Regional Resources
Find resource providers in your region by supplying your regional section. Your search result will consist of providers within that county’s region.
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Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services
- Jim Highfield Business Enterprise Representative
- VRS District Office - Talladega Talladega, AL 35160
- Phone 256.362.1300
- Fax 256.362.6387
- Website
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Marshall and DeKalb counties. Provides qualified blind individuals with job training and employment opportunities through the management and operation of small businesses.
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Alabama Department of Rehabilitation Services – Montgomery
- Ken Green Business Enterprise Representative
- VRS District Office - Montgomery Montgomery, AL 36116
- Phone 334.281.8780
- Fax 334.281.1388
- Website
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Service area: Chambers, Lee, Macon and Russell counties. Provides qualified blind individuals with job training and employment opportunities through the management and operation of small businesses.
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Alabama Entrepreneurial Research Network (AERN)
- Ms. Anne Hamner AERN Member - Fayette County
- Fayette Chamber of Commerce Fayette, AL 35555
- Phone 205.932.4587
- Fax 205.932.8788
- Email Website
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AERN is a program to enhance business development throughout rural Alabama. Assistance comes in the form of access to computers and peripheral equipment, strong training emphasis via materials, workshops and seminars and online resources.
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Alabama Entrepreneurial Research Network, (AERN)
- Mr. Youseff Diabate AERN Member - Macon County
- Tuskegee-Macon County Community Development Corporation Tuskegee, AL 36083
- Phone 334.725.8496
- Fax 334.727.9995
- Email Website
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AERN is a program to enhance business development throughout rural Alabama. Assistance comes in the form of access to computers and peripheral equipment, strong training emphasis via materials, workshops and seminars and online resources.
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Auburn Technical Assistance Center (ATAC)
- Henry B. Burdg, CMC, EDFP, PBA Director - Auburn Technical Assistance Center (ATAC) Harbert College of Business
- 570 Devall Drive Auburn, AL 36832-6948
- Phone 334.844.4659
- Fax 334.844.5989
- Email Website
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Have an idea for a product or business but don’t know where to start? Are you needing to validate your idea to reduce risk before taking the next big step? Create, Communicate, and Commercialize your meaningfully unique ideas through systematic innovation process assistance from the Auburn Technical Assistance Center (ATAC).
ATAC can help coach you through a process to determine how likely your idea is to succeed and what could prevent the idea from moving forward. As an arm of the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business at Auburn University and an Economic Development Administration University Center, ATAC provides idea creation, business start-up technical assistance, and consultation for entrepreneurs and existing small businesses.
ATAC provides hands-on mentoring, coaching, and facilitating to identify and refine your product/service offering, customers/markets, and improve business processes. ATAC assists individuals and businesses in developing and implementing a Learning Plan to move through rapid cycles of learning to define the customer and their problems, develop your value proposition, and a product or service that meets those needs. ATAC will guide you through a fail-fast/fail-cheap cycle to dissolve the start-up risk with small steps so as discover early “death threats” to your business idea/strategy.
Key Assistance Programs
• Product, Service, and Business Model Innovation
• Business Plan Development/Review
• Market Feasibility and Customer Survey Research
• Website Development and Optimization
• Marketing Strategy
• Product Design/Branding
• Creation of Pro Forma Financial Statements
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Auburn University SBDC
- Ms. Lindsay Bridges Director
- 570 Devall Drive; Suite 303 - Office 335 Auburn, AL 36832
- Phone 877.825.7232
- Email Website
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The Small Business Development Center at Auburn University specializes in one-on-one business counseling and training for small businesses. Programs of assistance are developed in response to small business needs, and are designed to help grown the state’s economy. The Center offers free consulting services to current and prospective small business owners in the area. The Center is prepared to help nearly any type of small company or would-be entrepreneur.