Existing Business Information

Congratulations, you are no longer a start-up! You have registered your business, selected your legal structure, begun competing, and officially embarked on a journey of infinite promise and challenges.
However, should your initial jubilation of getting started be replaced with frustration from obtaining more challenges than goals; rest assured that you are not alone. These feelings are the symptoms of growing pains that result from the realities of surviving in the world of business.

Often, growing pains manifest themselves in questions such as: Where are my peers? How do I manage my resources? Am I managing my payroll and human resources correctly? What happened to my cash flow and how can I return to my original projections? Where do I go from here?

The Small Business Development Center is here to help. Our clients are busy entrepreneurs like you. And being the pro-active leaders and visionaries that they are, they take the time and opportunity to utilize our one-on-one counseling sessions and training in order to answer growing pain questions, solve unique business problems, and recognize potential growth opportunities.

The Business Development Center’s clients find answers and manage challenges in areas that often include:

Sales and Marketing:

• Increasing sales
• Learning to better compete
• Creating customer diversification
• Managing product distribution
• Improving targeted marketing strategies
• Selling to the federal, state and local government
  

 

 

 

 

 

Financial Management:

• Dealing with working capital issues.
• Solving Cash-flow concerns
• Controlling margins/profits and expenses

 

 

 

Human Resources:

• Hiring and firing employees
• Recruiting, retaining, and evaluating employees
• Training and developing capabilities

 

 

 

General Management

• Improving management
• Balancing workload and delegation of authority
  
• Managing Growth
  

 

 

 

Start Up Information

Check out our COUNTY LICENSING page for local start up information and the ON LINE RESOURCES page for links to the SBA and Commonwealth of Virginina resources for small business owners. Our CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE page gives you information and contact information on all the local branches. Sample business plans and interesting articles for small business can be found on our OTHER LINKS page.

To begin addressing your challenges, we recommend that you meet with a counselor in order to discuss your existing business and to learn first hand what services we offer in the form of one-to-one counseling, training, networking, and business development activities.

To start getting back on track or to maintain your success and recent growth, please contact the Business Development Center at (703) 768-1440 and schedule an appointment.