Business Networkers International Visitor’s Day
An opportunity to promote your business to over 90 different companies.
Dates: Wednesday, October 20th
Time: 7 AM
Cost: FREE (light breakfast provided)
Location: Bristol Adult Education, Bristol CT
Note: You must be on the visitor’s list to attend. Please call me at 203.232.9851 or email me at janet@qrvllc.com so that I may get you on the list.
Central CT Chamber AM Networking
This networking event is an opportunity for you to develop working relationships with other professionals. At the beginning of each meeting, attendees are asked to introduce themselves and their company. Each meeting includes a 10-minute talk presented by a volunteering participant and/or a 10-minute discussion about a business topic.
Dates: Second and Fourth Thursday of each month
Time: 8 – 9 AM
Cost: No fee for current members, visitors can come 2x at no charge
Location: Bristol Chamber of Commerce, 200 Main Street Bristol
The Do’s and Don’ts of Starting a Business – YOU CAN DO IT! (BRISTOL ADULT ED)
Are you a new business owner or want to be? Learn from a group of small business professionals as they explain the do’s and don’ts of starting and sustaining a new business. Practical tools and advice will be presented.
Dates: Thursday, 10/14 and 10/21
Time: 7 PM – 8:30 PM
Cost: $5 to register + $15 for materials (collect in class)
Location: Bristol Adult Education Center, room 5
QuickBooks Intro: Simple Start to Managing your Business Financials (part 2).
Using QuickBooks 2007, we will review the following: How to create your company file, build account, customer, and vendor lists, pay bills, how to accept customer payments, and how to analyze reports to understand the financials. This is a hands-on class.
Dates: 10/12, 10/19, 10/26, 11/2
Time: 6:30 – 9 PM
Cost: $79
Location: Lewis Mill’s High School (room A 131) in Burlington, CT.
June 23rd, 2010
Bristol Towpath 4 year Anniversary Open House
Location: 210 Redstone Hill Rd, Bristol, CT
Time: 7:00am – 8:30am
Can you think of a better way to promote your business than to network with other business professionals who do business by referral? The Bristol-Towpath BNI Chapter is celebrating it’s 4 year anniversary and is inviting any and all business professionals to come join us on Wed June 23rd at 7:00 am at the Bristol Adult Education Center. Please bring lots of business cards to hand out to help promote yourself and your business. We are looking to have a large crowd so please RSVP here to reserve a seat – we look forward to seeing you and learning about your business.
Cookie Lee Jewelry and Hair I Am unisex salon are joining forces for Mother’s Day and in support of the Bristol Relay for Life.
On Wednesday April 28th & Friday April 30th from 4-8pm at Hair I Am located on 864 Farmington Ave in Bristol, CT
They will be hosting a jewelry fundraiser with 20% of the proceeds going to the Bristol Relay for Life.
If you’d like to host your own jewelry party please contact jewelry consultant Leslie Moore at (860) 798-4642.
Bristol Towpath BNI president & 13th Floor Graphics print shop owner was featured this past Monday in the Bristol Press. See full article below:
The Bristol Press (bristolpress.com), Serving Bristol, CT
Business
By JACKIE MAJERUS
STAFF WRITER
BRISTOL — When Stephen Rejniak moved his print shop from Rocky Hill to Bristol two years ago, he didn’t know the business would soon be entering one of the nation’s worst economic downturns.
But despite the recession, the move has worked out pretty well for Rejniak, owner of Thirteenth Floor Graphics at 375 Lake Ave.
“I’m very pleased,” Rejniak said.
He had been renting space in Rocky Hill for 14 years when he bought the property in Bristol and moved his business here. The city helped him with an economic development grant, a boost that Rejniak said helped convince him to choose Bristol.
The grant was a $10,000 package — $5,000 for moving costs and $5,000 for job creation. The company hasn’t created any new jobs yet, but has a couple more years to do so and collect the grant money, said Jonathan Rosenthal, Bristol’s economic development director.
“They’ve pretty much remained about the size they came in at. Given the economy, it’s just fabulous that they’ve done that,” Rosenthal said. “They’ve managed to hold their own in a tough economy.”
His office has used the printer for some design and printing work and, “They did a nice job and they did it quickly,” Rosenthal said. About half his business is in business cards.
He wasn’t sure how well he’d be received in the Mum City, but since relocating, he has kept 90 percent of his old clients and added a lot of new ones.
“People are willing to try new things,” Rejniak said.
A new, four-color digital press he bought — a $350,000 investment — makes printing small runs faster and less expensive.
Because of that, Thirteenth Floor Graphics has a natural market in small and mid-sized companies.
“There’s no shortage of four-color work,” Rejniak said. “We’re not a big operation, but we do some pretty good work here.”
Press operator Steve Anthony, who has worked at the company three years, said instead of the four or five printing jobs that a regular press could handle in a day, the digital press can do about 14.
“It’s almost photo quality,” Anthony said, adding customers “like the quality we give them.”
And some of the bigger printing houses aren’t getting as much work, which means more for shops like Thirteenth Floor Graphics, Rejniak said.
Through business networking, he’s picked up some larger clients since moving to Bristol.
When he moved to Bristol, he had seven full-time workers. Now he’s got six, and one part-time worker after laying off one pressman.
Though it hasn’t always been easy keeping the business going in the recession, Rejniak said the timing really worked to his advantage. He sold stock to help buy the building just before the market collapsed. It was “a stroke of luck,” he said.
And he received a loan, something he might find much more difficult in today’s banking climate.
“The move happened at such a phenomenal time for me,” Rejniak said.
After those lucky breaks came the recession, but Rejniak said he feels good about this year.
“I’m an optimist,” he said. “I think that things are going to turn around in 2010. It can’t stay like this forever. I think people are ready.”
URL: http://www.bristolpress.com/articles/2010/02/01/business/doc4b679d4c8047b342016794.prt
© 2010 bristolpress.com, a Journal Register Property
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