Homegrown El Paso Business to Business Expo.
Homegrown El Paso Annual
Business to Business Expo.
Our Third Annual Homegrown El Paso Business to Business (B2B) Expo will take place on
Tuesday,May 22, 2012 at the Double Tree Hotel Downtown, 600 N. El Paso Street.
Set-up will take place from 2:00-3:00, the Expo will be from 3:00-6:00 (vendors must stay until 6:00!!), with a cash bar and musical entertainment (local musician, of course!) from 5:00-7:00pm.
This event is designed to provide Homegrown Members an opportunity to share information on the products and services available to the Greater El Paso Community through Homegrown El Paso. We will be inviting major purchasing agents from the City and County Purchasing Departments, Ft. Bliss, UTEP, Community College, School Districts (in and around El Paso), and many more. Each participating vendor can ask for invitations to invite purchasers or business owners you think might be interested in attending as well!
Members of Homegrown El Paso can purchase an Expo Table for $125.00 ($100 for the table and $25.00 door prize). Participants will be provided a standard table (36” x 72”) and two chairs with internet connectivity available, however, you must let us know ahead of time if you are requesting an electrical connection; you must bring your own table cloths, projection screens, laptops, extension cords and/or surge protectors. Vendors purchasing a table will also be asked to email their company logo to have it presented as part of a Power Point Presentation visible during the entire expo. Homegrown will provide all attendees a bag for gathering product, samples or hand-out information gathered when they visit your table; restaurants may provide finger-foods/ hour- devours as samples, and menus as take-aways.
We will not have training sessions this year, but we will incorporate important information about the importance of supporting local independents as part of the power-point presentation going on during the expo.
This is the business opportunity so many of our members asked us for! Start making plans to attend, and help us get the word out… we are our own best marketing agents, and this event will be as successful as we make it! Take advantage of this opportunity, registration forms will be available on-line in April, so keep your eye on the website and be one of the first to sign-up! If you want more information before then, call Nancy at 240-8804.
To register go to http://www.homegrownelpaso.com/b2b-registration.html
Welcome our latest members
Welcome to Homegrown
Who are we?
El Paso is certainly not the only place in the country where the movement to support locally owned, independent businesses is growing. Groups similar to Homegrown El Paso have been formed all over the U.S. in recent years.
Many of these groups, including Homegrown El Paso, are members of the American Independent Business Alliance (AMIBA). AMIBA has over 35 member organizations all over the country from California to Maine. In 2007, the alliance hosted its first-ever annual gathering of local alliance members in Austin. Two Homegrown El Paso board members, Don Baumgardt and Ted Escobedo, paid their own travel expenses to attend the event and share ideas with peers from coast to coast.
Our Mission Statement
Homegrown El Paso in a membership organization that works to support the efforts of the El Paso area’s locally owned independent businesses to compete in an increasingly global environment. Homegrown El Paso educates the area’s population on the benefits of buying from local businesses, promotes the members of our organization as being locally owned, independent businesses, and educates our members to provide a level of product quality and service that earns the support of local consumers.
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