2/27 Recap

Hello to the all you B2B folk,



Hope that you all are enjoying the sun breaking through and reminding us that spring is just around the corner! We had a busy meeting with a lot to discuss on Feb. 27th with a great presentation from John Sutherland of the Spokane Chiefs and an fun and informative table display by Don Cain from Print Elements. There were 17 members present as well as Ken Sanders,Alisha Benson and Kathryn Grabel representing GSI. Kathryn is the new Membership Account Executive and we want to send her a warm welcome. We also had a guest in our mist. Lynn Spearman, owner and operater of

Radiant Skin by Lynn located at 18 E Indiana St. (in between Division and Ruby on Indiana). It was fun to hear from Lynn, about her business and how she would like to join a group like B2B to encourage word-of-mouth referrals to grow her cliental. Before she left she was signing one lucky member up for an appointment so I am thinking that this is what our group is ALL ABOUT! Way to GROW!



We went around the group as usual to introduce ourselves and what it is that make our businesses special. After these introductions Mark brought up the idea that Paul Hajek and he had discussed earlier in the week. They thought that as a way to encourage more discussion between group members and to gain from the abilities, ideas and expertise of our varied cohorts that we should have one member write in our B2B blog about some of the biggest challenges that they face as a business. These would be posted by the member soon after the meeting and the rest of the group would answer the blog with bright

ideas about how these challenges might be met. We will discuss at the next meeting exactly how to respond and get your ideas posted but everyone seemed to be in agreement that this seemed like a great way to keep us all working toward the same goal of helping one another and finding ways to generate more leads.



John Sutherland let us all know about the great group outings available with the Spokane Chiefs-what fun! He reminded everyone of the the

3/5 STAPLES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NIGHT. FROM 5PM TO 7PM WILL BE NETWORKING BEFORE THE GAME AT THE SPOKANE ARENA IN THE LES SCHWAB MEETING ROOM. TICKETS ARE $10-$13. CALL JOHN TO GET THOSE SOUGHT AFTER TICKETS AT 328-0450 EXT 316. LET'S ALL GET OUT AND DO SOME NETWORKING AND THEN ENJOY THE CHIEFS VS. PORTLAND.



Don Cain made a beautiful presentation table for the meeting to display the incredible amount of products available through Print Elements. His business had some fabulous testimonials from around the table of members that have used Print Elements services and have been thrilled with the outcomes. It was so good to see that so many people in the group have used Print Elements-that is exactly what we want to accomplish in the Downtown B2B Group-keep it up gang!

And to close...and to leave you with a challenge to improve these lead numbers. Cindy Guthrie from Windemere Real Estate was the only person in our group with any leads given to me to note. She passed one to us at Parkside Physical Therapy (which we are very grateful for and for which Cindy received a free 30 minute massage coupon from our office!) and Cindy passed a lead to Don at Print Elements! SUPER JOB CINDY! Please everyone look at http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pC3IuhtGzGDN4XkuAfah9CA to keep look at our leads and attendance. There will be a test on this in the next meeting with super duper prizes for the person that can answer my tricky question....cool.