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4 JUMPSTART BACK TO SCHOOL DIRECTORY of Classes for Entrepreneurs LEARN MARKETING/BRANDING Executive Certificate in Brand Management (48 hours) This program is designed to provide a practical perspective in creating, building and managing strong brands. Classes are offered on Friday evenings, Saturday and Sundays. hkuspace.hku.hk, $6,500 HKD 24 October 2014 - 17 January 2015 Creative Marketing Plans for Small Businesses (24 hours) This course will help small businesses maximize revenue by building loyal customers in cost-effective ways. The course looks at how participants can use consumer data to generate sales and help them build an annual plan aimed to generate higher revenue. raffles.edu.hk, $7,200 HKD Classes begin every other month LEARN GRAPHIC DESIGN/UX User Experience Design (12 weeks) This course is an introduction to User Experience with a focus on Information Architecture. Students create a complete UX brief, from ideation to annotated wireframes that could be handed off to a developer to be built. generalassemb.ly, $28,000 HKD November 11– February 12, 2014. Tuesdays/Thursdays 7-9pm User Experience Bootcamp (7 weeks) WOW-X is a User Experience Bootcamp that trains startups and UX designers to help accelerate their new product development in 7 Weeks. Minimum 2 people per startup. kaizor.com. $8,000 HKD per person Stay tuned for the next session JUMPSTART LEARN WEB DEVELOPMENT LEARN SALES Web Development Immersive (12 weeks) This all day, every day, 12-week course will help you develop a portfolio of projects individually and in small teams that are ready to present to employers. generalassemb.ly, $90,000 HKD Sep 22 – December 19, 2014. Monday – Friday 9-5:30pm One-Day Sales & Role-Playing Workshop This interactive workshop is designed to help executives to master presentation and sales-closing skills and to apply them in daily sales activities to win more business. marketing.hkma.org.hk, $2,700 September 23, 2014 Back-End Web Development (10 weeks) In this course you will learn the fundamentals of an object-­ oriented programming language and build functional web applications. generalassemb.ly, $25,000 HKD October 7 – December 11, 2014. Monday/Wednesday 7-10pm Front-End Web Development (10 weeks) In this course, you will learn to design and code beautiful, interactive client-facing websites using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. generalassemb.ly, $28,000 HKD October 14 - December 18, 2014. Tuesday/Thursday 7-10pm A 1-Day Seminar on Selling Skills that Sell This class is designed to help salespeople acquire effective selling skills and techniques to achieve better results. marketi