4/22/09 - Meeting Notes

4/22/09

How much do you remember from the morning meeting?
If you have something you would like me to pass along, please be sure I know about it. I don't remember everything either.

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WELCOME GUESTS

JoeNetworks welcomed a couple first-time visitors this morning.

Mike Walden, of Walden Websites and Joyce Goulet, of The Goulet Group - Sales training and volunteer at SCORE.

We'll get some information on them in a little bit.

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NEXT MEETING 4/29/09

Rick (Enrique) Acevedo won the breakfast kitty this week. Hopefully he will send something along for us to look at. He also says that he's so booked with PC repair projects that he's having a tough time keeping up with administrative duties. Nice problem to have. He also spoke to us briefly about his affiliation with mobile broadband on Cricket. Interesting and worth a follow-up.
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We have been without homework for several weeks. That is one of the areas in which we shine. Do we need to come up with another hallmark?

There was chatter about Skype. Should we encourage group presentations on topics? Would you be willing to co-present?

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ASSESSMENTS

I mentioned having taken some skills assessments recently. It is wonderful to see my strengths listed. There is an 8 section report that can be taken online - includes phone follow-up.

Call: Jeff Percival - Phone Number: (414) 322-2001
Experts in employee assessment tools.
http://www.perc-ent.com
Email: jpercival@perc-ent.com

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REQUESTS


Sandy Walden and other local Reiki practitioners are hosting a Reiki Circle on May 2nd for special needs children.
Contact Sandy for details.
http://tinyurl.com/ccjp7o
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Jeremy Belter asked that we take a look at Melissa's, new photography blog. Unfortunately, Melissa cannot make our meetings. http://melissabelter.blogspot.com
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David would like to add some dimension to this group. If you are a LinkedIn user, please search Groups for JoeNetworks and sign up. Then we can all post messages to one another.

If you are NOT a LinkedIn user maybe we can have a little presentation on that topic.
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Also, if you are an active member, you are welcome to send me your info and I will post it to the blog. If you can't remember where it is, just Google joenetworks - with an 's'.
http://joenetworks.blogspot.com

This blog can certainly be a place to house our 'one-sheet' best-client guides. How do we remember each other when we are not face-to-face?

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BOOKS


SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham, recommended to me by our guest Joyce Goulet.


I had an hour session at SCORE and was lucky to meet Joyce. Perhaps seven seconds went by and she saw that I needed help with Sales. How handy is that - she's a Sales trainer.

SPIN refers to the types of questions asked in a sales
meeting. S = Situation, P = Problem, I = Implication, N = Need-payoff. This book differentiates between large sales and small sales and presents observations assembled from thousands of actual sales calls.


I also mentioned a book I got from the library - StrengthsFinder 2.0 http://www.strengthsfinder.com

Don't bother with the website unless you buy the book. There is nothing there for anyone that has not first purchased the book and gotten the access code from the book. However the book, according to Pat who read it overnight, is merely a teaser for the website.

An interesting way to sell books.



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