We’ve moved! The SBDC is now loacted at RVCC@Bridgewater
The Small Business Development Center main office, formerly at the main campus of Raritan Valley Community College, is now in a new location: RVCC@Bridgewater, at 14 Vogt Drive, Bridgewater, NJ 08876.
The new site (formerly the Somerset County Technical Institute) is also the new home for the RVCC Corporate and Continuing Education offices.
Our contact information remains the same:
Phone: 908-526-1200, ext. 8516 Fax: 908-725-9687 Email: sbdc@raritanval.edu
We look forward to assisting you with your small business needs. Please scroll the website for information about the resources and services we offer, and contact our office for additional assistance or to schedule a counseling appointment.
The SBDC Staff
Larry, Bill, Allison and Kathy
SBA to Conduct Small Business Export Matchmaker
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) will hold an Export Matchmaker Trade Fair & Conference at the Westin Hotel in Jersey City, N.J., on September 20, 2010. The event, organized in the context of the President’s National Export Initiative, aims to assist New York-New Jersey small business manufacturers and suppliers with exporting their products.
The matchmaking conference is designed to bring together small businesses looking for additional markets together with export management companies (EMC), export trading companies (ETC), brokers and agents. Also known as trade intermediaries, EMCs and ETCs are export specialists that will buy a company’s products and sell them in foreign markets or represent a company’s products in foreign markets through a distribution or similar contract.
Working with an EMC or ETC is often the fastest way for small businesses to either begin exporting or expand export sales because they do not need to commit additional staff to the effort. By using trade intermediaries, small businesses can make it easier and quicker to begin marketing and selling to the nearly 96 percent of the world’s population living outside the U.S.
The SBA is encouraging trade intermediaries from across the country, as well as foreign buying missions and other trade facilitators such as foreign consulates and bi-national chambers of commerce, shippers, and other trade- or export-services organizations to participate in the event.
For more information and to register for the event, visit www.exportmatchmaker.org.
Your Wages and the Law
At noon on Thursday, November 4, Patrick Reilly, District Director for Southern New Jersey for the U. S. Department of Labor, will speak at Raritan Valley Community College about “Your Wages and the Law.” This free seminar will take place in the College’s Conference Center and it is open to the public. Mr. Reilly will address a range of questions about wages and work hours, including tips and minimum wages, payment for training time and for internships, wages that are paid in cash, and overtime
ZPi Signs Distribution Agreement
ZPi, Inc. owners Bruce Potter and Robert Crosby
SBDC clients Bruce Potter and Robert Crosby, of Zeta Potential instruments, Inc. (ZPi), recently signed a global distribution agreement with Quantachrome Instruments to sell their zetaREADER, a device that analyzes particles in liquids.
Destinations Celebrates First Anniversary
Destinations owner Susan Kibler and SBDC's Bill Harnden
Destinations recently celebrated their first anniversary. Destinations is located at 47 Maple Ave., Flemington, NJ. Visit their website for more information about Destinations personal fitness coaching.
