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Spotlight on Emerging Entrepreneurs
Learn the Secrets
Business development
workshop Oct. 14
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Local residents interested in learning the secrets of selling
your products and services to big businesses are invited to a
Business Development Day seminar Thursday. Oct. 14 from
8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Oregon Convention Center.
The event is co-sponsored by The Portland Business Alliance
and the Oregon Association of Minority Entrepreneurs.
Organizers say the seminar will show participants that you
don't have to be a big business to sell to big business. Small
suppliers of goods and services will learn the many lucrative
sales opportunities available to them from big business.
Local executives of big firms will present detailed instruction
on how to court their business.
Workshops will help participants learn how to respond to
requests for proposals or quotations. Other topics include how
to finance that first big order, how to create strategic alliances
and how to be a lean enterprise.
The presenting businesses include Hoffman Construction,
Walsh Construction. Portland Trail Blazers. Norris and Stevens.
Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland State University,
Portland Community College, Providence Health Systems and
others.
Admission is $50 for Alliance and OAME members who
register online in advance and $100 at the door.
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Exodus Spa owner Esmeralda Caldera does Angella Warren s nails at her business near the intersection on North Interstate Avenue
and Skidmore Street.
Thanks to a combination of
financial programs from the
Portland Development Commis­
sion and technical assistance
from the Metropolitan Hispanic
Chamber of Commerce, sev­
eral Hispanic-owned businesses
will expand in the Portland area
in the coming months.
Companies receiving assis­
tance include C & M Motors, a
northeast Portland firm special­
izing in BMW and Mercedes
repairs; Orazco Auto W reck­
ing, a Hispanic-owned business
in the Lents Urban Renewal
Area that specializes in auto-
mobile recycling; Pacific Civil
Design/LanPacific, a full ser-
salon, including hair, skin and
"W e have a very diverse staff
nail care, with a massage thera- here. Everyone is a different
piston duty.
ethnicity. We represent the com­
munity that we serve, plus I
speak Spanish." Caldera said.
The Metropolitan Hispanic
Chamber assisted both C & M
M o to rs and O ro z co A uto
Wrecking in completing busi­
Exodus Spa owner Esmeralda Caldera
ness plans, a necessary element
in the application process for
vice civil design firm and Exo­
Ow ner Esm eralda Caldera proper financing.
dus Spa, a Hispanic- and fe­ says her clients appreciate a
In addition, the cham ber
male-owned business on Noph comfortable environment cre­ played an integral role in locat-
Interstate Avenue.
ated by an experienced staff
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Exodus Spa is a full service that reflects the community.
We have a very diverse staff
here. Everyone is a different
ethnicity.
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707 N.E. Fremont St
Portland, OR 97212
Supports Minority Business Week
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