Marketing, video editing, Excel classes offered in March by JWCC Business and Industry Training

QUINCY — John Wood Community College Business and Industry Training is offering social media and Excel classes this spring. Classes are open to the public. No application is necessary. Reservations are required. The classes will take place at JWCC’s Workforce Development Center, 2710 N. 42nd.

Digital Marketing for Local Business will be held Tuesday, March 7, from 9 a.m.-noon. The cost is $65 per person. Andrew Skattebo with BrickStreet Digital will present the class.

Many small businesses need help to stay in front of potential customers and rise above the noise of competing products and services. The Digital Marketing for Local Business workshop will show participants how to get Google to showcase their local business, send customers ready to buy and improve referrals.

Video Basics for Business is designed to be a basic intro to creating video for social media or a website. This workshop is for people who want to use more video on their website or social media but are not sure where to start. Video Basics for Business will be held Tuesday, March 14, from 9 a.m-noon. The cost is $75 per person. Andrew Skattebo with BrickStreet Digital will present the class.

The eight-hour Excel Level I course will meet on March 21 and 23 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. and March 28 from 1:30 p.m-3:30 p.m. This course covers general spreadsheet uses by offering examples of entering and editing several types of data. Topics covered include entering, editing and deleting data; adjusting column width and row height; entering a formula; working with function arguments; and much more. The cost of the class is $95. Michael Wells will instruct the course.

The six-hour Excel Level II class meets on April 11, 13 and 18 from 1:30-3:30 p.m. This course is an extension of the Excel Level I class and will cover such topics as finding and replacing data, importing/exporting, using block names, advanced functions, sharing workbooks, creating a database, PivotTables and PivotCharts. The cost of the class is $95. Wells will instruct the course.

For more information or to register, contact the Workforce Development Center at 217-641-4971 or visit https://www.jwcc.edu/programs/workforce/.