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Business Information Center
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Collaborative business information center
Visit our business information center, bringing together business development tools, "how-to" guides, and research materials to enhance your business plans and solutions.
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 Business Assistance Specialist: Connect your business into a growing community of business professionals and partnerships ready to assist you.
Business Financing: Find links to financing and explore several different financing options for start-up or existing businesses including SBA loans, conventional and commercial loans, micro loans and alternative financing options.
Business Taxes Summary: This summary of business taxes includes information for state corporate income tax, sales tax certificate, intangible property tax, local occupational license, and several other tax programs that may impact your business.
Chambers of Commerce: Pinellas County Chambers of Commerce provide businesses opportunities to improve the local business environment through networking, lobbying of common goals and a variety of services for business to reach potential markets.
Connections to International Trade: Through our business assistance partnerships for international trade we help equip businesses with the knowledge and tools they need to meet that exporting challenge, and by extension, promote the trade and investment that helps us all.
Disaster Planning Information: A small amount of time spent in preparation could make all the difference to the future of your business. Find ways to better protect and sustain your company, your assets, and your employees in the event of a serious incident.
Minority Business Development: Find valuable websites to assist entrepreneurs with government purchasing, loans, and many other resources for minorities and women.
Federal Procurement and Marketplace: Doing business with Federal Government agencies can be very lucrative for the people who learn how to maneuver through the maze of registrations, certifications and regulations. If you are ready to start, you will need to take some initial steps to open the door to federal business opportunities.
IRS Tax Center: Whether you are a budding entrepreneur, or an established business owner, you will find everything you need to start and manage your business venture.
Occupational Licenses: Businesses are required to obtain an occupational license in the city or cities in which they operate. No occupational license is required in unincorporated Pinellas County.
Permits, Regulations and Professional Licenses: Before purchasing or leasing land and buildings, contact the local zoning department to ensure that the property can accommodate the type of business planned for it.
Small Business Enterprise Program: This program ensures local small businesses have opportunities to participate in the competitive process for Pinellas County County contracts. Learn about the Pinellas County purchasing system and receive personal assistance from Pinellas County Purchasing staff to register to do business with County government. The BDC offers a training seminar entitled How to Do Business with Pinellas County or go to the Small Business Enterprise Program at the Purchasing Department.
U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA): The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created in 1953 as an independent agency of the federal government to aid, counsel, assist and protect the interests of small business concerns, to preserve free competitive enterprise and to maintain and strengthen the overall economy of our nation. The SBA recognizes that small business is critical to the nations' economic strength, to building America's future, and to helping the United States compete in today's global marketplace.
U.S. Department of Commerce: the US Department of Commerce provides the means to link businesses from Pinellas County and the surrounding areas to anywhere in the world using videoconferencing technology.
Virtual Entrepreneur Center: a regional web portal designed to provide access to local, regional, national, and global web resources that entrepreneurs will find useful in starting, growing, or relocating their businesses.
Resources
The Pinellas County Business Information Center blends business expertise, customized training, technology applications and real world experience - to help your enterprise succeed. Whether a business is just starting out, needing to expand, or just improve your bottom line, the Pinellas County Business Development Center (BDC) offers a variety of services to help businesses succeed.
Business & Education Training Courses: Sharpen business skills with seminars that focus on marketing strategies, sources of financial assistance, government contracting, starting a new business, preparing business taxes and analyzing the competition.
Business Assistance Partnership Specialists (BAPS): Local business help may be obtained by connecting to these trained professionals through participating chambers of commerce. BAPS provide technical assistance for business start-ups, business expansion, and permits and licenses. They also provide a vital link to numerous organizations that can assist the business owner as well as regulatory agencies with whom their business must comply.
Business Incentives: Find a list of "investment tools" available to businesses who qualify. Economic Development Transportation Fund, Incumbent Worker Training Program, Qualified Target Industry Tax Refund Program, Enterprise Bonds, Industrial Revenue Bonds, Quick Response Training, Urban Job Tax Credit, Capital Investment Tax Credit, Foreign Trade Zone, High Impact Performance Incentive Grant and Brownfield Redevelopment Bonus.
Business Taxes
Colleges and Universities
Counseling Services: Meet one-on-one with a business counselor who can help you establish a new business or grow an existing business using planning tools, links to financial resources, market research and feasibility studies, price structure, licenses and permits, tax information and educational business resources.
Disaster Planning Information
Employment Data
Demographics
Enterprise Florida: Enterprise Florida, Inc. is a public/private partnership responsible for leading Florida's statewide economic development. The organization's mission is to diversify Florida's economy and create better paying jobs for its citizens by supporting, attracting and helping to create businesses in innovative, high-growth industries.
Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation: The mission of the Division of Professions is to protect the health, safety and welfare of those who live in and visit Florida by the regulation of professional licensees through education and compliance.
Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation: Find a complete list of licenses and permits required by the State of Florida including professional licenses, business licenses, environmental licenses and permits, and others.
International Trade: Learn about doing business with other countries and connect to specialists who can assist you.
Major Employers
St. Petersburg College - Corporate Training: Customized training programs in professional development, technology and regulated industry, have been developed to meet business' expectations. The very latest in technology allows training to be delivered through consulting, seminars, online training, classroom/lab and blended courses.
Tampa Bay Partnership: The Tampa Bay Partnership is an organization focused on stimulating economic growth and economic development in the Tampa Bay area via corporate relocation and business expansion. The Tampa Bay Partnership works with businesses in the counties of Pasco, Pinellas, Hillsborough, Hernando, Manatee, Polk, and Sarasota; and the metropolitan areas of Tampa, St. Petersburg, Lakeland, Clearwater, Sarasota, Bradenton, and Winter Haven. Their purpose is to attract relocating businesses and encourage corporate expansion into Florida by offering relocation assistance, commercial real estate services and other support.
U.S. Department of Commerce
Virtual Entrepreneur Center:
WorkNet Pinellas: WorkNet Pinellas develops and leads an effective, efficient and integrated business driven workforce system, providing comprehensive and responsive services to the county's citizens and business community. WorkNet Pinellas develops strategies to target the needs of employers then matches them to job seekers across the employment spectrum. They assist those seeking entry level positions in the workforce as well as cultivating workers to fill coveted high skill/high demand positions.
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