Books

Breaking Through - Creating Opportunities for America's Women and Minority-Owned Businesses
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Breaking Through - Creating Opportunities for America’s Women and Minority-Owned Businesses

Author: Susan Phillips Bari, President Emeritus, WBENC
Shares the secrets of corporate supplier diversity initiatives. These programs open the purchasing process to women and minority entrprenuers in America’s most lucrative marketplace: the FORTUNE 1000. The opportunity is enormous and Breaking Through provides crucial information to help any company, large or small, do business with Corporate America.
An impressive array of corporate and entrepreneurial experts provide advice, action steps, anecdotes and insider tips to help women and minority business owners succeed.
  • Understanding supplier diversity programs.
  • Obtaining and maintaining certification.
  • Marketing and networking strategies for women and minority business owners.
  • Secrets to pitching for corporate contracts.
  • The technology of work with big business.
  • Keeping the contracts you secure.
I just wanted to let you know that I obtained a copy of Breaking Through from Office Depot. The table of contents is chocked full of very interesting topics that will definitely help me to strengthen and expand my business
Michael Tyus, President, CEO, Aurora Consulting Group, LLC.
Partnering for Profit - Success Strategies for Tomorrow's Supply Chain
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Partnering for Profit - Success Strategies for Tomorrow's Supply Chain

Author: Susan Phillips Bari, President Emeritus, WBENC
Focuses on building and sustaining relationships that contribute to the long-term growth and stability of women-owned businesses. Specifically, Bari examines the tremendous opportunities for WBEs to escalate the size and profitability of their businesses through strategic use of partnerships. Her book provides WBEs with a “how to” guide of common sense and strategies for participating successfully in today’s and tomorrow’s supply chain.
Partnering for Profit - Success Strategies for Tomorrow’s Supply Chain offers these ideas to help create a partnership that will survive and thrive:
Develop your strategic vision and set specific goals for the partnership.
  • Research a partnership thoroughly: tap into your network to both source and vet a potential partner.
  • Don’t try to do business with a company where there isn’t a good match, or where the company does not buy what you sell.
  • Make sure the timing is right: do you have the financial resources, enough human capital, and the necessary support networks in place to accomplish your collective goals?
Susan Bari’s new book Partnering for Profit is a must-read for anyone who wants to grow a business. Written with humor and savvy, it simply and clearly sets out the path to success in today’s complex marketplace – joining forces. If minority and women-owned businesses are looking for a roadmap to global success, this is it!
Publisher of California-based MBEmagazine Ginger Conrad
YES, I Can Do That!
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YES, I Can Do That!

Author: Susan Phillips Bari, President Emeritus, WBENC
Focuses on the incredible accomplishments of women who have found and followed the path to success in their broad array of careers. Specifically, Bari provides the reader with ""life lessons"" about stepping up to take advantage of opportunities through the dramatic stories of risk and reward of 18 women executives and entrepreneurs.
  • Blazing Trails
  • Serial Entrepreneurs
  • Mentoring
  • Passion and Commitment
  • Networking
  • Women's Wisdom
  • Global Opportunities
  • Starting Over
The stories and advice captured in the pages of this book bring to life the vision and Accomplishments of these outstanding women. We are inspired by their passion, their Innovation and their achievements.
Steve Odland, Chairman and CEO of Office Depot
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