Episodes
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Diane Lydon joins us to discuss her work at a Business Outreach Manager for the State of California's Office of Small Business and Disabled Veterans Business Services (often referred to simply as OSDS). Helping small businesses and veteran owned businesses secure government contracts.
Operating under the mandate created by California Assembly Bill AB-2019, 25% of all state government contracts are supposed to go to qualified "small businesses". But finding those small businesses and teaching them the requirements and process of how to apply for these many contracts has been the challenge.
Which becomes the mission of people like Diane and others like the SBDC's local Contracting Center in Riverside (which we interviewed earlier) to assist small businesses of all shapes and sizes to seize this opportunity by registering, getting "small business certified" and then understanding the process and procedures to secure one of the many government contracts being awarded daily for every imaginable product and service from consulting and catering to construction and cleaning.
How to make it thru this maze of government agencies (with long acronyms) to the prize at the end? Start by going to www.CaliforniaEProcure.CA.Gov. And then contacting Diane or the local Small Business Development Contracting Center here in Riverside for more FREE ASSISTANCE in getting started and set up to securing your own government contract.
On this week's PROFIT TALKS podcast. Brought to you by your Orange County/Inland Empire Small Business Development Center (OCIE SBDC). Funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the California Office of the Small Business Advocate.
Friday Mar 08, 2024
PROFIT TALKS: Alicia Brayboy, DIGITAL MARKETING CENTER
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Alicia Brayboy, DIGITAL MARKETING CENTER talks about her background and why she moved from NY to SoCal to further her marketing career. And how she helps businesses share their brand stories thru social media marketing and make sense of the many platforms and digital strategies available to businesses today.
On this week's PROFIT TALKS podcast. Brought to you by your Orange County/Inland Empire Small Business Development Center (OCIE SBDC). Funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the California Office of the Small Business Advocate.
Friday Mar 08, 2024
PROFIT TALKS: Manish Bhardia, Asian Business Association of Orange County
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Friday Mar 08, 2024
Meet Manish Bhardia President of the Asian Business Association of Orange County (ABAOC). And partner in his own firm THINK AI. As he discusses his cutting edge work in adding Artificial Intelligence (AI) to businesses (just like yours!) And helping other Asian businesses (thru his work with the ABAOC) learn about new technologies (like AI0 and use it to increase productivity in their own organizations.
On this week's PROFIT TALKS podcast. Brought to you by your Orange County/Inland Empire Small Business Development Center (OCIE SBDC). Funded in part by the U.S. Small Business Administration and the California Office of the Small Business Advocate.
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
OUR COMMUNITY: Erika Garcia, OC CREDIT and BUSINESS BUILDERS
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Erika Garcia, President and CEO, OC CREDIT and BUSINESS BUILDERS is back to discuss her role as an ambassador the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. And her upcoming Estrella Award.
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
OUR COMMUNITY: Jessica Becerra, AZZUL SWIMWEAR
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Jessica Becerra, Owner of AZZUL SWIMWEAR joins us to discuss her entrepreneurial journey. And her work with the upcoming OC FASHION WEEK. And her charitable work as a Leader of the Homeless Lunch Ministry at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Irvine.
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
OUR COMMUNITY: Meet Sofia University's Newest Campus in Costa Mesa, CA
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Mary Kay Chess, PhD. Chair of the Doctorate of Business Administration Program and Penny Li, MBA and AVP of Strategic Enrollment join us from SOFIA University to discuss their newest campus here in Costa Mesa, CA and the many innovative programs they offer like a Doctorate in Business Administration (more than an MBA!) and a Degree in Transpersonal Psychology (a field they've pioneered since the inception of the "human potential movement" back in the 1970s and 80s.)
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Impact OC: The Swallows Day Parade & Mercado Street Fair
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
What festivities are scheduled for the 64th Annual Swallows Day Parade and Mercado Street Fair in San Juan Capistrano on Saturday, March 23?
Find out by listening to OC Talk Radio Public Affairs Director Dawn Kamber’s interview with Fiesta Association President Jim Taylor and 1st VP & Mercado Chair Michelle Erca. They’re Fiesta Association members helping to organize the annual non-motorized parade and street fair which celebrates the return of the swallows to San Juan Capistrano. They talk about the parade and the day-long mercado that will go on in San Juan Capistrano. Only on OC Talk Radio, Orange County’s Only Community Radio Station which streams live from the University of California-Irvine’s BEALL APPLIED INNOVATION CENTER. www.swallowsdayparade.org
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
OUR COMMUNITY: Meet Mariz Gomez, CEO, Orange County Escrow
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Maria Gomez, CEO Orange County Escrow and 2022 OCHCC Estrella Awardee Member of the Year. Talking about the Orange County Hispanic Chamber's Residential REAL ESTATE COMMITTEE.
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
OUR COMMUNITYL Salvador Ramirez, Director, Corporate Affairs, KROGER/FOOD 4 LESS
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Salvador Ramirez, Director, Corporate Affairs, KROGER/FOOD 4 LESS joins us to discuss all the work they do in Our Community.
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
OUR COMMUNITY: The Legendary Trumpet Player Arturo Sandoval
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Wednesday Mar 06, 2024
Reuben Franco, President of the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, gets the rare privilege (and pleasure) to interview the legendary jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval. Including how he fled his childhood home in Communist Cuba, how he met and was helped by the great Dizzy Gillespie and the many Grammy Awards he's won thru the years, starting with Irakere (an influential jazz group that brought Afro-Cuban music to the US, winning a Grammy Award for Best Latin Recording in 1980).
All in preparation for his rare, upcoming appearance here in Orange County Feb. 16 and 17 at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra as part of their new Pop Series LATIN FIRE.