Small Business Development Center

Successful entrepreneurs continually seek ways to improve the management and operation of their business, often seeking outside advice to help with particular challenges.

The Massachusetts Small Business Development Center is committed to helping your business succeed in Massachusetts. We provide no-cost, confidential, one-to-one business assistance and no-cost educational training programs to prospective and existing small businesses.

We look forward to meeting with you!

No-cost, Confidential Business Advising

Areas of assistance include, but are not limited to: business plan development, preventure feasibility, buying or selling a business, cash flow analysis, personnel and organizational issues, conventional and non-conventional financing, and marketing.

In addition, our office works closely with the two Massachusetts SBDC specialty centers, the Massachusetts Export Center for international trade assistance and the Government Sales Advisory Program for government contracting.

The Massachusetts SBDC - Northeast Region provides no-cost and confidential business assistance to prospective and existing small businesses located in the North Shore and Merrimack Valley areas of the state. Certified business advisors provide services virtually and at outreach locations.

Services

A full-time staff of business advisors provide no-cost and confidential advisory services to small businesses. We provide assistance to individuals contemplating a business venture, along with new, existing, expanding and troubled businesses.

Areas of assistance include, but is not limited to: start-up businesses, business plan development, financial plan development, marketing and sales strategies, cash flow analysis, organizational and personnel issues.

Ready to make an appointment and get started? Complete our online request for advising to get started. All clients are required to complete the form prior to receiving advising services.

Training Seminars and Events

The Massachusetts SBDC - Northeast Region conducts free and low-cost training addressing a wide range of concerns for both start-up and existing businesses. Pre-registration is required for all events. View our training events.

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Let us help with your business needs!

The Massachusetts Small Business Development Center provides free and confidential business assistance to prospective and existing small businesses located in the North Shore and Merrimack Valley areas.

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Contact Us

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If you would like to receive free and confidential business assistance, please visit the request for advising page. In most cases, a staff member will get back to you within two business days. We look forward to meeting with you!

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sbdc@salemstate.edu

978.542.6343

Massachusetts SBDC
Northeast Region
Bertolon School of Business
71 Loring Ave, Room CC 156
Salem, MA 01970

Mailing Address:
352 Lafayette St.
Salem, MA 01970

A partnership program with the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Massachusetts Office of Business Development under cooperative agreement SBAOEDSB250134-01-00 through the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Isenberg School of Management. SBDCs are a program supported by and funded in part through a cooperative agreement with SBA. SBDC services are provided in a nondiscriminatory way to all legal residents and citizens in the U.S. SBA cannot endorse any products, opinions or services of any external parties or activities.

Small Business Development Center