Business Networking International Bristol-Towpath Chapter (CT)

Bristol Towpath BNI 4 year Anniversary Open House

admin — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:41:28 +0000

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.

Jewelry Fundraiser – Bristol Relay for Life

admin — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:53:42 +0000

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 28^th & Friday April 30^th 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.

BNI Visitor’s Day – Wed April 21st

admin — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 17:53:11 +0000


As a fellow business professional, I invite you to join the Bristol-Towpath BNI Chapter’s Visitors Day. You will have the opportunity to network with other business professionals in a structured environment that allows us to share information effectively, work together, and provide the best possible services to our clients. Out goal is to increase sales and receive steady word-of-mouth referrals and encourage other business professionals to stop by and see what it is all about.
Bristol-Towpath BNI Chapter Bristol Adult Education Center 210 Redstone Hill Rd Bristol, CT 7:00am – 9:00am
If you haven’t already please RSVP as soon as possible For a list of current members that will be attending please click here


*Current list of attending business professionals:*
Jim Lamothe – Construction Jeff Lepkoqicz – Traffic Marking Bob Jacques – Wild 2 Go Tabitha Brewster – Heartland Payment Systems Dawn Leger – Author, In Flight Jessica Amato – Electrician Julia Misluk – Adult Novelties Carole King – Realtor Mark Henderson – Dentist	Lisa Crofton – Workshop Leader Barry Douyard – Douyard Builders Cliff Carlson – Carlson Garage Doors Jamie Perkin – Pure Bodywork Sara Senst – Interpreter/Linguist Chad LaPerriere – Pro Energy Joel Samberg – PR, Writing, Editing Sue Pelletier – Esthetician Carl St. Jarre – Computers Chris Amorosino – Writer/Editor

FastSigns Bristol Announces Referral Rewards

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:57:52 +0000

We are thrilled to announce our rewards program for 2010! We found that restaurant meals are valued by all. So this year we say thank you for your referrals of orders of $100 or more with a free lunch at Farmington’s popular Flaggstead Texas Smokehouse or Bristol’s lifelong favorite Friendly’s Restaurant. All certificates become an automatic entry in our semi-annual drawing for a $150 gift certificate at Unionville’s acclaimed Matthew’s Restaurant on the banks of the Farmington River. We make the calls. You get the credit. Several winners. Already!
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We are honored to host the Farmington Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours event on March 10, 2010 from 5:30pm-7pm. Chamber members may register at http://www.bristol-chamber.org/CWT/External/WCPages/WCEvents/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=3839 . We welcome our customers as well. If you are not a Chamber member and you are interested in exploring membership, please call us directly at 860 583-8000 so that we may have enough refreshments on hand. We look forward to seeing you on the 10th, and we will be giving away 5 personal size, custom banners. Drawing every 15 minutes. Bring lots of business cards!
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Call (860) 583-8000
Visit http://www.fastsigns.com/439

Receive up to $300 in FREE Jewelry for joining Cookie Lee in February!

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:22:40 +0000

Are you ready for a change?
Receive up to $300 in FREE Jewelry for joining Cookie Lee in February!

If the change you’re looking for this year includes;
FUN, MORE INCOME, FRIENDSHIPS with women who want to see you succeed, FREE VACATIONS, driving a FREE MERCEDES, the EXCITEMENT OF BUILDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS with a product that women all over the country are falling in love with, and a business that women all over the country are succeeding at…….

Then why wait one more day to create this change? Join my team & let’s BLING NEW ENGLAND!

Leslie Moore
(860)798-4642
lesliemoore@cookielee.biz
http://www.cookielee.biz/lesliemoore

13th Floor Graphics in Bristol Press

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:39:54 +0000

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

Print shop happy after move to Bristol

Monday, February 1, 2010 10:40 PM EST

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

Health Nugget – What if You Already Have Cancer

admin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:19:53 +0000

Many oncologists believe that you have cancer that you should not be taking nutritional supplements. This is a theoretical concern that these supplements may improve the antioxidant defense system of the cancer cells. Since their chemo and radiation therapy uses free radicals and oxidative stress in an attempt to destroy these cells, they do have a concern. However, when you look at the medical research that studied patients who took high-quality, complete and balanced nutritional supplements while receiving their chemo or radiation therapy, the patients did better than those who did not take supplements.

Dr. Kedar Prashad, a radiation therapist from the University of Colorado Medical School, actually reviewed over 90 of these studies. He found that those patients who took nutritional supplements while taking either their chemo or radiation therapy not only tolerated their treatments better, but also responded to them better. He concluded that antioxidant supplements improved the normal cells antioxidant defense system; however, they made the cancer cells more vulnerable to cell death. This is win-win situation for cancer patients. In fact, this has led some major cancer treatment centers like the Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Tulsa, OK and Chicago, IL to give all of their cancer patients antioxidant supplements while receiving their treatments.

Click here to learn more about nutritional supplements

The $4.24 Solution

admin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:37:23 +0000

62% of the reasons customers fail to continue to do business with someone is due to PERCEIVED INDIFFERENCE
Even if they know, like and trust you, THEY WILL FORGET YOU IF YOU DON’T KEEP IN TOUCH!
It costs a lot more to acquire new customers than it does to retain an existing one…
What are YOU doing to be remembered by YOUR customers, prospects and referral partners?
HERE’S a $4.24/YEAR SOLUTION…
- IDEA: Send four stay-in-touch (appreciation) cards a year (one every 3 months)
- COST PER CARD: 62 cents/card plus 44 cents/postage = $1.06
- TOTAL COST: $1.06 X 4 = $4.24 plus a little time to do the cards
- YOU CLICK “SEND”: – WE DO THE REST – your APPRECIATION PROGRAM is not on AUTOPILOT!

…so…

When you hear people say

“Business is so competitive”
or
“It’s so hard to keep customers”…

Tell them…
“I know someone who may have a SOLUTION for under $5/year PER CUSTOMER”
…and refer them to Ralph
www.cardsbyralph.com
Ralphw@SendOutCards.com
860-670-3097

LinkedIn Groups

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:46:59 +0000

Social Media is spreading like wildfire when it comes to helping businesses advertise and stay in close contact with their customers and vendors. Our Bristol Towpath BNI Chapter has a LinkedIn Group and there are many others as well. They contain a lot of useful information that any business owner can use ranging from news articles, discussions, events, etc. You DO NOT need to be a member of BNI to join one these informative groups!

Here are a few BNI LinkedIn Groups listed below. Feel free to add some of your own as well.

Welcome to Bristol-Towpath BNI Blog

admin — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:15:02 +0000

Today, I am pleased to announce the first “official” post of the Bristol-Towpath BNI blog. This blog features individuals and businesses whom are apart of the Bristol-Towpath BNI Chapter. We really go the extra mile for our customers. This blog aims to educate individuals on networking, showcase business members, and outline products, services, and special promotions. We invite you to stop by and read our blog regularly, as well as join us on other social networking sites which can be found on the Bristol-Towpath BNI contact page.