2008
Events are open to all employees of the business.
Invite your colleagues to attend.

Networking
           Business After Hours at Boston Billiard Club
                                 Wednesday, January 16th

Marketing
          Marketing Your Business in a Sluggish Economy
                                 Wednesday, January 23rd

Competitive Advantage
          How To Achieve An Unbeatable Competitive Advantage
          By Providing An Unforgettable Customer Experience
                                 Wednesday, January 23rd

Networking & Business Development
            Leads Luncheon sponsored by Chipotle Mexican Grill
                                 Friday, January 25th

Money Matters
           Affordable Small Business Lending
                                 Wednesday, January 30th

Networking
Business After Hours Boston Billiard Club
 

Wednesday, January 16th
4:30 - 7:30 p.m.
$10 Per Person, $25 Non-Members
Boston Billiard Club, 33 Lambert Lind Highway, Warwick
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Build your customer list by joining us for Business After Hours at Boston Billiard Club.  Boston Billiard Club is the top-of-the line in upscale billiard clubs.  Great food, excellent service, wide-screen TVs, and the best stocked bar in New England, filled with traditional elegance with contemporary chic.

Join us for an unparalleled entertainment experience while increasing your prospects.  REGISTER NOW!

Marketing
Marketing Your Business In A Sluggish Economy
presented by Bob Martinelli, Emerging Media LLC &
                    Bob Salvas, The Allied Group
Co-hosted by Every Company Counts

Wednesday, January 23rd
8:30 a.m. Registration        9:00 - 11:00 a.m. Program
$15 Per Person
New England Tech, Hall of Fame Room, 2480 Post Road, Warwick
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Get more clients than you can handle! Increase your business by shifting your focus. Technology is changing the way we do business. Develop a system that will automate your “keep in touch” strategy creating an endless stream of clients and generate referrals.

Come enjoy a cup of hot coffee and some fresh pastry while participating in this informative, fun and interactive seminar.

You’ll learn:
• How to wisely use technology tools that can help you execute your “keep in touch” and marketing strategies
• How to effectively market through your Chamber membership
• How to use Gratitude Marketing
• Which marketing strategies do and don’t work and why

Discover a marketing system that saves time, money, attracts customers and generates referrals. Register Today!

  Bob Martinelli, President, Emerging Media LLC

Bob Martinelli is the President of Emerging Media LLC, a marketing consulting firm, specializing in marketing for small business. Bob has over 25 years experience as a small business owner and entrepreneur. During that time Bob has learned the most cost effective ways to market a small business and now concentrates his efforts helping service professionals such as consultants, financial planners, accountants, attorneys, bankers, sales professionals and others get more clients and increase their revenue. As an advocate for technology, Bob has consulted businesses of all sizes in how to use technology to gain an advantage. Included among Bob’s  clients are: Cox Communications, AARP, Thrifty Car Rental, the Warwick Mall, RI Employees Credit Union, Brewster & Shuster, Jennings’ Car Care to name a few.

As a Co-Director for the Rhubarb Networking Group with Bob Salvas, Bob has the opportunity to meet and consult with hundreds of small business owners. Bob is also a member of two chambers of commerce, as well as serving as an Ambassador for the Cranston Chamber of Commerce.

Over the past 26 years, Bob Salvas has developed an expertise in direct-to-consumer communication, especially in the form of direct-mail. In his 22 years at the US Post Office, Bob was responsible for managing 40 different USPS premier customers. In recognition of his exemplary service and breakthrough creativity, Bob was chosen as one of a select 250 recipients of 11,000 eligible for the prestigious USPS Smart Solutions Award.

Leveraging his direct-mail expertise, Bob then founded Success Mail Inc in 2003, a firm dedicated to providing direct-to-consumer communication solutions to a wide range of industries.  In early 2007, Bob joined The Allied Group as a Direct Mail Consultant.  The Allied Group is a marketing and fulfillment company with offices in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

Bob has become a nationally recognized direct-mail authority and a featured speaker at universities, chambers of commerce, and national mailing conferences such as the National Postal Forum.

Bob holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Bryant College and served four years in the United States Air Force.

Competitive Advantage
How To Achieve An Unbeatable Competitive Advantage By Providing An Unforgettable Customer Experience
presented by David Nash, Engage Marketing, Inc.

Wednesday, January 23rd
4:30 p.m. – and you’ll be home in time to see the evening news
$29 per person (includes delicious pizza and ice cold soda)
Hampton Inn, 2100 Post Road, Warwick
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Are you often being forced to compete on price alone? Do you often feel that products/services are being treated as though they are commodities? Is your first reaction to competition to reduce price?

This workshop offers an escape from the all-too-easy practice of competing on price...a practice of competition that no longer sustains growth and profitability. Instead, this workshop offers new ways to add value to our products and services while adding profitability to our bottom line.

Come explore the opportunities available to you in the new economy...the experience economy! Dave will provide you with motivating examples of companies that have already moved to this new economy and we’ll provide you with a step-by-step process to “mapping” your own customers’ experiences.

  David Nash, Engage Marketing Advisors

Since retiring from his position as President/CEO of the Central RI Chamber of Commerce, David has established his new venture Engage Marketing, Inc., as a premier marketing and communications firm, focusing on the value of nurture marketing within the business community. David has published a book/CD about Nurture Marketing, introduced the concept of Mastermind to the Southern New England area and continues to be a business and community mentor.

Networking & Business Development
Leads Luncheon being held at Plan USA
Sponsored By Chipotle Mexican Grill

Friday, January 25th
Noon - 1:30 p.m.
$10 Members, $25 Non-Members
Being held at Plan USA, 155 Plan Way, Warwick 
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Enjoy a fabulous lunch sponsored by Chipotle Mexican Grill while getting acquainted with other members of the business community at Leads Luncheon. Come share your 60-second commercial and help others to better understand what you do and who you need to meet. This is a great event to easily connect with a larger number of potential customers. Bring your business cards and we will show you how.

Money Matters
Affordable Small Business Lending
With the SBA Asset Based 504 Program
Facilitated by Thomas Madden, The Madden Law Firm

Wednesday, January 30th
12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m.
$29 per person (includes lunch)
Twenty Water Street Restaurant, 20 Water Street, Warwick 
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This luncheon program will introduce and summarize perhaps the best available means of financing most business needs -- the SBA 504 loan program targeted to small businesses that may or may not be fully bankable and are in need of affordable capital for plant or office purchases or expansions and capital equipment acquisitions, among other purposes.

Participants will learn from the pros at New England’s leading Certified Development Company (NECDC – an affiliate of the Business Development Company of Rhode Island), Liz Trifone and Nancy Gibeau, and from local closing attorney and long time Chamber board member, Tom Madden, why this loan program should not be overlooked and how to use it to your advantage.

If you are a loan officer, accountant with small business clients or a small business owner considering an acquisition or expansion, you should not miss this program.

   Thomas M. Madden, The Madden Law Firm

A member of the Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New York Bars, Mr. Madden founded his Rhode Island law practice in Providence in 2001. Tom was Judge Lagueux's first summer clerk in Federal District Court in Rhode Island. He began his legal career nearly two decades ago in New York with the law firm of Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine. With experience in business start-ups, corporate transactions, business and public finance, securities law and nonprofit organizations law, Tom conducts a general business law practice. Tom has further experience with software licensing negotiation and agreements, web development contracts, copyright and trademark issues and registration. He also has experience with employment and consulting agreements and employee policies and practices. His clients range from home-based startups to large institutions.

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