2/13 Recap

From Carol:

Hello Everyone,


It was another great meeting for the Downtown B2B group on Feb 13th. The attendance was down a bit to 12 people. It was fun to see Mark use his interior design/sociology expertise to change the set-up for the tables so that everyone could talk to one another with more ease and to make it so the waitress or waiter can walk on the outside of the tables and not disturb conversation that might be occurring across the tables. We are looking for any and all ideas that might make the meetings more effective so please speak up if you have any thoughts that might improve the physical or social aspects of our meetings.

We did not have a presentation by a member but did discuss the presentation schedule for the quarter. For the next meeting to be held on 2/27 John Sutherland will be giving the presentation and Don Cain will wow us with a table presentation (we can't wait for either one!). The schedule for the upcoming verbal and table presentations for the quarter will be sent to us by Mark via email in the near future. We talked about the possibility of some of these presentations being "onsite" at the place of business of the presenter. We decided that it would be best if the meetings that are going to be held "on-site" would need to be announced at least one meeting in advance so members would not be taken by surprise and end up at Luigi's all by themselves!

We welcomed TWO new members to our group! Clint Morton from Western States Insurance Agency and Gina Cook from Design Corner. A BIG WELCOME TO BOTH OF YOU!

Mark went on to lead us in a discussion about what businesses would be the best referrers for the members in the group. I will give a listing of these below so that everyone reading this update can think about people that they would like to invite that would be great additions to help with referrals for our Downtown B2B group:


BUSINESSES/BUSINESS PERSONS WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE ADDED TO OUR GROUP

Jay Lake_______________Attorneys and Accountants

Jay Anderson___________Homeowners with insurance needs

Bill Killian_______________Realtor

Paul Hajek­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­______________Commercial Bankers, Business Attorneys, Business Brokers, Printers

Don Cain_______________Any businesses in need of advertising

Cindy Guthrie___________Folks in need of residential housing

Carol Reynolds__________Medical Facility representatives, Chiropractors

Gina Cook______________Floor covering people, interior designers, cabinet makers, architects

Dean Marshall__________Other small business owners

Chris Hagerman_________Anyone in need of in-home care

Jeremy Pointer_________Businesses with needs to upgrade their internet access to T1 or more, companies in more than one location

Clint Morton____________Business people that lend money to others

Mark Pond_____________Suggests that someone that sees and talks to many different types of people such as a barber or haircare person


So, everyone think about who that might invite to our group that might be a good referral source for someone else in the group. Just such a person walked into my life wanting to become involved in a business referral group just such as ours. Her name is Lynn and she is the owner of Radiant Skin by Lynn where she works as esthetian. She will be attending the next meeting as our guest and is excited to be there!

Please visit our leads and attendance records at http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pC3IuhtGzGDN4XkuAfah9CA
which will give you full run down of who gave and received leads from our group in the last couple of weeks.

Please remember to please submit monetary estimates for all leads produced within our group for 2007. Please email these to me and I will pass them on to GSI. Also please send your profile sheets into this address so that I can send them off to others in the group and so that each of us can share them with potential clients.

Thanks all. See you on 2/27/08.

Presentation Schedule

Hey all.

Below is the list of folks who have expressed interest in doing a presentation for the B2B group. If your name doesn't show up here and you would like to do a presentation, just let me know and we'll get it hammered out.

Feb 27: John Sutherland
Mar 12: Grant Sorge
Mar 26: Mark Pond
Apr 9: Dianne LaValley
Apr 23: James Hicks
May 14: Carol Reynolds
May 28: Petrushka Pavlovich
Jun 11: Sarah Mark
Jun 25: Gina Cook
July 9: Clint Morton
Sept. 10: Bill Killian

And on a related note, below is the list of folks that have expressed an interest setting up a display table to showcase some of their wares. Again, if you would like to be listed but are not, the options are the same as above.

Feb 27: Don Cain
Mar 12: Kyle Klippert
Mar 26: Jason Farrow (Bill, would you like to keep this slot?)
Apr 9: Mark Pond
Apr 23: Carol Reynolds
May 14: Grant Sorge

1/23 Recap

From the desk of Carol:

We had a super meeting with 21 people in attendance. We had two representatives from GSI including Ken Sanders,Membership Account Executive and Alisha Benson, Member Relations Coordinator. Alisha will be attending our meetings from now on-WELCOME! We look forward to working with Alisha to make our B2B even more effective as a Business Referral Group. Alisha asks that we all remember to get our "ideations" into GSI and that they are pleased to take these ideas at www.newideasinw.com Ken gave us a business card for a prospective new member to our B2B group and that was passed on to Alisha for her to contact. A big thank you to Ken.

The group also has a new member! Cindy Guthrie from Windermere Real Estate/Manito. Cindy explained to us that she has previously worked at GSI and knew just who to contact to find out which business group was the most "happenin' " and was given the Downtown B2B information. We all plan to make her association with the rest of us a very positive experience and profitable. So gang, lets not only tell others about Cindy at Windermere but lets make sure to refer all our friends in our business group as often as possible! Keep those Leads Referral Forms coming. You can email those to me at info@parksidept.com or fill out the B2BConnect Leads Referral Form and hand to Carol. And on the track, please visit our leads and attendance records http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pC3IuhtGzGDN4XkuAfah9CA
which will give you full run down of who gave and received leads from our group in the last couple of weeks.

We want to give a hearty thanks to Jay Lake from Lake Investments for his very informative presentation concerning how his business works and why it is unique. Jay tells us that unlike many investors, he makes no money on commission for the products that he sells. His money is made on an hourly basis for his investment advise. Fee only so no conflict of interest as to where to invest others money. Initial He tells us that he LOVES Retirement Plans, loves to work with young folks just starting with an investment plan and has FREE INITIAL CONSULTATIONS. Let's get the word out!

Diane reminds us all to remember to please submit monetary estimates for all leads produced within our group for 2007. Please email these to me and I will pass them on to GSI. Also please send your profile sheets into this address so that I can send them off to others in the group and so that each of us can share them with potential clients.

Thanks all. See you on 2/13.