The Wilkes University Small Business Development Center (SBDC) provides professional, confidential consulting, training, and education supported by strategic relationships and specialized programs. SBDC offers free consulting to new and existing businesses in Schuylkill County.
If you’re looking to start your own small business, you will work closely one-on-one with an experienced business consultant, who will offer assistance in writing your business plan, preparing financial projections, initial demographic research, interfacing with government-funded loan programs, environmental issues, licensing, registration, and much more. To inquire about the availability to meet with a trained consultant, please call the Schuylkill County Chamber at 570-622-1942.

By now everyone has heard of Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Linkedin… but really what are they? How can businesses use these.. especially startup businesses that don’t have a huge marketing and advertising budget. In short it’s pretty easy to use these. Here’s a quick article on really the uses that some businesses have had success in using these social media tools, and how these tools have allowed companies to increase the way they advertise without increasing costs.
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Let’s face it, business is changing and changing fast. 15 years ago my job didn’t even exist. If told people in 1994 that I did search engine optimization for a living, they would ask me, “What is a search engine?”

The Internet in it’s current form is only a decade, maybe a decade and a half old. But that’s not just where it ends, there are all sorts of things that technology has changed both in people’s homes and in their businesses.

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The Schuylkill Chamber of Commerce can answer your questions about a variety of small business resources available in our area.

Call 570-622-1942 or visit their website.