Step by Step Guide to Becoming a Client

The consulting process is an ample and confidential two-way communication that is established between an adviser/consultant and a client with the intention to assist and guide the client in how to start, operate, or grow their business.

The eligibility criteria to receive services from SBDCs are:

• • Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) that are registered and formally established in Belize.
  • Informally operating businesses that are not yet registered but are active.
  • Pre-venture entrepreneurs with a viable business idea intending to operate in Belize.
  • Generally, businesses that contribute to Belize’s economy through tax payments, employment creation, export activity, or local procurement of raw materials.

Eligible clients may include both start-ups (operating for less than three years) and established businesses (operating for over three years). Overall, any micro, small, growing, or exporting business—formal or informal—may access SBDC services.

First step to becoming a client:
By filling out, signing and submitting the “D2 Counseling Request Form” you are on the first step to becoming a client of the Small Business Development Centre, Belize (SBDCBelize). This form is required of all clients prior to an initial meeting with a Business Advisor.

Filling out the form:

• If you are unable to visit us at the Centre you can access the online form, you can print it, complete it at home, and send as via email as attachment.
  • You can also fill out online and download then submit to sbdc@beltraide.bz . Upon first meeting with SBDCBelize, official signature will be requested.
• Upon completion of the form you will be contacted by our Client Management and Training Officer who will set up an appointment to meet for an initial session.