[Hidden-tech] Big PR Heading out Monday for Hidden-Tech

[matthew]

congratulations that is a great accomplishment.

i always hated it when i had my business and people would kind of belittle 
it, even when i had a bunch of employees and people would always say "oh so 
your self employed"

no matter how big you are its still an accomplishment to make a go of it 
and when you grow its even better, but if i had to do it again i think i'll 
pick something with no employees/payroll!

people think when you have a home based business that you just sit around 
and play with computers or something like your watching tv all day, when my 
business started at home i never even had a tv in that room!

matthew



At 02:38 PM 4/7/2005, A - Z International wrote:

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>Hi all,
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>Wanted to thank everyone in the organization for helping with this award. 
>This release will be going out to media throughout New England and quite a 
>few national journalists on Monday. As a 30-year veteran of the news world 
>one never knows who will pick it up, but you can be certain they'll be 
>checking out Hidden-Tech.
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>If anyone wants to be interviewed please email me directly at 
>az at a-zinternational.com. I will give preference to those who work actively 
>to build Hidden-Tech, first, and then I'll pass one whatever names I have 
>to journalists.
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>Also, it's time to get signed into our Skills Inventory and the 
>Financial/Customer surveys. We have about 213 members already signed up, 
>but the more data we can present the world, the stronger our case for 
>recognition, for funding and to help promote legislation that will assist 
>our companies.
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>And, if you haven't made plans to exhibit at Hidden-Tech Connect on May 
>17, please do ASAP. There will be lots of VIPs there and lots of media 
>attention. The cost of entry is almost non-existent and you don't need to 
>do it up in a fancy way. You'll be given a table or some table space, 
>only. This isn't an industry trade show. We just want the VIPs to see what 
>we do and have to offer so they know that we count. If you're thinking of 
>electronics, you'll have to work on battery pack. Electrical outlets will 
>be very limited to the program area, podium, etc . . .
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>best,
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>Amy Zuckerman
>Hidden-Tech founder, co-chair
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>April 7, 2005
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>Press Release 2005-41
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>Amherst-based Hidden Tech Movement Founder, Amy Zuckerman, Wins SBA Award 
>for Advocacy on Behalf of Home-Based Businesses
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>BOSTON ­  Amy Zuckerman, founder of Hidden Tech Movement,  has been named 
>the U.S. Small Business Administration’s 2005 New England and 
>Massachusetts Home-Based Business Champion, according to an announcement 
>made by Mark S. Hayward, Massachusetts SBA District Director.   Ms. 
>Zuckerman won the Massachusetts competition for this award and went on to 
>win the New England-wide contest.
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>The Home-Based Business Champion Award is presented annually to an 
>individual who has experienced the rewards and difficulties of home-based 
>businesses and has worked to improve the climate for these 
>businesses.   Evaluation criteria for this award include:  engaging in 
>entrepreneurial training, policy development efforts, or financial or 
>business planning specifically tailored for home-based businesses; and 
>measurable accomplishments in advancing home-based businesses, such as 
>adoption of public policy or expansion of a program.   Ms. Zuckerman was 
>nominated for this award by Georgianna Parkin, State Director of the 
>Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network and Dianne Fuller 
>Doherty, Regional Director, Western Massachusetts Small Business 
>Development Center.
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>“Home-based businesses have an immeasureable effect on our nation’s 
>economy,” said Charles E. Summers, Jr., the SBA’s New England Regional 
>Administrator.  “Massachusetts is lucky to have such a resource and Amy 
>Zuckerman is a credit to small business innovation and success everywhere.”
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>Page 2, SBA Press Release 2005-41
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>Amy Zuckerman founded Hidden-Tech, a business networking organization 
>geared especially to the needs of virtual company owners, most of whom are 
>home-based. Although based in western Massachusetts, members are located 
>throughout the Rt. 91 Knowledge Corridor and beyond. Services include 
>eight programs annually for members within driving distance of the Pioneer 
>Valley of Massachusetts, an email discussion list and Web-based forums.
>
>"When the Boston Globe Magazine commissioned me to write an article on 
>hidden tech, virtual company entrepreneurs in the fall of 2001, I had a 
>hunch that there were a growing number of people throughout the world 
>working from their homes or small office settings, hidden from sight and 
>from government statisticians” said Zuckerman. “In the process of 
>struggling to write that article, I hammered out a thesis with my editors 
>that led to the formation of the hidden tech movement and the creation of 
>the organization Hidden-Tech to serve virtual company owners like myself.”
>
>  Ms. Zuckerman is also the principal of A-Z International Associates, an 
> international strategic market research and information packaging business.
>
>“Amy Zuckerman’s dedication to home-based and small-office-based business 
>owners is evident given the success of Hidden Tech, her brainchild,” said 
>SBA’s Hayward.  “Her recognition that virtual company owners needed each 
>other for support and comfort led to the creation of this remarkable 
>organization which provides so much to business owners who work on their own.”
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>Ms. Zuckerman will be honored at SBA’s Celebrate Success awards luncheon 
>at The Beechwood Hotel in Worcester on Friday, June 10, 2005.   The 
>Massachusetts Small Business Person of the Year, Fred Curtis, Jr., 
>president and CEO of Worcester-based Curtis Tractor Cab, Inc., will also 
>be recognized along with nine other small businesses and small business 
>champions from throughout the Commonwealth.
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matthew de Jongh
semi-retired internet entrepreneur turned filmmaker...