Iowa Small Business Development Center at Southeastern Community College

Janine Clover
Janine CloverRegional Director
P:
319-208-5381
F:
319-752-3407

jclover@scciowa.edu

River Park Place 610 North 4th Street, Suite 201 Burlington, IA 52601

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Michael and Lea Burke, Owners

Client Success Story: Burke Installed, Burlington

The Iowa Small Business Development Center at Southeastern Community College helped Michael and Lea Burke write a winning business plan, answer sales tax and payroll tax questions, and smooth out some bookkeeping issues in order to improve their two ...Read more >>

Judy and Mike Coon, Owners

Client Success Story: Tender Trap Restaurant and Grill, Burlington

Using marketing strategies and accounting training the Iowa Small Business Development Center at Southeastern Community College helped Judy and Mike Coon increase their existing restaurant sales and improve the company’s accounting practices. ...Read more >>

Christopher Murphy, Owner

Client Success Story: Burlington By The Book, Burlington

With training on writing a winning business plan and additional one-on-one counseling from the Iowa Small Business Development Center at Southeastern Community College, Christopher Murphy opened his book store in downtown Burlington. A Burlington n...Read more >>

Carol Mortimer, Owner

Client Success Story: The Party Supply Store, Keokuk

The Iowa Small Business Development Center at Southeastern Community College helped Carol Mortimer develop a business plan and much more to obtain financing to start her party supply business and then move it to a better location. After being laid ...Read more >>

Mike Lamm, Owner

Client Success Story: Rhodes Jewelry, Mediapolis

Mike and Tracey Lamm received help writing a business plan, plus assistance with taxes, marketing issues, and much more from the Iowa Small Business Development Center at Southeastern Community College so they could purchase an existing jewelry store...Read more >>

Martha Wolf, Co-owner

Client Success Story: Ivy Bake Shoppe & Cafe, Fort Madison and Burlington

The Iowa Small Business Development Center at Southeastern Community College helped Martha Wolf and Susan Welch-Saunders expand their home-based bakery business in Fort Madison into a storefront bakery and restaurant and then helped them add a second...Read more >>

About the Center

The SBDC center is located in downtown Burlington at River Park Place, formerly the Mercy Hospital Building. The center offers much more than loan packaging, financial projections, feasibility and business plan writing assistance; counselors are available to coach a new or existing business with all aspects of managing a business, from setting up and managing a record keeping system, to marketing and sales. The SBDC offers a wide variety of business classes including Basic Business Accounting, Writing a Winning Business Plan, and QuickBooks.

The SBDC program started at Southeastern Community College in November 1987 as a branch office of Indian Hills Community College. In 1989 it became a full center and serves Des Moines, Henry, Lee and Louisa counties.

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Director's Corner

If you're looking for basic information on the following subjects, just click on one of the fact sheets below.

Accounting Fact Sheet
Grants Fact Sheet
Legal Structure Fact Sheet
Marketing Fact Sheet
Planning Fact Sheet