Seattle Business Networking Blog

Thank you Suzanne Cameron of Cameron Catering for hosting an Open House for your fellow Execs! Everyone is attendance enjoyed your fabulous food and desserts.

Congratulations Zoey Mann , President of Fox's Seattle. She finished her "Fast Track" and received her membership plaque at our April 1 luncheon. Her mentor was Lucille Noel of Edmonds Realty.

Zoey is our contact for Jewelry.

At our March 11 luncheon, we officially welcomed a new member, Michelle Lee of Sound Publishing to Seattle Execs by presenting her with a yellow badge.

Michelle is the Regional Account Manager of Sound Publishing and our new alternate contact for Newspaper Publishing.

With 38 newspaper titles with a combined circulation of 732700, Sound Publishing is the largest community media organization in Washington state.

Congratulations Bruce Lingle of Collision Clinic CARSTAR. His Bellevue location is now open.

Looks like Execs Members are already dropping off their company vehicles for auto body collision repair.

The NEW Bellevue location address:
13212 NE Bell-Red Road
Bellevue, WA 98005

At our March 4 luncheon, we officially welcomed several new members to SEA by presenting them with their yellow badges.

Pictured from left to right...

Chris Johns, Director of Business Development with RB Content Lab - our Alternate contact for Creative Video Production & Services.

Matt Fairbanks , Chief Operating Officer with VECA Electric - our Main contact for Electrical Contracting & Data Cabling.

Dr. Dan Walsh, Doctor of Chiropractic with Graham Rehabilitation & Wellness Center - our Main contact for a Chiropractor.

Selina Clawson , Marketing Director with Accounting Solutions Partners - our Main contact for Bookkeeping.

Kudos to John Pletsch of Electric Pen and the Leads Committee for another great Leads Day program at yesterday's meeting.

The focus of Leads Day was "Leads Coaching". Each table had a "coach" that acted as a mentor to keep conversations going, encourage group discussion and provided coaching.

The objective of Leads Coaching Day was to share tips, tricks and ideas for giving leads and engaging in mutual business.

We received lots of great feedback from the coaches and participants.

Here are some leads sharing recommendations :

"Visit a Seattle Exec member at their place of business – it is the best way to learn and get educated about them so they would be able to promote their business in the future."

“We need to continue to educate ourselves about what each company does and my table felt that we should have random seating every meeting so that people are forced to sit with different Exec members every week."

“Give your office staff copies of the directory and remind them to use the services within.”

“Follow-up – check in with the person you gave the lead to – touch base.”

“Read the newsletter---“coat tail leads” they can react on---not specifically for them but they can do business with the person.”

“Thank members for the opportunity to submit a bid---don’t avoid then because you didn’t accept the bid.”

John Pletsch also announced that our lead reporting has dramatically increased in 2014. Hopefully after yesterday meeting, we can all stay on track at recording our leads and see another increase.

Congratulations Frank Palino, Sales Manager with KING TV/KONG TV/NWCN/Gannett and Kelly Madigan, Sr. VP of Investigations with Madigan Security Consulting and Investigations. They both finished their “Fast Tracks” and received their membership plaques at our February 4 luncheon.

Frank is the Seattle Execs’ Television Media contact. His mentor was Josh Miller of Wire Craft Electric.

Kelly is our alternate contact for Security Consulting, Investigations & Armed Protection. Her mentor was Lucille Nöel of Edmonds Realty.

Wednesday January 28 was “Blue Wednesday” at Seattle Execs as we celebrated the Seahawks return to the Super Bowl.

The 12th Man was out in force with 98 members in attendance and almost everyone sporting their Seahawks blue and green.

Thank you Frank Palino of http://www.king5.com/">KING/KONG/NWCN/Gannett for providing the #Twelfie sunglasses!

Go Hawks! Beat the Patriots and bring home a repeat!

At our January 28 luncheon, we officially welcomed a new member, Richard Martin of RB Content Lab to Seattle Execs by presenting him with a yellow badge.

Rich is the Owner of RB Content Lab and Seattle Execs contact for Creative Video Production & Services.

The Seattle Seahawks are returning to the Super Bowl!

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Go Hawks!