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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.

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

Marshall and DeKalb counties. Provides qualified blind individuals with job training and employment opportunities through the management and operation of small businesses.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Auburn University SBDC

Ms. Lindsay Bridges Director
570 Devall Drive; Suite 303 - Office 335 Auburn, AL 36832
Phone 877.825.7232

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.

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