Lost your job?

Would you like to start your own business in Cleveland County?

You may be a candidate for the New Opportunities for Workers (NOW) Program

If you have lost your job since January 1, 2001 and would like to start your own business, you may be eligible for free assistance and possibly a start up loan. This applies even if you have found a new job but are making 75% or less of your old salary. Call the Small Business Center at Cleveland Community College for details.

View the Small Business Center Seminar Schedule.

Trainings Series: “To Aid the Child Care Business”

Information on North Carolina Military Business Contracts

What is the SBCN?
The Small Business Center Network, comprised of 58 Small Business Centers throughout North Carolina, supports the development of new businesses and the growth of existing businesses by being a community based provider of training, counseling, and resource information. Cleveland Community College’s Small Business Center is located in the Jack Hunt Campus Center.

Confidential Business Counseling
Small Business Centers provide free, confidential counseling services for new and existing businesses. Available on an as-needed basis, this free confidential service acts as a sounding board for ideas and concerns you may have about your business. Our professional staff will help you find solutions to your challenging business questions. No question is too simple or complicated.

What is the cost of SBCN Services?
Confidential counseling services and access to resource libraries are free of charge. Some seminars and workshops require a minimal registration fee.

How SBCN can help?
Core services include business seminars and workshops; free, confidential business counseling, and access to vital resources and information. We can put you in touch with business and community leaders, as well as local, state and federal agencies who share the goal of making your business a success.

Business Seminars and Workshops
Small Business Centers offer a wide variety of workshops and courses to help small businesses be successful. Some of the topics include:

• How To Start a Business
• How to Write a Business Plan
• Financing a Business
• Marketing for Success
• Record keeping and Taxes

Specific training can be designed for individual business needs.

SBCN Resource Centers
Each Small Business Center has a library of professional resources waiting to be tapped. Printed materials including books, pamphlets, magazines, trade journals, as well as, a wide variety of tapes and videos are available for your use. Some Centers offer business-related software, teleconferencing and access to the Internet.

The Mission of the SBCN
The objective of the Small Business Center Network (SBCN) is to increase the success rate and the number of viable small businesses in North Carolina by providing high quality, readily accessible assistance to prospective and existing small business owners and their employees. Each Small Business Center (SBC) will be a community-based provider of education and training, counseling, information and referral.

Our Vision
The vision of the North Carolina Small Business Center Network is to foster and support entrepreneurship, small business training and economic development in local communities.

For more information, contact the Small Business Center at Cleveland Community College at 704-484-4146.

Bee Strain, Director
704-484-4146 or strain@cleveland.cc.nc.us

These seminars are co-sponsored by:
Cleveland County Business Development Center
Cleveland County Chamber of Commerce
Community Education for Enterprise Development (CEED)
The Uptown Shelby Association



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Updated December 19, 2006