"Kill Two Birds with One Luncheon Meeting!" 

We know you're busy and it's hard to get away for a breakfast and luncheon meeting each month.  Beginning next month MVNARI will be combining the two meetings and having two speakers at the August 24th membership luncheon meeting.  It's a great way to hear important information that is relevant to your business at a fraction of the cost!
 
Our first speaker is Brian Schlosser, CPA is the founder and President of Schlosser Financial Planning (SFP), a private wealth management firm located in Cincinnati.  Brian's business experience spans 21 years in the areas of commercial banking, public accounting, insurance, private wealth management, and entrepreneurial wealth management.  In 2004, Brian opened Schlosser Financial Planning, a private wealth management firm focused on serving the unique needs of entrepreneurs and their extended families.  SFP provides comprehensive wealth management services in the areas of business and personal financial planning, risk management, retirement planning, business succession and estate planning. 
 
Brian's talk is on Leading Your Business into Retirement.  Sales lead times are long.  Competitors are bidding jobs with no margin.  Overall demand for your service is down.  Customers are paying late.  Suppliers are not extending credit.  We could go on all day.  Times are tough.  Retirement?  Are you kidding?
 
Now is the time to rebuild your business from the ground up.  This session will discuss practical steps on how to lead your business and your people to your goal of financial security and success.  
 
Our second speaker is Bill Bankes, who graduated from UC as an Industrial Engineer and later received his MBA from The University of Dayton in 1999.
 
Bill has worked as an Industrial Engineer at Monsanto Research and Co-Op at Corporate Kroger's. Bill has consulted as a process improvement expert when starting Global Manufacturing, aka Global Foam Company in 1996.  Bill will be presenting a talk on Global Foam Company's polystyrene products, the traditional and creative uses for EPS (expanded bead polystyrene) in construction and display applications. These uses include exterior insulation and finishing systems (EIFS/Stucco), interior and exterior products, amusement park and trade show displays, concrete forms, monument signs, events, insulation and packaging.
 
The luncheon will take place at the Ramada Plaza North, 2301 Wagner Ford Road. Registration and networking begin at 11:00 a.m.  Lunch and the program are from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Registration fees are $25.00 for members and $30.00 for non-members. Register online at www.naridayton.org or call (937) 222-6274 and RSVP today!

September 21, 2010

REGISTRATION:
COME SWING WITH US - with your golf club that is!  Yes, we want you to be a part of the golf outing this year.  For only $85 per person you can join other NARI members for a fun day on the golf course.  The Miami Valley NARI golf outing is one of the least expensive golf outings in the area.  It is being held at the Beavercreek Country Club beginning at 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 21.  Contact us today at (937) 222-6274 and let us know of your interest in playing.  We will put all individual registrations in groups of four----a great way to network, too.  See you on the links!
 
This year's outing is presented by Modlich Stoneworks, a complete custom fabricator of natural stone products like granite, marble and quartz countertops.  Modlich is a family owned business, working in the Greater Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus markets.  For more information visit Modlich at www.modlichstoneworks.com.
 
SPONSORSHIP:
PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS by putting your name in front of Miami Valley NARI's biggest remodeling companies at the annual golf outing!
 
YOU have a great opportunity to be a part of this fun day by becoming a sponsor at this year's event.  Target your market by sponsoring Miami Valley NARI's golf outing where you have the perfect chance to market yourself and YOUR business.  With over 70 decision makers from the Dayton and Cincinnati area participating, how can you go wrong?  
 
As a sponsor, YOU are encouraged to put your personal touch on whatever area you are sponsoring. Bring whatever you want to make your hole the most exciting, interesting and memorable stop on the entire golf course!  And you are welcome to staff (if necessary) your own hole, registration tables, etc.
 
Call the Miami Valley NARI office at (937) 222-6274 today to let us know what you would like to sponsor or visit www.naridayton.org and submit your reservation TODAY!

By Morgan Zenner

John Foley and his wife Linda Case are trying to sell their Minneapolis-area home. After 30 days on the market, Foley realized he had to find a way to make his house stand out from the crowd of similar homes listed in a struggling market.
 
Utilizing his background in marketing, Foley organized an open house event at the home that was a little different from your traditional walk-through. The event was to showcase his property, and at the same time, provide an array of experts in a related field to promote their services to buyers.

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For glass-half-full types, President Barack Obama's proclamation this spring that his administration "is committed to helping small businesses drive our economy toward recovery and long-term growth" was another indication that small business has a true ally in the White House.
 
For others, however, those words provided another stinging reminder of how policymakers in Washington have failed to back their statements with action. Despite repeated assurances from the administration, accompanied by a flurry of new pro-entrepreneur initiatives, small-business supporters such as Todd McCracken, president of the National Small Business Association in Washington, D.C., are concerned that policymakers remain largely beholden to big business, just as they were when George W. Bush ran the White House.
 
Just consider Uncle Sam's recent spending habits: $358 billion spent by the feds on small-business initiatives, compared with $2.8 trillion for non-small-business initiatives such as the Wall Street bailout. Even with a vocal supporter in the White House, McCracken contends, Washington's small-business track record of late is full of "bills that just didn't go far enough, proposals that took a wrong turn altogether and initiatives that left us scratching our heads wondering 'What were they thinking?"