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K-State Research and Extension offers an entrepreneurship webinar every first Friday of the month. The purpose of the First Friday e-Call is to increase the local community's knowledge of the experts, education and economic resources available to help small businesses and entrepreneurs and to share innovations in community development.
2024 First Friday e-Calls
| Topic | Slide Deck | Presenter | Date |
| Child Care Innovations in Hays |  |
Sarah Wasinger |
12/6/24 |
| What is the Economic Impact of Trails? | |
Mike Scanlon, Elizabeth Burger |
11/1/24 |
| How Can USDA Rural Development Help Your Community? | |
Christy Davis |
10/4/24 |
| Global Exporting: Discovering New Markets | |
Chang Lu |
9/6/24 |
| Getting Results: The 7 Essentials | |
Doug Griffiths |
8/2/24 |
| Moving In, Moving Out, Moving Over - The Future of Housing Supply | |
Ben Winchester |
7/12/24 |
| Is Your Industrial Site Ready for Development? | |
Corrie Ann Campbell, Beth Johnson, Kerri Falletti |
6/7/24 |
| Kansas Historical Society Funding Incentives: A tool for preserving Kansas History | |
Bethany Falvey |
5/3/24 |
| Hays Microfactory | |
David Clingan |
4/5/24 |
| Engaged Kansas | |
Brenden Wirth |
3/1/24 |
| Supporting Entrepreneurs Through Access to Capital, Community, and Customers | |
Amber Dunn |
2/2/24 |
| Technical Assistance to Brownfields | |
Maggie Bellanger | 1/5/24 |
2023 First Friday e-Calls
Archived First Friday e-Calls
First Friday e-Call Archive:
| Topic | Slide Deck | Presenter | Date |
| Funding for Housing and Commercial Rehab |
|
Linda Hunsicker |
12/2/22 |
| No Budget Marketing (Well, Just a Little...) |
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Lea Ann Seiler |
11/4/22 |
| Kansas Micro-Internships Program |
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Tim Peterson |
10/7/22 |
| Moderate Income Housing |
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Audree Guzman |
9/2/22 |
| Using Trails to Bring People to Town |
|
Elizabeth Burger |
8/5/22 |
| How Can Remote Online Training Help Kansans Work Where They Live? |
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Jaime Menon, Ron Wilson |
7/1/22 |
| Get Your Business on Google Search and Maps |
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Meghan McFall |
6/3/22 |
| New Opportunities-Network Kansas/Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge |
|
Erik Pedersen, Bailee Henry |
5/6/22 |
| How (and Why) to Start a Commercial Kitchen |
|
Gary Satter |
4/1/22 |
| Creating Housing with Privately Funded Land Banks |
|
Julie Lyon |
3/4/22 |
| Rural Housing Incentive Districts |
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Kayla Savage |
2/4/22 |
| Community Service Tax Credits |
|
Dustin Gale |
1/7/22 |
| Small Business Administration - Scale Up Your Small Business |
|
Michael Aumack, Sarah Haymaker |
12/3/21 |
| Broadband Expansion Achievements and Opportunities in Kansas |
|
Stanley Adams |
11/5/21 |
| Simple Steps for Starting Your Small Business - From SCORE - Download Simple Steps Overview (PDF), Helpful Links (PDF) |
|
Ron Lunsford |
10/1/21 |
| Improving Rural Housing: An Idea Friendly Approach - Download Chat Log/Resources (PDF) |
|
Becky McCray |
9/3/21 |
| Kansas Housing Resources |
|
Ryan Vincent, Kayla Savage |
8/6/21 |
| Supporting Farm Entrepreneurs |
|
Deb Brown, Rick McNary |
7/2/21 |
| Child Care Solutions for Communities |
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Aimee Baker |
6/4/21 |
| Certified Sites Program |
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Jonathan Clayton |
5/7/21 |
| The Role of Trails in Economic Development |
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Elizabeth Burger, Wynndee Lee, John Coen |
4/2/21 |
| Kansas Department of Commerce Program and Assistance for Businesses |
|
Craig VanWey |
3/5/21 |
| Kansas Center for Business Transition |
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Jack Harwell |
2/5/21 |
| BRITE Center, Washburn University |
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Karl Klein, Laurie Pieper |
1/8/21 |
| Great Plains Technology & Manufacturing Cluster |
|
Courtney Swanson |
12/4/20 |
| How "From the Land of Kansas" Can Help Your Small Business |
|
Janelle Dobbins, Sammy Gleason |
11/6/20 |
| Kansas Healthy Food Initiative and Kansas Community Investment Fund Update |
|
Steve Radley |
10/2/20 |
| Grow Your Own Entrepreneurs |
|
Deb Brown |
9/4/20 |
| Rebuilding with Resilience |
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Becky McCray |
8/7/20 |
| Creating an Online Sales Presence for Your Business |
|
Cheryl Boyer |
6/5/20 |
| Local Response to COVID-19, Update on Federal Programs |
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Heather Hartman, Tara Vance, Bethany Shirk, Londa Nwadike, Michael Aumack |
5/1/20 |
| Emergency Programs to Help Small Businesses and Displaced Employees During COVID-19 |
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David Toland, Delia Garcia, Laurel Klein Searles |
4/3/20 |
| Baby Boomers and the Rural Housing Supply |
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Ben Winchester |
3/6/20 |
| CDBG Housing Grants for Your Community |
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Linda Hunsicker |
2/7/20 |
| How KansasWorks Can Help Small Businesses Get Qualified Employees |
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Jo Brunner, Joseph Comfort |
1/3/20 |
| CyberSecurity - Wolves in Sheep's Clothing and How to Keep from Getting Sheared |
|
Jerry Horton |
12/6/19 |
| Kansas Community Investment Fund (KCIF) Impact Investing |
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Steve Radley |
11/1/19 |
| SBIR/STTR Grants - Leveraging America's Seed Funds |
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Debra Franklin |
10/4/19 |
| Filling Empty Buildings |
|
Deb Brown |
9/6/19 |
| Funding Options for Small Businesses - Download flyers: IDA Program (PDF) Take Your Small Business International (PDF) |
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Rachéll Rowand and David Toland |
8/2/19 |
| Technology Development Institute at Kansas State University |
|
Bret Lanz |
6/7/19 |
| New Market Tax Credit Strategies |
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Chris Vukas and Steve Radley |
5/31/19 |
| Angel Investing 101 |
|
Trish Brasted |
5/3/19 |
| Effective Use of Social Media for Rural Organizations |
|
Andy Stanton |
4/5/19 |
| Rewriting the Rural Narrative |
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Ben Winchester |
3/1/19 |
| Government Grant Funding to Help Rural Communities (Special) |
|
Debbie Beck, Jessica Bowser |
2/28/19 |
| Marketing Your Small Town - Download script: (PDF) |
|
Deb Brown |
2/1/19 |
| Kansas Community Investment Fund |
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Steve Radley |
1/4/19 |
| Patent and Trademark Resource Center Resources |
|
Sara Butts |
12/7/18 |
| Worldwide Marketing - Kansas Global Trade Services |
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Holli Schletzbaum |
11/2/18 |
| Cyber Security Threat to Small Business |
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Brian Dennis |
10/5/18 |
| Network Kansas Resource and Referral Center |
|
John Gendron |
9/7/18 |
| The New Rules of Business Success |
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Jon Schallert |
7/6/18 |
| Tech Commercialization: Government Contracts for Businesses |
|
Greg Panichello, SBDC |
5/4/18 |
| Innovative Rural Business Models Download slides: (PDF) |
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Becky McCray |
4/6/18 |
| Economic Gardening - a Revenue Growth Strategy for Second Stage Businesses |
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Chris Gibbons and Paul Bateson |
3/2/18 |
| Business Valuation and Business Transition Planning - Small Business Development Center |
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Greg Panichello, Lisa Brumbaugh |
2/2/18 |
| Launching an e-Commerce Store: How to Know When You are Ready and How to Make it Happen |
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Cassie Wandersee |
1/5/18 |
| Kansas Healthy Food Initiative |
|
David Procter |
12/1/17 |
| Growing Kansas Agritourism |
|
Sue Stringer |
11/3/17 |
| USDA Rural Development Financing for Local Communities and Businesses |
|
Jessica Bowser |
10/6/17 |
| How K-State Can Help Your Small Business Develop its E-Commerce Capacity |
|
Heather Morgan |
9/1/17 |
| What Can Land of Kansas Do For Your Small Business? |
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Janelle Dobbins |
7/7/17 |
| The Why and How of Holding a "Supporting Small Business" Workshop |
|
Cindy Evans |
6/2/17 |
| How Marketing Helps Small Businesses Grow |
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Elizabeth Collins |
4/7/17 |
| Filling Empty Buildings |
|
Becky McCray |
3/3/17 |
Kansas Small Business Development Center - The mission of the KSBDC is to increase economic prosperity in Kansas by helping entrepreneurs and small business owners start and grow their businesses though professional consulting, training and resources. - Fort Hays State University