Denver, Colorado - August 18, 2010

Above:  Stan Sena opens the 2010 Business Opportunity Fair alongside breakfast emcee Christine Chang, moderator Charles Johnson, and Tamela Lee, RMMSDC board chair.

Taking Your Game to the Next Level
 
An aspiration we all share, as minority business entrepreneurs ... taking our game to that elusive next level.  The Rocky Mountain MSDC imagines limitless possibilities for your minority business enterprise (MBE), and that is why our annual Business Opportunity Fair has become increasingly more important each year.  With economic challenges heretofore unimagined (we dare not imagine such stressful economic times), it is more important than ever that the Council remain a staunch ally and marshal our forces to connect MBE to MBE and MBE to corporation to promote a wide variety of goods and services now.
 
In honor of our MBE constituents and in appreciation of our strong support from corporate members, we thank each and every participant in the recent Business Opportunity Fair.  We know that participants learned from colleagues precisely how they took their game to the next level as they also heard how exhilarating it has been to look back and see that their game is many levels beyond their imaginations.
 
There's that word "imagine" again, so appropriate when we think about a company's value proposition which first had to be imagined before it could be articulated and implemented.  Throughout the exhibit hall, we all heard MBEs describing how their enterprise differs from another similar business and how that difference enhances their value proposition.  It's not enough simply to explain how your enterprise differentiates itself from its competition:  You must also translate that difference to your value proposition and tie this in to your marketing strategy.
 
Throughout 2010, we have designed our programs, events, and activities around the theme, Get Connected, Be Connected, Stay Connected.  The Business Opportunity Fair of August 5 in many respects represented the heart of this theme.  We have helped our MBE constituents Get Connected through Access Opportunity events hosted by our generous corporate members, and we have helped those same MBE constituents to Be Connected, and now we are witnessing the results of our myriad efforts in that our MBE constituents are beneficiaries of Staying Connected. Staying Connected, if we imagine its wide-ranging effects, is the essence of Taking Your Game to the Next Level because enduring connections are reinforcing in and of themselves. The net of networking is cast wider and further.  
 
At the Rocky Mountain MSDC, we are very proud to be of service to minority business in forging powerful connections that have staying power.  Be assured that we will continue to forge new ground in defining networking and education activities that will serve both our corporate members and our minority business beneficiaries. 
 
We are sincerely grateful for all the good will surrounding minority business enterprise and specifically the work of the Rocky Mountain MSDC.  We, too, benefit from the programs and activities of the Rocky Mountain MSDC because our dedication is strengthened by the many business connections that accrue from our Business Opportunity Fair and activities throughout the year.  Once again, we acknowledge and thank our corporate members who support our efforts to pave the way for your new connections to take your game to the next level, and the level after that.
 

Stan Sena