Building Southern Oregon’s Best Businesses

Whether you’re a long-time business owner or aspiring entrepreneur, your first step in receiving services through SOU’s Small Business Development Center is to get in touch with our team!

The Oregon Small Business Development Centers are funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration, and by the Oregon Business Development Department.

WAYS WE HELP BUSINESS OWNERS LIKE YOU

ONE-ON-ONE BUSINESS ADVISING

Our experienced team is committed to helping your small business succeed. We provide training and advising to help make it all happen.

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SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT CLASS

Improve your profitability, financial recording and management, operational systems, strategic execution and team building.

WORKSHOPS AND PRESENTATIONS

We offer regular trainings, workshops and seminars that focus on the topics that matter most to entrepreneurs in Southern Oregon. 

LAUNCHING A NEW IDEA?

Register for the Introduction to Entrepreneurship class.

DEVELOPING YOUR BUSINESS OR GROWING YOUR PROFITS?  

A one-on-one advising session can help provide answers. 

Register Today!

WHY LEARN WITH US?

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Build Profitability

We help business owners identify opportunities for growth, and create a strategy to get there.

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Streamline Operations

Work with our advisors and other business owners like you to find pain points, and develop a plan to move past them, for good.

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Obtain Financing

Find out which resources make the most sense for you to grow your company. Our advisors have been through it all, and they’ll help you navigate financing, too.

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Build Your Team

Learn about attracting the best fit employees for you, and developing their skill sets to help grow your business by your side.

What Our Program Clients Say

We knew very little about opening a business but with our adviser’s help, including everyone at the SOU SBDC, we were able to take our first steps into business ownership. The SBM program was great and it was really informative. The courses helped us follow a path and lay the foundational work for us to open our salon business.

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Alex and Liz Arizaga

Owners, Beauty Lab, LLC

As a new startup company, the SOU SBDC helped us improve every aspect of our business, from creating a business plan and fine-tuning our financials, to helping locate the “right” market.

It is reassuring to know that there are advisers giving their expert knowledge and time to help a new business grow. E-Shelf has changed from a concept to a profitable business with the guidance of the SOU SBDC.

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Dianna Moor & Donn Knokey

Owners, e-Shelf, LLC

START GROWING YOUR BUSINESS TODAY!

TAKE THE NEXT STEP
Oregon Small Business Development Centers are funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration, and by the Oregon Business Development Department. All opinions, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the SBA.

All services provided on a non-discriminatory basis. 

Reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities will be made if requested at least two weeks in advance.