Erika Estrada-Quezada and Norma Estrada, owners of Twins Learning Center, were honored at this year’s “Virtual Roundhouse” series sponsored by the New Mexico Small Business Development Center and the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce. The state’s 18 Small Business Development Centers select Star Client businesses each year for the honor. Owners of the businesses, selected from every region of the state, are individually recognized by state legislators for their successes. Later, all are honored at the SBDC’s Annual Star Client state dinner with Lt. Gov. Howie Morales.
This year’s selections and appearances were held virtually due to the COVID pandemic. The SBDC at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque selected Twins Learning Center as its Star Client Business for 2020. With the help of the SBDC at CNM, the mother-daughter business owners have grown the business from a small home childcare business in 2018 to a successful commercial enterprise with multiple loc
Live Well honored in NM Legislative session
Javier and Gretchen Casillas, owners of Live Well Mattress and Furnishing Centres, LLC, were honored at this year’s “Virtual Roundhouse” series sponsored by the New Mexico Small Business Development Center and the Santa Fe Chamber of Commerce.
The state’s 18 Small Business Development Centers select a “Star Client” business each year. Owners of the businesses, selected from every region of the state, are individually recognized by state legislators for their successes. Later, all are honored at the SBDC’s Annual Star Client state dinner with Lt. Gov. Howie Morales.
This year’s selections and appearances were held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Casillas appeared on-line and live with members of the 55th New Mexico legislature and their business advisor, Trish Livingston in February.
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NMTD: Partnership Helps Save 830 Tourism Jobs In 2020
NMTD News:
SANTA FE A partnership between the New Mexico Tourism Department (NMTD) and the New Mexico Small Business Development Center to offer business counseling services to tourism-related small businesses helped save 830 tourism jobs and secure more than $27 million in equity investments in 2020.
Since the launch of this partnership, tourism business counselors have conducted 11,290 documented contacts to tourism-related small businesses and provided 2,300 hours of direct business counseling to business owners.
The tourism business counseling program provided direct counseling assistance to 655 tourism-related small businesses in New Mexico. Of those tourism-related small businesses that received counseling assistance, 43 percent were minority-owned businesses, 25 percent were women-owned businesses and 24 percent were veteran-owned businesses.