SCORE Chattanooga provides free business counseling at its offices in Eastgate Business Center, Monday through Thursday from 9 AM to 1 PM. Over 30 local retired business executives volunteer their time to provide this service. Additionally, SCORE counselors can provide on-site counseling at your place of business and counseling by email.
SCORE counselors can help with many business problems, including the following:
- Feasibility studies
- Business plans
- Business financing
- Legal structure (Corporation, proprietorship, LLC, etc.)
- Franchises
- Trademarks, copyrights and patents
- Marketing
- Risk management
- Personnel management
- Licenses and taxes
All counseling sessions are free and confidential.
Get Live Counseling: Appointments for counseling in person, either in our offices or on-site at your business, can be scheduled by calling the SCORE Chattanooga office at (423) 553-1722 or by sending email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Get Email Counseling: Email counseling is available at any time with local counselors at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . If you have a question which is outside the SCORE Chattanooga local counselors' areas of expertise, you can get email counseling from volunteers nationwide through the national SCORE office.
Register New Client Form: Registration to National database EdmisScore.org.