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Managing Directors Column:
Maximizing the Value of
ProVisors Membership (Part 2)
ProVisors is like the Energizer Bunny: if you remain ever-present and engaged, there are limitless ways to create and foster your individual brand. The experience can be as a deep as you want. Nearly every person you meet can learn from you or teach you something. Your responsibility is to immerse yourself into the activities and allow meaningful relationships to develop and build.
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Letter from the Editor:
Teaming Up
By Cindy Rakowitz
 ProVisors continues to honor its commitment to excellence by attracting top quality professionals. As recently demonstrated through Advanced Revenue Workshops, there are many approaches for members to find return on their investment. Whether presenting memorable testimonials supported by
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Report from ProVisors Regions:
Launching New Groups; Strengthening Existing Groups
Long Beach, Orange County, San Diego
Regional Development Director (RDD) Cathy Solomon is excited to announce that a new group in Cerritos (CER), led by Bill Torres [CER-GL~IRP] and hosted at Atkinson Andelson Loya Ruud & Romo by John James [CER-H], opened March 8. San Diego has a new affinity group; the Collaboration of Professional Women San Diego Affinity Group (CPWSD) opened March 14. CPWSD is led by Cindy Candela [CLS-GLIT~CPWSD-GL] and hosted by Chris Elliot [UTC] at the Double Tree on El Camino Real.
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Return of the Doppelgangers
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In response to popular demand, Trusted Advisor is delighted to entertain its readers with more celebrity doppelgangers. We know this exercise will help you remember the names of our 2,500 members.
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Five Lawyers:
A ProVisors Collaboration Story
By Eli Eisenberg
According to our mission statement, ProVisors "promotes and enables relationship building, information sharing and collaboration among its members for the benefit of their clients and one another." This is a story of one such collaboration, in which five ProVisors members, all attorneys, worked together as trusted colleagues to bring victory to their clients.
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Want Your Clients to Grow?
Refer Marketing Pros | |
By Rick Rhoads
In the 18 years I've been in PNG/ProVisors (hereafter referred to as ProVisors), I've noticed some patterns among the thousands of acknowledgments I've heard. One of them is this: when marketing types (marketing consultants, PR and advertising people, writers, graphic artists, website developers, videographers, branding specialists, presentation coaches) give thanks, more often than not it's to a member who has hired them rather than to one who has referred them to a client.
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San Francisco ProVisors
Continue to Give Back
San Francisco ProVisors members and their guests served dinner at Glide Memorial Church to over 400 individuals in need of a hot meal. The group had a great time working together in assembly-line fashion and making a difference in their community. |
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You Can't Grow Unless You Show
By David Ackert
As memorable as you are, you and your fellow 21st century earthlings live in an era when the constant bombardment of information makes it impossible to keep anything "top of mind" for very long. Here's an example: Can you remember at least three of the guests at your last group meeting? How about four? Let's face it, our short-term memory is overcrowded.
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She Marketing
By Jonathan Fitzgarrald | |
To expose professional women to new ways of marketing themselves, and in an effort to reach out to those women not marketing, ProVisors co-sponsored an event for female attorneys entitled, "Branding Yourself and Marketing Your Practice for Women."
The discussion ranged beyond traditional gender-based issues, such as the familiar "to golf or not golf" debate, to focus more on creative and unique ways women can foster relationships and develop business.
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SDMV K-1 Indoor
Go Kart Racing
San Diego Mission Valley [SDMV] members attended an exciting night of Indoor Go-Kart Racing at K1 Speed in Carlsbad on Thursday, December 15. There was a 14 lap qualifying race for position, followed by a 16 lap final race with grid start! | |
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Double Your Business
by Getting a Massage
By Karen L. Gabler and Mark Jaffe
Few people would dispute that getting a massage is good for you, but how many of us take that step to prevent a problem, rather than gambling on whether the problem will actually occur? Along the same lines, how many of your clients take proactive steps to protect their businesses, instead of gambling on potential business and legal risks?
Identifying when a perceived business luxury is really a business necessity requires that businesses maximize their external value, without forgetting to protect and enhance their internal value. Mark Jaffe [CAL], a strategic revenue
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What Every Board Member
of a Nonprofit Needs to Know
By Jennifer Goddard Combs
The aphorism "No good deed goes unpunished" has been attributed to Billy Wilder, Andrew Mellon, Oscar Wilde, and Clare Boothe Luce. Regardless of who said it first, we all know its meaning: acts of kindness frequently backfire. Unfortunately, the good deed of serving on the board of a nonprofit organization often proves this sad truth.
Before volunteering precious time as a board member of a nonprofit, it would be wise to follow the flight attendant's directive to "secure your oxygen mask first."
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ProVisors
Upcoming
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OC Networking Luncheon
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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
Jennifer Goddard Combs [V-WLK1] The Goddard Company
Jeremy Durrant [CMV]
Bop Design
Eli Eisenberg [WLK3~TECH]
Straight Line Management
American Express Corporate Services
Mark Share [CC3]
De Castro West Chadorow Mendler Glickfel & Nash [WLK5-GL~WLK3] Martin J Wolff and Company, Inc.
William Vick
[SF5-GL~SF2]
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
Marcia Wasserman [CAL]
Comprehensive Management Solutions, Inc.
Editor Emeritus:
Committee Emeritus:
[CC2~ENC1]
Joseph M. Cobert a Professional Corp |
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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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