Spring 2014 Small Business Growth Summit Five Avenues to Grow Your Business

Leadership, Mindset, Financing, Marketing and Exporting

Small business owners, key employees and aspiring entrepreneurs, join us for a day of interactive presentations, inspiring speakers, panels and workshops dedicated to developing skills and company culture needed to grow a relevant and successful business.  Network with a host of resource partner exhibitors from Houston's vibrant entrepreneurial eco-system.

 Morning Topics     8:30am-12:00pm 

• Leading the Entrepreneurial Enterprise Find, lead, motivate and support employees who operate with an entrepreneurial mindset.  This is the multiplier effect that will drive 21st century small business innovation and growth.  Presenter: Linda Koffel, HCC.
  
• Great Ideas Become Great Companies  Innovative Leaders can develop and ignite team-based creativity to turn ideas into profitable opportunities.  Create and develop new products, operations and or services through human capital development.  Presenter: Liz Lara Carreno, HCC.  Guest Entrepreneurs weigh in with real life success stories: Susan Marriot-BioScience Writers;  Connie Rankin, Customized Real Estate Services and Abe Gonzalez, RPC Global.
  
• Financing in the Greater Houston Economy   -  Stay abreast of the econmic trends and new opportunities affecting your access to capital.  Presenter & Panel Moderator: Marylyn Harris, HCC. Panelists: Scott Chapa-Amegy Bank; Nasr Khan-Wallis State Bank; and Jack Barry-consultant, author, trainer.
  

Featured Keynote Speakers                 12:00pm-1:00pm   

• Anthony Milton & Liz Townsend:  These serial entrepreneurs founded and grew My Fit Foods into a national chain. Now they have bought Brown Bag Deli with plans to grow it next!  Hear how how they did it.  Their entrepreneurial mindset, culture, leadership style, marketing strategies and more.....
  

Exhibitors                                                                                  8:00am-1:30pm

ACCION Texas, Amegy Bank, City of Houston - Office of Business Opportunity and One Stop Business Solutions Center, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses, HCC Centers for Entrepreneurship, HCC Procurement, Houston Area Urban League, Houston Galveston Women's Business Center, Houston West Chamber of Commerce, HCC Minority Business Development Agency, Port of Houston Authority, SCORE, Small Business Development Center (UH-SBDC), U.S. Department of Commerce-International Trade Administration, U.S. Small Business Adminstration, Wallis State Bank, Women's Business Enterprise Alliance.  

Afternoon Breakout Workshops                1:15pm-2:45pm

• You're Social, Now What?  Making Email & Social Media Marketing Work For Your Business - This workshop is designed to give small businesses and noprofit organizations some simple ides for growing their customer, prospect or member network by using email and social media marketing.  Presenter: Celina Enamorado, Constant Contact.
  

• Grow Through Exporting - Topics:  Increase Company Readiness &  Your Exporting Market Analysis - Hear from Brendan Kelly, Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration on increasing your company's exporting readiness and from Deanna Teel, HCC International Business Department on global research and data for your potential markets.  Sonia Maldonado will also weigh in on the Small Business Adminstration's export loan program.   For those that attended our March 21 Export Day, you asked for more.  Sign up and go deeper on this topic.  New to HCC Exporting?  Join in now and stay tuned for more HCC exporting workshops featuring key players and partners from Houston's Export Eco-System!   
  

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