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In Our 20th Year Issue No. 1912
March 2003
www.theacphoenix.com
Associate Consultants Serving the Triad FREE
ACCELERATE YOIR
“COMPANY’S CASH
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FACTORING
The Small Business
Financing Growth Tooi
By Steven C. Onyeberechi
Does this describe your situa
tion? Sales are booming and your
business is growing iike you aiways
dreamed it wouid. Yet, despite
such success, you are iiving in a
cash nightmare. You are always
struggling to find the cash to make
payroii and paying vendors on time
is getting harder and harder.
Despite the tremendous opportuni
ties around you, there are times
Steven C. Onyeberechi
when you have to consider
whether or not you can make a
promise to a new potentiai
customer. You would also like to
take “early pay discounts” from
your suppliers but the cash simply
isn’t there to take advantage of
them. What is happening? Quite
Continued on Page 13
DOWNTOWN WINSTON SALEM HITS AGAIN!
INTRODICING THE FIRST
ADVERTISING, GRAPHIC DESIGN AND
WORLD CLASS PRINTER
Imagine a printing company that
designs your company logo,
business card, brochure, event
booklets or newsletters. Now
imagine that same printing company
developing your advertising,
writing copy and producing your
television and radio commercials.
What about that printing
company helping you promote
events, develop fund-raising
opportunities and help produce
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UWRENCE PISHES
HOME OWNERSHIP,
SELF-SUmCIENCY
FORPURLICHOISING
RESIDENTS
by John Raye
It might take forever but J. Reid
Lawrence is busy trying to work
himself out of a job.
Having recently completed his
fifth year as executive director of
the Housing Authority for Winston-
Salem, Lawrence is an ardent
advocate of home ownership and
economic self-sufficiency.
He is never far from his
favorite conversation; that of
helping area residents realize
the ultimate American Dream, the
customized properties? Oh! And
let’s not forget doing a little printing
as well.
WCP Communications is doing
just that. “We’re not just a melding
of businesses, we’re a blending of
disciplines.” lauds WCP
Communications Senior Partner,
Tanya Wiley. Her company, WC
Publishing & Printing, has been a
mainstay in downtown Winston-
Salem, providing the Triad, and
Communications Senior Partner,
Tanya Wiley
Continued on Page 4
Dr. J. Reid Lawrence
joy and pride of home ownership.
Known as a man who meets “no
strangers” and connects easily
with people, Lawrence beams
with excitement as he talks about
the many new projects now
underway, one of which is Hope
Continued on Page 33
INSIDE
beyond, with professional graphic
design and printing services since
1996. Now Downtown Winston
Salem will get even more since the
formation of WCP Communications.
Mission Impossibie
Mission Accomplished
Everyday Heroes 5
M&F Bank Saiutes
Goodwili Baptist Church . . 8
Can Black
Americans Puil Together
Economically 11
Black College Students
Should Prepare to Become
Selt-Employed, Should Study
Business Entrepreneurship,
Create Their Own Jobs . . .25
Am i My Brother’s
Keeper
.44
Heavenly Ham
When Taste Matters 48