Score Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara SCORE volunteers are retired or semi-retired executives providing a unique spectrum of industry experience and management expertise. The SCORE mentor relationship is designed to provide the entrepreneur with useful and actionable information in the context of a long-term relationship existing for the life of the clients business.

When you register as a Santa Barbara SCORE client you will provide information regarding your business idea, nature of counseling requested and assistance needed. Your initial contact with a SCORE mentor will be for intake counseling at which time the counselor will discuss working with Santa Barbara SCORE and solicit additional information to help select a volunteer to mentor you as the business idea evolves.

After accepting the assignment your SCORE mentor will contact you to set up an initial meeting. During the initial meeting your mentor will establish a relationship by listening and asking questions to achieve an understanding of your business idea and offering suggestions and experience to help focus on issues that require your mentor’s expertise. SCORE mentors don’t perform the clients work, nor provide all of the answers, but they will help you think through issues logically and methodically so that you can determine the best course of action. The mentor’s goal is to help you, as an entrepreneur, assess and analyze the business idea by uncovering information and discovering answers together. The outcome of the initial meeting will be actionable suggestions and specific goals and objectives for follow-on meetings.