Support NJ Small Businesses-NJSBDC

Advocate for support for Mercer and Middlesex County small businesses

This year’s proposed State budget allocates the same level of funding for NJ Small Business Development Centers network at $800,000. Since you know about services we provide to entrepreneurs and existing small business owners statewide, we encourage you to send your letter and make your voice heard to protect NJSBDC’s funding level and possibly increase that allocation.

1. It would help to customize your greeting to your specific State Legislators (the system will e-mail them based on your address).

2. Please include a quick note about your personal business experience with NJSBDC in the text box below. It is completely editable so you can copy and paste information about your business growth and other pertinent business success stories.

Please include reference to the specific services that NJSBDC helped you with, perhaps by copying and filling in one or more of the bullets below for the items that apply to your business.

I received SBDC assistance to help me ________(start or grow) my business in ________ (calendar year).
Since then, I have succeeded in growing my sales by _______ percent.
I have received financing in the amount of $_____________due to their assistance and this has helped me expand my business in ____________ (personal explanation like enlarged facility, expanded product line or services, hired new employees, etc).

Thank you. We certainly lag behind the State investments made in SBDCs located in Pennsylvania ($8.0 million), New York ($2.5 million), Georgia (>$2.0 million) and North Carolina ($1.7 million). Let's do more for New Jersey's small businesses like yours.

November 21, 2009

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I received SBDC assistance to help me in my business.

SBDC counselors helped me in many ways. If I were to pay for those services through for-profit professionals and consultants, I would be paying a very high price, something which small business owners do not have the liberty of doing in their earlier stages of development and growth. Due to free counseling services of the SBDC and their affordable training sessions I have attended, the SBDC has provided me with savings so that I can divert my business earnings and income and invest into my own business operations.

I would recommend the SBDC to others who want to start or expand their business operations. I truly believe that funding such a program helps small business owners grasp many of those business topics and issues on which they need to be fully engaged in order to make the best business decisions aimed at survival and growth.

I urge Governor Corzine and members of the New Jersey Legislature to continue to invest in the SBDC program and give full consideration to an increase in appropriations. Without these business development assistance services, small business owners like myself would not have all the tools necessary to succeed and prosper. That would mean the State economy would not receive the benefits from the private sales revenue of small business which in turn generate tax revenues to State Government as well as other economic development benefits to the State.

In a day and age, when public decision makers must seriously monitor how taxpayer dollars are being spent, I would encourage them to invest in a program such as this which returns more dollars than it costs, notwithstanding the benefits that it generates for small business owners and those whom they employ across New Jersey.

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