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Small Business Courses

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.

Popular Small Business Courses and Certifications


  • C

    Coursera

    Getting started with Fiverr for Freelancers

    Skills you'll gain: Competitive Analysis, Web Presence, Content Creation, Entrepreneurship

    ★ 4.1 (14) · Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

  • M

    Microsoft

    Performance Domains in Project Management

    Skills you'll gain: Stakeholder Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Project Performance, Project Management Life Cycle, Team Performance Management, Team Management, Solution Delivery, Project Management Institute (PMI) Methodology, Stakeholder Communications, Project Schedules, Project Implementation, Project Planning, Team Building, Scheduling, Stakeholder Analysis, Performance Metric, Plan Execution, Project Management, Agile Project Management, Performance Measurement

    ★ 4.6 (19) · Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • U

    Universidad de los Andes

    Estilos de Liderazgo: opciones para avanzar en desafíos complejos

    Skills you'll gain: Community Organizing, Drive Engagement, Community Development, Leadership Studies, Ethical Standards And Conduct, Strategic Leadership, Team Building, Organizational Leadership, Leadership Development, Complex Problem Solving, Adaptability, Professional Development, Systems Thinking, Leadership, Resourcefulness, Business Leadership, Risk Management, Dealing With Ambiguity, Self-Awareness, Emotional Intelligence

    ★ 4.9 (1.9K) · Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • T

    Total Seminars

    Getting It Done with AI: AI Essentials

    Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, AI Personalization, Prompt Engineering Tools, AI literacy, ChatGPT, AI Enablement, AI powered creativity, LLM Application, Anthropic Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Decision Intelligence, AI Integrations, AI Workflows, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI Agents, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), digital literacy, Responsible AI, Large Language Modeling, Communication

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

  • U

    Universidad Austral

    Modelización Cuantitativa para Finanzas Corporativas

    Skills you'll gain: Financial Modeling, Time Series Analysis and Forecasting, Risk Modeling, Regression Analysis, Financial Forecasting, Predictive Modeling, Statistical Modeling, Financial Data, Forecasting, Finance, Trend Analysis, Predictive Analytics, Statistical Methods, R Programming, Financial Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Statistics, Probability & Statistics, Estimation, Probability Distribution

    ★ 4.5 (32) · Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • L

    LearnQuest

    Ethics in the Age of AI

    Skills you'll gain: Data Ethics, Responsible AI, Model Training, Model Evaluation, Predictive Modeling, AI Security, OpenAI, Data Collection, Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics, Information Privacy, Artificial Intelligence, Game Theory, Large Language Modeling, Algorithms, Data Preprocessing, AI literacy, Personally Identifiable Information, Machine Learning Algorithms, Analytical Skills

    ★ 4.6 (970) · Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

  • G

    Google Cloud

    Build Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud

    Skills you'll gain: Data Warehousing, Data Quality, Data Cleansing, Performance Tuning, Data Validation, Scalability, System Monitoring, Event Monitoring, Serverless Computing

    ★ 4.5 (1.7K) · Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • F

    Fractal Analytics

    Generative AI for Consultants

    Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Responsible AI, Generative AI, AI Security, Management Consulting, Business Consulting, Consulting, AI Enablement, Technical Consulting, Quality Assurance, Market Intelligence, Market Research, Automation

    ★ 4.3 (34) · Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • P

    Pragmatic AI Labs

    Rust on GCP

    Skills you'll gain: Google Cloud Platform, Data Pipelines, Rust (Programming Language), Google App Engine, Containerization, Cloud-Based Integration, Data Engineering, Cloud API, Cloud Engineering, Cloud Management, Multi-Cloud, Cloud Infrastructure, DevOps, Serverless Computing, MLOps (Machine Learning Operations), Cloud Services, Cloud Platforms, Cloud Storage, Cloud Security, Cloud Computing Architecture

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

  • U

    University of Copenhagen

    Sustainable Tourism – promoting environmental public health

    Skills you'll gain: Sustainable Development, Sanitation, Sustainable Systems, Sustainability Standards, Water Resource Management, Water Resources, Water Sustainability, Environment and Resource Management, Environment, Environmental Issue, Natural Resource Management, Waste Minimization, Pollution Prevention, Public Health, Economic Development, Infection Control, Social Impact

    ★ 4.7 (1.4K) · Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • U

    University of Pennsylvania

    Creating a Team Culture of Continuous Learning

    Skills you'll gain: Team Performance Management, Systems Thinking, Cognitive flexibility, Team Building, Knowledge Transfer, Innovation, Team Leadership, Organizational Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Organizational Structure, Adaptability, Performance Analysis, Performance Review, Creativity, Discussion Facilitation, Decision Making, Culture

    ★ 4.6 (200) · Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • P

    Politecnico di Milano

    Project Management: Life cycle and project planning

    Skills you'll gain: Project Management Life Cycle, Project Management, Project Planning, Project Scoping, Scope Management, Project Schedules, Work Breakdown Structure, Workflow Management, Timelines, Organizational Skills, Scheduling, Organizational Structure, Resource Management, Matrix Management, Resource Allocation

    ★ 4.8 (119) · Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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In summary, here are 10 of our most popular small business courses

  • Getting started with Fiverr for Freelancers: Coursera
  • Performance Domains in Project Management: Microsoft
  • Estilos de Liderazgo: opciones para avanzar en desafíos complejos: Universidad de los Andes
  • Getting It Done with AI: AI Essentials: Total Seminars
  • Modelización Cuantitativa para Finanzas Corporativas: Universidad Austral
  • Ethics in the Age of AI: LearnQuest
  • Build Batch Data Pipelines on Google Cloud: Google Cloud
  • Generative AI for Consultants: Fractal Analytics
  • Rust on GCP: Pragmatic AI Labs
  • Sustainable Tourism – promoting environmental public health: University of Copenhagen

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