{"id":311746,"date":"2019-11-11T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=311746"},"modified":"2019-11-11T06:00:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T20:00:08","slug":"23-businesses-take-part-in-inaugural-business-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/23-businesses-take-part-in-inaugural-business-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"23 businesses take part in inaugural business expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Biz-Expo.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over 100 spectators checked out the Saipan Chamber of Commerce\u2019s first-ever Business Expo last Saturday at the Saipan World Resort\u2019s Royal Taga Hall, which featured 23 businesses in all.<\/p>\n<p>Chamber executive director Maxine Laszlo said the businesses that participated\u2014all of them members of the Chamber\u2014had the opportunity to showcase their products and services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere has been a lot of networking and the vendors have\u2026been really thankful to be connected with other business and with thea really great turnout,\u201d she told Saipan Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>Laszlo said the Chamber looks forward to future collaborations and events similar to this expo.<\/p>\n<p>Spectators were also given the opportunity to win raffle prizes provided by the Chamber and the vendors. Each spectator got one ticket upon entering, and they had more opportunities to get more raffle tickets if they visited 10 of the expo vendors.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees also had the chance to view new products, special discounts on products and services for the holidays, and much more that were exclusive to the Business Expo.<\/p>\n<p>A spectator who seemed impressed said the Business Expo looked well handled than the typical job fair or human resource fair. He said he was also glad to see the many businesses that came together and worked with one another through a shared network.<\/p>\n<p>The list of vendors included Budget\/Payless Rental Car, U.S. Census, Chiku Chiku, Colorstreet Nails, D&amp;Q Saipan, D&amp;R Visuals, First Hawaiian Bank, I Love Saipan, Island Training Solutions, IT&amp;E, Laolao Bay Golf &amp; Resort, N15 Architects, Ocean Ridge Homes, Marianas Health Services, Marianas Pacific Distributors, Pacific Trading Co.y, Pacifica Insurance, Paradise Dental Spa, Rebel-Fi CNMI, Saipan Programming School, Surfrider Hotel, Tahine\u2019s Productions, and Takecare Insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 100 spectators checked out the Saipan Chamber of Commerce\u2019s first-ever Business Expo last Saturday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":309809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-311746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-business-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}