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The AHCC is excited to announce that it has been chosen to pilot a new business accelerator program titled Avanzar. The USHCC and Wells Fargo in partnership with the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce (AHCC) and the Latin American Chamber of Commerce of Charlotte (LACCC) will administer a year-long accelerator program designed to help small scalable HBEs Avanzar (or advance) and take their business to the next level.
Each month for eight consecutive months beginning in March, the AHCC and LACCC will convene their ten participating Hispanic businesses for an educational programming series. The administered curriculum and training will help the participants overcome barriers to success in order to scale their businesses and build sustainable enterprises.
Participant Criteria
Each month for eight consecutive months beginning in March, the AHCC and LACCC will convene their ten participating Hispanic businesses for an educational programming series. The administered curriculum and training will help the participants overcome barriers to success in order to scale their businesses and build sustainable enterprises.
Participant Criteria
- Hispanic businesses between $100K - $ 1 MM in revenue
- Must be an established business with at least 3 years of operations
- Must have a business that in the long term is scalable into an enterprise
- Be in good membership standing with the local chamber of commerce
Classes will be the third Wednesday of each month from 6:00pm - 8:00pm at the AHCC Campus
Session 1: Getting Financial Controls in Place
March 20, 2019 - Expert: Trish Abbin
OBJECTIVE: Growing your business will require establishing a solid foundation of internal controls including accounting, auditing, purchasing and damage control planning. This session will give you an overview of what you need to prepare for.
March 20, 2019 - Expert: Trish Abbin
OBJECTIVE: Growing your business will require establishing a solid foundation of internal controls including accounting, auditing, purchasing and damage control planning. This session will give you an overview of what you need to prepare for.
Session 2: Getting Your Team in Place: Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Hiring/Retaining the Right People
April 17, 2019 - Expert: Pepper Tenorio
OBJECTIVE: This session will help you get your team ready for growth. Your growth plan should incorporate ongoing reviews of the business plan, appropriate delegation of authority, initiating appropriate employee incentives and on-boarding procedures, creation of training tools and manuals, deployment of efficient communications tools and ongoing input from an external advisory board.
April 17, 2019 - Expert: Pepper Tenorio
OBJECTIVE: This session will help you get your team ready for growth. Your growth plan should incorporate ongoing reviews of the business plan, appropriate delegation of authority, initiating appropriate employee incentives and on-boarding procedures, creation of training tools and manuals, deployment of efficient communications tools and ongoing input from an external advisory board.
Session 3: Customer Feedback
May 15, 2019 - Expert: Pepper Tenorio
OBJECTIVE: Your ongoing pursuit of feedback from customers, employees and vendors will be a valuable tool to monitor tastes, problems, trends and potential threats. In this session, we'll learn all about customer feedback.
May 15, 2019 - Expert: Pepper Tenorio
OBJECTIVE: Your ongoing pursuit of feedback from customers, employees and vendors will be a valuable tool to monitor tastes, problems, trends and potential threats. In this session, we'll learn all about customer feedback.
Session 4: Achieving Lowest Expenses
June 19, 2019 - Expert: Trish Abbin
OBJECTIVE: Your business growth will come about by not only making money but by carefully investing the cash produced by frugal spending. You will learn the importance of minimizing your expenses and how to achieve it.
June 19, 2019 - Expert: Trish Abbin
OBJECTIVE: Your business growth will come about by not only making money but by carefully investing the cash produced by frugal spending. You will learn the importance of minimizing your expenses and how to achieve it.
Session 5: Develop Negotiating Skills
July 17, 2019 - Expert: Erin Gandara
OBJECTIVE: In this session we cover the important impact of good negotiating skills in growing your business. We will also explore ways to build up skill in negotiating.
July 17, 2019 - Expert: Erin Gandara
OBJECTIVE: In this session we cover the important impact of good negotiating skills in growing your business. We will also explore ways to build up skill in negotiating.
Session 6: Marketing
August 21, 2019 - Expert: Laurene Rodriguez
OBJECTIVE: To cover branding, services, promotions, products, pricing, prints, blogs, advertising, research and social media. With all the marketing options out there, it can be difficult for small businesses to know what to do. Identifying appropriate outlets, navigating and managing time/effort to push your brand across a variety of platforms will be addressed.
August 21, 2019 - Expert: Laurene Rodriguez
OBJECTIVE: To cover branding, services, promotions, products, pricing, prints, blogs, advertising, research and social media. With all the marketing options out there, it can be difficult for small businesses to know what to do. Identifying appropriate outlets, navigating and managing time/effort to push your brand across a variety of platforms will be addressed.
Session 7: Accessing Capital & Capital Allocation, presented with Wells Fargo
September 18, 2019 - Expert: Joe Trimble
OBJECTIVE: This session will deal with an overview of financial lending institutions and options available to the small business owner, specific to the Albuquerque metro area. To include Wells Fargo as well as alternative/micro-lenders that Wells Fargo works with, including Acción NM, NM Community Loan Fund and WESST. Criteria and eligibility for loan-readiness will be discussed. In addition, capital allocation will be presented: this session will teach you how to financially analyze various acquisition opportunities, which to pursue, and which to shun.
September 18, 2019 - Expert: Joe Trimble
OBJECTIVE: This session will deal with an overview of financial lending institutions and options available to the small business owner, specific to the Albuquerque metro area. To include Wells Fargo as well as alternative/micro-lenders that Wells Fargo works with, including Acción NM, NM Community Loan Fund and WESST. Criteria and eligibility for loan-readiness will be discussed. In addition, capital allocation will be presented: this session will teach you how to financially analyze various acquisition opportunities, which to pursue, and which to shun.
Session 8: Family Dynamics of Small Business Ownership & Considerations for Family Succession
October 16, 2019 - Expert: UNM Parker Center
OBJECTIVE: Family succession planning is too often neglected because business owners underestimate its importance to the family and the business. This session will teach you the keys to effective succession planning.
October 16, 2019 - Expert: UNM Parker Center
OBJECTIVE: Family succession planning is too often neglected because business owners underestimate its importance to the family and the business. This session will teach you the keys to effective succession planning.
Instructors:
Trish Abbin
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Trish Abbin is the President and Founder of Fat Cat Enterprises Ltd, aka the Rockstar of Entrepreneurship. She has been working in the field of business consulting, mostly in the South Valley area, for almost 20 years and she is passionate about growing NM’s economy. She has a very diverse work history and educational history, so relationships come easily. Trish works with the business owner to come up with an effective solution, usually in an unorthodox manner, that works for the business.
Trish is very committed to building community and connecting. She speaks multiple languages, Spanish being the main one, and enjoys working with different cultures, people and business to learn more about their needs and offer assistance if needed. In her off time, she travels extensively, learns lots about international business and loves to cook. |
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Laurene Rodriguez
Laurene Rodriguez
Owner and Digital Media Specialist 505-930-1625 www.mariposams.com laurene@mariposams.com |
Hi! I'm Laurene Rodriguez. Born, raised, and educated in New Mexico, I love our great city and state. I'm a UNM graduate and a life-long student. After graduating with my EMBA and working in advertising for several years, I decided to start my own journey helping the small businesses in our city. I care deeply about the state of business at a local level. I desire to see local organization and companies thrive, not just survive. I'm a girl for a passion with all things digital and my goal is to use this passion to help local businesses find their digital identities. From brand development to social media to digital advertising, my knowledge is ever increasing and I'm thrilled to share the future of digital marketing with the local business community of New Mexico. |
Joe Trimble
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Joe Trimble joined Wells Fargo in 2001 as a part-time teller. Since then he has held numerous positions at different locations within consumer banking, from Personal Banker to Manager of four Wells Fargo branches in downtown Albuquerque and Valencia County. Currently Trimble is the Business Market Segment Manager for Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah. He is based in Albuquerque, where he is raising his 11-year-old daughter Brooklynn.
Trimble is active in the community and currently serves as the finance chair/treasurer for the Albuquerque Public Schools Education Foundation. He is the secretary on the board for the NM M.E.S.A. program. He also sits on the board of WESST and the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce. These are all organizations he is very passionate about. Trimble shares that his role is to build a strategy around engaging business owners in the $0-$5MM segment in Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah communities by educating and developing talented small business bankers in the branches. He values the opportunity he is given each and every day to support business customers. |
Joe Trimble
Vice President, Desert Mountain & Small Business Leader, Wells Fargo Works wellsfargoworks.com Joseph.R.Trimble@wellsfargo.com |
Parker Center
James M. Parker
Shareholder |
Jim Brings 50 years’ experience giving advice and counsel to his clients in the areas of federal taxation, estate planning, employee benefits, and health care law. He enjoys a strong client following among gamily businesses, professional practice groups and corporate clients.
Chambers USA has recognized Jim in the areas of Tax and Employee Benefits & Compensation. Jim has also been selected a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel (Charter Fellow), and the American College of Tax Counsel. He was named Lawyer of the Year in Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law – Albuquerque in 2012 by Best Lawyers of America, where he has been listed each year since 1993. In addition, he has attained a Martindale-Hubbell AV rating and is named among those listed in Southwest Super Lawyers. Jim was also among the “Spears School Tributes: 100 for 100”, which recognized 100 graduates of the Oklahoma State University Spears School of Business on its 100th Anniversary. |
Erin Gandara
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Erin is the owner and Primary Advisor of Elevar Business Advisors. Erin has more than twenty years of experience in business/company management, human resources, operational and financial management. This includes seven years as a registered stock broker, financial manager and Operations Director for the Southwest Region of Morgan Stanley.
Prior to forming Elevar Business Advisors (EBA), Gandara was with Ambitions Consulting Group (ACG) as their Chief Administrative Officer, a locally owned IT Managed Services Provider, Printing and Consulting company. There Erin was responsible for day to day operations of ACG along with overseeing personnel, project management, human resources, marketing, accounting, financial and treasury management. Before that, Gandara spent 11 years at CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA) where she served in many roles over the years including the Leader for the Outsourcing Practice. In this role she also served as the outsourced Controller/CFO for Marble Brewery, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central New Mexico, Meow Wolf and the YMCA of Central New Mexico. Previously at CLA, Gandara was the Firm Administrator and Business Operations Manager for CLA, whose predecessor firms were Clifton Gunderson and Meyners + Company. Though Erin is not a native New Mexican, she has been here for over 14 years and considers it home. Her biggest passion is supporting small businesses grow and seeing Albuquerque and New Mexico flourish! When she’s not helping her small business clients succeed, she spends her time with her husband and 7-year-old daughter enjoying all that life has to bring! Education/professional honors
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Erin Gandara
Owner/Primary Advisor, Elevar Business Advisors 505-615-9409 erin@ebanm.com |
