integrate social networks into your communication and marketing. Whether you are new to social networks or already involved, you will come away with both an understanding of social networks and practical, how-to techniques to integrate social networks into your organization or business. Your instructors are outstanding practitioners who also speak, write, and train others on social networks. Introduction to Social Media must be taken before Integrating Social Media in Your Organization and Marketing Using Social Media.

Understanding Debits and Credits

$195

with Sharon deFonteny, Biddeford Adult Education

Calendar Feb 3, 2025

In this course, you will learn about the accounting equation and the five categories involved in every business (Assets, Liabilities, Owner’s Equity, Revenue and Expenses). Every financial transaction falls into one or more of these categories. Learn how to create a chart of accounts that meet the needs of your business. You will learn how double entry bookkeeping works and the process of recording debits and credits. This course will show you how to identify, analyze and record transactions using journal entries under the cash basis accounting method.

Video Marketing

$245

with Rob Lee, Biddeford Adult Education

Calendar Feb 3, 2025

Sight, sound and motion are much more compelling than static words on a page. Video is very hypnotic and it quickly speeds up the “know, like and trust,” factor with your audience. In this course you will discover how to use simple online video to quickly bond with your viewer, drive traffic to your website, boost business and build brand awareness. Find out how to shoot simple, effective videos without costly fancy equipment or savvy technical skills.  Discover the secrets to creating content that commands attention.  Learn how to dominate Google and YouTube with your video and to strategically use YouTube to market your business 24/7 -- even while you sleep. 

WordPress Certificate

$495

with Andi Helmi, Biddeford Adult Education

Calendar Feb 3, 2025

WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) for website and blog design. During the first week, you will learn or refresh your knowledge of all the initial steps and the required elements for having a website. Then find out how to build a simple WordPress website or blog. Topics include an introduction to CMS, WordPress installation and setup, page and content creation, administration, themes (selection, purchase, installation, and setup), working with widgets and plugins, and more. Finally, acquire advanced knowledge about WordPress options and features. You will learn how to modify WordPress web pages by hand-coding, learn about simple yet effective search engine optimization (SEO) techniques that improve your website ranking, and much more. After successfully completing the WordPress Certificate you will know how to build a WordPress website or blog, customize your WordPress site by hand-coding HTML, CSS, and PHP, know necessary regular WordPress maintenance, create WordPress website backup, and know how to apply SEO techniques in WordPress.

Just Once Piano for Busy People

$29

with Don Pride, Biddeford Adult Education

Calendar Feb 5, 2025 at 6 pm
Some music teachers may not want you to know this, but you don?t need years of weekly lessons to learn piano. In just a few hours, you can learn enough secrets of the trade to give you years of musical enjoyment. How do we do it? While regular piano teachers teach note reading, piano professionals use chords. And you can learn all the chords you?ll need to play any song in this one session. Any song. Any style. Any key. If you can find middle C and know the meaning of Every Good Boy Does Fine, you already know enough to enroll in this workshop. Students need to be 18 or older.

Play the Ukulele, Your Journey Begins Here!

$79

with Duncan Perry, Biddeford Adult Education

Calendar Feb 5, 2025 at 6 pm
1 additional session on Mar 4, 2025
Learn to play the ukulele! It has never been more popular and you don?t even have to know how to read music! On the uke you can knock out folk music, rock, blues, jazz, pop, country, tunes old and new -- even classical music. Duncan Perry, who has taught more than 700 students of all ages, will introduce you to essential chords and playing techniques using commonly known songs. Oh, and there are lots of laughs along the way. And, learning to play an instrument is good for your brain! You will need a playable ukulele and an electronic tuner or a tuner app. And when folks hear you play this happy instrument, well, they just have to smile! If you don?t own a ukulele, please contact us for information. What are you waiting for? Grab a uke and get ready for a musical adventure, then spread the joy! Please check for an email (could be in your Spam folder) from the instructor with the Zoom link in the days before the class.

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