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Sucessful Small Business Ideas – Get Help To Make It Happen

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, and assist small business. The SBA helps Americans start, build and grow businesses. Through an extensive network of field offices and partnerships with public and private organizations, SBA delivers its services to people throughout the United States.

A wonderful volunteer organization that works as a resource partner with the SBA is SCORE. SCORE considers itself as the “counselors to America’s small business”, offering confidential advice to help owners make a potential successful small business idea into a reality.

WHAT IS SCORE?

It was founded in 1964 and since then as helped more than 7.5 million small businesses. They offer face to face small business counseling at 389 chapter offices nationwide. They ensure that their volunteers (who are usually successful business owners who have retired) have a broad range of skills to help solve all types of business problems they offer small business online solutions at www.score.org.

HOW CAN SCORE HELP YOU?

The following are a couple of examples of businesses that SCORE considers as “small business success” stories.

Little Scoops – Recently listed in Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the “Hot New Franchises for 2005″ Little Scoops started only 5 years ago. One of the founders Michelle claims that “without the help of the volunteer counselors at SCORE, her success never would have happened.

Prior to opening her first store, the counselors insisted she and her partner think long term, and helped them develop a plan to set up finances and how to evaluate potential locations. Just recently, the SCORE counselors have helped them begin the process of franchising their 9 locations into a national concept. › Continue reading

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