Success Stories

Services Used: Ohio Export Internship Program, IMAGE Grant, Documentation Assistance, Market Research

“There are many aspects of the EAN that have helped us on a daily basis, whether it’s documentation process, training for our employees, or sending interns into the business to help us with our compliance.”

Services Used: Presentation Coaching, SBA Emerging Leaders Training, Financial Modeling, and Sales Projections, Profit Cents, Market Research, INQUISIT business assessment, IMS Program, Ohio Export Internship Program

“The SBDC has opened our company up to a world of opportunities. We developed such a great relationship with the SBDC team that any questions we have with research, marketing, sales, or projections, we would reach out to them.”

Services Used: Ohio Export Internship Program, IMAGE Grant, IMS Program, Market Research

“Haltec has made significant use of the YSU SBDC EAN for the last 5 years. They assisted us in researching new markets such as the Russia and India Markets.”

Services Used: Market Research, IMS Program

“The Ohio SBDC EAN at YSU helped us develop into foreign markets by helping us interpret and understand contracts, find local representation, arrange financing, and also transport our goods from our little place here in Hartford, Ohio to just about any dot that you can put on the globe.”

Services Used: INQUISIT Business Assessment, BOOST! Training Program

“After going through the INQUISIT business assessment, I went through the BOOST! Program, which was huge. Some of it was game changer stuff on things to look at, things to track, different ways to look at different things. Moving forward with the SBDC, I know for sure that if we called them with a problem, it would be an almost instantaneous answer. They’re always there to help us.”

Services Used: Financial Modeling and Projections, Cost Matrix, Loan Proposal, WCBA class project for a Marketing Plan, INQUISIT Business Assessment, BOOST! Training Program

“The SBDC really helped me understand what my cost of goods were and broke it down so I knew my cost per unit.”

Services Used: Financial Projections, Loan Proposal Assistance, Market Research

“SBDC has given us a lot of tools that we can use when we are ready to grow.”

“I reached out to the SBDC and the biggest thing that they did for me was they took me seriously. They helped create a financial model that I was able to use to determine what sales I would need to do to be profitable. They helped me understand my cash flow and what I...

Services Used: Business Start-Up, Market Research, Marketing Strategies, WCBA class project
for a Marketing Plan, Cost Analysis, Sales Projections, Distributor Research

“The SBDC has helped us launch our product and has been with us every step of the way.”

Services Used: INQUISIT Business Assessment, Cash Flow Model, Loan Assistance, Process Optimization

“The Inquisit process really nailed the areas of our business we needed to improve.”