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Asian American Suppliers Sharpen Their Competitive Edge
In a slow economy, sharpening one’s competitive edge is often foremost on small business owners’ minds. For some, it could even be requisite for survival. But challenging times can also mean great opportunities — if you know where to look.
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How Minority Suppliers Could Ride an Economic Downturn
We are in uncertain times, and our immediate future could be more challenging. Minority-owned business enterprises, whose lifeline is largely linked to the success of corporations (and to a lesser extent the federal government), are hit hardest by this somber reality.
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Team Up and Go After Big Contracts
It’s time to kick off 2008 with new and productive business relationships! Begin by exploring new opportunities through teaming, a process where two or more small businesses join forces to meet the procurement requirements of large contracts from major corporations or the federal government.
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Network Your Way to Success!
The holiday season is the perfect time to maximize the value of networking — putting your best foot forward, planting yourself on decision-makers’ radar screens, and creating opportunities to nurture existing business relationships or start new ones.
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Get Suited Up
In this highly competitive marketplace, winning the coveted supplier contract with a large corporation or the federal government involves getting suited up, doing research and working very hard.
The point of contact for suppliers — also known as vendors or strategic partners — may be called supply diversity, supplier development, sourcing or purchasing. Whatever terminology is […] -
How New Rules Could Affect Small Business
In an attempt to bring order to federal small-business contracting and ensure that a fair portion of prime and subcontracts are directed to small businesses, the U.S. Small Business Administration has proposed new recertification regulations that will take effect on June 30.
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Unfortuantely, Asian "interest groups" have taken a cue from the Sharpton/Jackon clique. Everyone wants a grubby hand in the racial spoils trough.
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Who cares what the census says? By that stupid logic someone from Vladivostok should also be considered for this award.
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"White lords"? Oh jeez. You couldn't use more cilched liberal arts language if you tried. That being said, I agree they should have chosen an asian to play the asian character.
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"We need immigrants willing to do some of the low paying jobs in order to keep the inflation low. " Nonsense.
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I agree with your comment. In most cases we are left alienated however, Asians are expected to perform well academically by the school system.
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Obama's efforts to connect to the Republican Party, specifically Bush, and Dick Cheney, of the Halliburton Company, dates back to the Presidents Grandfather, Prescott Bush, and indeed Cheney was once an executive officer of Halliburton.
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Huang Fong: You continue to one-up everyone else hereabouts. And I love it. However, forty-buck meals are now history in the starched-linen precincts of our finer-diner establishments, even as four-buck meals are barely within reach for the common working stiff.
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