Illinois Sbdc Network Email & Phone Number

Every year, the Illinois SBDC Network works with thousands of businesses like yours to help make them more profitable, reduce their costs or just get off the ground. We are experts in small business issues and connection owners to virtually any resource needed to grow and be even more successful. We provide confidential, valuable, honest, and straightforward advice that comes from our own business experience and from working with many other businesses like yours. We are ready to be your trust partner and focused on YOUR bottom line - not ours.Our network provides our clients with an invaluable resource: information. Throughout our network, our business experts can help businesses of all kinds with practically any facet of their business.Illinois Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) provide information, confidential business guidance, training and other resources to early stage and existing small businesses.The Illinois SBDC Network also provides export assistance through our business experts within our International Trade Centers (ITC). The services provided to our clients include easy access to all sorts of information, business advice and training to existing, new-to-export companies interested pursuing international trade opportunities.The Illinois SBDC business experts through the Illinois Procurement Technical Assistance Centers (PTAC) provide one-on-one business advice, technical information, marketing assistance and training to existing businesses that are interested in selling their products and/or services to local, state, or federal government agencies.Also, through our Technology, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Specialties (TIES) at five SBDC locations help Illinois businesses, entrepreneurs and citizens to succeed in a changing economy by: developing the skills of their workers; promoting safe and healthy workplaces; assisting in the commercialization of new technologies; and providing access to modernizing technologies and practices.