SBDC Clients Win National and State
Small Business Persons of the Year Awards
The National Small Business Persons of the Year are SBDC clients. Bobbie Jacobs-Ghaffar and Lesa Jacobs, co-owners of Native Angels Home Care & Hospice Agency, Inc. of Lumberton, North Carolina, are clients of the North Carolina Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC).
The State Small Business Persons of the Year from several other states, including Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, South Dakota, Virginia and West Virginia, are also SBDC clients. ASBDC congratulates each of these outstanding clients and the SBDC consultants and networks that assisted them. To read their stories, Click Here.
Success Stories From America's Small Business Development Center Network
Small Businesses throughout America are experiencing very real, long-term and positive benefits from the professional counselor network that comprises ASBDCN. Our featured story is from the Alabama SBDC. Click Here for details on this success story.
Is Your Company in Compliance? What is the Risk?
It is estimated that a significant number of small to medium-size companies in the US are not currently in compliance and most don’t even know it! Compliant Company, LLC now offers a host of solutions to support your company in maintaining compliance in accordance with state statutes and regulations. Click Here to find out how we can help your company.
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See What Small Business Owners are Saying
What SBDC Clients Say "Anyone who doesn't utilize an SBDC...is taking a big gamble because it doesn't take much for a small business to go under."
Colinda Torrez-Teagle, Torrez Paper Company
"The SBDC has been extremely helpful in focusing our business to where we would like it to go...they have helped us enormously in solving the many problems small businesses encounter."
Elaine Luce, Maine Farms Brand
"We could not have gotten the financing for our business and been able to retain the 17 jobs without the help we received on our business plan from the SBDC."
Dee Dee Hecker, First Header Die
