The Internet and the World Wide Web
Category:Technology
Course Level Startup
Course Description
The Internet can connect you to people, information, and resources around the world. This course shows you how to connect to the Internet, browse webpages and websites, use search engines, and communicate with others using email, instant messaging, blogs, and other media.
Course Benefits
The Internet has changed the way people communicate with each other. You can access and use various services related to finding information, communicating, and conducting business on the Internet.
Primer
Category:Technology
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
Improve your business and marketing skills with five-minute lessons. Primer is a mobile app with quick, interactive lessons on writing a business plan, making a great website, marketing a business online, and more.
(available in local language for Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam)
*This is a mobile application
Setting Prices
Category:Marketing
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How do I set prices for my products or services?
Explore how to price your products and services effectively. Learn how to use word processing software to customize tables that help track information you gather to set your prices. Learn what research to complete to determine prices for your products and services.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Set prices for products and services
Use word processing software to customize tables
Marketing Benefits vs Features
Category:Marketing
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How can you effectively promote the benefits of your products or services?
Learn how to effectively promote the advantages of your products or services to your target audience in order to help you increase sales. Learn how to use templates to create marketing materials.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Understand the difference between the benefits and features of your products or services and effectively promote them to your target market
Use online templates to create a flyer for your business
Unique Value Proposition
Category:Marketing
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How can you figure out what makes your business unique?
Explore how you can differentiate your business from your competitors’ businesses. Learn how to search the Internet more effectively.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Assess your business’s strengths and weaknesses
Examine the strengths and weaknesses of your competitors’ businesses
Conduct an effective Internet search for information about your competitors’ businesses
Connecting Global Commerce
Category:Operations
Course Level Startup
Course Description
Learn how PayPal operates across platforms and devices — enabling consumers to pay with any device or operating system they choose no matter if they’re on their mobile devices, desktops or in the physical store. Since PayPal touches both the consumer and the merchant, we have the data to help protect against fraudulent transactions on the consumer side, while helping merchants to better understand their customers.
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Furniture Safety Requirements for the US Market
Category:Trade/ Logistics
Course Level Ready to Export
Course Description
The U.S. market has specific safety requirements for testing and certification of furniture sold in the U.S.The requirements include stability, electrical and flammability conditions.
Join UL, an authority on product safety, for an overview on how UL Standards and Certifications demonstrate that furniture complies with U.S. requirements.
All About Marketing Automation – What it is & Why it works
Category:Technology
Course Level Startup
Course Description
Hear how you can respond to prospective buyers anywhere and everywhere, at any moment in time with triggered campaigns–from scoring specific actions to prioritizing leads for sales to creating timely emails from website visits.
Strategic Planning
Category:Operations
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
Learn to use a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis to choose the best strategies to help your business reach its long-term goals. Look into how you can start today.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Use a SWOT analysis to consider your businesses Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats in order to select the most effective strategies for the success of your business.
Make the process easier by integrating word processing and spreadsheet documents
This course was developed in collaboration with the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, as part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Advancement and Development through Entrepreneurship Programs and Training (ADEPT) partnership for Myanmar (Burma).
Cash Flow
Category:Finance/ Accounting
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How can keeping track of your cash flow help your business?
Explore how to monitor and track your cash flow. Learn how to customize a spreadsheet to track your cash flow. Learn why cash flow is important to your business, and how to make decisions based on the research and results you gather.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Make decisions about how to manage your cash
Use spreadsheet software to track your cash flow
Tool for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Category:Operations
Course Level Startup
About this Course:
This Entrepreneurship and Innovation (EI) training is designed for individuals that have existing enterprises, particularly those that have been recently established or those that have identified problems.
After EI training, participants will better understand how to innovate through an innovative process, and how to use the tools presented to spend time on innovating within their businesses. Participants will have a new skill set and confidence to think creatively, come up with innovative ideas and test these with people in and outside their business.
The EI is part of Community-Based Enterprise Development (C-BED), a low cost, innovative training program designed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to support skills development and empowerment in local communities for improvements in livelihoods, productivity and working conditions.
Available Lessons:
- Overview of the programme
- Introductions
- What is Innovation
- Creative Thinking
- Problem Definition
- Create Ideas
- Filter
- Pilot
- Action Plan
Eligible for Certification: Yes
Penggerak Pertumbuhan UMKM
Category:Technology
Course Level Startup
Ikuti kursus Penggerak Pertumbuhan UMKM yang dirancang oleh Badan Pembangunan Internasional Amerika Serikat (U.S. Agency for International Development – USAID) dengan dukungan dari Badan ASEAN untuk Urusan Usaha Kecil dan Menengah (ASEAN Coordinating Committee on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises – ACCMSME) dan Dewan Bisnis Amerika Serikat (AS)-ASEAN (US-ASEAN Business Council – US-ABC) untuk mempelajari aspek-aspek yang penting bagi UMKM untuk berkembang. Kursus ini dibuat berdasarkan modul-modul pembelajaran yang mudah diikuti dan dapat Anda pelajari sesuai dengan waktu yang Anda miliki. Modul-modul tersebut dilengkapi dengan berbagai aktivitas pembelajaran termasuk video mikro, webinar yang telah direkam sebelumnya, dan pelajaran interaktif.
Usaha Mikro, Kecil, dan Menengah (UMKM) ASEAN yang berpartisipasi dalam survei elektronik yang dilakukan oleh proyek ASEAN-USAID IGNITE pada November 2022 mengindikasikan bahwa tantangan yang paling mendesak selama pandemi COVID-19 adalah aspek keuangan. Dalam aspek keuangan, sebagian besar UMKM ASEAN menunjukkan bahwa tantangan keuangan yang paling mendesak yang diidentifikasi adalah biaya tetap – antara lain upah, pajak, dan biaya jaminan sosial.
Penggerak Pertumbuhan UMKM berfokus pada membuka kekuatan pembayaran digital, konten, iklan digital, dan operasi digital untuk UMKM ASEAN yang dapat bertahan di masa depan. Kursus ini akan mendukung UMKM dalam menerima pembayaran melalui dompet elektronik, memanfaatkan data pembayaran digital, membuat konten yang menarik, menghasilkan kampanye yang menarik, dan melacak konversi untuk meningkatkan hasil. UMKM ASEAN juga akan dibantu untuk membuat bisnis mereka agar dapat diakses oleh pelanggan global sebagai strategi untuk membuat bisnis mereka bertahan di era digital.
Small Business Owners Training
Category:Operations
Course Level Growing
About this Course:
The Small Business Owners (SB) training builds on the key principles of business to develop the competencies needed for managing operations and making improvements. The emphasis is not on producing fully worked revisions of written business plans but on supporting business owners to develop the skills for assessing different business strategies and identifying practical improvements. The SB training is designed for individuals that have existing enterprises, particularly those that have been recently established or those that have faced difficulties.
After completing the training, participants will better understand how a business operates, how to assess different business strategies, and how to collaborate with others to promote their businesses success. Participants will have a new skill set and confidence to take action, make decisions and plan for the future of their businesses or prospective businesses.
The SB is part of Community-Based Enterprise Development (C-BED), a low cost, innovative training program designed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to support skills development and empowerment in local communities for improvements in livelihoods, productivity and working conditions.
Available Lessons:
- Overview of the programme
- Introductions
- Better Marketing
- Improving Productivity
- Improving Quality
- Bookkeeping
- Understanding Costs
- Action Planning
Eligible for Certification: Yes
e-Commerce Concepts & Platforms
Category:e-Commerce
Course Level Startup
Course Description:
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Build a foundation on the basic of e-Commerce
- Understand the concepts of e-Commerce, its advantages compared to traditional commerce especially for SMEs
- Describe business models and core operation strategies
Strengthening Global Presence Through Online Marketing
Category:Technology
Course Level Startup
About this Course:
Learners will be introduced to what it means and how to strengthen your global presence by winning the moments that matter in our constantly connected world. Google will acquaint learners about people – the ones we’re trying to reach and influence and how their behavior has changed, thanks to the explosion of technology. Learners will be familiarized to shifts in consumer behavior affect us as marketers and business owners. And finally Google will share innovative things learners can do to driver performance in our constantly connected world.
Instructor: Bianca Grey, Account Manager
Course Type: Self-Paced
Lesson Length: 15 minutes
Build Your Executive Career on Salesforce
Category:Operations
Course Level Startup
Course Description
Learn the skills needed to build your Executive Career on Salesforce
Course Objective
After completing this unit, you’ll be able to:
- Learn the different Salesforce capabilities and best practices to be successful in your Salesforce Career
- Grow your business, boost productivity, and make smart decisions with Sales Cloud.
- Supercharge your agents with omni-channel tools and an intelligent service platform.
- Build intelligent experiences for your customers with the Salesforce Platform.
- Discover insights and predict outcomes with this powerful set of AI-enhanced features.
- Explore our powerful suite of products and start building your digital marketing strategy.
- Use Quip to improve your team’s collaboration and efficiency by addressing workflow bottlenecks.
- Give customers a seamless commerce experience that integrates with your backend systems.
- Use Experience Cloud to connect with your customers and partners.
- Reflect on the value of diversity and inclusion at work and what you can do to promote equality.
- Learn the Salesforce Great Manager Model and discover strategies for being a great manager.
- Learn to lead a contact center in the digital era.
Course Developer
Salesforce is the #1 CRM, bringing companies and customers together in the digital age. Founded in 1999, Salesforce enables companies of every size and industry to take advantage of powerful technologies — cloud, mobile, social, voice, and artificial intelligence — to connect to their customers in a whole new way. They are coming to us as their trusted advisor, and together we are transforming their businesses around the customer.
Salesforce Customer 360 is our vision for how we help customers with their digital transformations. With Customer 360, all your teams — marketing, sales, service, commerce, IT, and analytics — have a single view of customer data on an integrated CRM platform powered by AI. Collaboration is easier, so employees can work together to build lasting, trusted relationships and deliver the intelligent, personalised experiences their customers expect.
Salesforce is committed to a set of core values — trust, customer success, innovation, and equality of every human being. Salesforce is one of the leaders on Fortune’s Change the World list, and has been one of Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, for twelve years in a row. For information, please visit www.salesforce.com.
Productivity Programs
Category:Technology
Course Level Startup
Course Description
Productivity programs are tools that you can use to create documents, presentations, tables, charts, and graphs. This course explores the most common productivity software applications used in business, in education, and at home. In this course, you will learn the features of various productivity programs such as word processing software, spreadsheets, presentation software, and databases. You will also learn how to select the right software to cater to your needs.
Course Benefits
Productivity programs are used in business for schedules, resumes, business plans, and more. These programs are widely known and used on a daily basis. In school, students are using these applications to write essays, create presentations, and organize their schedule. High Schools and Colleges have started demanding a typed final essay for a grade; forming these applications into a vital part of education. Others may use the applications at home for any other tasks, making these applications a universal tool.
Problem Solving and Entrepreneurship through Innovation
Category:Operations
Course Level Startup
About this Course:
This Problem Solving and Entrepreneurship through Innovation (EI) training is designed for individuals that have existing enterprises, particularly those that have been recently established or those that have identified problems.
After EI training, participants will better understand how to innovate through an innovative process, and how to use the tools presented to spend time on innovating within their businesses. Participants will have a new skill set and confidence to think creatively, come up with innovative ideas and test these with people in and outside their business.
The EI is part of Community-Based Enterprise Development (C-BED), a low cost, innovative training program designed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to support skills development and empowerment in local communities for improvements in livelihoods, productivity and working conditions.
Available Lessons:
- Overview of the programme
- Introductions
- What is Innovation
- Creative Thinking
- Problem Definition
- Create Ideas
- Filter
- Pilot
- Action Plan
Eligible for Certification: Yes
Sales Forecasting
Category:Marketing
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How can you gather the right information to forecast sales for your business?
Learn why sales forecasting is important for your business and how to gather information to make a sales forecast. Learn how to customize a spreadsheet to track your sales forecast. Learn how to gather the important information needed to create your sales forecast.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Gather information to make a sales forecast for your business
Use spreadsheet software to track your sales forecast
Webinar: Promoting Secure Digital Payments for Indonesian SMEs (in Bahasa Indonesia)
Category:Trade/ Logistics
Course Level Startup
Course Description
The US-ASEAN Business Council in partnership with the Ministry of Cooperatives and Small and Medium Enterprises Indonesia and the Indonesian Employer’s Association (APINDO) is proud to present a webinar on “Promoting Secure Digital Payments for Indonesian SMEs”.
What the participants will learn:
- The Indonesian Government Program to Prepare the Digitalization for SMEs in COVID-19
- The Importance of Digital Payments and Cashless Transaction for SMEs
- RiskRecon Initiatives: Small Business Free Cybersecurity Training
Speakers’ profile:
- Ms. Destry Anna Sari, Assistant Deputy of Marketing, Ministry of Cooperatives and SMEs Indonesia.
- Mr. Wahyu Putarnto, Senior Analyst, Mastercard Indonesia.
- Mr. Agrian Pangestu, Cyber & Intelligence Product Manager, Mastercard Indonesia