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.