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Inland Empire Small Business Development Center /IESBDC

Inland Empire SBDC

Small Business Assistance at Every Stage!

The Inland Empire Small Business Development Center (SBDC) provides a vast array of technical assistance to small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs. This includes no cost, extensive, one-on-one, long-term professional business advising, low-cost training and other specialized services. Beyond its core services, the Inland Empire SBDC provides specialized assistance in: QuickBooks, franchise and service-based operations, government contracting, website search engine optimization and securing funding from both traditional and nontraditional sources. Some of our staff members include: Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisors who can assist with your accounting systems, marketing specialists who can help you attract new clients and increase your sales, loan consultants with lending preference knowledge, procurement specialists who can help you bid on local, state, and federal solicitations and much more.


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Business Consulting & Resources

Our Riverside and Ontario service locations and more than 8 outreach centers provide new or existing businesses with confidential consulting services and training opportunities on a variety of business topics throughout our service territory. Our consulting services are offered at no cost to the client along with many of our training sessions throughout the region.


Funded in part through a Cooperative Agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration. Funding is not an endorsement of any product, opinion, or service. All Federal and State funded programs are extended to the public on a nondiscriminatory basis.


SBDC Center for Contracting

Featuring Chatting Contracts with Karla dedicated info sessions surrounding assisting small businesses with winning procurement contracts at the state, local and private levels. Government and corporate procurement is an amazing opportunity to grow your business revenues in a new and diversified manner and the SBDC Center for Contracting is here to help you with education, training, and one-on-one consulting.


Monica Estrella delivers entrepreneurial instruction for the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship program's Entrepreneurial Technician series.


Catch our business workshops and training programs – available for little to no cost. Meet 1-on-1 with our specialized consultants for your business planning, marketing, funding, and management business needs. Schedule an appointment today.

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