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Meet Special Secretary Luwanda Jenkins from the Maryland Governor's Office of Minority Affairs (GOMA), our Featured Leader, and hear her speak about important issues affecting small, minority and women owned businesses in the state of Maryland.
Also, visit two of our own MinorityBuzz.com featured members; get the Buzz on this month's must attend Business Event; find out how to make your product financially appealing; prepare your business for disaster and, learn how you can win a seat at the MinorityBuzz table and receive a Free Premium MinorityBuzz.com membership.
Odessa Hopkins, President
Let our readers and website viewers hear, first hand, what's going on in your organization. To become a Featured Leader, please call toll-free (877) 433-3810 for details.
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 Maryland Governor's Office Of Minority Affairs (GOMA)
Meet this Month's Featured Leader, Special Secretary Luwanda Walker Jenkins
Hear Secretary Jenkins speak about these and other topics: Who is GOMA? What is the MBE Program and what accountability measures have been put into place? What is EMPRESA? What is BRAC and what opportunities should small businesses expect from it? What accomplishments have been made over the Special Secretary's first year that will increase opportunities for minority and women-owned businesses? And, what's the Buzz on the new partnership with Microsoft?
Our interview was insightful and truly educational. Secretary Jenkins covered a wealth of topics and left us eager to share this information with our members and readers.
To learn more about the Office of Minority Affairs, or to find out about the many programs, opportunities and events this office offers (and/or oversees), please visit their website at www.mdminoritybusiness.com. To obtain the complete version of this interview in DVD format, please call us toll-free at 1-877-433-3810. Quantities are limited. Click Here to Download 2008 Outreach Calendar. | |
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Make Your Product as Financially Appealing as Possible
2008-05-26 by Laura Laaman - Washington Business Journal
It's easy enough in any economy for customers to say, "I'll have to think about it. I'm not sure we can afford it." But in an economy like this, objections need to be expected.
If you accept these objections and say anything close to "O.K, here's my card, call me when you're ready," I promise you, you're not going to hit your own or your company goals. So, you have a few options to overcome these very predictable objections.
Among them:
Discounting or price slashing. Even if your company allows you to discount, be very careful. I'm not talking about honoring printed discounts, coupons or rebates in the marketplace -- that makes perfect sense. I'm talking about giving a customer a "for no other reason than they asked for it" discount because you're afraid that if you don't, he won't buy.
Discounting is a dangerous practice that becomes addicting. It becomes far too easy to say, "Sure, I can do that." In a tougher economy, many jobs get tougher -- sales is certainly one of them. It absolutely takes more talent to get a prospect to part with his money when he has less of it, regardless of what you sell.
When you give a customer a discount, you more often than not just gave away sheer profit. Think about it -- the product still costs the same from the manufacturer; the cost of the overhead and marketing remains the same. More>>> |
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Prepare Your Business for Diaster
05/27/2008 by Kristin Chessman - Entreprenuer.com
Natural
disasters have been front-page news around the world this spring, and
are being chalked up as the deadliest to date. Yet, four out of 10
business professionals admit to not being prepared for a disaster. A
new national survey of 5,000 business professionals, conducted by
Office Depot, sought answers. The survey found that unprepared business
professionals say readiness-planning isn't a priority, that it's too
expensive and that they don't know how to adequately prepare.
"What's most alarming about the survey findings is that the
prevailing attitudes are steeped in misperceptions," says Jon Toigo, a
disaster-recovery expert based in Tampa, Florida who works with Office
Depot to help educate small businesses about important preparedness
measures. "A $1 piece of media, like a CD-R, to store important data
such as key customer lists, vendor details and presentations, could
make a big difference in being able to keep your business running. And
it doesn't take but minutes to back up your data on a regular basis."
According to Toigo, the key to effective planning is to protect your
most valuable assets: your people and your data. When developing your
preparedness plan, Toigo recommends small-business owners build solid
contact lists, including at least five different forms of contact per
employee. As for data, he recommends backing up the data your business
can't live without and moving it off-site. For larger storage needs,
Toigo suggests products that allow you to grab your data and go, like
the Ativa 4GB Flash Drive and the Maxtor External Hard Drive.
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