If the answer is “yes” to any of the above, the University of South Florida’s Small Business Development Center (SBDC) of the Heartland can help you create a strategy to strengthen and grow your business.

• Accounting
  
• Advertising
  
• Business Basics
  
• Business Planning
  
• Disaster Preparedness Planning
  
• Financing
  
• Government Contracting

• Government Incentives
  
• International Trade
  
• Management
  
• Marketing
  
• Minority/Women Certification
  
• Taxes
  
• Technology Transfer

The USF SBDC of the Heartland at SFCC features a two-hour seminar each month on the “Steps to Starting a Small Business.” There is also a 12-week business planning and entrepreneurship course each quarter. This expanded business course is part of the Rural Entrepreneurship through Action Learning (REAL) program designed to support entrepreneurship and self-employment in the inland areas of Florida .

If you are ready to jump-start your business, want to attend business seminars, or seeking one-on-one counseling simply call…

Bob Raymond at 863-784-7378 or email to: rraymond@coba.usf.edu

Bill McKown at 863-784-7379 or email to: bmckown@coba.usf.edu

…and get started TODAY! Bob and Bill are certified business analysts at the USF SBDC of the Heartland at SFCC, a satellite office of SBDC at the University of South Florida’s College of Business, www.sbdc.usf.edu. The SBDC network is funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.