BMORENEWS' Power Marketing in the 21st Century & Networking to feature Odessa Hopkins
A must-attend event, this unique networking opportunity will provide attendees with access to new business relationships and the chance to exchange quality business referrals. Featuring some of the most accomplished marketing and public relations experts in the state of Maryland, this event is primarily for entrepreneurs and business owners who want to learn how to better market their products and/or services.
To RSVP, call Phenomenal Events at 443.223.8759.
One of our featured speakers is Odessa Hopkins.
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Odessa T. Hopkins
Biography
Odessa Hopkins brings almost 20 years of government contracting experience to her role as President and CEO of Another Approach Enterprises. Ms. Hopkins is well known in the Washington Metropolitan area as a passionate and outspoken small business advocate; helping small companies; particularly those owned by minorities and women, to flourish and develop to their fullest potential.
She may be best known as founder of the Annual Celebrating the Minority Business Dinner and Awards Gala, which brings small minority business owners to a venue where they can be celebrated by CEOs of larger companies, directors of Government agencies, State and local politicians, and community leaders. Through the Gala, minority business owners are exposed to procurement professionals and other gatekeepers of potential funding or contracting opportunities, and encouraged to build relationships which will greatly enhance their company’s future viability and long term sustainability.
A self-proclaimed “techie,” Ms. Hopkins has successfully managed to seamlessly incorporate advanced technology into the service delivery aspect of Another Approach Enterprises. She created “MinorityBuzz.com,” an online business and consumer directory designed to help minority businesses advertise and promote their companies while providing an easy to use, affordable (Free) online tool for those seeking to do business with them.
Current membership in MinorityBuzz.com exceeds seven hundred minority and women owned companies and growing.
Ms. Hopkins, along with her COO and husband, Rick Hopkins, launched Minority Certified Contractors (MCC), a new division of Another Approach Enterprises. MCC includes an innovative online database that will make qualified certified minority companies more accessible to large primary contractors and government agencies with applicable contracting opportunities. The tag line for MinorityCertifiedContractors.com is “Can You Find Us, Now?”
How appropriate…
Under Hopkins’ leadership, Another Approach Enterprises has always been responsive to the needs of its primary constituency. Though the methodology has changed over time, the focus has always remained on supporting minority business development.
Ms. Hopkins resides in Prince George’s County with her husband, Rick, and two nieces, Aliah and Candice.
Honors & Distinctions
2009 - 2011 Prince George's Chamber of Commerce Board Member
2009 Recipient of an Exception Minority Business Advocacy Award by BMORENEWS
2008 Winner of the Prince George's County Chamber of Commerce
Entrepreneurial Business of the Year
2008 Recipient of a Prince George's County Council Proclamation
for the services we provide women and minority businesses
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