Goals & Objectives


  • The SBDC will serve the state's business needs, both start-ups and existing, through training and counseling via ten statewide offices, Billings, Butte, Bozeman, Colstrip, Great Falls, Havre, Helena, Kalispell, Missoula and Wolf Point. It is expected that the program will be shifting the emphasis to increase counseling services to existing businesses and decrease one-time counseling sessions to individuals wanting to start a business.
  • The Montana SBDC program's two primary services are providing individualized counseling and training (in that order) in the areas of business plan preparation, starting a business, financial planning, market research & analysis, loan packaging, accounting, promotion & selling, and business management skills.
  • Counseling services should be of the highest quality possible and will be assured by establishing in the near future that the subcenter counselors attend and pass a certified training program and maintain this core level of skills by attending annual professional development sessions.


SBA
Funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration.