Learn to build a winning marketing plan, define your audience, and select the right digital tools—from SEO to social media—to grow your business effectively and confidently.
Free Business Mentoring in the Greater Central Ohio area
We provide free and confidential one-on-one business counseling by phone, email, and in-person in Columbus OH. We also conduct workshops for both start-up entrepreneurs and seasoned small business owners.
Register today for the free online series.
Elevate your business with SCORE’s Amazon Seller Success Series 2025, sponsored by Amazon. This series reveals proven strategies to optimize product listings, marketing tactics and operations—empowering you to scale fast. Gain actionable insights from industry experts and connect with like-minded entrepreneurs for lasting success.
SCORE: 60 Years of Small Business Success
Helping 17 Million Entrepreneurs achieve their dreams
SCORE proudly celebrates 60 years of helping America’s small businesses launch, grow and thrive. Since 1964, more than 17 million entrepreneurs have received support from SCORE, a resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).
Today, SCORE has a nationwide network of more than 10,000 volunteers serving all 50 U.S. states and territories, guiding entrepreneurs on their path to success.
Impact Your Community
Since 1964, SCORE has educated and mentored more than 11 million small business owners and entrepreneurs. We're looking for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to serve in a variety of roles — from knowledgeable business mentors to local community advocates.
Small Business Resource Hubs
SCORE empowers all entrepreneurs to succeed.
We believe that anyone can start a small business with the right support. We also know that the path to success may vary based on where you are in your business journey.
SCORE is here to help with curated resources for all entrepreneurs.
Sean Braden, Fifth Third Bank, will help us:
- Understand the importance of financial statements for small business operations and strategy
- Recognize the uses of three common financial statements
- Learn what information is found on balance sheets profit, loss statements, and cash flow statements
Whether you're leading a growing team or running your own business, staying on top of everything can be overwhelming. The good news? Microsoft has built-in AI and automation tools that can help you save time, reduce manual work, and make better decisions - without needing to be a tech expert.
In this session, Daleele Alison, CEO of RooksDM and Microsoft Partner, will walk through how leaders and business owners can start using Microsoft 365 AI and automation tools to work more efficiently.
You’ll learn:
- What Microsoft Copilot is and how it fits into tools like Outlook, Word, and Excel
- How to
Learn how to find the most effective keywords to drive traffic to your website using free, accessible tools.
This Covers the differences in for-profit vs. nonprofit organizations, advantages and disadvantages of running these kinds of entities, developing a business plan, incorporating and obtaining 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, board structure/function and more.
Learn the essential design strategies to transform your business website from a passive digital presence into an active customer acquisition tool.
SCORE Columbus OH awarded Ohio District Chapter of the Year 2022
This award recognizes SCORE Columbus OH Chapter's leadership, dedication, and commitment to serving small businesses in our community. Our chapter’s innovation and business mentoring has led to this award.
New to SCORE Columbus? Start here.
Watch the video above to learn more about SCORE, SCORE Columbus and how we help small business owners and entrepreneurs.
SEA Change is a social enterprise accelerator that helps aspiring social entrepreneurs move forward further, faster.
Learn about the many resources for small businesses the SBA Columbus District has to offer.
ECDI provides the tools, technical assistance, and support for businesses to succeed. View upcoming workshops and webinars being offered.
