“The Southeast Colorado Small Business Development Center offers business consulting and training that maximizes the economic potential of entrepreneurs within our region. Our mission is to help existing and new businesses grow and prosper. Our goal at the Small Business Development Center is to help emerging and existing entrepreneurs gain control of their business operations. We provide free guidance and counseling in all aspects of funding and developing small business. We strive to help grow and start businesses. While we cannot eliminate risk, we work to minimize it by helping clients write comprehensive business plans, conduct financial forecasts, strategize marketing tactics, apply for funding, and improve operations. Let us help maximize your business potential.”
The Southeast Colorado Small Business Development Center offers small businesses, new and established alike, grow and prosper by offering services that are free and confidential. Bob Smith is the coordinator for SE Colorado SBDC / Trinidad. You can contact him via email at bobsmith.sbdc@gmail.com, call (719)299-5075 or visit http://www.southeastcosbdc.org
Small Business Development Services (SBDC) include:
- Free and confidential one-on-one business consulting for existing or start ups
- LEADING EDGE Strategic Planning Series: comprehensive entrepreneurial training course
- New business feasibility analysis
- Assistance with access to capital
- Government procurement and contracting
- International trade assistance
- Intensive management training seminars and workshops
- Business resource libraries: access to current data, demographics, statistics and more
- Small business advocacy
Leading Edge Workshops include the following:
- Marketing/Branding
- Start-Up Essentials
- Bookkeeping
- Accounting
- QuickBooks
- Social Media
- e-Commerce
- Taxes
- Public Relations
- Business Planning
- Grant Writing
and much more!
The Southeast Colorado Small Business Development Center is here to serve the Trinidad/Raton area. Using their resources and expertise puts small business owners on the right track from the start on a path for success. They are a useful tool for established businesses to enter into new areas like e-Commerce helping to ensure our local businesses can compete and thrive in today’s world economy. If you are looking to start a new business in the New Year or to build upon your small business foundation we encourage you to contact Bob Smith and schedule an appointment.
The Colorado Small Business Development Center Network (SBDC) is funded through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). The SBDC Network is a partnership between the State of Colorado, Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, the Small Business Administration (SBA), Colorado’s institutions of higher education, local economic development organizations and local chambers of commerce.
