A great resource for you: Small Business Development Centers
OK,
you are probably asking me what are SBDCs? They deliver free 1:1
business counseling and low-cost training to over 600,000 businesses a
year. SBDC counselors and trainers are a valuable local resource. They
provide great advice on building your small business.
Lets face it--Most people are alone when they start a new business. And it is lonely out there. I know. Before I started at Intuit, I had my own small business. I owned a small independant bookstore. And I wished when I had opened the store that I had more than the Independant Booksellers Association to help me. I wish I knew a place I could go to where I could find out about financing, find out about tax issues, find out about legal issues and just have some sort of support group. I think SBDC provides that!
Check out the SBDC site
Lets face it--Most people are alone when they start a new business. And it is lonely out there. I know. Before I started at Intuit, I had my own small business. I owned a small independant bookstore. And I wished when I had opened the store that I had more than the Independant Booksellers Association to help me. I wish I knew a place I could go to where I could find out about financing, find out about tax issues, find out about legal issues and just have some sort of support group. I think SBDC provides that!
Check out the SBDC site
Another great free source of small business and entrepreneur information is SCORE _ Counselors to America's Small Business. You can find them at www.score.org.
They offer free face-to-face business mentoring, on-line business counseling 24/7 and local community and on-line workshops on business topics.
Posted by: Mark Dobosz | December 26, 2006 at 09:15 AM