Joint Venture Creates Innovative Business Tool to Hone MWBE Supplier Skills and Advance Corporate Inclusion Initiatives
CINCINNATI, OH
March 19, 2004 ?- The business community is buzzing about the upcoming "union" of Minority Business News USA magazine and MBe-Coach?, a unique business development tool using e-learning, virtual and multimedia technologies. Don McKneely, president of TexCorp Communications in Dallas, and Joan Carroll-Flowers, president of MYCA Group & Associates in Cincinnati, today announced the creation of a joint venture called Business News Connection. The two minority-owned enterprises will launch a new website portal that unites an online weekly version of the Minority Business News USA magazine with MBe-Coach?, a business development tool that hones the skills of diverse suppliers and then promotes these businesses to the end users in corporate purchasing programs. The goal is to increase the pool of qualified minority and women suppliers to participate in corporate and government procurement opportunities. The portal (www.biznewsconnect.com) will contain a host of features and benefits ranging from business development training to procurement opportunities to a virtual showcase of minority and women entrepreneurs around the country who are helping to build their communities.
Entrepreneurs can take advantage of convenient online self-study courses delivered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and interact with professional business coaches. Corporate users not only have access to an exclusive section that features best practices and strategies from experts with years of supplier diversity program experience, they can also post procurement opportunities and search a virtual directory that promotes diverse suppliers.In addition to an online version of the award-winning Minority Business News USA magazine, the Business News Connection portal will also feature online diversity training, access to a series of interactive workshops delivered as teleclasses, procurement opportunities, profiles of successful entrepreneurs, teleclass workshops, and much more..
The Free Ride In Public Schools
To protect children's self-esteem or deflect complaints by parents, many public schools today automatically advance failing students to the next grade level. In other schools, some students are left back a maximum of one year, then promoted again regardless of their academic skills.The No Child Left Behind Act tries to solve this problem. The federal government is pressuring public schools to set minimum standards that each student must pass before advancing to the next grade.However, in spite of these new laws, many states still have semi-automatic advancement based on the student's overall performance. Many schools consider a student's "portfolio" of work, attendance record, or other mitigating factors. Based on these factors, the school may advance students to the next grade, even though they do poorly on their tests or read at a previous grade level.For example, a dedicated California 7th-grade math teacher wrote to Dr.
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Vending Machines by North American Vending Have New Chrome Security Sliding Cash Drawer
North American Vending http://www.navending.com/ revolutionizes the vending machine industry with the all new chrome security sliding cash drawer that can be mounted on all 4 sides and serviced in less than one minute.
Every machine has a lifetime guarantee.
Vending machines from North American Vending are the answer for those who are seeking a home business opportunity or small business opportunity, and for those who want to earn money while they work at home. North American Vending, one of the largest manufacturers and sellers of vending machines in the United States, and the only manufacturer to offer a Lifetime Guarantee on every vending machine sold announced the availability, this week, of the all new, revolutionary, chrome security sliding cash drawer that can be mounted on all 4 sides, and serviced in less than one minute.
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Titan Poker Club Launch a Success; Player of the Year Tournament Begins
(ContentDesk) February 6, 2006 -- The recent launch of Titan Poker Club (www.titanpokerclub.com) has already started to send shockwaves around the online poker world.
Players from across the globe have already begun to join Titan Poker Club in anticipation of poker prizes, sign-up bonuses, promotional events and the upcoming inaugural Titan Poker Club Player of the Year Series of no-limit holdem poker tournaments.The Titan Poker Club Player of the Year Title will be handed out at the end of 2006 along with cash and other Poker Club prizes.
However, the fun and excitement is already underway.
A Title Series tournament will be held each month and Title Points will be awarded for poker players finishing in the top 10 of the tourney.
In fact, all players will receive Title Points just for participating!
The first tournament in the series will be a ground-breaking and exciting beginning...
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Mr. Rebates Announces Over 700 Cash-Back Online Shopping Stores
Saint Charles, Illinois (ContentDesk) January 19, 2006 -- Mr. Rebates, (http://www.mrrebates.com), an online shopping portal, today announced the addition of the 700th merchant to its list of retail stores available to its members.
Mr. Rebates offers cash-back on purchases made through its website at familiar stores, such as Best Buy, Dell, The Gap and Target.com.
This cash-back online shopping mall began in 2002 and offered its members approximately 300 merchants from which to shop.
"We started with some of the bigger stores like JC Penney and Dell," said Mr. Rebates' founder, Craig Cassata.
"Since the beginning, weve tried to add smaller stores and niche market retailers, along with more well known stores, to provide our members with the best variety of shopping on the Internet."
With the addition of the 700th merchant (for a complete list, view
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Power Technology Subsidiary Sentry Power Announces New Distribution Agreements for Back Up Power Systems
HOUSTON, TEXAS (ContentDesk) May 26, 2006 -- Alternative energy company, Power Technology, Inc. (OTCBB: PWTC) announced today that its newly acquired back up power subsidiary, Sentry Power Technology, has signed three new distribution and sales agreements for the Sentry Power Systems. Sentry Power Technology Systems will now be sold by Shore Electric in Lewes, Delaware, Bay Ace Hardware in Eastern Maryland with two locations, and Warehouse Battery Outlet in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.Bob Magyar,...
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