The SCORE San Luis Obispo County chapter is dedicated to providing business resources to our web site visitors and clients.

To our clients, these resources come in the form of our members who provide expertise in the form of business counseling and business workshops.  Our members are retired and professionally active executives who provide advice to entrepreneurs that wish to start, fix or expand a business in San Luis Obispo County.

• How to Start a Business in San Luis Obispo County is a book (authored by SLO SCORE members) available at no charge on-line that is designed to give you the information you need before you open your business.

• Ask SCORE provides articles that address the problems and answers that you have in establishing and growing a small business.

• Getting Started supplies tips to those who are beginning to feel a pull toward entrepreneurship.

• Step-by-Step provides the procedure needed to establish a business within California.

• Business Plan is one version of how to plan your business' future.

• Business Resources provides business information on development, financing, energy, contacts and how to get to these resources on-line.

• Local Contacts addresses contacts at the city and county level needed to establish and run a business.

• Web Resources supplies links to major web sites that provide support to new and burgeoning businesses.