Joint Venture Creates Innovative Business Tool to Hone MWBE Supplier Skills and Advance Corporate Inclusion Initiatives
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.
CINCINNATI, OH (PRWEB) 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.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/3/prweb112095.htm