Business Resource Links
Business
Licensing – Orangeburg
Find the resources you need to apply for a business license in Orangeburg. You
can download the business license application form and find answers to your licensing
questions.
South Carolina State
University-Small Business Development Center
The SBDC offers numerous services to small businesses. These services include
free expert consulting services, concentrated training, and information resources.
The SBDC is dedicated to the success of small business persons and entrepreneurs
in the following counties: Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Colleton,
Hampton and Orangeburg.
SC Department
of Labor Licensing and Regulation
The SCLLR has the phone numbers of professional and occupational licensing boards
(39 boards include nursing, cosmetology, real estate, therapy, contracting, medical
examiners, building, etc.) plus the Divisions of Labor, the SC Fire Marshal and
the Fire Academy.
South Carolina Business
One Stop
Almost all the government information you need to start a business anywhere in
South Carolina. The online registration of new businesses and applications
for licenses, permits, and registrations
The South Carolina
Statewide Minority Business Development Center
Part of a national network that was established to increase the growth of new
minority owned business and strengthen existing ones.
The South Carolina
Manufacturing Extension Partnership
Headquartered in Columbia, SC, they are a not-for-profit organization that focuses
on helping manufacturers throughout the state by solving business and supply
chain process problems.
The South Carolina
Women's Business Center
Provides women in manufacturing with the free assistance they need to launch
new companies and improve exiting ones.
FastTrac South
Carolina
FastTracSC offers comprehensive business training programs that address the needs
of entrepreneurs refining and writing their business plans and seeking to grow
sustainable high-impact companies. These programs combine one-on-one coaching,
peer learning, guest speakers from the entrepreneurial, corporate, angel, venture
capital, legal, and financial communities and comprehensive tools to help entrepreneurs
produce solid business plans and strategies.
Palmetto State Registered
Apprenticeship Council
Registered Apprenticeships are a nationally recognized and effective training
system for businesses that produces highly skilled workers who meet the demands
of employers competing in a global economy. A proven strategy for businesses
to grow their own skilled workforce that combines on-the-job training with related
theoretical and practical classroom instruction.
Business
Carolina
A not-for-profit, statewide development finance institution that complements
private-sector activities through a variety of lending programs designed to fill
gaps in funding especially for businesses in rural and distressed areas of South
Carolina.
The U.S. Small Business
Administration
Provides no-fee financial, technical and management assistance to help Americans
start, run, and grow their businesses.
SCORE
Provides small business mentoring and advice on the full range of business topics
at no charge.
SCE&G Small
Business Resource Center
Over 6000 pages of useful information for small businesses.
USC Business
Link
Portal to the University of South Carolina's economic development and research
resources for businesses.
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