First Friday E-Calls
Monthly Entrepreneurship Webinars
K-State 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.
| Topic | Slide Deck | Presenter | Date |
| Child Care Innovations in Hays |  |
Sarah Wasinger |
12/6/24 |
| Lessons Learned from ORP Rural Champions: Child Care | |
Keri Falletti, Rural Champions |
12/1/23 |
| K-State Child Care Resources and Assessment for Your Community | |
Bradford Wiles |
6/2/23 |
| Kansas Micro-Internships Program | |
Tim Peterson, Ph.D. |
10/7/22 |
| Community Service Tax Credits | |
Dustin Gale |
1/7/22 |
| Simple Steps for Starting Your Small Business | |
Ron Lunsford |
10/1/21 |
| How Communities Can Provide Quality Child Care | |
Aimee Baker |
6/4/21 |
| Business Resources for Innovation, Tech, and Exporting (BRITE) Center | |
Karl Klein, Laurie Pieper |
1/8/21 |
| Kansas Healthy Food Initiative and Kansas Community Investment Fund | |
Steve Radley |
10/2/20 |
| Kansas Community Investment Fund | |
Steve Radley |
11/1/19 |
| Kansas Community Philanthropy Innovators, Kansas Community Investment Fund | |
Steve Radley |
1/4/19 |
| Topic | Slide Deck | Presenter | Date |
| NXTUS: Gamechangers & Champions 2026 Pitch Competition | Conor Adler | 3/6/26 | |
| Sustainable Practices Benefit Profit | |
Chris Brazil | 10/3/25 |
| Providing Employee Benefits for Small Businesses | |
Brandy Willett | 9/5/25 |
| Using Retirement Funds to Start or Buy a Business | |
Mickey Parker | 1/3/25 |
| Global Exporting: Discovering New Markets | |
Chang Lu |
9/6/24 |
| Kansas Historical Society Funding Incentives: A Tool for Preserving Kansas History | |
Bethany Falvey |
5/3/24 |
| Hays Microfactory | |
David Clingan |
4/5/24 |
| Supporting Entrepreneurs Through Access to Capital, Community, and Customers | |
Amber Dunn |
2/2/24 |
| Financial Capital for Your Small Business | |
Steve Radley |
2/3/23 |
| Creating a Safe Workplace |
|
Allen Vinyard |
1/6/23 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| How (and Why) to Start a Commercial Kitchen |
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Gary Satter |
4/1/22 |
| Community Service Tax Credits |
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Dustin Gale |
1/7/22 |
| Small Business Administration - Scale Up Your Small Business |
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Michael Aumack, Sarah Haymaker |
12/3/21 |
| Simple Steps for Starting Your Small Business - From SCORE - Download Simple Steps Overview (PDF), Helpful Links (PDF) |
|
Ron Lunsford |
10/1/21 |
| Supporting Farm Entrepreneurs |
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Deb Brown, Rick McNary |
7/2/21 |
| Child Care Solutions for Communities |
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Aimee Baker |
6/4/21 |
| Kansas Department of Commerce Program and Assistance for Businesses |
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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 and Manufacturing Cluster |
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Courtney Swanson |
12/4/20 |
| How "From the Land of Kansas" Can Help Your Small Business |
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Janelle Dobbins |
1/6/20 |
| Kansas Healthy Food Initiative and Kansas Community Investment Fund Update |
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Steve Radley |
10/2/20 |
| Creating an Online Sales Presence for Your Business |
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Cheryl Boyer |
6/5/20 |
| 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 | |
Debra Franklin | 10/4/19 |
| Kansas Angel Tax Investor Tax Credits | |
Rachell Rowand | 8/2/19 |
| Technology Development Institute at Kansas State University |
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Bret Lanz |
6/7/19 |
| New Market Tax Credit Strategies |
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Chris Vukas, Steve Radley |
5/31/19 |
| Angel Investing 101 |
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Trish Brasted |
5/3/19 |
| Effective Use of Social Media for Rural Organizations |
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Andy Stanton |
4/5/19 |
| Marketing Your Small Town - Download script: (PDF) |
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Deb Brown |
2/1/19 |
| Kansas Community Investment Fund |
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Steve Radley |
1/4/19 |
| Patent and Trademark Resource Center Resources |
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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 |
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John Gendron |
9/7/18 |
| Tech Commercialization: Government Contracts for Businesses |
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Greg Panichello, SBDC |
5/4/18 |
| Innovative Rural Business Models |
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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, 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 |
| Growing Kansas Agritourism |
|
Sue Stringer |
11/3/17 |
| Topic | Slide Deck | Presenter | Date |
| What is the Economic Impact of Trails? | |
Elizabeth Burger, Mike Scanlon |
11/1/24 |
| Trails: How Can Business Owners Help to Create Trail Towns? |
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Jeff Carroll |
10/6/23 |
| Using Trails to Bring People to Town |
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Elizabeth Burger |
8/5/22 |
| The Role of Trails in Economic Development |
|
Elizabeth Burger, Wynndee Lee, John Coen |
4/2/21 |
| Topic | Slide Deck | Presenter | Date |
| Uniquely Do-Able Ideas for Your Small Town | |
Deb Brown | 4/4/25 |
| Dickinson County CEO Program for Youth | |
Brandy Gray | 3/7/25 |
| New Opportunities-Network Kansas/Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge |
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Erik Pedersen, Bailee Henry |
5/6/22 |
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