August 19, 2025 • 30 mins
Behind the scenes of a local Chamber of Commerce networking event called "Coffee Talk," sharing real elevator pitches from business professionals across diverse industries.
• Speed networking events allow participants to give 2-minute elevator pitches to multiple tables
• Using notes is perfectly acceptable and helps ensure you cover all important points
• The key components of a good pitch include a clear introduction, what makes your business unique, and a specific "ask"
• Networking is a skill that improves with practice - don't expect to nail it the first time
• Even experienced professionals get nervous when presenting their business
• Diverse businesses represented include orthodontists, banks, recreation centers, art organizations, and more
• Building relationships through in-person networking can be more effective than relying solely on SEO
• Recording real pitches helps demystify the networking process for newcomers
Whatever y'all do out there, be good or be good at it.
Contact information for those who gave a 2 minute presentation:
- Paint Creek Center for the Arts — Shaun Hayes — Shaun@PCCArt.org — www.pccart.org
- Olivia Kay (Certified Speaker, Neuroscience Coach, and Author) — Olivia Kay — www.oliviak.org
- ReSale Connection (Assistance League of Southeastern Michigan) www.semich.AssistanceLeague.org
- Stand For What Is Noble — Elizabeth Graham Kaniarz — elizabeth.kaniarz@standforwhatisnoble.com — standforwhatisnoble.com
- RARA Recreation — Samuel Lunt — Sam@RARArecreation.org — www.rararecreation.org
- OPC Social & Activity Center — Jenay Frost — jfrost@opcenter.org — opcenter.org
- First State Bank — Laurie Sigelko — lsigelko@fsb.bank — www.fsb.bank
- David Powers — David Powers —
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello and welcome to the Trading Post podcast, where
we unlock the secrets ofbusiness-to-business trade, dive
into powerful networkingstrategies and share my exciting
journey of using a podcast tomarket my business instead of
relying on SEO.
I'm your host, trader Stu.
Hello and welcome back to theTrading Post podcast.
(00:27):
I am your host, trader Stu.
I wanted to do a littlesomething different this week
and first of all, wait a minutegone too far, too soon.
I wanted to thank theRenaissance Festival for
inviting my family and I out tothe VIP media night on Wednesday
.
That was super fun.
Vip media night on Wednesday itwas super fun.
Hung out in the castle, mostlywith my son, and then hung out
(00:50):
at the.
They have a nice playgroundthere and he really enjoyed
himself and saw the horses andthe llamas that were there.
And there was a dessert.
I thought it was more of like abeer tent, so I didn't really
hang out in there, but that'swhere the raffle was.
I found out that a guy I knowthat won a couple of jugs of
mead and but I left at sixo'clock because my son was just
(01:11):
he was done and so we we tookoff and left about an hour early
, but it was a fantastic timeand I hope I get to do it again
next year and I'll come moreprepared.
So I didn't really know what toexpect, but it was super cool,
all right.
Anyway, something different.
(01:33):
This week I wanted to go througha networking event that I went
to.
I always go to these things.
They're always, uh, everyFriday, or I think it's first
Friday of the month, at theRochester team for e-commerce
and it's called coffee talk andwhat.
It is seven, 45 in the morning,until I think it's nine or
something like that, maybe 930.
I can't remember, it doesn'tmatter.
The run's for, like I think, anhour, hour and a half.
Anyway, it doesn't matter, andbasically everyone gives a two
(01:53):
minute elevator pitch and you goaround the table with five, six
people or so, and then yourinse and repeat and do it again
, and then there's a littlebreak there, a little halftime
intermission.
There's food and coffee, ofcourse, and water, and then you
do it again.
Two more tables and that's it.
(02:13):
Then you go home or you go towork, actually, and you get a
lot of networking done within asmall amount of time, get some
business cards, meet some peoplethat you know and you know
catch up.
So what I'm realizing, though,is that there's a lot of new
people that have been showing up, and they are super, you know,
apprehensive or don't know.
Don't know what to expect, andI thought that, since I have a
(02:38):
whole season dedicated tonetworking, that I would upload
the audio from some of the folksthat wanted to participate.
I got my first table.
Oh, I did.
You know what I missed?
Everybody at the first table,not everybody, but whatever I
asked I was, I got caught up inconversation with a couple of
people in the parking lot, and I, you know, thought to myself I
(03:01):
should bring my microphone inand, you know, hand the mic
around and have everyoneintroduce themselves and give
their pitch, and I'll upload itin the podcast and then include
their information and thencontact or the description, and
I asked the opinion, and then,you know the first table, and
everyone's like, yeah, dude,it's not.
You know, it's a good idea, Iwould do it.
If you know, you had the michere.
I was like, oh well, all right.
So, between the first andsecond table, I went onto my car
(03:24):
and I grabbed the DGI mic thatI have here, and I tried it, and
I had only a couple of peoplethat were apprehensive and
didn't really want to talk intothe mic, and of course I
understand because it's nervewracking, but the people who did
, they got through it.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
And so.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I want to upload the people going through their
pitches and that way, if you'reever considering doing a speed
networking event, you'll have agood idea on what it's all about
.
And it's not that scary, it'snot that bad, you'll get through
it and practicing makes perfect.
You're not going to nail it thefirst time.
It's okay to bring notes, and Ido.
(04:03):
I still use my iPhone and makesure that I hit all the points,
because two minutes can eitherbe really fast or it can be
really long, and you'll finishup in 30 seconds and have a
minute and a half left over, andthat's fine too.
That's all you got to say.
That's all you got to say.
No big deal, but you're there.
You paid the ticket price, soto speak.
(04:23):
It's free, but you're part ofthe chamber, so you paid for it.
You might as well use it.
And there's always an ask.
It's funny that this week, atthe end of my pitches, I was
going to ask for an orthodontistor a dentist that does braces,
because that's a big requestright now.
In Metro Trading Association,one of the brokers asked me to
get an orthodontist and I didn'tdo that.
(04:45):
I should have said the ask atthis table would have been funny
because at the second table Iwas at right before the magician
and that's the orthodontistthat hopefully I get to do some
business with through MetroTrading Association and send one
of our good members' kids toher to get their braces done on
trade.
So she's a new dentist here inRochester and you'll hopefully
(05:07):
hear her and I'll upload as muchinformation as I can into the
description, because she doesn'thave business cards yet because
she's new.
So at any rate, I'll put thewebsite link in the description
and I think that's good enough.
So, without further ado, here is, or here are, the chamber
members.
I think there is what 15 maybepeople going through it, and of
(05:31):
course you don't got to hearthem all.
Feel free to skip ahead orwhatever, but you know at least
it'll give you an idea on whatto say, how to do it.
You know you get your pacingdown, your timing and if things
go well, I might just keep doingthis and just uploading these
kinds of things, maybe once amonth and just give people some
exposure.
You know why not?
So here we go.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Hi, I'm Janae from OPC Social and Activity Center
in Rochester.
We are a 50-plus communitycenter where we do pretty much
everything.
So wherever you're at over 50years old, we're there to help
you.
We have supportive services, wehave grief support, we have
adult day service.
We have a medical loan closet.
We have transportation.
(06:16):
There are over 38 OPC buses onthe road every single day.
They go over 400 routes.
They'll take you to medicalappointments.
They'll take you shopping.
It's $2 per ride and all youhave to do is just call our
transportation line and they canschedule it, pick you up, drop
you off.
They do Veterans Ride Free.
(06:37):
That's a program that we offerthrough Oakland County, and we
also offer enrichment.
We have all sorts of differentclasses that you can take
watercolors, there's winetastings.
We had a big Margaritavilleevent last night.
There's a theater group thatyou could join or just come
(06:57):
watch, and then we also have, onour lower level, our fitness
area.
So we have two big pools thatyou can come and swim in,
there's pickleball, there'saerobics classes, taekwondo,
ballet I mean truly anythingthat you can imagine we can do,
and we're in the process ofbuilding a full yoga and Pilates
studio in the basement as well.
We have over 19,000 members andusually there's over 1,000 that
(07:25):
come in every single day.
The reason I'm here today is totalk about two events we have
coming up, which is our foodtruck rally on September 11th
I'm sorry I should be passingthose out.
That is open to the public.
It is no admission.
We're going to have nine foodtrucks there.
The Killer Flamingos are a bandthat are going to be there, a
Kid's Zone with bounce houses, a50-50 raffle.
It's going to be a lot of fun,so I really hope you can make it
(07:45):
.
And then on October 8th, wehave our Senior Expo.
It's our 50 plus Expo, so ifyou need to get your business
name out in front of people,this is a really great
opportunity to do that.
A wide variety of anythingtruly is what I'm looking for,
so that when they come through,they're going to get everything
that they could possibly get foranybody who's 50 and over.
(08:06):
So I have some registrationforms for that as well.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Good morning everyone .
As you know, I'm Lori Sigolkofrom First Leaf Bank.
We are your local hometown bank.
We've been around for 117 yearsNot super familiar still in the
Oakland County area.
We started in St Clair Shores,technically East Detroit at the
time.
(08:29):
Our headquarters are in StClair Shores, so a lot of Macomb
Township people know us.
A lot of Oakland Township,oakland County that area doesn't
know us yet, which is why we'rereally trying to get out there
in the world.
So I am here today to tell youthat we are a bank that provides
any and all services that anyother bank would provide.
(08:49):
Sometimes people associatesmall banks with less services.
We want to tell you that thatis not the case.
We can provide you whatever youneed.
What we can tell you for sureis the people that you will work
with at our bank are local.
You don't have to make anappointment to come and see us,
unless you want to.
You don't have to schedulesomething way in advance just to
(09:12):
do something which in the pastwe've thought to be routine.
We're here to help you out.
Marie Palizzi and I are themanagement team at our branch,
which is located right onRochester Road, north of
Bordines, so we're convenientlylocated right on what we, you
know, like to call in our office.
Well, we call it the Grand Prix, because that Rochester Road is
(09:36):
something else.
But come and see us.
We can help your business, wecan help you personally, we can
set you up with financialadvisors if you need a financial
advisor, or we can just helpyou with any other needs that
you may have.
So think of us, and we're proudto be the presenting sponsor of
Coffee Talk, so we can all meetone another, thank you.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Hi, my name is Debbie and I am from Country Freak
Family Medicine.
We are located at Silver Belland Adams in Oakland County and
I'm here today to just leteveryone know that we are
accepting new patients, ouroffice.
We have a policy there that youdon't wait in the waiting room.
I don't know how many times yougo to a doctor's office and you
(10:20):
wait an hour or two.
We schedule properly.
There's no wait.
If something is going on in theclinic that takes a little bit
more time, they will call me andwe will go up front and make
sure that you're taken care of.
Dr Bain is very efficient.
He understands patients' timeis important to them and that's
(10:40):
what we focus on.
I don't want anybody to thinkthat we rush you through because
we don't, but we have a reallygood procedure and, like I say,
we don't schedule on top of eachother.
That practice has been therenow for over three years.
It was a different practicebefore that Dr Bain has
purchased and taken to the nextlevel, so we're very excited
(11:01):
about it.
And, as of last week, wepartnered with Front Door Spa.
I don't know if you're familiarwith them, but they are renting
some offices from our suitethat we're in and it's wonderful
we can refer to them and theycan refer to us and the basic
like Botox for your migraines.
(11:21):
Dr Bain can refer that patientto front door and we had a
ribbon cutting through thechamber and it went very, very
well.
So we're very excited about thenew adventure.
So come see us.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Thanks.
Hi, my name is Kathy Elias.
This is my first time in achamber meeting and it's been a
great experience so far.
I'm an orthodontist.
That means I specialize inbraces, invisalign, expanders
and for that unfortunate littlekid, maybe even headgear.
I've been practicing for over10 years and, more specifically,
(11:53):
been in Metro Detroit since2018.
I'm opening a practice at 24 inVan Dyke and the plan is to
open mid-September.
You know our practice.
My practice really putspatients first and our tagline
is your Smile, our Craft.
The reason why I came up withthat well before I actually had
(12:16):
the momentum to open my ownpractice is because I know
everyone's smile is unique andspecial.
So my ask is just to spend amoment to get to know me, and I
feel like the best way to get toknow me is to actually look at
reviews of patients that I'veworked with in the past.
If you don't mind pulling outyour phone and just looking up
Elias Orthodontics.
(12:37):
I've been practicing inDearborn for over five years and
that's kind of an aggregate ofsome of my patient experiences
out there.
So thank you.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Hi everyone, my name is Mentalist David Powers.
Basically, I use my performingskills to mystify audiences with
amazing tests in the power andpotential of the human mind.
My shows are very, veryinteractive.
You, your guests, will alwaysbe a part of the show, and every
(13:11):
show will be different becauseevery audience is going to be
different.
So the best way to actuallytalk about what I do is to show
what I do.
So, stu, before we did anything, I showed you a packet of
photographs, right, yep, and youchose one.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yes, I did.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
And then I shuffled up the packet of cards and all
that.
So there's no way I could.
I didn't even look at it.
Nope, okay, great, great, I sawit.
Is there a memory that might beassociated with this item or
this event?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
yes let me tell you the memory what?
Speaker 7 (13:48):
okay, I'll, I'll try mine.
Okay, I'm getting like leonaHelmsley I don't know if that
makes any sense.
She was a hotel woman financierand she left her hotels to her
20-something cats or whateverfor years and she was very
(14:10):
famous, very rich, very wealthy,owned a slew of very elite kind
of hotels, okay, and there wasone in New York.
This is I.
Actually.
I'm going to go with one of mymemories, which was I went to
FAO Schwartz, which was, youknow, the one that you see in
(14:30):
the movie big and that sort ofthing, and actually the guy who
did the voice of Sebastian fromLittle Mermaid was signing
autographs and he was reallygreat, really seemed to love the
kids, and in fact we got aphoto of us doing the Sebastian
face, which is, you know, kindof like that.
It's something about New York.
(14:53):
My dad was on a trip.
Ironically, he went and helistened to a lecture by Isaac
Asimov, and I'm actually a bigIsaac Asimov fan, but I would
have been too young to see it.
So it's the Statue of Liberty,isn't?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
it.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
Yeah, that's right, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Excellent, that's what I do, thank you.
Speaker 9 (15:15):
I'm Sam from RARA.
So if you've not heard of RARA,we're the premier recreation
provider for the greaterRochester area.
You name it, we have it,everything from two-year-old
sport programs to adult cookingclasses, yoga, fitness,
community events, etc.
But today I have a Pat.
Let's pass these around.
See, the mic isn't a but it'skind of a big year for us.
We're in our millage and masterplan year.
(15:36):
So if you are not familiar withthe parks and rec master plan,
it's basically every five yearswe go out and we partner with
the consulting firm and we do alot of community engagement and
basically we're looking for abunch of feedback to help shape
how we design our programs forthe next five years.
So if you're like, hey, I wantmore youth programming, I want
more adult programming, I wantmore business to business
networking, I want newfacilities, your feedback is
(15:57):
super important to us.
So I'm asking everyone to do isfill out a survey at some point
in the next few days, if youhave one already.
Unlike most surveys where youmight fill in and think the big
company didn't pay attention toyou and didn't shape anything,
these answers will genuinelyshape the future of like how
RARA decides to focus itsefforts.
So there's things you want tosee.
(16:18):
Definitely spend some time onthat survey, leave us some
detailed answers and that way wecan just help better serve you
in the future.
I know that was a fast pitch,but any questions for me about
RARA?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Even though I've never been there before.
You just want to see what wouldentice you to go.
Does that make sense?
Speaker 9 (16:36):
Yeah, it could be you .
So we have a big facility,field house, classrooms, you
know, gaming rooms.
We do a lot in the community.
It's not just recreation.
We do a lot of educationalclasses, like we'll partner with
banks or educational services.
We've had health issues comingforward.
People just rent our facilities.
So I mean, if you're like, hey,I want to have a meeting place
for to do a podcast or do athing or educate the community
(16:56):
on it, it's really a communitycenter over there and we program
throughout the communitybecause we partner with the
schools and cities.
We use parks, school facilities, so there's something for
everyone at RARA for sure.
So it's not just like hey, sendmy kids to dance, forget about
it five years later and thenhave some kids at the table
talking about coffee, talk tocome back and why?
Hey?
Speaker 10 (17:15):
we're good, cool, I'm on.
Why?
Okay, cool, I'll take the mic.
All right, thanks, sam.
All right, my name is SeanHayes.
I'm the executive director withPaint Creek Center for the Arts
.
We are a 501c3 nonprofit here inRochester that is focused on
bringing art to the community ina variety of ways.
That includes art classes forchildren as young as five up to
students in their 80s, for avariety of skill levels and a
(17:38):
variety of mediums as well.
So drawing, painting, graphicdesign, photography, ceramics
We've got a lot of options therefor people to take classes.
We probably host about athousand students per year.
I would say we have an artmarket where local artists will
sell their work, and then wealso offer exhibitions, which we
will have hosted five this yearby the end of the year and
(17:58):
we're looking to host seven nextyear.
Those are free for thecommunity to attend.
We do an opening reception foreach one.
Probably about anywhere from150 to 230 people show up for
that, and it's basically anopportunity to come and see some
local artists work what theymade.
Maybe the artists get a chanceto sell their work for the first
time or have it on display forthe first time.
Sponsorships for that areanywhere from $100 to $500.
(18:21):
We typically send out about2,000 postcards for each of
those.
We get our printing done withVicki.
She will also be doing ourprinting for our brochures and
postcards for the Art in ApplesFestival.
That's what people best know usfor.
It takes place three weeks fromtoday, the weekend after Labor
Day, right here in RochesterMunicipal Park.
We get about 60,000 people inattendance 280 artists from all
(18:44):
across the country, 27 foodvendors, 22 sponsors, 14 live
music acts.
We also have a creation stationwith art demos and where kids
can make work and a kids artzone, not just where they make
work, but also we have bouncehouses and games.
Rara is going to be providingthose for us this year, so keep
an eye out for them.
But yeah, lots of opportunitiesto get involved.
We do need volunteer spotsfilled at the festival still as
(19:07):
well, whether you're helpingwith setup or whether you're
booth sitting, because theseartists have $30,000 worth of
artwork sitting at their boothand don't get a chance for a
lunch break once in a while.
So, sean Hayes with Paint CreekCenter for the Arts.
Speaker 11 (19:23):
Sean Unrath.
I work for CCS PresentationSystems and we provide
commercial audio-visualinstallation solutions for any
of your technology that you aregoing to be bringing into any
sort of commercial building.
We specialize in a lot of newbuilds.
We work with architects,general contractors, but we also
(19:45):
have a unique business modelthat allows us to work with
smaller, local companies.
If you just want to put up a TVor two in your lobby space or
do some digital signage, we canprovide that, and we also step
outside the lines of AV a littlebit.
We provide some things thatother AV companies wouldn't
typically provide, such assecurity, access control and
(20:07):
cameras and structure cablingand any sort of low voltage
needs that a commercial buildingwould have.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
Any industries or anything that you guys are most
specific to, or kind of covereverything.
Speaker 11 (20:21):
We typically align with architects and general
contractors the most, becausethat's generally who's making
the decisions for some of thenew commercial builds and things
that are going on when you havecompanies that are moving or
building a new structure.
Usually almost 100 percent ofthe time we have to interface
with those companies anyway.
(20:41):
So it works out best for us tostart aligning with those
companies before the projectsstart and then continue
maintaining our relationshipwith those companies afterwards,
and then that way, whencompanies want to build a new
facility, we already haverelationships with those
contractors to where they knowthe work that we do, they know
(21:02):
our process, and it makes itmuch more of a streamlined
process for everybody.
But we can cover any industryyeah, any sort of industry
that's building a new buildingor they just want to add some
signage or anything like that.
We can kind of cover thesmallest projects to the biggest
projects.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Hello, how are you today?
My name is Olivia Kaye and I'mwith the John Maxwell Leadership
Team.
My area of expertise ismastering the mind, so I help
people create abundant legaciesfor their family, community and
also globally.
I do this through speaking andteaching.
(21:44):
I'm also an author of MakingJesus your Habit and I'm on
volume two, which is adevotional for marriages, and
I'm looking to partner with acouple of companies today, and
this is the other ask I had.
So I found my other ask and Isay speak to me today so I can
help you tomorrow.
I do a discovery call andthat's free, so I have that to
(22:08):
offer as well.
It's a $150 value.
Speaker 13 (22:13):
All right, Hi everybody.
My name is Mariah.
I'm a graphic designer with theMarketing Shop.
A couple of you look veryfamiliar, but mostly what the
Marketing Shop does is for ateam of graphic designers.
We like to act as youroutsourcing graphic design team,
taking things off your plate.
You're paying someone alreadyto do design for you, whether
that's yourself putting on thathat or another employee taking
them away from what they shouldbe doing to make you money or
(22:35):
you yourself making money.
We can help with really anythingyour brand touches.
So all your materials aregiving out, anything you're
showing to the public.
We can help you get designedand make sure you're staying on
brand.
We can do things, like I said,nearly anything, but some things
people don't think of is likedirect mail.
So direct mail is not dead.
If anything, your eyes aregoing to get on it a little bit
(22:56):
more because people reallyaren't paying it out right now.
But yeah, we can help youdirect mail, get it designed,
get it stuffed, get it mailedout to your list, or we can even
get you lists too, of like yourtargeted lists, and then the
flyers, the business cards, allthat, but also presentation
materials as far as likePowerPoints go and then all the
displays and all the prints andtrash keys that go along with it
(23:17):
.
We're a really full-stack team.
In my opinion, the only thingswe really can't do is mess with
your analytics, but we know alot of good referrals that can
do that for you and that wetrust and we've already kind of
vetted for you.
But, yeah, we like to just be ateam member Once you work with
us, once we get to know how youlike to work, how your brand
really is, the communicationyour brand puts out, and we help
you all along the way.
(23:38):
Checking your social media,making sure what you have on
your front door is the samething that you're putting on
your social media, the colors,all that.
People interact with your brandand if it changes, they kind of
forget who you are or theyquestion your trustworthiness as
a brand.
So, being consistent, keepingyour colors, keeping the fonts
all those really do matter,especially in a world like now
(23:59):
where it's super competitivewith your brand.
You only get 30 seconds ofpeople's attention now if that.
So yeah, if anybody needs anyhelp with design, even if they
just want to have someconsulting to get on track with
an event that's coming out.
I hope you think of me.
My name is Mariah with theMarketing Shop.
Thank you, Hi.
Speaker 8 (24:17):
Mariah.
I'm Patricia Ozibko and I'mwith the Assistance League of
Southeastern Michigan.
Colleen Bernabeck invited me tocome today.
I'm the co-chair of the ResaleConnection, which is an upscale
resale shop on Main Street inRochester, next door to Chomps.
As I told you, the AssistanceLeague is a nonprofit
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organization.
We have 285 volunteers andabout 31 years ago is when they
started the chapter here.
It's a national organization.
Six women went out looking forseveral years for a location to
have the resale connection andthey found it 25 years ago on, I
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said, on Main Street.
We're an upscale resale shopand all of our proceeds go
towards our nine programs thatwe have.
Our signature program isclothing about 4,000 children
every year in the Oakland, wayneand Macomb County schools.
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The store on Monday is closed.
Sunday and Monday it's closed.
On Monday there is a group ofwomen in there who are pricing
the home and decor items andthen they're staging them out in
front.
Then on Tuesday throughSaturday we have a group of
women that are in the back roompricing clothing and then
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they're bringing it out stagingthat.
The stores open from 11 until 5from Tuesday through Saturday
and at one time everything isdonated in the store with the
exception of consignmentclothing upscale, like the Donna
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Karan, eileen Fisher type items.
We did have a men's shop at onetime in there, but we ran out
of space.
But men do come in looking atthe jewelry to buy for their
significant others.
I invite you to come one dayand shop and then you can go
next door and eat at Chomp's.
Speaker 12 (26:28):
My name's Elizabeth Kanyars and I'm a certified
professional life coach.
I believe that we should planfor purposefulness in retirement
just as much as we plan for ourfinances in retirement.
I was a certified financialplanner for 20 years and
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previous to that I was a hospiceand dialysis social worker.
I went back to get my certifiedprofessional life coach so that
I can help people that areplanning to retire, or first few
years of retirement, plan aretirement of purposefulness and
meaning and plan to live thelife they've always wanted to
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live to live the life they'vealways wanted to live.
Elizabeth Kanyar's Stand forwhat is Noble and my ask is to
get in front of professionalswho work with retirees or
pre-retirees, like financialplanners, state planning
attorneys or human resources,and talk to them.
I have a small workshop I canprevent to that group and if
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they're interested, they can gofurther on individual coaching
with me, or I have a workbookonline and I am getting ready to
launch a course I am anambassador here for the chamber.
Speaker 14 (27:57):
I'm also the chair of the Peer Solution Group for
Marketing, so we welcomemarketers.
As Stuart has been there,mariah has been there.
In addition to the chamberstuff, I do run a few companies
rochesterwriterscom, michigan'sBest One Day Writers Conference.
You may be interested in that.
We take authors from if theyhave an idea of a book to
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they're working on a book, toselling more of their books, and
that's October 18th.
Also work with Ann CharlesMedia.
We're a marketing company,digital marketing.
We do websites, social mediamanagement, newsletters, stuff
like that.
We don't brand and do graphicdesign like Mariah does.
So I would recommend you go toher if that's what you need, but
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today I thought it'd be fun toher if that's what you need, but
today I thought it'd be fun totalk about a Wu-style Tai Chi.
I'm going to pass around thatcard.
I also have flyers if you wantto know where we are with all
the different locations.
But we're in this room onTuesday, wednesday and Thursday
nights, right here at thecommunity house.
Tai Chi is a soft style martialart, but we're 90% wellness, 10%
martial art.
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What attracted me to Tai Chi isthat there's no uniforms,
there's no breaking of boards,there's no belts that you have
to earn and pay for.
It's just about wellness.
We take the body through a fulland natural range of motion,
working all your muscles andtendons so that you can keep
what you have and restore whatyou might have lost.
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So we help people withcirculation and balance and just
moving.
And the goal is and some of usare younger over here, but
others of us need to think aboutthose things so the trick is to
stay moving, just keep moving,whatever it is, and I found that
Tai Chi really worked for me.
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I've been doing it for over 25years.
I teach now.
I teach in Lake Orion.
I have a new class starting onMonday nights out there, but
we're one of our biggest.
Things are daytime classes forseniors and those are our most
active classes.
That's a workout and peoplelove it.
So check out Wu Style Tai Chiand there's an email address on
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there that will come directly tome if you have any questions
about Rochester Writers or AnnCharles Media or chamber events.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Thank you, stuart.
That's everybody.
So only two people out of thatwhole group didn't feel
comfortable enough talking intothe mic.
But at least you got a goodidea what's going on.
When you go to a networkingevent or in this case it was
kind of a speed networking eventand, truth be told, they kind
of all are speed networking it'sjust you got a 60-second or a
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two-minute, whatever elevatorpitch, you do your deal kind of
like a B&I group and go on tothe next person, hand your deal
like kind of like a BNI groupand go on to the next person,
hand out your business card andhopefully you get something from
it.
At least, if not, you get someexposure and people know about
you and maybe they'll talk aboutyou.
But that's it for now.
Whatever y'all do out there, begood or be good at it.
Hello and welcome to the Trading Post podcast, where
we unlock the secrets ofbusiness-to-business trade, dive
into powerful networkingstrategies and share my exciting
journey of using a podcast tomarket my business instead of
relying on SEO.
I'm your host, trader Stu.
Hello and welcome back to theTrading Post podcast.
(00:27):
I am your host, trader Stu.
I wanted to do a littlesomething different this week
and first of all, wait a minutegone too far, too soon.
I wanted to thank theRenaissance Festival for
inviting my family and I out tothe VIP media night on Wednesday
.
That was super fun.
Vip media night on Wednesday itwas super fun.
Hung out in the castle, mostlywith my son, and then hung out
(00:50):
at the.
They have a nice playgroundthere and he really enjoyed
himself and saw the horses andthe llamas that were there.
And there was a dessert.
I thought it was more of like abeer tent, so I didn't really
hang out in there, but that'swhere the raffle was.
I found out that a guy I knowthat won a couple of jugs of
mead and but I left at sixo'clock because my son was just
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he was done and so we we tookoff and left about an hour early
, but it was a fantastic timeand I hope I get to do it again
next year and I'll come moreprepared.
So I didn't really know what toexpect, but it was super cool,
all right.
Anyway, something different.
(01:33):
This week I wanted to go througha networking event that I went
to.
I always go to these things.
They're always, uh, everyFriday, or I think it's first
Friday of the month, at theRochester team for e-commerce
and it's called coffee talk andwhat.
It is seven, 45 in the morning,until I think it's nine or
something like that, maybe 930.
I can't remember, it doesn'tmatter.
The run's for, like I think, anhour, hour and a half.
Anyway, it doesn't matter, andbasically everyone gives a two
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minute elevator pitch and you goaround the table with five, six
people or so, and then yourinse and repeat and do it again
, and then there's a littlebreak there, a little halftime
intermission.
There's food and coffee, ofcourse, and water, and then you
do it again.
Two more tables and that's it.
(02:13):
Then you go home or you go towork, actually, and you get a
lot of networking done within asmall amount of time, get some
business cards, meet some peoplethat you know and you know
catch up.
So what I'm realizing, though,is that there's a lot of new
people that have been showing up, and they are super, you know,
apprehensive or don't know.
Don't know what to expect, andI thought that, since I have a
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whole season dedicated tonetworking, that I would upload
the audio from some of the folksthat wanted to participate.
I got my first table.
Oh, I did.
You know what I missed?
Everybody at the first table,not everybody, but whatever I
asked I was, I got caught up inconversation with a couple of
people in the parking lot, and I, you know, thought to myself I
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should bring my microphone inand, you know, hand the mic
around and have everyoneintroduce themselves and give
their pitch, and I'll upload itin the podcast and then include
their information and thencontact or the description, and
I asked the opinion, and then,you know the first table, and
everyone's like, yeah, dude,it's not.
You know, it's a good idea, Iwould do it.
If you know, you had the michere.
I was like, oh well, all right.
So, between the first andsecond table, I went onto my car
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and I grabbed the DGI mic thatI have here, and I tried it, and
I had only a couple of peoplethat were apprehensive and
didn't really want to talk intothe mic, and of course I
understand because it's nervewracking, but the people who did
, they got through it.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
And so.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I want to upload the people going through their
pitches and that way, if you'reever considering doing a speed
networking event, you'll have agood idea on what it's all about
.
And it's not that scary, it'snot that bad, you'll get through
it and practicing makes perfect.
You're not going to nail it thefirst time.
It's okay to bring notes, and Ido.
(04:03):
I still use my iPhone and makesure that I hit all the points,
because two minutes can eitherbe really fast or it can be
really long, and you'll finishup in 30 seconds and have a
minute and a half left over, andthat's fine too.
That's all you got to say.
That's all you got to say.
No big deal, but you're there.
You paid the ticket price, soto speak.
(04:23):
It's free, but you're part ofthe chamber, so you paid for it.
You might as well use it.
And there's always an ask.
It's funny that this week, atthe end of my pitches, I was
going to ask for an orthodontistor a dentist that does braces,
because that's a big requestright now.
In Metro Trading Association,one of the brokers asked me to
get an orthodontist and I didn'tdo that.
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I should have said the ask atthis table would have been funny
because at the second table Iwas at right before the magician
and that's the orthodontistthat hopefully I get to do some
business with through MetroTrading Association and send one
of our good members' kids toher to get their braces done on
trade.
So she's a new dentist here inRochester and you'll hopefully
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hear her and I'll upload as muchinformation as I can into the
description, because she doesn'thave business cards yet because
she's new.
So at any rate, I'll put thewebsite link in the description
and I think that's good enough.
So, without further ado, here is, or here are, the chamber
members.
I think there is what 15 maybepeople going through it, and of
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course you don't got to hearthem all.
Feel free to skip ahead orwhatever, but you know at least
it'll give you an idea on whatto say, how to do it.
You know you get your pacingdown, your timing and if things
go well, I might just keep doingthis and just uploading these
kinds of things, maybe once amonth and just give people some
exposure.
You know why not?
So here we go.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Hi, I'm Janae from OPC Social and Activity Center
in Rochester.
We are a 50-plus communitycenter where we do pretty much
everything.
So wherever you're at over 50years old, we're there to help
you.
We have supportive services, wehave grief support, we have
adult day service.
We have a medical loan closet.
We have transportation.
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There are over 38 OPC buses onthe road every single day.
They go over 400 routes.
They'll take you to medicalappointments.
They'll take you shopping.
It's $2 per ride and all youhave to do is just call our
transportation line and they canschedule it, pick you up, drop
you off.
They do Veterans Ride Free.
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That's a program that we offerthrough Oakland County, and we
also offer enrichment.
We have all sorts of differentclasses that you can take
watercolors, there's winetastings.
We had a big Margaritavilleevent last night.
There's a theater group thatyou could join or just come
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watch, and then we also have, onour lower level, our fitness
area.
So we have two big pools thatyou can come and swim in,
there's pickleball, there'saerobics classes, taekwondo,
ballet I mean truly anythingthat you can imagine we can do,
and we're in the process ofbuilding a full yoga and Pilates
studio in the basement as well.
We have over 19,000 members andusually there's over 1,000 that
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come in every single day.
The reason I'm here today is totalk about two events we have
coming up, which is our foodtruck rally on September 11th
I'm sorry I should be passingthose out.
That is open to the public.
It is no admission.
We're going to have nine foodtrucks there.
The Killer Flamingos are a bandthat are going to be there, a
Kid's Zone with bounce houses, a50-50 raffle.
It's going to be a lot of fun,so I really hope you can make it
(07:45):
.
And then on October 8th, wehave our Senior Expo.
It's our 50 plus Expo, so ifyou need to get your business
name out in front of people,this is a really great
opportunity to do that.
A wide variety of anythingtruly is what I'm looking for,
so that when they come through,they're going to get everything
that they could possibly get foranybody who's 50 and over.
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So I have some registrationforms for that as well.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Good morning everyone .
As you know, I'm Lori Sigolkofrom First Leaf Bank.
We are your local hometown bank.
We've been around for 117 yearsNot super familiar still in the
Oakland County area.
We started in St Clair Shores,technically East Detroit at the
time.
(08:29):
Our headquarters are in StClair Shores, so a lot of Macomb
Township people know us.
A lot of Oakland Township,oakland County that area doesn't
know us yet, which is why we'rereally trying to get out there
in the world.
So I am here today to tell youthat we are a bank that provides
any and all services that anyother bank would provide.
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Sometimes people associatesmall banks with less services.
We want to tell you that thatis not the case.
We can provide you whatever youneed.
What we can tell you for sureis the people that you will work
with at our bank are local.
You don't have to make anappointment to come and see us,
unless you want to.
You don't have to schedulesomething way in advance just to
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do something which in the pastwe've thought to be routine.
We're here to help you out.
Marie Palizzi and I are themanagement team at our branch,
which is located right onRochester Road, north of
Bordines, so we're convenientlylocated right on what we, you
know, like to call in our office.
Well, we call it the Grand Prix, because that Rochester Road is
(09:36):
something else.
But come and see us.
We can help your business, wecan help you personally, we can
set you up with financialadvisors if you need a financial
advisor, or we can just helpyou with any other needs that
you may have.
So think of us, and we're proudto be the presenting sponsor of
Coffee Talk, so we can all meetone another, thank you.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
Hi, my name is Debbie and I am from Country Freak
Family Medicine.
We are located at Silver Belland Adams in Oakland County and
I'm here today to just leteveryone know that we are
accepting new patients, ouroffice.
We have a policy there that youdon't wait in the waiting room.
I don't know how many times yougo to a doctor's office and you
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wait an hour or two.
We schedule properly.
There's no wait.
If something is going on in theclinic that takes a little bit
more time, they will call me andwe will go up front and make
sure that you're taken care of.
Dr Bain is very efficient.
He understands patients' timeis important to them and that's
(10:40):
what we focus on.
I don't want anybody to thinkthat we rush you through because
we don't, but we have a reallygood procedure and, like I say,
we don't schedule on top of eachother.
That practice has been therenow for over three years.
It was a different practicebefore that Dr Bain has
purchased and taken to the nextlevel, so we're very excited
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about it.
And, as of last week, wepartnered with Front Door Spa.
I don't know if you're familiarwith them, but they are renting
some offices from our suitethat we're in and it's wonderful
we can refer to them and theycan refer to us and the basic
like Botox for your migraines.
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Dr Bain can refer that patientto front door and we had a
ribbon cutting through thechamber and it went very, very
well.
So we're very excited about thenew adventure.
So come see us.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Thanks.
Hi, my name is Kathy Elias.
This is my first time in achamber meeting and it's been a
great experience so far.
I'm an orthodontist.
That means I specialize inbraces, invisalign, expanders
and for that unfortunate littlekid, maybe even headgear.
I've been practicing for over10 years and, more specifically,
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been in Metro Detroit since2018.
I'm opening a practice at 24 inVan Dyke and the plan is to
open mid-September.
You know our practice.
My practice really putspatients first and our tagline
is your Smile, our Craft.
The reason why I came up withthat well before I actually had
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the momentum to open my ownpractice is because I know
everyone's smile is unique andspecial.
So my ask is just to spend amoment to get to know me, and I
feel like the best way to get toknow me is to actually look at
reviews of patients that I'veworked with in the past.
If you don't mind pulling outyour phone and just looking up
Elias Orthodontics.
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I've been practicing inDearborn for over five years and
that's kind of an aggregate ofsome of my patient experiences
out there.
So thank you.
Speaker 7 (12:49):
Hi everyone, my name is Mentalist David Powers.
Basically, I use my performingskills to mystify audiences with
amazing tests in the power andpotential of the human mind.
My shows are very, veryinteractive.
You, your guests, will alwaysbe a part of the show, and every
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show will be different becauseevery audience is going to be
different.
So the best way to actuallytalk about what I do is to show
what I do.
So, stu, before we did anything, I showed you a packet of
photographs, right, yep, and youchose one.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Yes, I did.
Speaker 7 (13:30):
And then I shuffled up the packet of cards and all
that.
So there's no way I could.
I didn't even look at it.
Nope, okay, great, great, I sawit.
Is there a memory that might beassociated with this item or
this event?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
yes let me tell you the memory what?
Speaker 7 (13:48):
okay, I'll, I'll try mine.
Okay, I'm getting like leonaHelmsley I don't know if that
makes any sense.
She was a hotel woman financierand she left her hotels to her
20-something cats or whateverfor years and she was very
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famous, very rich, very wealthy,owned a slew of very elite kind
of hotels, okay, and there wasone in New York.
This is I.
Actually.
I'm going to go with one of mymemories, which was I went to
FAO Schwartz, which was, youknow, the one that you see in
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the movie big and that sort ofthing, and actually the guy who
did the voice of Sebastian fromLittle Mermaid was signing
autographs and he was reallygreat, really seemed to love the
kids, and in fact we got aphoto of us doing the Sebastian
face, which is, you know, kindof like that.
It's something about New York.
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My dad was on a trip.
Ironically, he went and helistened to a lecture by Isaac
Asimov, and I'm actually a bigIsaac Asimov fan, but I would
have been too young to see it.
So it's the Statue of Liberty,isn't?
Speaker 1 (15:08):
it.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
Yeah, that's right, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Excellent, that's what I do, thank you.
Speaker 9 (15:15):
I'm Sam from RARA.
So if you've not heard of RARA,we're the premier recreation
provider for the greaterRochester area.
You name it, we have it,everything from two-year-old
sport programs to adult cookingclasses, yoga, fitness,
community events, etc.
But today I have a Pat.
Let's pass these around.
See, the mic isn't a but it'skind of a big year for us.
We're in our millage and masterplan year.
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So if you are not familiar withthe parks and rec master plan,
it's basically every five yearswe go out and we partner with
the consulting firm and we do alot of community engagement and
basically we're looking for abunch of feedback to help shape
how we design our programs forthe next five years.
So if you're like, hey, I wantmore youth programming, I want
more adult programming, I wantmore business to business
networking, I want newfacilities, your feedback is
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super important to us.
So I'm asking everyone to do isfill out a survey at some point
in the next few days, if youhave one already.
Unlike most surveys where youmight fill in and think the big
company didn't pay attention toyou and didn't shape anything,
these answers will genuinelyshape the future of like how
RARA decides to focus itsefforts.
So there's things you want tosee.
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Definitely spend some time onthat survey, leave us some
detailed answers and that way wecan just help better serve you
in the future.
I know that was a fast pitch,but any questions for me about
RARA?
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Even though I've never been there before.
You just want to see what wouldentice you to go.
Does that make sense?
Speaker 9 (16:36):
Yeah, it could be you .
So we have a big facility,field house, classrooms, you
know, gaming rooms.
We do a lot in the community.
It's not just recreation.
We do a lot of educationalclasses, like we'll partner with
banks or educational services.
We've had health issues comingforward.
People just rent our facilities.
So I mean, if you're like, hey,I want to have a meeting place
for to do a podcast or do athing or educate the community
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on it, it's really a communitycenter over there and we program
throughout the communitybecause we partner with the
schools and cities.
We use parks, school facilities, so there's something for
everyone at RARA for sure.
So it's not just like hey, sendmy kids to dance, forget about
it five years later and thenhave some kids at the table
talking about coffee, talk tocome back and why?
Hey?
Speaker 10 (17:15):
we're good, cool, I'm on.
Why?
Okay, cool, I'll take the mic.
All right, thanks, sam.
All right, my name is SeanHayes.
I'm the executive director withPaint Creek Center for the Arts
.
We are a 501c3 nonprofit here inRochester that is focused on
bringing art to the community ina variety of ways.
That includes art classes forchildren as young as five up to
students in their 80s, for avariety of skill levels and a
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variety of mediums as well.
So drawing, painting, graphicdesign, photography, ceramics
We've got a lot of options therefor people to take classes.
We probably host about athousand students per year.
I would say we have an artmarket where local artists will
sell their work, and then wealso offer exhibitions, which we
will have hosted five this yearby the end of the year and
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we're looking to host seven nextyear.
Those are free for thecommunity to attend.
We do an opening reception foreach one.
Probably about anywhere from150 to 230 people show up for
that, and it's basically anopportunity to come and see some
local artists work what theymade.
Maybe the artists get a chanceto sell their work for the first
time or have it on display forthe first time.
Sponsorships for that areanywhere from $100 to $500.
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We typically send out about2,000 postcards for each of
those.
We get our printing done withVicki.
She will also be doing ourprinting for our brochures and
postcards for the Art in ApplesFestival.
That's what people best know usfor.
It takes place three weeks fromtoday, the weekend after Labor
Day, right here in RochesterMunicipal Park.
We get about 60,000 people inattendance 280 artists from all
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across the country, 27 foodvendors, 22 sponsors, 14 live
music acts.
We also have a creation stationwith art demos and where kids
can make work and a kids artzone, not just where they make
work, but also we have bouncehouses and games.
Rara is going to be providingthose for us this year, so keep
an eye out for them.
But yeah, lots of opportunitiesto get involved.
We do need volunteer spotsfilled at the festival still as
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well, whether you're helpingwith setup or whether you're
booth sitting, because theseartists have $30,000 worth of
artwork sitting at their boothand don't get a chance for a
lunch break once in a while.
So, sean Hayes with Paint CreekCenter for the Arts.
Speaker 11 (19:23):
Sean Unrath.
I work for CCS PresentationSystems and we provide
commercial audio-visualinstallation solutions for any
of your technology that you aregoing to be bringing into any
sort of commercial building.
We specialize in a lot of newbuilds.
We work with architects,general contractors, but we also
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have a unique business modelthat allows us to work with
smaller, local companies.
If you just want to put up a TVor two in your lobby space or
do some digital signage, we canprovide that, and we also step
outside the lines of AV a littlebit.
We provide some things thatother AV companies wouldn't
typically provide, such assecurity, access control and
(20:07):
cameras and structure cablingand any sort of low voltage
needs that a commercial buildingwould have.
Speaker 10 (20:17):
Any industries or anything that you guys are most
specific to, or kind of covereverything.
Speaker 11 (20:21):
We typically align with architects and general
contractors the most, becausethat's generally who's making
the decisions for some of thenew commercial builds and things
that are going on when you havecompanies that are moving or
building a new structure.
Usually almost 100 percent ofthe time we have to interface
with those companies anyway.
(20:41):
So it works out best for us tostart aligning with those
companies before the projectsstart and then continue
maintaining our relationshipwith those companies afterwards,
and then that way, whencompanies want to build a new
facility, we already haverelationships with those
contractors to where they knowthe work that we do, they know
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our process, and it makes itmuch more of a streamlined
process for everybody.
But we can cover any industryyeah, any sort of industry
that's building a new buildingor they just want to add some
signage or anything like that.
We can kind of cover thesmallest projects to the biggest
projects.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Hello, how are you today?
My name is Olivia Kaye and I'mwith the John Maxwell Leadership
Team.
My area of expertise ismastering the mind, so I help
people create abundant legaciesfor their family, community and
also globally.
I do this through speaking andteaching.
(21:44):
I'm also an author of MakingJesus your Habit and I'm on
volume two, which is adevotional for marriages, and
I'm looking to partner with acouple of companies today, and
this is the other ask I had.
So I found my other ask and Isay speak to me today so I can
help you tomorrow.
I do a discovery call andthat's free, so I have that to
(22:08):
offer as well.
It's a $150 value.
Speaker 13 (22:13):
All right, Hi everybody.
My name is Mariah.
I'm a graphic designer with theMarketing Shop.
A couple of you look veryfamiliar, but mostly what the
Marketing Shop does is for ateam of graphic designers.
We like to act as youroutsourcing graphic design team,
taking things off your plate.
You're paying someone alreadyto do design for you, whether
that's yourself putting on thathat or another employee taking
them away from what they shouldbe doing to make you money or
(22:35):
you yourself making money.
We can help with really anythingyour brand touches.
So all your materials aregiving out, anything you're
showing to the public.
We can help you get designedand make sure you're staying on
brand.
We can do things, like I said,nearly anything, but some things
people don't think of is likedirect mail.
So direct mail is not dead.
If anything, your eyes aregoing to get on it a little bit
(22:56):
more because people reallyaren't paying it out right now.
But yeah, we can help youdirect mail, get it designed,
get it stuffed, get it mailedout to your list, or we can even
get you lists too, of like yourtargeted lists, and then the
flyers, the business cards, allthat, but also presentation
materials as far as likePowerPoints go and then all the
displays and all the prints andtrash keys that go along with it
(23:17):
.
We're a really full-stack team.
In my opinion, the only thingswe really can't do is mess with
your analytics, but we know alot of good referrals that can
do that for you and that wetrust and we've already kind of
vetted for you.
But, yeah, we like to just be ateam member Once you work with
us, once we get to know how youlike to work, how your brand
really is, the communicationyour brand puts out, and we help
you all along the way.
(23:38):
Checking your social media,making sure what you have on
your front door is the samething that you're putting on
your social media, the colors,all that.
People interact with your brandand if it changes, they kind of
forget who you are or theyquestion your trustworthiness as
a brand.
So, being consistent, keepingyour colors, keeping the fonts
all those really do matter,especially in a world like now
(23:59):
where it's super competitivewith your brand.
You only get 30 seconds ofpeople's attention now if that.
So yeah, if anybody needs anyhelp with design, even if they
just want to have someconsulting to get on track with
an event that's coming out.
I hope you think of me.
My name is Mariah with theMarketing Shop.
Thank you, Hi.
Speaker 8 (24:17):
Mariah.
I'm Patricia Ozibko and I'mwith the Assistance League of
Southeastern Michigan.
Colleen Bernabeck invited me tocome today.
I'm the co-chair of the ResaleConnection, which is an upscale
resale shop on Main Street inRochester, next door to Chomps.
As I told you, the AssistanceLeague is a nonprofit
(24:39):
organization.
We have 285 volunteers andabout 31 years ago is when they
started the chapter here.
It's a national organization.
Six women went out looking forseveral years for a location to
have the resale connection andthey found it 25 years ago on, I
(25:02):
said, on Main Street.
We're an upscale resale shopand all of our proceeds go
towards our nine programs thatwe have.
Our signature program isclothing about 4,000 children
every year in the Oakland, wayneand Macomb County schools.
(25:24):
The store on Monday is closed.
Sunday and Monday it's closed.
On Monday there is a group ofwomen in there who are pricing
the home and decor items andthen they're staging them out in
front.
Then on Tuesday throughSaturday we have a group of
women that are in the back roompricing clothing and then
(25:46):
they're bringing it out stagingthat.
The stores open from 11 until 5from Tuesday through Saturday
and at one time everything isdonated in the store with the
exception of consignmentclothing upscale, like the Donna
(26:07):
Karan, eileen Fisher type items.
We did have a men's shop at onetime in there, but we ran out
of space.
But men do come in looking atthe jewelry to buy for their
significant others.
I invite you to come one dayand shop and then you can go
next door and eat at Chomp's.
Speaker 12 (26:28):
My name's Elizabeth Kanyars and I'm a certified
professional life coach.
I believe that we should planfor purposefulness in retirement
just as much as we plan for ourfinances in retirement.
I was a certified financialplanner for 20 years and
(26:51):
previous to that I was a hospiceand dialysis social worker.
I went back to get my certifiedprofessional life coach so that
I can help people that areplanning to retire, or first few
years of retirement, plan aretirement of purposefulness and
meaning and plan to live thelife they've always wanted to
(27:14):
live to live the life they'vealways wanted to live.
Elizabeth Kanyar's Stand forwhat is Noble and my ask is to
get in front of professionalswho work with retirees or
pre-retirees, like financialplanners, state planning
attorneys or human resources,and talk to them.
I have a small workshop I canprevent to that group and if
(27:37):
they're interested, they can gofurther on individual coaching
with me, or I have a workbookonline and I am getting ready to
launch a course I am anambassador here for the chamber.
Speaker 14 (27:57):
I'm also the chair of the Peer Solution Group for
Marketing, so we welcomemarketers.
As Stuart has been there,mariah has been there.
In addition to the chamberstuff, I do run a few companies
rochesterwriterscom, michigan'sBest One Day Writers Conference.
You may be interested in that.
We take authors from if theyhave an idea of a book to
(28:18):
they're working on a book, toselling more of their books, and
that's October 18th.
Also work with Ann CharlesMedia.
We're a marketing company,digital marketing.
We do websites, social mediamanagement, newsletters, stuff
like that.
We don't brand and do graphicdesign like Mariah does.
So I would recommend you go toher if that's what you need, but
(28:40):
today I thought it'd be fun toher if that's what you need, but
today I thought it'd be fun totalk about a Wu-style Tai Chi.
I'm going to pass around thatcard.
I also have flyers if you wantto know where we are with all
the different locations.
But we're in this room onTuesday, wednesday and Thursday
nights, right here at thecommunity house.
Tai Chi is a soft style martialart, but we're 90% wellness, 10%
martial art.
(29:00):
What attracted me to Tai Chi isthat there's no uniforms,
there's no breaking of boards,there's no belts that you have
to earn and pay for.
It's just about wellness.
We take the body through a fulland natural range of motion,
working all your muscles andtendons so that you can keep
what you have and restore whatyou might have lost.
(29:20):
So we help people withcirculation and balance and just
moving.
And the goal is and some of usare younger over here, but
others of us need to think aboutthose things so the trick is to
stay moving, just keep moving,whatever it is, and I found that
Tai Chi really worked for me.
(29:40):
I've been doing it for over 25years.
I teach now.
I teach in Lake Orion.
I have a new class starting onMonday nights out there, but
we're one of our biggest.
Things are daytime classes forseniors and those are our most
active classes.
That's a workout and peoplelove it.
So check out Wu Style Tai Chiand there's an email address on
(30:02):
there that will come directly tome if you have any questions
about Rochester Writers or AnnCharles Media or chamber events.
Speaker 1 (30:11):
Thank you, stuart.
That's everybody.
So only two people out of thatwhole group didn't feel
comfortable enough talking intothe mic.
But at least you got a goodidea what's going on.
When you go to a networkingevent or in this case it was
kind of a speed networking eventand, truth be told, they kind
of all are speed networking it'sjust you got a 60-second or a
(30:31):
two-minute, whatever elevatorpitch, you do your deal kind of
like a B&I group and go on tothe next person, hand your deal
like kind of like a BNI groupand go on to the next person,
hand out your business card andhopefully you get something from
it.
At least, if not, you get someexposure and people know about
you and maybe they'll talk aboutyou.
But that's it for now.
Whatever y'all do out there, begood or be good at it.
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