From The President
NASE Forms Alliances
With Corporate Partners

I am pleased to report that corporate America is taking notice of our buying power as small-business owners. The NASE has seized this opportunity and is reaching agreements with major corporations to join us as Corporate Partners.

Through these unique alliances, our Corporate Partners will bring you more quality goods and services to enhance your business. And, their involvement with the NASE will support dynamic programs like the recent highly successful Boston Entrepreneurial Connection.

Take Bigstep.com, for instance, which joined with the NASE as a Corporate Partner. Bigstep.com is an e-business services company offering a free, do-it-yourself service center where small businesses can build a business Web site, communicate with customers, market their site, accept credit cards, track visitors and more. 
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Now you can join the Internet revolution and your business can have a top-quality Web site—free. And, if you want to provide online shopping, Bigstep.com offers significantly discounted rates for online merchant accounts. Just point your browser to www.bigstep.com.

We also welcome Fleet Bank, now the official NASE bank in the Northeast. Fleet currently serves more than 450,000 small-business customers from New Jersey to Maine. At more than 400 branch locations, Fleet has created special Business Solutions Centers where professionals dedicated to small-business customers will meet your needs. Fleet’s alliance with our association gives the NASE endorsement to Fleet Bank products designed to meet the needs of the self-employed and small businesses.

Finally, we also want to thank NASE benefit provider Airborne Express, which also joined as a Corporate Partner to help sponsor the Boston Entrepreneurial Connection.

Seattle Entrepreneurial Connection
Our Corporate Partners will also help the NASE bring you the kinds of programs you’ve requested, like the Boston Entrepreneurial Connection.
In this issue, you’ll find a review of the Boston Entrepreneurial Connection. More than 200 small-business owners from across New England joined us for a day and a half of seminars, workshops, and general sessions that were designed to help them increase their profits.

The Entrepreneurial Connection now moves across the country to Seattle! NASE Members and non-members alike are encouraged to join us Friday evening and Saturday, November 3 and 4 at the Doubletree SeaTac hotel for the Seattle area Entrepreneurial Connection.

This conference will offer practical information that you can use to improve your business. By attending, you’ll meet small-business owners from across the Northwest, and make business connections that will help you grow your business. Register today by calling 800-232-NASE or by visiting our Web site at www.nase.org.