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Service Corps of Retired
Executives
Midlands Chapter
1835 Assembly Street, Room 1425
Columbia, SC 29201
803-765-5131
Contact Us
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SCORE
-- "Counselors to America's Small
Business" -- Provides no-fee mentoring and business COUNSELING AND LOW-COST
WORKSHOPS to prospective and established small business owners and managers on a
non-discriminatory equal opportunity basis. SCORE services are provided without regard to race, color, national origin,
gender, age, and disability. Persons with disabilities may request reasonable
(special) accommodations (with a two-week advance notice). For special
accommodations, please click on Contact Us above and make your request.
COUNSELING Counseling focuses on such business issues as developing a business plan, legal organization, financing, accounting, marketing and selling, management and human resource issues, licensing, patent protection, government reporting requirements, and many more. |
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SCORE counselors are available daily at the Greater Columbia Chamber of Commerce (directly west of the Strom Thurmond federal building), 930 Richland Street (corner of Park and Richland Streets) in downtown Columbia. from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. from Monday to Friday by appointment for private, one-on-one confidential one hour free counseling sessions. Click Here for directions/map to Columbia Chamber of Commerce. Contact the individual branch offices listed below for counseling times outside Columbia. For counseling times in Columbia click directly below.
WORKSHOPS STARTING AND
RUNNING YOUR BUSINESS (a.k.a. Business Management Survival
Skills)
EMPLOYMENT LAW SURVIVAL SKILLS is scheduled for
Tuesday March 18, 2008.
CREATING A BUSINESS PLAN FOR THE SMALL BUSINESS START-UP is scheduled for
Tuesday May 20, 2008.
Click here for more details, or
PATENTS, TRADEMARKS AND COPYRIGHTS is scheduled for
Tuesday, July 15, 2008.
Click here for more details, or
BUYING OR SELLING A BUSINESS
is scheduled for Tuesday, September 16, 2008.
Click here for more details, or SBA AND SCORE SCORE Chapters are sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). For more information about SBA and their programs, click on www.sba.gov. The SCORE Midlands chapter is one of 389 chapters across the United States providing small business counseling and related services. For further information about the national SCORE organization, including chapters outside the Midlands of South Carolina, click on www.score.org.
MIDLANDS SCORE The Midlands chapter is headquartered in Columbia, SC and has branch offices in Camden, Chapin, Hartsville, Orangeburg, Florence, Lexington, and Sumter, SC. The Chapter and its branches are each associated with their community Chambers of Commerce that provide a variety of services to facilitate small businesses in their respective communities. The branch offices are:
Branch Phone
Number Branch Phone
Number Click here for other SCORE chapters/branches in the state of South Carolina. There may be one closer to you.
LOCAL BUSINESS LICENSING Click here to obtain information on Midlands SC business licensing
ONLINE INFORMATION SOURCES Click here for a listing of useful small business web sites.
MEMBER CHAPTER INFORMATION Click HERE for Member Information including the member packages for the monthly meetings. Requires member user name and password.
MIDLANDS SCORE RESOURCE PARTNERS
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