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Letter from the Editor:
Increase ROI-Find Your Community
By Cindy Rakowitz
 Welcome to 2012, my friends. By the time this issue arrives, you will be acting on your New Year's resolutions. We should all take comfort in knowing that we are still here, despite Rev. Camping's prediction that the world would end May 21, 2011, later revised to October 21, 2011. Of course, when one
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Reports from ProVisors Regions: Solid Growth Continues
LA - Downtown, Westside, South Bay
LA Region RDD Deb Rodney announced that the Entertainment II group opens for guesting beginning in February. This new group has a special interest in members who work with clients in the entertainment industry, including film, television, music, sports, video games, advertising, and new media.
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What Makes Criminal
Defense Attorneys Tick?
By Elizabeth Danziger
Quick: What comes to mind when you think "criminal defense attorney"?
- Letting scumbags back on the street
- The latest episode of Law and Order
- Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird
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Troika Delivers a Big Bang | |
Steve Brooks [WLK3-WLK5] arranged a unique troika with Gary Guenther [WH2] and Lee Schwartz [ENC1-GLIT~DAM-GL]. They received VIP treatment during a taping of Big Bang Theory because the executive producer of the show is Steve's client.
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Get Niched and Get Networking
By Garrett MacDonald
When our current recession took hold in 2008, most sales and service professionals were immediately confronted with the harsh realities of a new economic order-fewer customers, tighter budgets and tougher competition.
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"California Squirrels"
Take on New Meaning for
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By Janet Larsen Palmer
Has California "gone to the squirrels"? On October 18, 2011, members of the Orange County Distributors and Manufacturers Affinity Group (DAM2) learned about "squirrelly" legislation from Kate Klimow, VP of legislative affairs at the Orange County Business Council (OCBC).
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ProVisors Members
Reach New Heights
By Mark Lipis
There are times when someone says "Go take a hike" and the connotation is, well, less than favorable. That is not the case for a growing bunch of ProVisors members in the LA area.
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ProVisors Staff:
The "Ship" in Your Membership
By Amy Asaturyan
 As Davis Blaine so eloquently puts it, "I've been drinking the Kool-Aid." I recall hearing that phrase for the first time at a New Member Luncheon when I came on board with ProVisors last May. I've heard it many a time since then, along with other catch phrases such as, "KNOW, LIKE, TRUST, REFER." I've grown to do just that after spending five days a week as a
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Newsletter Staff Asks,
"What Is Your Dream?"
By Eli Eisenberg | |
Now that we've entered a new year, the Newsletter Committee wanted to know what our members dreamed about, so we asked several members the following question:
"If you had more time, what would you do with it? What new hobbies or activities would you add to your life? What is your dream?"
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ProVisors with a Passion
for Animals and Charity
By Marcia Wasserman
Some among us share a passion for animals. My two Australian Shepherds, Blossom and Coco Chanel, are special members of our family. For other ProVisors members, their love of animals transcends having them as pets and results in their volunteering for animal-related charities.
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In Memory of Iris Joy Cohen
1952-2012
By Rosalinda O'Neill
Now then, for my journey to the yonder world
I'll wear a gown of flowers.*
On January 4, 2012, our Iris Cohen died peacefully in her sleep. She had gone to sleep a happy healthy woman, looking forward to upcoming dinners, ski trips and other plans with her many close long-time friends. Her sudden death made for many more tears, and one less very good person in the world.
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In Memory of Corinne Pleger
1954-2011
By Rick Rhoads
Corinne Pleger, CPA, a member of the Century City III [CC3] ProVisors group and a partner in accounting firm Brakensiek Leavitt Pleger - The Eclectic Accountants & Business Advisors LLP, passed away over Thanksgiving weekend. Several hundred people from the varied spheres that Corinne moved in attended her memorial service December 10 at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood.
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Newsletter
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Articles Editor: Rick Rhoads [EM] Rick Rhoads & Associates Newsletter Production: ProVisors
Committee: [WH3~WLK5] Greenberg & Bass
Frumi Rachel Barr [NPC~DAM2-GL]
Frumi & Associates LLC
Bassis Mediation and Workplace Resolution Group Robert Borsky [WH1]
The Law Collaborative [CC2~ENC1] Joseph M. Cobert, a Professional Corp [V-WLK1] The Goddard Company |
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Staff Directory |
Senior Operations Coordinator:
Candace Gorgyan
Special Events Coordinator:
Member Operations:
Los Angeles - Valleys, Westlake, Ventura; San Francisco, Santa Barbara
Amy Asaturyan Los Angeles - Downtown, South Bay, Westside; Boston Kristen Rector Long Beach, OC, San Diego Regional Development Director:
Renee Jacobs Los Angeles - Valleys, Westlake, Ventura; Santa Barbara
Deborah Rodney
Los Angeles - Downtown, South Bay, Westlake
Cathy Solomon Long Beach, OC, San Diego
Tuyen Sullivan
Interim - San Francisco
Joe Chatham
Boston
Inside Support Representative:
Tuyen Sullivan
Los Angeles,- Valleys, Westlake, Ventura; San Francisco, Santa Barbara
Tom Johnson
Los Angeles - Downtown, South Bay, Westside; Boston
Long Beach, OC, San Diego
Kristen Rector
Boston
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