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  • One-on-one advice on management issues for small businesses:
  • Starting/acquiring a small business: Assisting clients with their plans to either start a new business or purchase an existing one.  
  • Analysis and strategy: where you are, where you want to go, and how you are going to get there.  Assisting turn-around situations.
  • Marketing/sales: Analyzing current marketing activities, providing guidance on preparing marketing plans.
  • Personnel management: Assisting clients in all aspects of managing employees and working with other owners.
  • Financial analysis: Analyzing business financial health—cost control and profit maximization.
  • Sources of financing: preparation of business plans: Assisting business owners in acquiring capital for new or expansion/stabilization projects; analysis of the project; help with the business plan; recommendations on structuring financing.
  • Selling a business: Assisting with valuation of a business, marketing it, and working with potential buyers.

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in partnership with U.S. Small Business Administration In partnership with Washington State Small Business Development Centers

The Washington SBDC is a partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration, Washington State University's College of Business and Economics, and other Washington Institutions of higher education and economic development organizations. SBA's funding is not an endorsement of any products, opinions, or services. All SBA funded programs are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis.