The Ohio Small Business Development Center, housed at the Zane State Willett-Pratt Training Center, provides the following services to assist small businesses:

OSBDC advising services are available at the following locations:

Guernsey County       Zane State College      Willett-Pratt Training Center      9900 Brick Church Road      Cambridge, OH   43725    Muskingum County      Muskingum County Business Incubator      56 North 5th Street, 2nd Floor      Zanesville, OH   43701    Belmont County      Ohio University Eastern      45425 National Road      St. Clairsville, OH   43950

Workshops are held monthly at all three locations. A list of these workshops can be found at http://www.entrepreneurohio.org/.
The Small Business Development Center offers free counseling. Training sessions and seminars may have a fee for registration.

Entrepreneurship I.N.C. - These are general “start a business” workshops. At this workshop you will receive a brief presentation of the many areas you will cover when starting a business.  The workshops are held once a month at the WPTC and OUE and twice a month at MCBI. There is no fee for this workshop but you will have the option to buy the material packet that includes magazines, brochures, handouts, and much more.

If you would like to be added to our regular mailing list, please email us at cvoorhies@zanestate.edu. Please provide both your email address(s) and mailing address.

Free one-on-one counseling is available in areas such as:

  › Writing your business plan
   ›  Access to capital
   ›  Developing a marketing plan
   ›  Organizing your employee/business files
   ›  Accounting/budgeting/inventory
   ›  Buy/Sell a business
   ›  Cash Flow Management
   ›  Computer Systems
   ›  Financial analysis
   ›  Intellectual Property
   ›  Operations Analysis & Planning
   ›  & much more