2009 Start UP Business Plan Competition Winner Kevin Charlotten

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This year we have Kevin Charlotten has the winner of the 2008 START UP Business Plan Competition.

Here is an overview of Kevin's business plan:

Q_Care Affordable Medical Care - Awarded $15, 000

Q-Care Affordable Medical Care is a comprehensive medical practice for children and adults; with an emphasis on patient and family-centered care, serving the multitude of communities of Western Queens. The practice will provide premier coordinated primary medical care that is affordable, respectful and culturally-competent; as well as being electronically-based with measurable and modifiable quality care indicators.


Also there were other winners of the competition:

GreenSoul Shoes - Awarded $6, 000
Alastair Ong, Stephen Chen, Iris Chau

GreenSoul Shoes is uniquely positioned as a 100% recycled, waste reducing shoe company focused on providing shoes for eco-conscious consumers. GSS works with Third World artisans to hand-make shoes from truck tires; and for every pair sold will give away a free pair to needy children in the same community.


Cut & Sewn - Awarded $4, 000
Gray Sevilla

Cut & Sewn is an online custom apparel company that provides customers the means to create and sell graphic apparel via their website – www.cutandsewn.com. Working with designers, artists, musicians and anyone who has an idea and want to wear it, they are fulfilling their mission of providing creators with quality products at low cost and without minimums.


CSALAS & CO. - Awarded $1, 000
Carolina Salas

CSalas & Co. is a dental accounting and consulting services firm that strategically partners with and coach dental entrepreneurs to maximize efficiency, productivity and growth of their dental practice; with an emphasis on environmentally-centered product and equipment options.



WhizKid Media - Awarded $1, 000
Andrew Falzon

WhizKid Computer Services is a Howard Beach, New York based computer repair company that offers a full range of Windows XP and Vista related technical services to home and small business users in Southern Queens.

Creative Wellness, LLC - Awarded $500
Candace Crawford

Using music-making, dance, movement and art to promote and achieve wellness; Creative Wellness is uniquely positioned to provide clinical complementary and alternative medicine services to those in need, as well as broader wellness services for all individuals.

Infinite Horizons, LLC - Awarded $500
Roland Powell Jr. and Randall Powell

In response to a changing economy and the recent real estate crisis, Infinite Horizons developed The Reinvestment and Management Plan; which seeks to responsibly revitalize homes that have been abandoned and neglected due to foreclosure, thereby offsetting problems such as vandalism, disinvestment, illegal conversion, lowered property values and the overall deterioration of communities.

IQ Panda Child Care - Awarded $500
Bill Lun

IQ Panda helps toddlers reach their full potential through social, emotional, aesthetic, physical and cognitive development training in their Child Care Center. With an emphasis on incorporating the educational and cultural traditions of China, they envision a future where there is an IQP in every Chinese-American community.


Made In Heaven - Awarded $500
Enriqueta Garcia and Neil Ralley

Made in Heaven creates and sells high quality gift items, incorporating the unique art of churches. The concept combines state of the art techniques for image capture and manipulation with the latest print-on-demand technology to produce items

Start a Business - Several Things to Consider to Make Your Business A Success

Start a Business - Several Things to Consider to Make Your Business A Success by Gen Wright

When people think about the idea of starting their own business, they feel very excited. But once people get into the mechanics and details of starting a business and successfully running it for the long term, they can start to feel tired of accepting the responsibility of being their own boss. Sharing your business experience can help new business owners run successful businesses. With your business expertise, now is a great time for you to increase your profits by helping people learn how to start a business and run that business successfully.



1. Before you start a business remember you go into business to serve a specific market. Which market do you desire to serve? Take advantage of the many business resources available to help you start a business. You can hire a business coach and that makes a lot of sense. That way you can customize the training to your business. Go to the library, do online research, visit the Small Business Administration, and perhaps even the business department in your local college.



2. Check to make sure that there is a market for your business before you start creating products and developing services. You're looking for people who are looking for answers to a very pressing problem. You can look on the Internet and see what problems people are experiencing. You might want to focus on people who are still employed because we know they already have money to invest in a business of their own.



3. After you determine that there is a market for your products and services build product and service knowledge through training. Make sure that you know your products and services inside out before you offer them.



4. Remember the reason that you go into business is to serve a market. Use your expertise in a particular niche to enjoy serving that market by solving the problems of that market. Additionally, create a marketing plan. A large percentage of your time will be spent on promoting your business. That means you're telling all kinds of people what you do. This is going to make you very successful.



5. Avoid cause for complaint from customers. That means that you accurately know what you're talking about. And, if you feel uncertain about anything your customer might ask you, tell them the truth. Tell them you need to do further research on that question before you can answer it correctly. They will appreciate your honesty and genuine integrity.



6. Make sure you create a reasonable business plan and follow your business plan. A business plan is like a roadmap. When you have a business plan you know where you're going.



7. In your sales technique develop a short, friendly and efficient way of encouraging people to improve their lives. After all, that is what they are doing in starting their business. You are asking people to improve their lives by doing something differently from their current way of doing things.



I recommend getting to know Sean Mize at one of these sites:

Internet Marketing Secrets

Or High Ticket Marketing

Are you a coach, consultant, entrepreneur, or speaker, who is tired of getting paid less than you are worth for your coaching and consulting?




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