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Now a full-fledged regional office, the Berkshire Regional Office staff hold office hours in Great Barrington and North Adams, in addition to regular office hours in Pittsfield. The office provides advice to businesses located in Berkshire County. Outreach Locations | Towns Served |
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The Central Regional Office advises businesses located Central Massachusetts. Typically, counselors will assist clients in developing their business plans, marketing plans, financials, cash flows and other areas critical to ensure a successful venture. In addition to office hours in Worcester, staff also hold office hours at outreach sites throughout Central Massachusetts. Outreach Locations | Towns Served |
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The Northeast Regional Office provides advice to businesses located in the North Shore and Merrimack Valley areas of the state. Since its inception in 1992, the office has worked with over 10,000 entrepreneurs. During that time, the SBDC has assisted entrepreneurs to raise over $46 million in loans. In addition to office hours in Salem, staff also hold office hours at chambers of commerce, local colleges and economic development groups throughout Northeastern Massachusetts. Outreach Locations | Towns Served |
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The Southeast Regional Office advises businesses located in Southeastern Massachusetts, including Cape Cod and the Islands. In addition to office hours in Fall River, staff also hold office hours at outreach sites throughout Southeastern Massachusetts. They are also available Mondays and Tuesdays in their office in New Bedford. Outreach Locations | Towns Served |
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The Western Regional Office provides advise to businesses located the Western Massachusetts counties of Hampden, Hampshire and Franklin. In addition to office hours at the Springfield office, staff also hold office hours at outreach sites throughout Western Massachusetts. Services are delivered by a skilled professional staff with extensive business experience and excellent educational backgrounds. Their work is augmented by college and university faculty, qualified students and private consultants. Outreach Locations | Towns Served
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Since its inception in May 1994, the Massachusetts Export Center has assisted over 12,500 companies and individuals, and serves as the state's first point of contact for Massachusetts businesses seeking export assistance and information. Through the Massachusetts Export Center, companies can access a broad range of export assistance and services, including: export readiness assessments, one-on-one export counseling; export workshops, training programs and conferences; informative export publications; overseas market research and trade statistics; international marketing activities, include trade missions and shows; a network of overseas offices providing customized assistance to qualifying companies; meetings with visiting international business delegations; export financing; and an informative web site featuring international business information and upcoming trade-related events. The center offers a full range of international training topics through Partners for Trade, an executive seminar series. Topics include, but are not limited to, letters of credit, export logistics, financing, export controls and licensing and the popular Evening Export School. The Massachusetts Export Center, hosted by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has four offices which are strategically located throughout the state to assist companies on a local level. The Boston office serves as headquarters, with additional offices in Holyoke, New Bedford and Worcester. |
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The Boston Regional Office & Minority Business Center provides business owners with access to a network of resources which will better enable them to meet the challenges entrepreneurs faces. The office provides a full range of business advising and training activities to the minority community. Even successful entrepreneurs continually seek ways to improve the general administration and operation of their business, often seeking outside advice to help deal with particular challenges. Services include help with developing effective business plans, business organization and structure, work flow analysis, goal formation and achievement, personnel management, strategic business planning and time management to name a few. While the services of the Boston Regional Office are available to anyone, its particular expertise is in assisting minority entrepreneurs. The office welcomes opportunities to promote minority businesses in the Commonwealth and to leverage resources for minority entrepreneurs. It offers technical assistance through free one-on-one counseling as well as nominal cost educational workshops and seminars. In addition, the office provides brokering services to assist both procurement and EEO officials find qualified minority vendors who can fill their contract needs, bid requirements and/or company goals. |
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The Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network received federal and state funding to establish a statewide Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC). Resources are concentrated on assistance to small, minority- and women-owned firms statewide with an emphasis on high areas of unemployment including Hub Zones. The program manager is housed at the Western Massachusetts SBDC in Springfield with procurement specialists housed in Springfield, Lawrence, Boston, Fall River and Worcester. PTAC provides technical assistance in bid matching for federal, state and municipal procurement opportunities. Much of the counseling services are performed at the client's firm location, making the technical support delivery available in a timely and cost effective manner. E-commerce, including registering, bidding and performing on-line, in a paperless environment is a vital part of federal contracting. The counseling staff supports vendors in those efforts. Technical data, such as military specifications, standards, pricing histories and technical information by part number will be supplied. The development of targeted marketing plans with help registering with each buying agency is also available.
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