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- Discover how business incubator programs provide solid networking advice
to help new businesses take "Enterprising Ideas" to a higher
level.
- The survival rate of new businesses in an incubator program is 87 percent
versus an overall national average of 30 percent. Apparently it helps to
be in a climate where businesses can talk to each other. An excellent example
of this networking takes on new dimensions in "A Flight Without Wings."
- Another type of "incubation" took place during the early
roots of African-American business development, where Self-employment became
a family tradition in the small Florida town of Mount Dora. Home-based
businesses in this town stood a greater chance of ultimate success because
every generation passed on its secrets of survival.
- Learn the ABC's of establishing a powerful Internet presence that will
allow your business to get a healthy piece of the e-commerce action. Creating
a new e-brand requires some old fashioned techniques -- work as hard offline
as you do online, implement good customer service and most of all focus
on the people. Because the "People have had E-nuff!"
- Part II of our travel story, "Next
to the Great River Along the Freedom Trail," continues to produce
surprises for African-American visitors to Connecticut, the third smallest
state in the Union.
- We invite you to explore the "Butlers'
Unique Getaway," where the African-American bed and breakfast
owners featured on the cover make a stay at their Connecticut haven a truly
"Mystic" experience.
- As you explore the business of getting away, get aboard the new e-commerce
or settle into a home-based business, keep in mind that "Marketing
Matters" when you become the boss and start to call your own shots!
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