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    • Clinical Nutrition - Visits 1 thru 4 - Expectations Form
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    • About
    • Articles, Links & Resources2
    • Articles, Links, and Resources
    • Education >
      • Health Insurance Education >
        • Insurance - START HERE...
        • 1) Personal Health Insurance
        • 2) Medicare
        • 3) Work Comp Cases
        • 4) Personal Injury Cases
        • "Super Bill" Explained
        • "HICFA Form" Explained
      • General Wellnes Education
      • How Should I Take my Herbs, Nutrition and Homeopathic Remedies
    • 21 Day Purification Program Info
    • Continuing Education >
      • Introduction
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      • Business Literacy - BL 101
      • Finance >
        • Financial Literacy - FL 101
      • Bookkeeping & Accounting >
        • BKA 101 - Industry Orientation & Sea Change
        • BKA 102 - Fun Seekers Corner
        • BKA 103 - Accounting Studio Magic
      • Operations >
        • Small Business Administration - SBA 101
      • Technology >
        • Technology Literacy - TL 101
      • Strategy

Continuing Education > Introduction

We offer Continuing Education Material for Practice Management and DIY Software Solutions for Small Business.  It's  offered as correspondence courses only.   We may or may not offer live courses or Healing and Wellness curriculum in the future.  We will be applying for Continuing Education Certification for California Acupuncturists in the near future ( written 9/7/2022).  If that goes well we will expand out to other professions,  states and countries in time.  

We have branded some of the written material as "BRICs Practice Management".  BRICs represents a combination of the names Bryan and Ric. We will be offering all our curriculum through a dedicated "BRICs Practice Management" website in the future. 

About Us and Our Offerings

​INTRODUCTION TO RIC & BRYAN
Ric has been a Licensed Acupuncturist in the State of California since 1991.  Ric's undergraduate degree is in Economics from Stanford (BA Economics) .  Ric has extensive background in corporate and small business.  Ric also worked for decades as a Professional Bartender.  Ric's Business Manager is Bryan. 

Bryan is a degreed Mechanical Engineer  with a Master's in Business Administration , both from Virginia Tech (BSME and MBA) . Bryan worked in corporate America for multi-national corporations for approximately 7 years prior to going self employed in 2000.  Since 2000, Bryan has been involved in Real Estate Sales, Development and Management, Computer Programming, Small Business Consulting, Production Art, and all aspects of Website production.

In 2014, Ric and Bryan  met  when Bryan was in need of wellness support. In 2015, Bryan started assisting Ric part time with Office Administration. In 2016 they began developing "DIY Software" and Business Curriculum with an eye on sharing with others when it was mature. 

Ric and Bryan are two of the original Founders of the "Soul Proprietor Guide" website and the "DIY Software Club".   ZAP Accounting Software represents the largest software system to date produced with the DIY Software Club programming methodology.  ZAP Accounting Software is now a Volunteer Collaborative that offers free software and free education globally with anonymity granted to all who want to learn. 

As of 2022, Ric and Bryan started offering Correspondence Courses for California Acupuncturists.  ( application submissions printed but not submitted yet).   They expect to extend their course offerings in California, nationally and globally in coming years.  ​
​FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL  /  PAY FOR YOUR CE CERTIFICATES
  • All curriculum is offered FREE and anonymously to the public.   
  • Some of this written material is currently also found on the ZAP Accounting Software Website or other referenced sites.
  • As co-creators of that material  and members of those private, volunteer collaboratives, we posses distribution rights for re-marketing and education of that material. 
  • Those needing CE credits will pay for their Certificates after consuming the material. See more detailed instructions below. 
​INSTRUCTIONS FOR THOSE NEEDING CE CREDITS
  • All our CE Material is self paced.  We have no formal test taking as part of our offerings and that's what keeps part of it private.
  • Each of our offerings has self assessment quizzes. If you use the the DIY Software Club Quiz Reader you will see it's been setup to enable you to take the same quiz twice while providing side by side results. Those needing CE credits should take the  quiz  BEFORE reading the material to establish a baseline level of competency.  You can check the answers or not at that time.  THEN study the material. THEN take the quiz again. Depending on your accreditation agency, you may or may not need to submit a summary of your scoring. We will  require a feedback survey and payment for the curriculum to obtain your certificate. 
  • For CE  related correspondence, please email admin@ricvalentineacupuncture.com  .
    • ​Please start the subject line out with CE: so we can sort those easily from our other office dialogue. 
    • For now, Bryan will be handling all those emails personally. 
​OUR GOAL IS TO  offer  COMMERCIAL LITERACY  FOLLOWED BY  SMALL BUSINESS MASTERY
In over simplified form, we define Commercial Literacy as being comprised of:
  1. General Business Literacy
  2. Bookkeeping, Accounting and Financial Literacy
  3. Management Requirements of Self & Others
  4. Marketing of Products, Services and Packages
  5. Operations & Administration Prowess
  6. Technology Literacy​​


​All of our current courses assist with these goals
 Small Business Mastery requires a Commercial Literacy foundation and:   
  1. Financial Awareness appropriate for your affairs
  2. Bookkeeping and Accounting proficiency for your needs
  3. Alignment between Management of Self, Employees and Contractors and Marketing in a healthy manner
  4. Processes and Procedures for all aspects of Business Administration well defined and implemented effectively
  5. Google Platform Literacy for use and/or comparative studies
  6. Website Building and Management for Marketing, Operations and Communication
  7. Business Strategy for Risk Management, Growth and Prosperity

None of this is included below at this time.  It all builds on Commercial Literacy and many will never need a course to assist them with these goals.  They will build from the Commercial Literacy offerings and be on their way. 
There are many reasons to take up a path of Commercial Literacy.  Self-Preservation is a defensive benefit that is needed by many when un-based currency is floating about.  Freedom of thought and being is an offensive desire that can be facilitated with this news too.  

Many people who appear to be commercially successful are successful due to familial connections OR they are simply recipients of good fortune.  If one attempts to follow in their footsteps without the tools to separate good fortune and familial benefits from Commercial Prowess, much energy can be lost unnecessarily. Our curriculum will help you assess others so you can pick and choose coaches, role models and trajectories wisely. 

Many people who feel they "are not good at business" actually have an ability to learn and implement everything needed for "business" with ease. For them, it's only then they can start to honestly asses other underlying problems that they've buried for one reason or another.

No matter your reasons, we hope this material salsifies your immediate needs while also planting bountiful seeds for your future prosperity too.

​Current Courses - Commercial Literacy

This is a list of our current curriculum. The hours noted are the Continuing Education Credits we expect to get approved for each course.  If you voluntarily spend more time with the material than credits are for, that's probably a good thing. It means you are caring more about learning than the credits others give for it.  

BUSINESS LITERACY OVERVIEW AND ORITENTATION - BL 101  - (1 hr) - view 
  1. FINANCE  - Finance 101 (1 hr)    TBDone 
  2. ACCOUNTING ​
    1. Digital Bookkeeping and Accounting - Industry Orientation and Sea Change Information  - (1 hr) - view
    2. Digital Bookkeeping and Accounting - Fun Seekers Corner 101  - (1 hr) - view
    3. Digital Bookkeeping and Accounting - Accounting Studio Magic 101 - (3 hr)  - view
  3. MANAGEMENT - Management of Self and Others 101 TBDone
  4. MARKETING  - { See BL 101. Additional info not part of our offerings at this time } 
  5. MANAGEMENT SCIENCE & OPERATIONS -  Small Business Administration - SBA 101 - 1 hour credit  view
  6. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - Technology Literacy - TL 101 - 1 hour credit  TBDone
  7. BUSINESS STRATEGY - Intertwine Legal and Ethical requirements with proper marketing of self, products, services, Operations and Technology for work and life satisfaction. TBDone

​Current Courses - DIY Software and Other Technology Needs  (Coming soon)

At this point in the technology age, there are too many options, too many choices to make and too many coaches who want you to focus on topics profitable to them, not best for you.  Like 'em or hate 'em, Google is decades ahead of all other technology vendors at this time with truly novel technology, they have committed to no work for the DOD and they have built out a Business Infrastructure offering that in fact has equal or more benefits than 
  1. Super Bills - Learn about Super Bills and learn about a spreadsheet based system for creating paper forms and database driven forms for your Clients needs.   (coming soon)
  2. ZAP Accounting Software - After completing the theoretical courses in the Commercial Literacy Section this course will attempt to walk you through the website and software template orientation process in a step by step manner.  (coming eventually)
  3. ​Password Manager 101 
  4. Google Accounts 101
  5. Google Chrome Accounts 101
  6. etc etc etc....

​Current Courses - Small Business Mastery

none at this time...

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