Placing his expertise online

Attorney and certified public accountant Joe Gelb is sharing his business expertise with less experienced people through his recently launched online endeavor, Small Business Advisors, Inc.

Gelb, 85, founded a medium-sized CPA firm and served as the treasurer of Nassau County and spent 15 years as president of the Hewlett Business Association. He helped oversee a merger with the Woodmere Merchants Association that created the Hewlett-Woodmere Business Association in 2011.
Using his website, SmallBusinessAdvice.com Gelb says he provides, “An online consulting service with answers to every question an entrepreneur may have while starting out.”

Gelb helps entrepreneurs around the world, not just those in his native Hewlett. Both the U.S. Small Business Administration and the Association of Accredited Small Business Consultants have named Gelb a certified small business consultant.

For an annual fee of $25, small business owners gain access to a database of more than 300 articles as well as monthly newsletters that could help them build up their own companies. Libraries can also subscribe and allow all their members to access the information for $45 a year.

If a subscriber has a question that hasn’t been answered by one of their articles they can also make use of the ask the adviser feature where they’ll receive a response from an expert in just a day. Others can take advantage of this service for the price of $10 a question.

He says that one reason he started Small Business Advisors was that, “My entire career has been involved with the small business community.”