Hartsville Chamber offers SCORE and SBDC services
Volunteer retired executives offer free, confidential business counseling services
The Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE) has been counseling entrepreneurs at the Greater Hartsville Chamber since the 1990’s. SCORE is a nonprofit association; the volunteers are dedicated to helping small businesses get off the ground, grow, and achieve their goals through education and mentorship. The Hartsville Chapter meets with anyone needing business counseling on the first and third Wednesdays of each month. At this time, the SCORE group has several experts in areas like business planning, startup, marketing, human resources, finance, budgeting, manufacturing, legal, accounting, and communications.
The SC Small Business Development Center (SBDC) has 21 locations across the state, dedicated to working with companies in all stages of development- from a person with an innovative product but no idea how to move it forward to the owner of a company looking to capture new markets. The SBDC office in Florence counsels many clients from the Darlington County area on a regular basis. Now clients wishing to meet with an SBDC consultant may do so locally in Hartsville. The consultant will be seeing prospective business clients on the last Tuesday of every month, beginning in June, in the chamber’s boardroom.
Both services are absolutely free and anyone may take advantage; you need not be a chamber member to receive counseling.
To make an appointment with SCORE or the SBDC, call or email the Greater Hartsville Chamber of Commerce at: 843-332-6401, admin@hartsvillechamber.org
The address is 214 North Fifth Street, Hartsville, in the Center Theater building.