Small business courses can help you learn financial management, marketing strategies, customer service techniques, and operational efficiency. You can build skills in budgeting, social media marketing, and effective communication with clients and suppliers. Many courses introduce tools like QuickBooks for accounting, Canva for marketing materials, and CRM software for managing customer relationships, showing how these skills can streamline operations and enhance business growth.

Skills you'll gain: Virtual Networking, Routing Protocols, Remote Access Systems, Hardening, Security Controls, Patch Management, Package and Software Management
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: WordPress, Order Processing, Order Management, Payment Processing, Content Management Systems, E-Commerce, Payment Systems, Merchant Services, Web Content, Software Installation, Shipping and Receiving, Sales Tax, Email Automation, System Configuration
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Canva (Software), Logo Design, Content Scheduling, Graphic and Visual Design, Animations, Branding, Design Elements And Principles, Graphic Design, Marketing Design, Graphics Software, Graphic and Visual Design Software, Social Media Content, Brand Marketing, Creative Design, Style Guides, Typography, Video Editing
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months
Coursera
Skills you'll gain: Layout Design, Typography, Logo Design, Graphic and Visual Design, Graphic Design, Graphic and Visual Design Software, Design Software, Graphics Software, Digital Design, Color Theory, Design Elements And Principles, Branding, Graphical Tools, Vector Databases, File Management
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Newsletters, Target Audience, Email Marketing, Communication Strategies, Marketing Communications, Marketing Materials, Campaign Management, Advertising Mail, Testability, Digital Marketing, User Accounts, Account Management
Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

University of Virginia
Skills you'll gain: Growth Strategies, Business Strategy, Strategic Thinking, Plan Execution, Business Strategies, Strategic Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, Competitive Analysis, Organizational Strategy, Business Ethics, Peer Review, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Business Planning, Corporate Strategy, Strategic Leadership, Strategic Decision-Making, Governance, Stakeholder Management, New Business Development, Competitive Intelligence
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Microsoft
Skills you'll gain: Stakeholder Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Business Analysis, Project Management, Stakeholder Analysis, Analysis, Risk Management, Microsoft Power Platform, Problem Management
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

University of Pennsylvania
Skills you'll gain: People Analytics, Descriptive Analytics, Data-Driven Marketing, Financial Statement Analysis, Business Analytics, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Customer Analysis, Financial Statements, Human Resource Strategy, Financial Analysis, Marketing Analytics, Human Resources Management and Planning, Analytics, Operational Efficiency, Predictive Analytics, Customer Insights, Financial Data, Operational Analysis, Peer Review, People Management
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: Process Modeling, Risk Mitigation, Business Analysis, Data Storytelling, Risk Analysis, Business Analysis Tools, Project Scoping, Risk Management Framework, Process Flow Diagrams, Stakeholder Analysis, Prompt Engineering, Stakeholder Management, Data Presentation, Digital Transformation, Responsible AI, Business Process Modeling, Excel Formulas, Data Cleansing, Business Analytics, Business Requirements
Beginner · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Skills you'll gain: Business Strategy, Business Strategies, Business Planning, Organizational Strategy, Strategic Thinking, Corporate Strategy, Strategic Planning, Strategic Leadership, Strategic Decision-Making, Competitive Analysis, Business Modeling, Market Analysis, Resource Management, Value Propositions
Build toward a degree
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Skills you'll gain: Data Storytelling, Data Governance, Marketing Analytics, Data Presentation, Data Visualization, Business Workflow Analysis, Business Analytics, Data-Driven Marketing, Accounting, Data Management, Storytelling, Data Collection, Data Quality, Data Visualization Software, Classification Algorithms, Business Analysis, Analytics, Data Analysis, Power BI, Machine Learning
Build toward a degree
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Microsoft
Skills you'll gain: Microsoft Power Platform, Excel Formulas, Process Flow Diagrams, Business Process Modeling, User Story, Business Requirements, Stakeholder Management, Data Modeling, Process Modeling, Microsoft Excel, Software Development Life Cycle, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Elicitation, Quality Management, Diagram Design, Microsoft Visio, Power BI, Stakeholder Engagement, Business Analysis, Data Analysis
Beginner · Professional Certificate · 3 - 6 Months