SCORE Helps You Succeed In Business

SCORE, "Counselors To America's Small Business", is A Resource Partner With The United States Small Business Administration (SBA), helping individual business owners succeed. As a volunteer organization of retired and semi-retired executives, SCORE offers free, confidential one-on-one counseling to anyone opening a business or needing advice for solving problems in an existing business. Counselors initially work with clients from the first "idea" meeting through business start-up and then continue to advise or mentor whenever needed.

The SCORE counseling staff has expertise in a wide variety of career fields, enabling them to assist future entrepreneurs create a realistic, workable "Business Plan", which is the foundation of every business. The general guidelines used in formulating a precise "Business Plan" are:

    1.    a comprehensive definition of that specific business;
    2.    managerial structure;
    3.    employee requirements and benefits;
    4.    guidelines for daily activities;
    5.    customer base;
    6.    location and hours of operation;
    7.    lease options;
    8.    security;
    9.    budget and financial planning;
    10.  inventory and supplies;
    11.  daily expenses, maintenance and insurance;
    12.  marketing and competition;
    13.  net margin and growth projections;
    14.  loan requirements.

In addition to free, confidential one-on-one business counseling with experienced executives, SCORE conducts a monthly Workshop for a nominal fee. Through this intensive day long Workshop and on-going personal counseling, SCORE gives you the tools to help create your own successful entrepreneurial venture.

To help you succeed in Business, SCORE, A Resource Partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration, offers free, confidential one-on-one business counseling with experienced executives plus a day long monthly Workshop for a nominal fee. For the location, phone number and counseling hours of the office nearest you, call our main Dallas SCORE Office at (214) 987-9491.

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