Small Business Center
The Small Business Center of Robeson Community College is located in the Charles V. Chrestman Workforce Development Center (Building 18) and it offers approximately 60-75 free seminars each year designed to assist aspiring and existing entrepreneurs.
The NC Community Colleges Small Business Center Network assists in starting an average of more than 650 businesses each year. Small Business Centers have an economic impact in 90 percent of all NC counties each year including helping to create and retain nearly 3,000 jobs annually. Over 68 percent of these jobs are in the rural counties of the state. We accomplish our mission by offering no-fee confidential counseling and free seminars/webinars that are open to the public.
- Seminars
- Counseling
- Resources
- Contact
The seminars we provide are free due to special funding from the NC Legislature with a specific purpose; to increase the success rate and the number of small businesses within the state. Our seminars are open to the public.
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We offer free, confidential, one-on-one counseling services to assist you in researching and determining the feasibility of your business idea, writing your business plan, locating sources of funding, marketing, and advertising, taxes, and record-keeping, obtaining permits and licenses, etc. Our goal in counseling is to guide you “step-by-step” through the process of making your dream of owning your own business a reality. Through counseling, we also seek to help you discover viable solutions to problems that may be hindering your business from growing or producing higher profits. Counseling appointments are scheduled at times convenient to the client.
Business Counseling Registration
Our Small Business Center Resource Center contains books that you can check out as well as other current publications and periodicals. A computer with Internet access is available for your use in locating information that will assist you in starting or growing your business.
- Online Resources for Small Businesses
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- NC Department of Commerce/Business Services
- Business Link NC
- NC Secretary of State
- Internal Revenue Service
- NC Department of Revenue
- NC Department of Labor
- NC Institute of Minority and Economic Development
- https://theinstitutenc.org/
- NC Cooperative Extension, Robeson County Office
- NC Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
- NC Military Business Center
- Match Up for Government Procurement
- Robeson County Register of Deeds
- Robeson County Economic Development Commission
- Robeson County Health Department
- Robeson County Building Safety Code and Enforcement
- Town of Fairmont
- Fairmont Chamber of Commerce
- Town of Lumber Bridge
- City of Lumberton Inspections Department
- City of Lumberton Planning and Neighborhood Services
- Lumberton Area Chamber of Commerce
- Town of Maxton
- Maxton Chamber of Commerce
- Town of Parkton
- City of Pembroke Planning and Zoning
- Pembroke Chamber of Commerce
- Town of Red Springs
- Red Springs Chamber of Commerce
- Town of Rowland
- Rowland Chamber of Commerce
- Town of Saint Pauls
- Saint Pauls Chamber of Commerce
- NC Rural Center Thread Capital
- Self-Help Credit Union
- Carolina Small Business Development Fund
- Advancement Incorporated
- US Small Business Administration
- NC Small Business Technology Development Center
