WASHINGTON (7News) — There are roughly 82,666 small businesses in D.C., according to the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy.

As the city recognizes DC Small Business Week, the Department of Small and Local Business Development (DSLBD) introduced a ‘Solution Expo’ to help entrepreneurs get their business off the ground.

“We wanted to make sure that our small businesses were able to come to a one stop shop, if you will, using MLK Library as that venue, but also to bring other agencies and other institutions here, so that small business owners could come and get issues resolved, get questions answered, but leave with something they didn’t have when they are before they arrived,” Rosemary Suggs-Evans, the Director of the Department of Small and Local Business Development of DC, told 7News.

Suggs-Evans said at least 200 small businesses were represented at the expo at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, offering entrepreneurs one-on-one help with tax filings and other necessities to grow a successful business.

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“We have our procuring agencies that are here that can talk to them about procurements that will be coming up. We have the Office of Tax and Revenue that can talk to them about any tax issues they may have. We have a number of agencies, Department of Licensing and Consumer Protection. If you want to get your basic business license, or have a question regarding licensing, you can get that done as well,” Suggs-Evans told 7News.

“It’s been a net increase of small businesses, and it has been challenging. Everyone knows…costs and things are up. But typically, our small business owners are folks who are resilient. I always say, whatever it is, the thing that they are doing, they do it very well,” she added.

Many business owners, like Nicole Retland, were able to get tips and headshots during the event.

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“We are a new business, and so what made me come out is all the expertise, and they’re in this one building, and I have been getting all my questions answered and getting solutions,” Nicole Retland owner of EcoGen Urban Solutions told 7News. “We do projects focused on DC, go go trails collective east of the river,” she added.

As a new business Retland said it was important to get a Certified Business Enterprise (CBE).

“Getting access to capital right now has been a challenge, and so we have some creative solutions that were created today to help us navigate that,” Retland said.

Several business owners like Retland were searching for social media also.

“I need all the assistants in that area. So they provided some really great just advice on how I can get my brand out there, and branding even for those pages, in my personal page, and as far as the economic challenges for many small businesses across the city.,” she said