Small Business Assistance

Starting a business?  The Arizona Commerce Authority, SCORE & Small Business Development Center have many useful tools to help you achieve that goal.

  • Small Business Checklist is an interactive, free tool from Arizona Commerce Authority to help you navigate business licensing information & other resources: www.azcommerce.com/start-up/

  • Small Business Development Centers offer one-on-one counseling resource assistance training to facilitate capital formation, and to preserve and create small business jobs & revenue.

  • Small Business Administration provides workshops, webinars & loan programs that are dedicated to helping business form, grow and thrive.

  • SCORE is local mentors, each with extensive business experience who stand ready to help you start a business, grow your business or work through difficult business management challenges.

“Membership brings additional credibility to your business when consumers know that a small business is a member of their local Chamber of Commerce, they are 44 percent more likely to think favorably of it and 63 percent more likely to purchase goods or services from the company in the future.”

– Shapiro Study 2012