New Economy wealth.Conference to explore winning financial strategies A new year, a new president, and a new economy. The 2001 Black Enterprise/Bank of America Entrepreneurs Conference will explore the implications of these factors. Given the current financial climate, a number of this year's sessions will be geared toward the strategies black-owned businesses will need to prosper. With its ongoing Black Wealth Initiative focusing on personal finance, BLACK ENTERPRISE has put together a session lineup with a heavy emphasis on strengthening businesses. "Today's business Today's Business is a show on CNBC that aired in the early morning, 5 to 7AM ET timeslot, hosted by Liz Claman and Bob Sellers, and it was replaced by Wake Up Call on Feb 4, 2002. climate is forcing businesses to evaluate Internet opportunities, strategic alliances, and other business-building strategies," says Derek T. Dingle, vice president/executive editor of BLACK ENTERPRISE. "Surviving in these times requires entrepreneurs to employ savvy strategies to improve their bottom line, efficiency, productivity, and infrastructure. You may be forced to embrace technology because the marketplace is moving in that direction, but as a business owner, you have to understand the dynamics behind a transition to e-commerce. It takes more than a Website with fancy bells and whistles A slang English term for exceptional features in some product. In the computer field, it typically refers to functions in software that may be greatly appreciated by some users, even though they may not be necessary most of the time. ." Here is a look at a few of this year's sessions: * Profiting in the New Economy. Learn to lead from the leaders. Entrepreneurs will hear firsthand first·hand adj. Received from the original source: firsthand information. first from BE 100s CEOs about how to transform their growing companies into attractive ventures tot investors and partners. * Grow Your Business: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Alliances. A number of key events have impacted the black business community over the past 10 years--beginning with the sell-off of African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. haircare companies in the '90s to Viacom's $3.1 billion purchase of Black Entertainment Television at the end of last year. Here is an opportunity for business owners to develop their own road map for success. * E-Business: Fantasy or Reality? What's another name for doing business on the Internet? Dot gone. The wave of e-business failures is no laughing matter No Laughing Matter is an episode of U.S. Acres from the series Garfield and Friends. It was the 74th episode produced for the series, although it is listed as the 71st episode on the Garfield and Friends DVD. It originally aired on October 21, 1989. . This session will explore doing business in cyberspace Coined by William Gibson in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer," it is a futuristic computer network that people use by plugging their minds into it! The term now refers to the Internet or to the online or digital world in general. See Internet and virtual reality. Contrast with meatspace. . Important factors related to the marketplace, business infrastructure, and partnerships will be discussed. * Tax Strategies for Savvy Entrepreneurs. Will he or won't he? As business owners ponder Ponder - A non-strict polymorphic, functional language by Jon Fairbairn <jf@cl.cam.ac.uk>. Ponder's type system is unusual. It is more powerful than the Hindley-Milner type system used by ML and Miranda and extended by Haskell. the impact of the Bush presidency, entrepreneurs will want to position their businesses to take advantage of existing tax benefits and explore the what if's of any tax cut proposals. * Doing Business in Tennessee. This session is an introduction to the business climate of the conferences host state, Tennessee. Entrepreneurs will learn about opportunities for companies, who the major players are, and what the economic and social climate is. "It's a chance for entrepreneurs looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. new business opportunity in the state, to stake out the territory and find inroads inroads Noun, pl make inroads into to start affecting or reducing: my gambling has made great inroads into my savings inroads npl to make inroads into [+ into a thriving and uniquely diverse marketplace," says Sherry Browne-Herbert, program manager for the Entrepreneurs Conference. Among the benefits for prospective business owners the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development lists are no state property tax, no state sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. on manufacturing equipment for qualified manufacturers, no sales tax on raw material, and no sales tax on pollution-control equipment. For more information on the Sixth Annual Entrepreneurs Conference, call 800-543-6786 or log on to www.blackenterprise.com. |
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