Small Business Center
The Small Business Center, part of NC’s dynamic Small Business Center Network, provides one-one-one consulting services, resources, and free seminars. Our goal is to help you realize your dream of owning your own business or making your current business more profitable.
Counseling
The center provides analysis and evaluation to determine our clients’ immediate needs. Individual attention is provided for those clients who need detailed assistance in starting a business. Request a free counseling appointment.
Training
The center conducts seminars and workshops designed to better educate the small business person to meet the ever-increasing challenges facing small business. Core programs are offered twice a year and include:
- How to Start a Business
- How to Write a Business Plan
- Financing the Small Business
- Taxes and Record Keeping
- Advertising and Marketing the Small Business
Small Business Center brings professional training opportunities to the area’s small business owners and other interested persons. Training sessions are offered as free or low-cost seminars, workshops, and short-term courses.
View the current seminar brochure. To register for a seminar, you may do so online, or contact Linda Berard, 919-739-6940. Please complete a registration form and bring it with you when you attend.
Resources
The center maintains various types of business related information and current multi-media resources. Clients may check out these materials by visiting the center. The college library and other college facilities are also available.
Let Us Work For You
Are you considering a new business venture? Expansion? Or perhaps just need help with an existing plan? If so, let us work for you! We are in the business of helping businesses succeed. Whether it’s through additional training, one-on-one counseling or providing the contacts and information you need, we’re here to serve you. We understand the problems small businesses face. And best of all, the services we provide are at low or no cost to you.
Call for Nominations!
Small Business Start Up of the Year Nomination Form
Nominees must have a permanent business location with employee(s) in Wayne County and have been in operation for one to two years and be a customer of the Small Business Center, Wayne Community College.
Small Business of the Year Nomination Form
Nominees must have a permanent business location with employee(s) in Wayne County and have been in operation for a minimum of two years.
Contact Renita Dawson or call the Business and Industry Center at 919-739-6941 for more information.
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