Contact Us for One on One Training
All scheduled workshops and training events are entered on our calendar. If you need training or guidance on a topic(s) which is not scheduled, contact us via email at sbdc@sw.edu and we are happy to schedule one-on-one training for you.
On-Demand Videos
Explore the Virginia SBDC Network’s library of recorded webinars:
Patents and Trademarks
Patent and Trademarks videos include:
- Learn about U.S. design patents
- Learn how to conduct a prior art search
- Filing a provisional or non-provisional utility patent application
- USPTO patent resources for inventors, innovators and entrepreneurs
- Trademark basics
- Patenting apps and software
- U.S. patent practice
- Patent basics
- Intellectual property 101
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity videos include:
- What is digital piracy?
- Blackhat vs. Whitehat: What is the difference?
- Cyber awareness training for your business
- Digital spring cleaning
- Cybersecurity policies: Why you need them
- Business continuity
- Disaster recovery planning
- Remote worker security
- Privileged vs. unprivileged access
- What is IOT: Internet of Things
- End point protection
- Cloud security
- Cyber insurance
- Cybersecurity frameworks: Do you need one?
- Vulnerability testing and penetration testing: What is the difference?
- Firewalls
- What is a flat network and why don’t you want one?
- Intrusion detection security
- Phishing
- Open WiFi
- Website security
- Ransomware
- Password vulnerabilities
- Password managers
- Virtual private networks
- Safe online shopping
- Cybersecurity commitments for 2021
- Backing up your data
- Encrypting your laptop, desktop, and servers
- Why you should provide security and awareness training to your staff
- Is Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) putting your business at risk?
- Decluttering your digital life
- Cybersecurity: How to best protect your business online
- Key technologies and cybersecurity needs
e-Commerce
e-Commerce videos include:
- Managing your WordPress website
- Success through e-Commerce
- Future proofing your business: Blockchain basics
- Different digital products and services to consider offering as a small business
- Intro to the best e-Commerce platforms for small business
- e-Commerce for retailers
Management
Management videos include:
- The future of consumers and customer behavior
- Understanding and mitigating supply chain risks remotely
- Good hiring processes when you are hiring online
- Tips and tricks for working remotely
- Managing a remote workforce
- Employee and diversity planning
Restaurants and Retail
Restaurants and Retail videos include:
- Co-opetition
- Fulfillment pivot: Pack it and ship it
- e-Commerce for retailers
- Futurizing your business
- Hosting a virtual food and beverage event: Producers
- Hosting a virtual food and beverage event: Restaurants and retailers
Sales and Marketing
Sales and Marketing videos include:
- Marketing and promoting your business on the web
- Leadership in uncertainty
- Reaching your customers in a changing marketplace
- Understanding your customers: Do you know who is listening
- Branding and messaging to cut through the noise
- Use social media to tell your story in a post-COVID world
- Advertising in the new normal
- Marketing in the new normal
- What is your message?
Business Recovery
Business Recovery videos include:
- What your resiliency plan should look like
- Developing a crisis communication plan
- Risk management/evaluation
- Key technologies and cybersecurity needs
- Succession planning
- Crisis management: Developing a team and process
- Preparing for the next crisis
- Inventory: Identifying revenue, supply chain and recreating inventory stock
- Recovery marketing
- Credit and cash flow management