|
Tampa
Business Options
|
Put hundreds of sales leads into your hands now To sell you need to find your customer. Everyone says to network but only now do you have someone telling you where to network for sales. Tampa Business Options is a detailed reference to hundreds of local business groups, indexed by niche markets. Each group is a node of dense customer leads of vital importance to your sales and marketing plan. This is a quick reference map to finding the niche customers for your products or services in Tampa Bay. It allow you to focus and refine your marketing and networking for maximized results. Author Eric Sturm is the recognized expert on business networking in Tampa Bay. He currently writes the Office Network calendar for the TBT* and Saint Petersburg Times as well as the Business Connections feature for the Tampa Bay Business Journal. His work has been recognized as both a benchmark and best practice by the Fairfield Connecticut Business Alliance in 2007 for developing, informing and retaining a community work force. His previous books have included Access Tampa Bay, Email Marketing 101 and How To Manage A Successful Job Search. |
|
Connecting Young Professionals in Clearwater The Clearwater Chamber’s commitment to facilitating engagement between business’, governments and the community at large has lead the Chamber to create the dynamic self directed the Clearwater Young Professionals. Targeting ages 21-36 the Clearwater Young Professionals (CYP) aim is to create leaders by giving resources and assistance to individuals wanting to learn, commit to their careers and the community. “Currently there is a huge void of young professional volunteer leadership in the community. Clearwater Young Professionals is a grass roots effort to build connections in Pinellas” said Bob Clifford, President and CEO of the Clearwater Chamber of Commerce. “We need focus and connection to the young professional community; this is to be the leadership in the county to solve those issues.” The program provides young professionals the opportunity to explore and enhance their leadership characteristics and community involvement via professional development, leadership opportunities, and community service through quantifiable valuable programming. Meetings include formal informative presentation empowering individuals to involve their time and talent to a cause they resonate with. For example after a recent presentation on transit issues three members volunteered to lead on that effort. Members are encouraged to act on their own outside of the chamber, to chair the group’s efforts internally. The emphasis is on empowering and encouraging action. “We want to move beyond the mixers, socials and hookups to create a program that informs and empowers young professionals” avowed Bob Clifford. The Clearwater Professional picks their own programming and agenda, the Chamber is expecting them to be autonomous. The program is already operating with ground up leadership. “We have lots of idea, it is very exciting. We are focused on engagement, empowerment and growth. It is about developing the young professionals” stated Chair Person Chris Maggi. By developing and encouraging the young professionals the Chamber is serving layers of area companies from the CEO, middle management and entry level workers. This holistic approach serves the needs of area companies who are hungry for effective ways of marketing themselves in new and innovative ways to the market, to grow and retain their employees at the same time. Planning for the Clearwater Professionals began last November. Kathleen Peters, Vice President of Public Affairs for the Clearwater Chamber of Commerce has been impressed over the group’s passion and nimble decision making process. “When 35 people show up for just a planning meeting without food, networking, or a program, people who are not chairs or with a title in the group, we know we have a core passionate for the cause who are taking ownership.” The Clearwater Young Professionals are outward, forward thinking organization that values risk taking, progress, change and out of the box thinking. They serve the young professional who wants to be empowered and have an effect to the benefit of us all. Website:
www.CYProfessionals.com |
ISBN 1452879680
ISBN 1449540317
ISBN
1441495029
Pages 76
Cost $12.99
ASIN
B0025UU08K |
|
Rock Your Spirit and Business Terez of Rock My Spirit is a motivational speaker, coach, musician, publisher, writer, composer and entrepreneur who has the secret to keeping your job hunt and or business focused and encouraged. “I offer personal training for the mind” said Terez discussing her teaching of an individual or a corporate culture “to be open and receptacle to success.” She summarizes with “don’t fixate on problems but learn to be open to solutions.” Terez offers far more then what is misunderstood as ‘positive thinking’, she instructs us to “avoid a culture of happy think but rather create a culture of solutions. The empty gas light on your car does not go away because of faith and well wishes nor from anger at it. You need positive solutions.” “First you need to release yourself from what the Zen masters call attachment, such as pride, guilt and anger that prevent you from developing or seeing a solution. Life is change, be at peace with yourself and where you are, then doors open with solutions.” “The problem and the solution are two different things and two different emotional states.” Do whatever it takes to feel good about yourself as that keeps you positive and open to solutions. The better you and or your staff feel the less defensive and closed off they are. Find the positive and let go of the negative. Yet expect to feel the challenges of criticism and negativity, it is normal and a healthy part of the process. As a step in the process you need to work through and past it towards the next step for success. “It is about a stage of recovery not instant bliss. Do not seek bliss, seek to feel better and be on the path up.” Negative views are exhausting and self consuming. They lead to fights and conflicts. Like the saying a man with a hammer see’s all problems as nails, when consumed with conflict you will see conflict as the solution to all problems. “The most successful individuals and organizations are the ones that focus on their success.” Terez gives the example of fundraising for a tragedy. Focusing on the loss and horror of the issue drowns out the solutions and progress being made. Donors are not motivated to give when the tragedy seems insurmountable. You and your staff are more able to give time and talent when focused on the small success stories of what was done right rather then the larger more tragic picture. “We are all the C.E.O. of our lives, the Creative Experiencer Opener.” The secret is to listen to and nurture yourself most of all. “It is not about being positive all the time and ignoring reality; it is about being true to yourself and managing yourself to work toward solutions.” “When you are down do not fight it but go to the E.R., Express and Release. Get past it by going through it. Know and accept what you want to contrast what you do. The sooner you get to the ER the sooner you can get out of it and shift towards solutions thinking.” The lessons of Terez’s musical reinforced keynotes are to focus your energy on what is working. If there is a conflict, an enemy, your focusing on it keeps you occupied away from areas of success. “People and organizations need to be ready and receptive. You can not drag people into positive solution thinking. They need to be ready.” Terez offers the motivation and training to make people ready. Terez Hartmann CEO and Founder of Rock My Spirit Keynotes, concerts, and products to empower inspire and transform.
|
ISBN 1452879680
ISBN 1449540317
ISBN
1441495029
Pages 76
Cost $12.99
ASIN
B0025UU08K |
|
Change Your Mind on the Job Hunt Staci Backauskas is an expert at change; she has reinvented her career as well as her beliefs and values many times. Her experience benefits the job seeker looking for a new career in this tough job market. Staci is a self labeled “expressionist” encompassing her teaching, writing, speaking, painting, coaching and consulting work. Her work and life experience allows her to be open, authentic and aware so others can be reminded of what is possible and where their path is. She is not a teacher because she believes that implies inequality “I’m no different, just started sooner then some.” Her career path is constant reinvention. “I have mucked stalls, been a scent profiler, taught at the Princeton Review, taught creative writing, been an ex-offender life coach, and outplacement consultant and more. I have worked with CEOs, buyers, prisoners, the whole range of people. From this experience I can connect with anyone and have gained huge confidence.” For career reinvention first understand you are looking for the next thing to do not the thing to do. Life, the economy and society are all changing quickly now. Adapt and change with it. “Be willing to surrender everything you think and are told you are to get to the real what and who you are.” We live in a society that demands labels such as work identities and titles. These labels have values associated with them that can limit us as much as they strengthen us. These labels are the perspective we see ourselves from. When you change your perspective away from these labels you can change possibilities. Changing your perspective will change your mind and goals much easier then challenging your beliefs and values. With a new viewpoint new evidence will be found that forces your believes and values to adapt. “All you need is a short move to the side for a total shift in what you see”. The lucky ones are those out of work because they will learn to do this for themselves and the universe will get the message through by whispers or hard knocks.” Corporations label our tasks without recognizing our skills. If you learn to see beyond the label to know your skills you can see how they transfer to new careers. Staci had a client working as a warehouse picker and shipper. His skill was intimate knowledge of warehouse operations that allowed him to vastly improve operational efficiency for his employer. His label was that of manual labor, he had to change his perspective to see and value his skills separate from that task. The labels others put to us, that we accept, limit not only what we are now but what we want and can head to. “Know your intention first. Let go of what it should and has looked like when done by others.” Encourages Staci. Labels are when others identify and qualify your efforts. Take control of this for yourself. “The truth will set you free but that path will be challenging” tells Staci. Corporations encourage and reward fitting into identified labels. People spend whole careers and lives looking to fit in someplace rather then accepting they fit in everywhere. “There is no fit; there are only people like us, no one being a perfect fit anywhere.” The laid off get the opportunity to take advantage of their situation to expand their self awareness by rejecting labels to find a new path and identity. “The fact they have been forced to take the first step makes them the lucky ones should they choose or accept to see it this way” stated Staci. “We judge ourselves harshly; corporate life is used to self flagellation which is indigenous to the corporate species. It doesn’t feel good. Give yourself time to transition away from that habit and everything then will change.” Job seekers this is your opportunity to grow evolve and improve. Value and label yourself. Do not let others dictate those to you. Make your ego your best supporter and not your enemy, “The world is changing for us. We are unhappy when we fight that change, you can not and will not make huge dramatic changes immediately but you can take a step, everyone is capable of taking a step.” That first step is accepting and realizing who you are. “Put down your sword and walk away from the fight. Stop the battle internally. Acceptance is the only way to move to another place emotionally.” Accept your choices, then with a new level of awareness you are a new person who can and will make new choices. “It is the fear, anger, and indecision that keeps you suck. You will not move on till you accept them, let them pass through you instead of fighting them and them controlling you.” Many find this through the spiritual but Staci contends that while may find that path it is not the only one. It is simply a matter of letting our ego and label run us or us running and choosing them. The change process is different for all of us. People can find it in many pathways. Staci Backauskas Language of Light |
ISBN 1452879680
ISBN 1449540317
ISBN
1441495029
Pages 76
Cost $12.99
ISBN 1452879680
ISBN 1449540317
ISBN
1441495029
Pages 76
Cost $12.99
|
|
St Pete Sunset Rotary The new high energy Rotary club focusing on the needs of the modern urban young professional is the St Pete Sunset Rotary Club which meets every Thursday in downtown Saint Petersburg. Founding President Hunter Zager is committed to offering the value of Rotary in a format (time, place and programming) that accommodates the young professional and the young at heart. “We are new school Rotary; we are here to serve the young professionals with Rotary in a new way.” Meetings are in the evening hours to accommodate mid and entry level career professionals who can not miss work. The meetings are an informal atmosphere yet structured to focus on service and empowerment. Expanding traditional Rotary values of service and fellowship the club seeks you for your energy and idealism. “We are not a checkbook club, we practice hands on community service, we are a tangible club. You show up here and you get things done, you will be empowered and engaged” said Membership Chair Daphne Macfarlan. “Most of us early in our careers are not able to write checks but we offer ourselves in far more valuable ways.” The group has an attendance requirement to be clear they want real people of commitment. This fresh approach to Rotary reflects the growth, vibrancy and vast potential in downtown Saint Petersburg. Daphne is certain “the traditional values of service and fellowship are representative of the core people who like and work downtown. We are a club that fits their personality and needs.” Launched November of 2009 the club has already been true to their words by cleaning the St Pete Shuffleboard courts, staffing the St Pete Bowl, and throwing a roaring 20’s themed fundraiser for local charity. Coming in April they will be working with Habitat for Humanity and members will be going shuffle boarding. Weekly club meeting are supportive, personal and structured , focused on serving the members and the community. Attendees are given informational presentations to foster service as well as education. Attendees all have a voice; can participate immediately in building the club and its culture. The St Pete Sunset Rotary wants people not titles or labels. They want to tap into and encourage the passion, talent and energy that is downtown Saint Petersburg. When: 6-7:15pm every Thursday. Where: Midtown Sundries 200 First Ave. South, Saint Petersburg. Cost: Free membership currently. Online: www.StpeteSunsetRotary.org |
ISBN 1452879680
ISBN 1449540317
ISBN
1441495029
Pages 76
Cost $12.99
|
|
Shove off From Downtown Tampa Minutes from downtown Tampa you can take to the waves with no training to learn and enjoy both the act of and culture of sailing with the safety of pros from the Davis Island Yacht Club Thursday Night Races. The Thursday night informal and fun races are a forty year tradition in Tampa running through Daylight Savings Time, from March to October. The new season starts Thursday March18th this year. Novice landlubbers who want to learn and enjoy the art of sailing can volunteer to be part of the “pickup crews” for the boats racing. The races are open to all captains, and accommodate all boat sizes. Usually 40-65 boats will attend. Pick up crews are volunteers of any experience level who make themselves available to the racing captains to crew the boats. Never been on the water? You can find a captain that will find a use for you. Captains will pick based on their needs and offer you on the job training or you will learn from observation. “Most Captains’ look to teach and be safe with the pickup crews” says J. Booker, the current Fleet Captain at the Club and a psycho therapist during the days. He describes pickup crews as people unaffiliated with sailing clubs, from all over the area of varied ages and walks of life. “All are welcome, it is easy to be found and accepted and many become regulars in a permanent crew. It is a woman friendly sport.” The social aspect is also a primary focus “Without the crews socializing before and after the races it would not be what it is. You will work to get boats in the water, to get them ready, race wit them, and to clean up. Afterwards everyone goes to the clubhouse and socializes”. You need only show up at about 5:30 p.m. register, sing a weaver, and ask around the docks or talk to the clubhouse staff. Most boats will take 1 or up to 5 pickup crewmembers depending on its size and need. Captain Booker says depending on weather and times of year anywhere from 5-20 volunteers are in attendance. The races are also a rare treat for non members to enjoy the club, usually reserved for members, who can relax after the races and partake in the clubs atmosphere, camaraderie and fantastic views of Tampa Bay. Captain Booker suggests you wear non-white pants, flat shows, and dress for the weather and the expectation of working and having fun. The Davis Island Yacht Club is at the southern most tip of Davis Islands has been a feature on the Island for 76 years. It Davis Island Yacht Club |
ISBN 1452879680
ISBN 1449540317
ISBN
1441495029
Pages 76
Cost $12.99
|
|
The Tempe Terrace Chamber Young Elite Professionals Meets 5-7pm on the last Wednesday of each month at a different location, costing only $10; the next meeting is May 26th at Antonio's Pasta Grille, 11401 N. 56 St. Tampa. Lauren Tice Administrative Assistant/ YEP Chair for the Temple Terrace Chamber of Commerce How have the Temple Terrace Chamber and community grown/changed to focus on young professionals? The Chamber has grown by offering the Young Elite Professionals group for the first time that draws in younger professionals. They might be interested in the TT Chamber but unsure of how to get involved or where to start. The YEP group gives them an opportunity to network and meet other members of the Chamber and see how they can join and get involved. How will the YEP capitalize on USF being in the neighborhood? The YEP group has a huge advantage with USF being so close to Temple Terrace where we have our monthly events. We have had many recent graduates from USF and some students come to our events in the hopes of networking and making connections with other young professionals that share similar interests. We hope to grow a relationship between ourselves and the USF campus so that, through the networking events we sponsor, USF students and grads will see the advantages of belonging to such a diverse group of business professionals. How do you mix and focus between networking, service, development and social? schedule speakers for some of our events that educate the young professional on how to properly network or gain more insight to the business world. Additionally, we will be planning some community service events Lots of exciting opportunities are coming up for the individuals that participate in our YEP group! What does Temple Terrace offer special to the young professional life and work? The Temple Terrace area is such a wonderful opportunity that a lot of young professionals are employed within. The community is very strong and has much to offer. How has technology played into the creation and operations of YEP? Technology has helped my co-chairs and me send out many email reminders for our events and reach different areas and expose the young professionals to our new up & coming networking and social group. How has the economy affected the starting and operations of YEP? I don't think the economy has affected YEP. We have young professionals that attend each meeting and for the fee of $10 for non-Chamber members we make sure we have affordable networking events and we always get the venues we choose to donate some appetizers and have drink specials available. What does Temple Terrace and Tampa Bay need to improve life and work for the Young Professional? I think that reaching out to more of the USF graduates and students, as well as other young professionals employed in the Temple Terrace area, would help young professionals to become more active in our community. What do the Young Professionals need to do to better themselves in Temple Terrace and Tampa Bay? I would suggest becoming involved in community events and attending as many networking events to really get their company name and themselves exposed to our area. We have so many awesome groups (aside from YEP) that can truly help you grow your business and give you ideas while being a social outlet. |
ISBN 1452879680
ISBN 1449540317
ISBN
1441495029
Pages 76
Cost $12.99
ASIN
B0025UU08K
ISBN 1452879680
|
|
Home
|
|
About
|
|
Book Store
|
|
Blog
|
|
Here key resource accelerated, connections are created, programming
developed and resources produces are developed and to let you get
the most out of business in Tampa Bay.
|
