When a friend or family member asks what you do to help small businesses, what do you say? I tell them that we enable small businesses success, whether that business is a start-up or an existing business.  When they say “How?”, I tell them about our three Cs – Capital, Counseling and Contracting.  As a Deputy District Director [for the SBA in Oklahoma], I am exposed to a broad range of SBA activities, so I actually get this question pretty often.  I never tire of talking about business – especially sales...

When a friend or family member asks what you do to help small businesses, what do you say? I’m the Correspondence Liaison for SBA’s Office of Capital Access.  That means I work closely with our people at SBA who work with Congress and the White House to help small business owners with everything from what resources are out there to help people start a business… to researching specific issues they may be having with their SBA loan… and more. What’s your favorite thing about what the SBA does for small...

Earlier this week, President Barack Obama answered a series of questions on jobs and the economy at the first-ever Twitter Town Hall at the White House. At the Small Business Administration, we were following along and reading all the great questions about small business.  To keep the conversation going, we’re starting a new blog series where we respond to some of the questions that weren’t answered during the Town Hall. First up, we’re answering your questions about various government loan programs and access to capital...

Today we released the federal government’s “Scorecard” on small business contracting for Fiscal Year 2010.  As you might know, contracting is one of our 3 Cs of the SBA.  It’s important because revenue from federal contracts and subcontracts helps small firms grow their business and create jobs. In FY2010, nearly $100 billion in contracts went to small businesses.  That’s 22.7% of all federal contracting dollars, just shy of the government’s goal of 23%.  Combined with last year’s...