This course combines many business basics with a specific knowledge developed over time of what does and does not work. Helping you to make one of these special businesses successful. Some of the areas that will be covered include:
- Legal form of your business
- Bookkeeping
- Why accept credit cards?
- Insurance
- Taxes
- Marketing & promotion
- Advertising
- Desktop publishing
- Brochure and ad development
- The customer experience
- Delivering what you promised and more.
The next seminar is scheduled for January 24, 2009 at the Sportsman's Alliance of Maine Conference Center in Augusta. This seminar is also available one on one or as a small group opportunity.
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Price for the seminar is $195 per person.
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The Slides from the Guide Business Seminar are available for download. Running a Successful Maine Guide Business Seminar is a one day event Don Kleiner offers that is designed to give guides the information that they need to establish a profitable business. The graduates of the seminar are all talking about it and the presentation slides are available in a downloadable Adobe .pdf file. Of course this does not offer the detail of the discussions in the seminar but it is an excellent overview and reasonable cost alternative to attending the seminar. All 132 slides from the six hours of presentation at the Seminar are here! For only $10.00! You can put the information to use today!
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Participants in seminars receive great information specific to the guiding industry and a one year 25 word listing on the course web site. Click here to view a list of recent graduates.

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