{"id":41624,"date":"2015-05-29T17:42:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T21:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/?p=41624"},"modified":"2015-05-29T17:42:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T21:42:16","slug":"sba-nombra-a-el-clasificado-como-campeon-del-ano-2015-en-la-categoria-de-pequenos-negocios-para-minorias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/sba-nombra-a-el-clasificado-como-campeon-del-ano-2015-en-la-categoria-de-pequenos-negocios-para-minorias\/","title":{"rendered":"SBA Names El Clasificado 2015 Minority Small Business Champion of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><html><br \/>\n  <head><br \/>\n    <META http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/META><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}<\/p>\n<p>BODY {\nFONT-SIZE: 0.83em; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\"\n}\nA {\nCOLOR: blue\n}\n#divWide\n{\nmargin:0;\nmargin-top:1.33em;\n}\nLI {\nFONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: \"Arial\"\n}\n<\/style>\n<p><\/head><br \/>\n  <body topmargin=\"0\" leftmargin=\"0\"><br \/>\n    <\/p>\n<div id=\"divHeadline\" style=\"width:800px;margin-left:10pt\">\n      <!-- #Begin headline --><\/p>\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center\">\n        <b>SBA Names El Clasificado 2015 Minority Small Business Champion of the Year<\/b>\n      <\/p>\n<p>\n        <b><br \/>\n          <i>The Latino multi-media marketplace where businesses have been selling products and services to the Hispanic community for more than 27 years has been honored for helping small businesses thrive in Los Angeles<\/i><br \/>\n        <\/b>\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <!-- #End headline -->\n    <\/div>\n<div id=\"divBody\" style=\"width:800px;margin-left:10pt\">\n      <!-- #Begin release --><br \/>\n<!-- #Begin Wide Release --><\/p>\n<div id=\"divWide\">\n<p>LOS ANGELES, May 29, 2015 \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0What started as a small free publication in 1988 to connect buyers and sellers in East Los Angeles has now become the multi-media\u00a0marketplace of choice for more than\u00a0200,000 small businesses that advertise in El Clasificado to reach the Hispanic market.\u00a0Many of these small businesses meet\u00a0their weekly\u00a0marketing needs with\u00a0as little as a $9 ad in print or free ads\u00a0online. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not only does El Clasificado provide\u00a0easy and economical print and online channels for small businesses to advertise, but the company also offers free training and expos through their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.echispanicmedia.com\/brand\/su-socio-de-negocios\/\" target=\"_blank\">Su Socio De Negocios<\/a>\u00a0brand that educate\u00a0and\u00a0inform\u00a0entrepreneurs about opportunities\u00a0and tools to grow their businesses. To honor this visionary product and service,\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sba.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Small Business Administration<\/a>,\u00a0Los Angeles District, is recognizing El Clasificado as &#8220;Minority Small Business Champion of the Year.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After 27 years, El Clasificado is still fresh and inspiring because we love enabling the smallest business owners\u00a0with limited marketing\u00a0budgets and business skills to successfully sell their goods and services in Latino communities. Most of our business customers are not trying to be high flying entrepreneurs.\u00a0They\u00a0just want\u00a0to build a business that\u00a0feeds their families and builds a foundation for\u00a0future opportunities. We have many customers who started with a\u00a0humble office and no employees that now have\u00a0bustling multi-office\u00a0businesses with many employees. We have plumbers,\u00a0attorneys, mariachis,\u00a0car dealers, and\u00a0many types of businesses that want\u00a0to reach the Hispanic audience in a local marketplace.\u00a0Over the years, it has been necessary to innovate and transform El Clasificado to be relevant and continue serving the needs\u00a0of our small business advertisers. It is a great honor to be recognized for these tireless efforts by the SBA.\u00a0On behalf of our entire\u00a0El Clasificado\u00a0team, we are\u00a0very grateful,&#8221; said\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.echispanicmedia.com\/martha-de-la-torre-biography\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martha de la Torre<\/a>, CEO.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Co-founder, Chairman and husband,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.echispanicmedia.com\/joe-badame-bio\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Badame<\/a>\u00a0adds,\u00a0&#8220;This award reflects our connection with the community and the mutual understanding that has existed all these years. We are proud to continue serving small business owners not only with our flagship publication of over 500,000 weekly circulation, but also with our small\u00a0business expos, micro web sites, social media services, and digital marketplace that helps connect millions of potential buyers with sellers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;National Small Business Week gives us a chance to honor the Los Angeles District&#8217;s small businesses&#8217; hard work, innovative ideas, and dedication to community,&#8221; said Los Angeles District Office, District Director, Victor Parker. <\/p>\n<p>The Annual Small Business Week\u00a0awards ceremony will take place on June 2nd\u00a0at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel\u00a0in Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>Contact:<\/b><br \/>For interviews contact\u00a0Alicia Garcia\u00a0de\u00a0Angela,\u00a0Director\u00a0of\u00a0Content\u00a0and\u00a0Communications,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:agarcia@echispanicmedia.com\" target=\"_blank\">agarcia@echispanicmedia.com<\/a>, 1-800-450-5852.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- #End Wide Release --><\/p>\n<div id=\"divMediaContact\"><\/div>\n<p><!-- #End release --><\/div>\n<p>\n  <\/body><br \/>\n<\/html> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SBA Names El Clasificado 2015 Minority Small Business Champion of the Year The Latino multi-media marketplace where businesses have been selling products and services to the Hispanic community for more than 27 years has been honored for helping small businesses thrive in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, May 29, 2015 \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212;\u00a0What started as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-negocios-y-finanzas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}