Our Sept 16th Synergy meeting featured a presentation with speaker Monica Tautkus from Ageless Life Design. Monica's presentation covered "Stem Cells Made Simple". Tautkus relays, "One great part of my job here at Ageless Life Design is the opportunity to educate on the healing power of stem cell therapy.  I know Stem Cells sound kinda like a "Star Wars, futuristic, out of reach except to the rich and famous" idea ~ but they're here, they're now and they're for everyone."

Jeannie Oertli, Director of Catering and Events with Tastes & Tales Hospitality, was spotlight sponsor Sept 2nd. Jeannie possesses twenty-five plus years of experience in sales, events, and catering, including eight of those years directing within The Marriott Hotels. Jeannie joined the Tastes & Tales Hospitality group in early 2020 and has gleaned a deep operational understanding of roles as director of catering and events. Her dedication to customer satisfaction and delivering genuine hospitality is experienced daily by guests seeking an ideal place to socialize, talk business, celebrate, and indulge.

If you have a lot of business cards and referrals, they are all useless if you do not follow up on them. By learning how to properly follow up with your referrals, you utilize your resources and are able to get future customers for your business. How do you learn correct and productive follow up strategies? On August 19th, Wanda Allen presentated “Follow Up Strategies That Will Get More Clients and Close More Sales".

Dien T. Le is driven by success. Even when the COVID pandemic started affecting businesses everywhere, he managed to help his team stay afloat and they ended up being one of the businesses that did not have to close down. They grew by adding 10 attorneys and more staff. They were able to “sustain three months working from home and then decided to come back into the office at their own comfort level". The Alvarez Firm is also expanding locations.

One issue that most businesses struggle with is how to stand out from their competitors. It is important to first be aware of who you are competing directly with. By understanding your competition, it makes it easier to come up with solutions as to how you will stand out. Our next presentation will be by Harriet Cohen from Training Solutions. She will teach you the simple techniques for being able to maneuver through the competition and be sustainable. This will be helpful for anyone who has a business and who wants to learn how to compete with the “big guys”.

Eileen Gould was the first woman contractor in LA and has been written about in business journals and the LA Times. As a consultant for a firm in NY, she helps those wanting to get into the lighting and construction business. She also has teaching credentials in design and construction and taught at Conejo Adult School. She received her Master’s Degree in Business from Goldman Sachs, and is certified in solar panels. Eileen’s powerful story shows how one can be strong, courageous, and successful. 

How important is your personal information to you? Data breaches and identity theft are a common occurrence these days. To protect yourself against becoming a victim of data loss or identity theft, it takes the right tools and knowledge from experts. Unfortunately, a username and password are no longer sufficient to protect your accounts and information anymore. Our next presentation will be with Frank Bettag from Business Comp Associates. He will go over what steps you can take to better protect your information against data loss and identity theft. 

James Nagy has been an expert entrepreneur since 2007 when he decided to leave the corporate world behind. He started his own company from his ability to network, connect with other like-minded individuals, and produce outstanding work in website design. His story begins when James met Don and Kate Gingold at a Chamber SOHO, Small Office Home Office event. Since his business was similar to Don and Kate’s, they started pursuing joint volunteer work together for the same clients. After they all had been helping a particular client, the client asked, “who do I make the check out to?” To avoid any complications, they then decided that they should officially start a business profiting together instead of competing with each other’s website design businesses. James saw this as a smarter and a more strategic way to join forces together in order to create the most excellent work and gain better profits. In Chicago 2010, Sprocket Websites was born. 

Esther has a caring heart and has been implementing that into her entire career. She has been solving people’s problems, as well as their business problems, for over 40 years as a psychotherapist, conflict coach, professor and an executive. Esther is “passionate about helping people have a quality of life and to know themselves.” After Esther earned a Masters degree in Conflict Resolutions, she was given incredible insight into her own life. This has given her a much better understanding of all that she learned. Later on she started using this knowledge to help other people and, shortly after, more and more people started asking for her help. 

Our next presentation will feature speakers Teresa Paczowski from Elena Trevino Design and Kurt French from Thousand Oaks Plumbing. What do they have in common? Exceptional marketing and management experience. Together, they will be speaking about why marketing and advertising matters in your business and what exactly goes into it. They will also go over what is the right channel, approach, method for your business, and more!