Client Testimonials

2012 Testimonials

“Thank you so much for opening the offices of SBDC in Hackettstown to me during the aftermath of Sandy.  The ability to keep the momentum moving on the tours I am booking was a huge help.  For a small business owner like me losing a week of marketing time would be a big loss.  I was able to send out over 20 packages to prospective clients this week.

Thank you for all you do, especially for helping me keep my business moving while my home office had no power!

Kathy Moser

Music for a Better World

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“We’re still a small company, but we’ve become an industry player in the sangria category with the help of the Small Business Development Centers.”

Rick Martinez
Owner of Senor Sangria

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The Company’s products (sangria) are sold in  more than 1,000 retail locations in New Jersey, and it plans to expand to New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Its main headquarters is in Maplewood NJ.

“The SBDC is a huge help to firms like mine of limited resources and manpower to help navigate these waters.  They provide a service to small business that I don’t know of any other entity that does what they do at the level they provide. They’re a very underrated treasure to small businesses.”

Charles Schlapfer
Owner and Operator
Environmental Infrastructure Solutions, LLC

The Company, headquartered in Brick NJ,  focuses on manufacturers’ representation for infrastructure projects with special attention to environmental development, stormwater, brownfield and solar projects.

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“We were bringing in the SBDC’s expertise and applying it into key areas of our businesses where we just didn’t have that kind of expertise. …The mission of small business development centers … is more crucial to today than it has ever been, to try and help businesses grow out of  this recession.”

David Grundberg
Chief Financial Officer
Acrilex, Inc.

The Company, which is employee-owned, is a plastics manufacturer headquartered in Jersey City with sales branch offices in New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Maryland.

Mrs. G TV & Appliances Is A Certified NJ Women Business Enterprise

by Mrs. G’s Team on January 12, 2011

I am very happy to announce that Mrs. G TV & Appliances is now certified as a Women Business Enterprise (WBE) with the State of New Jersey. How about that! Not an easy task. As detailed on the MWBE.com website, to become certified as a women owned business, business must show:

• All prospective members must provide clear and documented evidence that at least 51% or more is women-owned, managed, and controlled.
• The business must be open for at least six months.
• The business owner must be a U.S. citizen or legal resident alien.

Evidence must indicate that:

• The contribution of capital and/or expertise by the woman business owner is real and substantial and in proportion to the interest owned.
• The woman business owner must direct or cause the direction of management, policy, fiscal, and operational matters.
• The woman business owner shall have the ability to perform in the area of specialty or expertise without reliance on either the finances or resources of a firm that is not owned by a women.

This certification will give my business a boost when we bid on state government contracts and even some local corporate contracts.

I would like to thank Lorraine Allen, Regional Director of the New Jersey Small Business Development Center at the College of New Jersey, a great resource that provides free management and technical assistance to existing companies and start-up ventures. Lorraine set me up with Patrick Guidotti, President of PJG Consulting in Robbinsville, N.J., a business development and assistance firm specializing in government procurement and construction contracting. Patrick is an expert on doing business with the State of New Jersey. He walked me through the application process and made sure it was perfect before submitting all the necessary documents.

If you are a small business or thinking about creating one, I highly recommend working with the NJSBDC.

Support locally owned small businesses….New Jersey needs us!

Happy New Year!!

Debbie

Air Filtration Service Company

At Service Side Air LLC, founder and owner Maureen Jerolis says…

“The NJSBDC opened the door to ongoing opportunities for my business. Since receiving NJSBDC assistance my company now employs six people in sales and service, with sales increasing by 2,000 percent since it opened in July 2007.”

Construction Company

At DeSantis Construction, owner Dominick DeSantis says…

“The NJSBDC came in and taught us how to organize our general ledger and our paperwork so we could effectively make decisions and submit competitive bids. In addition, NJSBDC helped us restructure our debt and obtain a $1.1 million loan from a credit union, which resulted in the purchase of equipment and the hiring of additional employees.”

Financial Services Company

At Corporate Turnaround, Charles Evans, the Director of Business Development says…

“Thanks, in part to the NJSBDC, Corporate Turnaround – a financial services firm – has remained financially strong and well positioned throughout the economic slowdown. A company with 70 employees, of which 67 are New Jersey residents, we have been fortunate enough to keep our staff level constant over this time and have even begun hiring additional resources to handle our growth. The guidance NJSBDC provided since 2006 has helped contribute to our current standing.”

High-tech Research and Development Company

At Li Creative Technologies (LcT), Inc., President Qi (Peter) Li, Ph.D. says…

“The Small Business Development Centers provided the business knowledge and expertise that I needed as a researcher when I set up my company. These services and training were very important to my company’s success in winning government research proposals and planning the future of my business.”