Meetings

Special Presentation: Commissioner of NYC Small Business Services Robert Walsh

The New York City Power Group hosted the city’s commissioner for small business services Robert Walsh, on Tuesday, May 31. Mr. Walsh spoke about the range of services New York provides for its small businesses and commented on how small business is impacted by the recent recession. Commissioner Walsh has been particularly effective in advancing opportunities for women and minorities in business.

Robert W. Walsh was appointed Commissioner of the New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS) by Mayor Bloomberg in 2002. During his tenure, he has reshaped the Agency to directly focus on and respond to the needs of the City’s 200,000 small businesses. During his tenure, SBS built a suite of services, called NYC Business Solutions, to help small businesses start, operate and expand. Under Walsh’s leadership, SBS energized the City’s promotion and support of minority and women-owned businesses, and reconfigured the City’s adult workforce programs to be used as a tool for economic development by linking employers to a skilled and qualified workforce.

Spotlight Speaker: John Morin Jr.

I will begin my presentation by reviewing exactly who AJM Nino is and what we do. I will also explain a little more about exactly what I do on a daily basis for AJM. Along with this I will explain how AJM has upgraded facilities, shipping and product quality to better serve our customers. This will lead into my quick overview of my new web-site. After reviewing the web-site I will select some products that I will talk about and explain their purpose and the markets that need them such as hand sanitizers, green products, etc. This will allow me to express to the other Power Group members how AJM can work with any kind of clients from small food service pizzerias in New Jersey to large multi tenant buildings in Manhattan. The reviewing of the web-site and select products will give the Power group members enough information to absorb and understand when referring AJM Nino, but it will not be so overwhelming that it creates confusion and disinterest from the group (for example everyone knows what a Lysol air freshener is and how it works but I will introduce them to a different way to disinfect and deodorize with an air freshener totally different from Lysol.) I also think that this will help distinguish the differences between Janitorial Supplier and Janitorial Cleaning Service such as yourself along with distinguishing differences between AJM and Kamco. Finally I will talk some time to explain a special section that I added to my web-site called Nino’s Network which is a work in progress but it is supposed to help extend the networking Power group through my web-site. I dedicated a page to recommend all the members businesses to any and all visitors/customers of my web-site. Please let me know if you need more detail than this for my presentation.

Spotlight Speaker: Maryann Minucci, RPA

Unique Building Maintenance has been in existence since 1997 and is a woman-owned company certified by the Port Authority of NY/NJ and The State of New York. Unique was created with a clean and concise understanding of the services that building owners and managers require to enhance and maximize their portfolios. Unique is a full service janitorial service company providing services from cleaning birdcages to skyscrapers and from dusting to construction clean ups. Unique services customers in various industries including transportation, banking and fashion, and includes management agent companies in their client list. Unique Building Maintenance will make your office sparkle and make you smile.

Spotlight Speaker – Karen Heller, Halstead Property

Special Presentation – Rob Basso – Basso on Business

 

Rob Basso has a mission, no a passion, to help small businesses navigate their way to success. Rob is committed to providing information and solutions to help small businesses and entrepreneurs get back on track, overcome challenges, create jobs and rebuild the American economy. At BassoOnBusiness.com, he is building a community to inspire the entrepreneurial spirit and create a destination where business owners can get important tools and information that are vital to their success.

Rob is also the executive producer and host of a unique web business program geared towards assisting small businesses in overcoming challenges. Each program is paired with Working Lunch with Rob, a monthly lunch event where the newest episode of Basso On Business is premiered. The business owners that attend then offer further advice and solutions to the business profiled, providing powerful insight to create positive change in their organization. From the time he was in college Rob has been involved in many business ventures, including an ice cream truck route in a highly competitive and contested area of Long Island.

More recently he was co-founder of a newly created national bank and has invested in multiple entertainment projects. By developing creative ideas and taking risks, he has grown successful businesses and contributed to the success of many others. As the owner of the New York region’s largest independent payroll processing firm, Advantage Payroll Services he has been involved with business owners and thousands of small businesses. With over 2,000 clients, he has his finger on the pulse of small business and has gained a wealth of knowledge; now he is sharing this knowledge with struggling small business owners.

Special Presentation – Ana Quillinan – Social Media Marketing

“New” media is a game changer. In light of how advanced the web has become as an information-gathering tool and user-based content vehicle, businesses are quickly realizing that disciplines of marketing and sales has fundamentally changed. Ana Quillinan of AMTM Consulting shares how social media has become a game changer, tracking current perceptions and realities of social media and how to engage these tools to generate leads and attract new business.

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Spotlight Speaker: Karen Heller, Halstead Property

I was a professional journalist for the whole of my first career. And this career taught me how to speak directly to my target audience. I personally know the Manhattan real estate buyer pool, so my marketing is all written and shot exclusively for them. The result is that I get the listing price I promise to sellers if they follow my advice.

Since I accurately advise sellers, I do the same for buyers. I won’t let them overpay, but I will also provide accurate information so they can make the right choice. Some things to keep in mind about Manhattan:

• Manhattan is an extremely desirable market of 1.6 million inhabitants who, while they only represent 19% of the New York City population, pay 60% of the real estate taxes.
• If the Manhattan real estate bubble had continued, the average price per square foot would be $1,490. Today the average is $1,061, which is 16% below the peak of 2008. But DOUBLE the average price of the year 2000.
• Every year 45 million people come to visit Manhattan, and fall in love with this island of less than 23 square miles (22.96 exactly).
• The number of jobs in Manhattan rose by half a million between 1996 and 2008. Since then the city has lost 158,000 jobs in the current recession. Following the Savings and Loan crisis in 1992, unemployment was 11.1%.
• There are 75 named neighborhoods in Manhattan!

Special Presentation – Andrea Nierenberg, Author of Savvy Networking – 118 Fast and Effective Tips for Business Success.
Andrea Nierenberg is the driving force behind The Nierenberg Group and an internationally known business development authority, author, and speaker on professional development, sales training, and business communications. Andrea’s latest book, Savvy Networking: 118 Fast & Effective Tips for Business Success, is a daily reminder of why networking must be a vital part of your business plan. She breaks all of the universal rules down into daily, easy-to-follow tips for effective networking for any type of business.

Please see the attached article Andrea wrote on Creating Connections to Last a Lifetime: 24/7 Awareness.

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Special Presentation on LinkedIn – Matt Schwartz

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Spotlight Speaker: Daniel Greco, Core Advisors

CORE Solutions Group is one of the nation’s leading tax recovery consulting firms, specializing in getting commercial clients stimulus money. Please review the attached document to see how we do that in several different areas.

Spotlight Speaker: Dominick Nuzzi, New York Life Insurance Company

New York Life Insurance Company is committed to helping clients in their desire to achieve peace of mind. Please view this video to learn about the history of New York Life.

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Spotlight Speaker: Evan Meyers, Kamco Supply Corp.

Kamco Supply Corp is one of the largest building material distributors in the Northeast. Please see the attached PowerPoint presentation featuring our products/services.

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Spotlight Speaker: Kim Fields, AdminiStaff

The mission of Administaff is to help the best small to medium-sized businesses succeed, making life better for clients, employees, their families and shareholders.

To understand how Administaff may impact your bottom line and provide you with a greater return on the investment that you are already making in the “people” side of your business, please see the attached presentation.

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Spotlight Speaker: Mary Ann Minucci, Unique Building Maintenance Services Corp.

Please see the attached overview of Unique Building Maintenance Services Corp., which provides a history of the company and shows how cleaning fits into the scheme of things concerning property, brokers’, and leasing transactions.

The presentation lists the products used, the services available, and employee hiring and training procedures, and mentions Unique’s client base and how cleaning contracts are proposed to our clients.

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Spotlight Speaker: Guy D’Aleo, M5 Networks Inc.
M5′s presentation focused on business impact through strategic use of voice and its impact and applicability to:

• Multi-location clients seeking a uniform solution for all their sites.
• Clients utilizing web-based CRM systems and integrating them with M5 services to enhance productivity and image via screen pops, click to dial, etc.
• Impact value from measurement tools provided by M5 as part of its offering, hence the ability for sales management to gain insight into what their top producers do via phone, be it volume or quality of longer calls.
• Support organizations that can also benefit from the metrics relative to their teams’ performance and that of individual team members.
• System administration tools available for key personnel to manage their system remotely.
• Emphasis on areas of impact to a company: ability to work from home, creation of a disaster recovery plan in advance, complete control over call flow.
• Impact on a company’s image — “What do they sound like”?
• The importance of continuous software upgrades with no additional expense to the M5 client.
• M5′s proprietary software platform. As a software company, M5 has chosen to build its platform in such a way that the end user phones do not become outdated. They act instead like simple terminals accessing the intelligence of the M5 phone soft-switches.
• Never having to own a phone system again; many firms don’t have an IT staff or are short-staffed.

Spotlight Speaker: Michael Dietz, Datagram

Datagram is the Internet solutions company that enables clients to efficiently leverage the Internet to achieve their objectives by providing highly reliable network and datacenter-based services. The attached presentation provides an overview of IT solutions provided by Internet service providers, including Internet access, server hosting, data backup, and disaster recovery, including case studies for clients such as CaféMom and Mediate.

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Spotlight Speaker: Frank LoPipero, Haworth, Inc

Haworth proudly presents a snapshot of its products & flagship New York showroom.

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