Small Business Development Center
The Renton Small Business Development Center (SBDC), a partnership of the City, Renton Technical College, the Renton Chamber of Commerce and business community, helps address the needs of small businesses and strengthen Renton’s economic vitality.
How's Your Business Doing?
Meeting Goals? Sales Up? Profit Rising?
The Renton SBDC provides local small and medium-sized businesses with professional,
no-fee
, confidential, one-to-one counseling, plus research services, training classes, and seminars that can help your company thrive and grow.
SBDC helps you succeed
- Bank loan applications
- Marketing strategy
- Improving profit
- Financial management and forecasting
- Hiring, training, and retaining employees
- Buying or selling a business
Starting up a new company?
The Renton SBDC helps entrepreneurs reduce the risks of starting a new business. SBDC will help you refine the concept, project your cash flow, and plan how it will be financed.
Classes and Research
In addition to expert counseling for local entrepreneurs, the Renton SBDC will connect you with classes and research support. SBDC wants you to succeed.
Classes that make a difference
- Managing a business
- QuickBooks, Word, Excel
- Accounting, bookkeeping, budgeting
- Marketing and sales
- Cash flow management
Research Support for Businesses
- Lists of the best websites
- Business start-up information
- Marketing/sales data
- Trends in your industry
- Customer demographic information
Having the right information saves you time and money!
Appointments with Kevin Hoult, the Renton SBDC Business Advisor, can be set up by calling 425.235.7819, by e-mail via
sbdc-renton@rtc.edu, or by visiting
www.wsbdc.org.
Check here to follow Kevin's blog. Additional information about Washington State’s Small Business Development Center network is available at
sbdc@wsu.edu. The Renton SBDC is funded by the City of Renton, the Renton Chamber of Commerce, Renton Technical College, First Savings Bank, and US Bank. Private contributions to allow expansion of Renton SBDC services are always welcomed. The Washington SBDCs are a partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration, Washington State University, and many Washington institutions of higher education and economic development organizations.