SMALL BUSINESS POWER PARTNERS
DENTON COUNTY CHAPTER
SMALL BUSINESS POWER PARTNERS DENTON COUNTY CHAPTER
LEWISVILLE
LEWISVILLE
Small Business Power Partners Denton County Chapter
Mission Statement
The mission statement of our organization is to improve the local economic base of the small business community through networking, media exposure, active advocacy and sponsorship of educational programs. I look forward to working with you and to helping you to promote your business.
Invitation
Welcome to the North Texas Small Business Alliance an affiliate of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.
The purpose of the North Texas Small Business Alliance is to meet other small business owners, to generate referrals and to teach each member how to develop their 250-person sphere of influence.
There are currently eleven networking chapters. These chapters are located in, Grapevine, North East Fort Worth, West Fort Worth, Arlington, Mansfield, Lewisville and Plano.
Janice M. Albokai
Founder
North Texas Small Business Alliance
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Publisher's Message
Fort Worth Small Business Times Publisher Janice Albokai has announced the formation of a new organization for North Texas small businesses. The organization will go by the name North Texas Small Business Alliance and will focus on the marketing needs of small businesses. Albokai intends for the North Texas Small Business Alliance to address small businesses marketing issues in ways that have not been done before.
“The goal is to bring benefits and services that will really address the needs of small businesses,” she said. NTSBA members will have access to discount legal and travel benefits as well as seminars. Albokai, who worked for chambers of commerce in Sacramento and River Cities California before publishing her own newspaper, explained that a recurring themes among the small business owners she worked with was the perception that chamber membership did not help their businesses. Upon relocating to Texas she found that many small business owners here have the same perception. “There are 115,000 small businesses that are not chamber members. Why is that? I found that most small business owners don’t understand what a chamber is and what the benefits are,” Albokai said.
Part of the problem she says stems from the way chambers operate. Sometimes small businesses don’t have direct contact with their chamber representatives until their membership is up for renewal. But largely, it’s because small businesses don’t have the size staff that medium and large businesses do, so they don’t have people to send to chamber events and attend chamber programs. With very few employees, small businesses tend to concentrate all their efforts on doing what they do. Any other available time is usually dedicated to bringing in new business. The basis for forming the North Texas Small Business Alliance is to provide programs solely for the purpose of helping small businesses multiply their marketing efforts and reduce costs associated with small business marketing.
Although Albokai continues to be a staunch advocate of chambers of commerce, she said she is applying what she has learned from small business owners and chambers programs to develop programs that serve the specific needs of small business in ways that are of value to them. Albokai said the North Texas Small Business Alliance will “walk like a chamber, talk like a chamber, but it won’t be a chamber.”
“The North Texas Small Business Alliance will be a place where small business owners can come and talk about the issues they face. There’s a big hole in the marketplace. The Alliance will fill some of that,” she said.
