Agency Name: Small Business Development Center
Address: 301 West Church Street Room: J102 Lock Haven, PA
17745
Phone: 570-484-2589
Fax: 570-484-2588
Contact person: Tim Keohane
Website: www.lhup.edu/sbdc
Email: tkeohane@lhup.edu
- Services:
Description: To succeed, all businesses require both
sufficient capital and the knowledge to use it wisely. Small
Business Development Center consultants help entrepreneurs
develop the planning, management, and financial skills necessary
to make their businesses thrive. Our one-on-one management
consulting emphasizes education and guidance in finding
practical solutions to business problems. Consulting is
confidential and provided at no charge. SBDC consultants help
entrepreneurs develop the planning, management, and financial
skills necessary to make their business thrive. The SBDC's
one-on-one management consulting emphasizes education and
guidance in finding practical solutions to business problems.
Consulting is confidential and provided at no charge by a staff
of skilled professionals. Consulting areas of expertise include:
• Accounting and Bookkeeping |
• Long Range Planning |
• Business Plan Development |
• Management |
• Capital Acquisition |
• Manufacturing |
• Computing Applications and MIS |
• Marketing and Advertising |
• Customer Service |
• Market Research |
• Energy Efficiency |
• Minority Business Development |
• Environmental Management Issues |
• Personnel |
• Feasibility Analysis |
• Product Development/Engineering |
• Financing and Loan Packaging |
• Public Relations |
• Financial Analysis |
• Retailing |
• Franchising |
• Regulatory Assistance |
• Government Contracting |
• Strategic Planning |
• Homebased Business |
• Taxes |
• International Trade |
• Technology Commercialization |
• Legal Issues |
• Women's Business Issues |
• Long Range Planning |
• Worker Health and Safety Issues Other
services: |
Environmental Management Assistance Program- The
Environmental Management Assistance Program offers confidential
compliance assistance with environmental and health and safety
regulations, on-site assessments to look for opportunities to cut
costs through pollution prevention and energy efficiency, and
assistance developing and marketing environmental technology.
Government Marketing Assistance Program - To help
companies sell to federal, state, local and quasi-government
agencies, the SBDC's Government Marketing Assistance Program
provides a computerized bid lead program, and assistance in
marketing products and services to government, proposal preparation
and contract compliance. The program saves businesses time and money
by matching a firm's goods and services with bids and leads
published in the Commerce Business Daily and The Pennsylvania
Bulletin, as well as requests for small bids from the Defense
Logistics Agency and various other government agencies.
* Small firms in Southeast Pennsylvania looking to enter the
government marketplace can take advantage of the Southeastern
Pennsylvania Procurement Technical Assistance Program.
Technology Commercialization Assistance Program - The
Technology Commercialization Assistance Program assists high growth
and technology firms with sophisticated business management issues
including alternative financing, human resources, patents and trade
marking, intellectual property, and product commercialization.
Cooperating with their host institutions, the Technology
Commercialization Assistance Program also helps struggling US
Department of Defense contractors locate markets outside of the
Department of Defense.
International Business Assistance Program - To help
companies export Pennsylvania products and services, the SBDC's
International Business Assistance Program helps companies in
assessing their company's international trade readiness; evaluating
their products or services for export potential; identifying the
best foreign market opportunities; developing strategic and
marketing plans; identifying foreign sales agents and distributors;
planning market entry strategies; explaining international trade
procedures and regulations; providing information on technical
standards and export/import documentation; determining sources of
trade financing and risk management; identifying trade mission and
trade show opportunities; and determining import restrictions,
duties, and tariffs.
Product Development Center - The Product Development
Center helps inventors bring products to market by offering
engineering services early in the development cycle, before major
investment is attracted. With the help of engineering students,
faculty and outside resources they perform patent searches, assist
with technical appraisals, conduct brainstorming sessions, evaluate
and review design options, source component suppliers and provide
computer aided design (CAD) drawings.
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