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In this course, Travis L. Holt, Co-founder, CEO & Author of the book used for curriculum titled How to Unleash Email Marketing with MailChimp walks you through some of his email marketing secrets that have propelled H-Impact to success. This course's objective is to provide a fundamental understanding of MailChimp and all it has to offer for businesses and organizations wanting to increase their customer base with little to no budget from the beginner to the advanced user. In Part 1 of this course, Travis will: Get you up to speed on the importance of email marketing, Educate you on the fundamentals of building and engaging customer lists, Provide a virtual tour of the out of the box free tools provided by MailChimp, and Set up your own MailChimp account

In Part 2 of How to Unleash Email Marketing with MailChimp, Travis L. Holt, Co-founder, CEO & Author of the book used for curriculum titled How to Unleash Email Marketing with MailChimp jumps right back in where we left off from Part 1. After setting up our MailChimp accounts we take a tour of the Email Marketing features available online for free using MailChimp. After familiarizing ourselves with the features including: Performance Reports, Templates, and List Management tools, we take a stab at setting up our own Email Campaign using an Email Template to send out to a Mailing/Subscriber list. We use Microsoft Excel and MailChimp online web forms to collect email addresses for our Mailing list. By the end of this course, you will have the skills needed to create and monitor your own Email Campaigns or eBlasts using the powerful Free service features provided by MailChimp.

In this course, we take a tour of the Email Marketing features available online for Free using MailChimp. After familiarizing ourselves with the features including, Performance Reports, Templates, and List Management tools, we take a stab at setting up our own Email Campaign using an Email Template to send out to a Mailing/Subscriber list. We use Microsoft Excel and MailChimp online web forms to collect email addresses for our Mailing list. By the end of this course, you will have the skills needed to create and monitor your own Email Campaigns or eBlasts using the powerful Free service features provided by MailChimp.

Looking for a job can feel like a monumental task if you don’t know how or where to start. As a part of H-Impact’s Employment Services, we will be hosting a series of events designed to assist Job Seekers in their search for jobs. Join us as we discuss some effective search techniques that have worked well for many. Learn the best techniques in positioning yourself for the position you want. Hear it directly from those in charge of conducting the interviews and making the hiring decisions to include: CEO's, HR Specialists, Hiring Managers and more.

Meetings, instruction, training, pitches; these are all a part of our daily lives. We are often called upon to deliver presentations with little notice, at multiple venues, and with varying requirements. And, some of these presentations include sensitive information that needs to be guarded. Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2013 provides you with a variety of such tools that can help you deliver content in nearly any situation, while saving time and effort. By taking advantage of these tools, you will be creating presentations that not only stand out from the crowd, but also don't consume all of your available time. You can also use the course to prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification exam (Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2013 Exam 77-422 ) for Microsoft PowerPoint 2013.

Gone are the days of flip charts or drawing on a white board to illustrate your point. Today's audiences are tech savvy, accustomed to high-impact multimedia content, and stretched for time. By learning how to use the vast array of features and functionality contained within Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2013, you will gain the ability to organize your content, enhance it with high-impact visuals, and deliver it with a punch. In this course, you will use PowerPoint 2013 to begin creating engaging, dynamic multimedia presentations. You can also use the course to prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification exam (Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2013 Exam 77-422 ) for Microsoft PowerPoint 2013.

Now, you're ready to learn advanced Access features such as database management, advanced form design, packaging a database, encrypting a database, preparing a database for multi-user access, and more. Knowledge of these features separate database professionals from the casual database users or occasional designers. This training, added to that which you've gained from the previous two courses, rounds out your Access education and provides you with marketable job skills.You can also use the course to prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification exam (Microsoft Office Access 2013 Exam 77-424) for Microsoft Access 2013.

Your training and experience using Microsoft® Access® 2013 has given you basic database management skills such as creating tables, designing forms and reports, and building queries. In this course, you will expand your knowledge of relational database design, write advanced queries, structure existing data, share data across applications, and customize reports. Extending your knowledge of Microsoft Access 2013 will result in a robust, functional database for your users. You can also use this course to prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification exam (Microsoft Office Access 2013 Exam 77-424) for Microsoft Access 2013.

A relational database application such as Microsoft® Office Access® 2013 can help you and your organization collect and manage large amounts of data. Access is a versatile tool. You can use it as a personal data management tool (for your use alone), or you can use it as a construction set to develop applications for an entire department or organization. In this course, you will learn how to use Access 2013 to manage your data, including creating a new database; constructing tables; designing forms and reports; and creating queries to join, filter, and sort data. You can also use this course to prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification exam (Microsoft Office Access 2013 Exam 77-424) for Microsoft Access 2013.

This course builds upon the foundational knowledge presented in the Microsoft® Office Excel® 2013: Part 1 course and will help start you down the road to creating advanced workbooks and worksheets that you can use to create dashboards. The ability to analyze massive amounts of data, extract actionable intelligence from it, and present that information to decision makers is the cornerstone of driving a successful organization that is able to compete at a high level.

We are now living in the age of big data. Data is being collected all the time and for increasingly detailed transactions. This can lead to an overwhelming amount of data, which brings about a need for people who can analyze large amounts of data quickly. Fortunately, Excel provides Power Pivot to help you organize, manipulate, and report on your data in the best way possible. Since a tool is only as good as the person using it, it is important to gain a solid understanding of Power Pivot to maximize your effectiveness when analyzing data.

This course builds off of the foundational and intermediate knowledge presented in the Microsoft® Office Excel® 2013: Part 1 (Second Edition) and Part 2 (Second Edition) courses to help you get the most of your Excel experience. The ability to collaborate with colleagues, automate complex or repetitive tasks, and use conditional logic to construct and apply elaborate formulas and functions will put the full power of Excel right at your fingertips. The more you learn about how to get Excel to do the hard work for you, the more you'll be able to focus on getting the answers you need from the vast amounts of data your organization generates.This course covers Microsoft Office Specialist exam objectives to help students prepare for the Excel 2013 Exam and the Excel 2013 Expert Exam (Microsoft Office Excel 2013 Exam 77-420 and Microsoft Office Excel 2013 Expert Exams 77–427 and 77-428).

This course builds upon the foundational knowledge presented in the Microsoft® Office Excel® 2013: Part 1 (Second Edition) course and will help start you down the road to creating advanced workbooks and worksheets that can help deepen your understanding of organizational intelligence. The ability to analyze massive amounts of data, extract actionable information from it, and present that information to decision makers is at the foundation of a successful organization that is able to compete at a high level.This course covers Microsoft Office Specialist exam objectives to help students prepare for the Excel 2013 Exam and the Excel 2013 Expert Exam. This course covers Microsoft Office Specialist exam objectives to help students prepare for the Excel 2013 Exam and the Excel 2013 Expert Exam (Microsoft Office Excel 2013 Exam 77-420 and Microsoft Office Excel 2013 Expert Exams 77–427 and 77-428).

Organizations the world over rely on information to make sound decisions regarding all manner of affairs. But with the amount of available data growing on a daily basis, the ability to make sense of all of that data is becoming more and more challenging. Excel can help you organize, calculate, analyze, revise, update, and present your data in ways that will help the decision makers in your organization steer you in the right direction. This course aims to provide you with the foundational Excel knowledge and skills necessary to begin that journey. This course covers Microsoft Office Specialist exam objectives to help students prepare for the Excel 2013 Exam and the Excel 2013 Expert Exam. (Microsoft Office Excel 2013 Exam 77-420 and Microsoft Office Excel 2013 Expert Exams 77–427 and 77-428)

If you work with lengthy documents, collaborate with others, or create forms, this course will show you how to use Word to efficiently accomplish these tasks.Microsoft Word 2013 enables you to do more than simple word processing. It can be used to collaborate on complicated documents and manage how the documents are accessed and distributed. Advanced features of Word 2013 enable you to revise, manage, and secure your business documents. You can also use this course to prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification exams for Microsoft Word 2013 (Microsoft Office Word 2013 Exam 77-418 & Microsoft Office Word 2013 Expert Exam 77-419).

This course will show you how you can work more efficiently by automating some tasks and providing methods to maintain consistency between documents. You will create more complex documents that include lists, tables, charts, graphics, and newsletter layouts. You will also merge data into documents to personalize correspondence and address envelopes and labels with the data as well. You can also use this course to prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification exams for Microsoft Word 2013 (Microsoft Office Word 2013 Exam 77-418 & Microsoft Office Word 2013 Expert Exam 77-419).

In this course, you'll learn how to use Word 2013 to create and edit simple documents; format documents; add tables and lists; add design elements and layout options; and proof documents. You can also use this course to prepare for the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification exams for Microsoft Word 2013 (Microsoft Office Word 2013 Exam 77-418 & Microsoft Office Word 2013 Expert Exam 77-419 ).