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May 16, 2012
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM One of the newcomers to MBC, William McKee is the founding partner of the Web agency, Knowmad. A Charlotte native, he is a graduate of UNC Chapel Hill by way of a brief stint at NC State.
William started the company in Charlotte in 2002 after spending many years traveling and freelancing around the world. His passion for helping people understand and effectively use technology has guided him through several evolutions of the company over the years, including taking on his business partner, Diona Kidd, in 2006. William and his wife, Elizabeth, live in the Chantilly neighborhood with their dog, Noli. As the executive director of Leadership Charlotte, Elizabeth is an active member of the community. When not in front of a computer, William enjoys travel and being outdoors. A long-time student of yoga, he practices & teaches at 8th Street Studio in Elizabeth. William will be discussing the following:
June 6, 2012
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Joe Don, has been with Southeastern Freight Lines since 1989 and spent 19 of those years in operations (12 as a Regional Vice President of Operations) before switching to Regional Vice President of Sales 4 years ago.
Joe Don and his wife, Robin, live in Fort Mill with their two kids (Lawson and Harper). When not at work, he enjoys Tae Kwando, being an assistant soccer coach and studying anything that he can about business.
He will be discussing the following
June 20, 2012
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Come experience "Speed Networking" at its finest! As a member of MBC, we want you to know other members you might have only briefly interacted with. Here is the perfect method of learning a little bit more about the people you see twice a month! You will spend 3-5 minutes with each table group discussing your company - then rotate. In order to both receive and provide the best possible experience for everyone, please come with answers to the following questions about you and your company (Remember, this will be "speedy" so be able to answer the questions in 3-5 minutes): What does your company do? Who is your target market (what do you consider an ideal client)? What is a good referral to you? What are your goals as a member of MBC?
July 18, 2012
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Get to know Gary Hixson of Hixson Design.
To begin with
Gary was born as a small child, a fact for which his mother was
most grateful. He was an early transplant from Winston-Salem,
relocating to Charlotte when Belk’s and Ivey’s ruled retail from
downtown (not “Uptown”) Charlotte, and cows grazed the fields
now known as Southpark.
He escaped the Charlotte Mecklenburg School system through
an unguarded door at Garinger High in 1968. He hid out in
Richmond for four years disguised as a hippie while attending
the design program at VCU from which graduated in 1972, with
a major in Communication Art & Design.
He returned to Charlotte that summer and began looking for
a job. He’s been looking ever since, although not that hard.
To fill the time, for the last 40 years, he’s been designing lots
of interesting stuff for a bunch of different people (some in
the MBC), from company brands to hot air balloons.
He’s the proud son of a Tennessee farm boy and a real life
coal miner’s daughter. His name, Gary, means “spear thrower”
and he’s always trying to hit the target.
August 1, 2012
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM PRESENTATION LINK: http://www.charlottembc.com/uploads/MBCBeanstalkData.pdf
Scott Nowokunski is President of Boingo Graphics - a really cool printing company that provides commercial printing, digital printing, mailing and fulfillment to marketing companies or marketing departments within larger organizations and CEO of Beanstalk-a software platform built to help friends engage their customers. He attended Appalachian State and received a degree in Print Production Management. Scott has been married to Kelly for 14+ years, and they have three boys - Jake (13), Adam (11) and Cody (8), and two dogs (Ollie and Abby). When he's not at work, he spends time with the family, and is very active in his church's Cub Scout Pack and Boy Scout Troop. Furthermore, Scott keeps up with the Panthers and Tar Heel Basketball. He finds the most rewarding aspect of his job to be the enjoyment of building things and developing strategies for attacking the market. Growing up as a self-described chess playing "Legomaniac," Scott loves using all the tools of Boingo Graphics and Beanstalk Data to help clients implement truly innovative marketing campaigns.
August 15, 2012
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Get to know new members: Angie Mattson, Craig Dunn and Ken Andujar
About Craig Dunn:
Craig Alan Dunn was born in Erwin, NC and relocated to Charlotte 1968. He graduated from Appalachian State University with a 2 ½ year stint at The Citadel. Craig started his business in 2000 with his childhood friend from 2nd grade, with a $150 investment each – from which they built from the business from the ground up. The business was said to have had its best year ever last year (by 25% gross revenue) and also employs 12 people. Craig currently attends Forest Hill Church and is headed to Senegal Africa in Nov. on mission trip. Craig also volunteers at Hoskins Park Ministry Homeless Shelter.
About Angie Mattson:
Angie Mattson is Chief Efficiency Officer with Your Organized Guide. Angie's goal in business is to help bring sanity back into the workday for overwhelmed business owners and executives. Her superpower is her ability to organize anything - paper, people, places, or processes. Weekends are work-free zones filled with kayaking, camping, traveling or gardening with her boyfriend Nelson and their two rambunctious labs, Marley and Rex.
About Ken Andujar:
Introducing Ken Andujar of Andujar construction. Andujar Construction specializes in Commercial Construction Services and has been servicing North and South Carolina since 1994. Get to know the man behind the name, his hobbies, family life and accomplishments.
September 5, 2012
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Topic: “To Breathe or Not to Breathe: The Hidden Power of HVAC to Change the Way You Feel” Mark your calendars now to attend this September 5th meeting.
September 19, 2012
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Born in Chicago in 1947, John Galles was raised in the Midwest and attended Indiana University where he received a degree in Business Administration. He graduated in 1969 and pursued a career in association management. He is married and has one son.
For over twenty-five years, he served the non-profit business community with the Michigan Association of Realtors, the Small Business Association of Michigan, and National Small Business Association.
In 1997, he worked with the national Welfare to Work Partnership and was responsible for recruiting over 10,000 businesses to the initiative. In the fall of 1999 John started the Greater Charlotte Biz magazine in Charlotte in the fall of 1999. His business-to-business magazine reaches over 100,000 business decision-makers each month.
October 3, 2012
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Charlotte Rescue Mission is a ministry that provides residential substance abuse services to men and women. The Mission provides free services to the homeless or almost homeless but anyone can enter the program that needs help for themselves. There are 2 campuses – the men’s campus is located in Third Ward, near the Bank of America Stadium and has 140 beds. MBC has met at the men’s campus several times. The new women and children’s campus is located at: 2855 WEST BLVD, CHARLOTTE NC 28208. There are currently
15 residents. The Charlotte Rescue Mission will be adding 5 women a month and will begin serving children in November. The MBC event will take place at Dove's Nest: 2855 West Blvd. You will be greeted and directed to the Resident's Dining Room.
October 17, 2012
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Ralph Dougherty has been involved in the practice of patent, trademark, and copyright law for over 35 years. He earned the professional degree of Metallurgical Engineer from Colorado School of Mines, in Golden, Colorado, and a law degree from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ralph concentrates on patent matters concerning metallurgical, chemical, mechanical and related technologies. He has handled patent matters in more than 80 countries and trademark matters in more than 20 countries. He has been a member of Midweek Business Connections for more than 20 years. He is currently Acting President of Parkview Community Foundation, an after-school program for at-risk children in northwest Charlotte, and is Vice President of the Charlotte Optimist Club. He is a member of the bars of Pennsylvania, North Carolina, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the US District Courts for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of North Carolina, and Western District of Wisconsin, and is registered to practice before both the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the Canadian Patent Office. Ralph also holds active memberships with AIPLA, Carolinas Patent Trademark and Copyright Law Association, Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Law Association, Mecklenburg County Bar Association, and Metrolina Entrepreneurial Council.
November 7, 2012
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
The Light Factory has always been an “early innovator” of technology from its modest beginnings as a photographers’ cooperative in 1972. Starting in 2003, The Light Factory jumped on the bandwagon of sending out regular email newsletters. Today The Light Factory is “locked and loaded” with 10,000 email addresses, 7,600 views on YouTube, 4,700 Facebook fans and 1,300 followers on Twitter. But what makes social media work or not work for The Light Factory or any other company? Why is it so daunting? You may find yourself asking, “Why should I company embrace social media if I can’t control the message? What do I do if someone posts something negative? There’s a new widget every month… how can I keep track of multiple networks? And what exactly is a widget?”
Dee Grano is currently the Director of Marketing and Special Events for The Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film, and “curates” most of The Light Factory’s social media content. Before Dee was a Marketing Director, she was a television news producer writing stories, booking interviews and managing breaking news at WBRZ Channel Two, the ABC affiliate in her hometown of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. From her humble beginnings in broadcast journalism, she went on to start the Public Relations wing of The Graham Group, the second largest advertising agency in Louisiana. She moved to Charlotte in 2004 and joined the Marketing team at Discovery Place and began volunteering with The Light Factory. She was hired on full-time in 2006 and has been there ever since. She is a freelance writer covering arts and culture for the South Charlotte Weekly. Dee enjoys watching LSU games with her husband, Dan, and two-year old son, Anthony. Geaux (pronounced “go”) Tigers.
November 21, 2012
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM PRESENTATION LINK
Ann Clausen is a CPA with Daniel, Ratliff and Company. As one of the firm's owners, she manages the tax department and is Vice President of Marketing. She has extensive business and tax experience in numerous fields including non-profits, manufacturing, retail, construction, service organization and academic teaching. In her role with the firm, she works with individuals, businesses and non-profits to help them understand the tax law and take full advantage of tax deductions and credits. As a former college professor, Ann enjoys speaking to groups to educate others on tax law and strategies. She is a graduate of Averett University located in Danville, VA and attended the Radford University College of Business and Economics in Radford, VA. She currently lives in Matthews, NC with her husband, children and a 95 pound Golden Retriever.
December 5, 2012
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Steve Kaplan was born in Brooklyn, New York and moved to Greensboro, NC when he was 9 years old. Steve grew up in Greensboro and went to UNC-Chapel Hill. In 1995 he opened the Relax the Back Store in Charlotte. With Relax the Back, he was elected to the Franchisee Advisory Board and also became a member of the Merchandising Committee representing the franchisees point of view for products carried and developed for the entire Relax the Back system. Married to his wife Laura, they have two children and three grand children.
December 6, 2012
, 6:30 AM - 10:30 PM
You and your guest are cordially invited to attend the
2012 Annual MBC Holiday Party
This annual event is the ideal opportunity to get to know your fellow members and their families in a more intimate setting. Join us at MBC Member, Marc Mataya's home while enjoying cocktails and an amazing catered buffet by Byron's catering company. Dress is business casual. If you are a new member, you definitely don't want to miss this event! Thursday, December 6th, 2012 6:30pm-10:30pm Where: Marc Mataya's Home - 2215 Hassell Place, 28209 For Google Map Directions click here.
December 19, 2012
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
We hope to see everyone for our Annual Champagne Breakfast on Wednesday November 19th. At this meeting we will have a deluxe breakfast catered by Byron’s with Champagne and Orange Juice. It has been a tremendous year of accomplishments, great membership and wonderful connections. We will be toasting the New Year, giving recognition of those who have served as our MBC Board Members, presenting our traditional Donald Haack Award to a member and we will also be announcing and welcoming the new MBC Board for 2013. This event is a great opportunity to give recognition where it is due and also preview upcoming events at MBC.
January 2, 2013
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Jeffrey is the author of The New York Times best sellers: The Sales Bible, The Little Red Book of Selling, The Little Black Book of Connections, and The Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude. All of his books have been number one best sellers on Amazon.com and have sold millions of copies worldwide. Jeffrey has given more than 100 presentations a year as well as given a variety of award winning online sales presentations in which the content is pure, Jeffrey – fun, pragmatic, real world – and can be immediately implemented. In 2008, Jeffrey was elected by his peers to the National Speaker Association’s Speaker Hall of Fame. The designation, CPAE (Counsel of Peers Award for Excellence), honors professional speakers who have reached the top echelon of performance excellence.
MBC is pleased to welcome him as he will be speaking on the following topics: • The difference between a goal and an intention • The lost secret of goal achievement • New year’s resolutions and other fantasies
January 16, 2013
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Angie Mattson is Chief Efficiency Officer with Your Organized Guide, Inc. and is an author, speaker, and small business process and organization expert. Angie works with small business owners, showing them how to streamline their workflow to get out of overwhelm, focus, and make more money. Her superpower is turning chaos into order.
Title: Ten Common Ways We Fail to Manage Out Time and Priorities
Talking points:
In a busy, over-connected world, it can feel impossible to manage your time and decide your priorities when everything seems important. In this brief presentation to MBC members, Angie Mattson will cover the ten common ways we fail to manage our time and priorities. This can lead to feelings of frustration and overwhelm which further decreases our ability to get anything meaningful done.
February 6, 2013
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM David Drummond is from Charlotte and went to Providence Day School. After that he attended Clemson University and received a BS in Industrial Management. He is married to his beautiful wife Nancy. They have two kids; Jere (pronounced Jerry and named for his dad) is soon to be 13 and Caroline is 9 years old. Both are at Charlotte Christian. From Clemson he took a job with Livingston and Haven, an industrial distributor whom he had worked part time since high school. David worked with Livingston and Haven for the next seventeen years doing almost every job in the building. In 1998, he took his first management role with Livingston and Haven, got married and entered into a partnership that bought Carolina Sporting Arms. His partner ran the business at Carolina Sporting Arms while he kept his job at Livingston and Haven.
In 2008 David, left L & H to become more active in Carolina sporting Arms. He took over the day to day operations in 2009 and bought his partner out in 2010.
David is an avid shooter and has traveled to South America numerous times in search of the ultimate bird hunt. He enjoys playing an occasional round of golf and moonlights as a commercial pilot flying a Cirrus aircraft.
In his presentation, David will be talking about
· A Brief history of himself and Carolina Sporting Arms
· What Carolina Sporting Arms was doing well and not so well
· Key changes he has made to the business
· His and his decision to add an indoor shooting and training facility to their business
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February 20, 2013
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM PRESENTATION LINKS:
Website Wizard: http://www.WebsiteWizard.us
Cost: $10 per month Domian names: Register with GoDaddy at about $10 per YEAR. You can point unlimited domain names to the same website.
Join us for a demonstration of technology solutions from Straightline Processing who does national merchant processing. Marc Mataya will do a live demonstration of his website template administration system called WebsiteWizard.us that runs our very own CharlotteMBC.com website! This template system was designed with the goal of providing customers the ability to easily create and maintain their own content. The problem that it fixes is that people want full control of their own content and they don't want to be held hostage to their website developer's schedule or their expensive billable hours.
Marc Mataya, originally from Pittsburgh, PA, moved jobless to Charlotte in July of 1993 to seek a career in technology in the financial services world. At that time, Charlotte was the 4rd largest banking industry in the country, so the city was a perfect fit for his degrees at The Ohio State University in Finance and Computer Information Science.
Marc worked as a software developer for First Union (Wells Fargo) and Bank of America for about 7 years before breaking out and forming his own programming consulting business back in 2000. With the combination of his financial skills, business operations knowledge and website development experiences, Marc then began his credit card processing company called Straightline Processing a few years later.
Although Marc can do merchant processing for any type of business, his niche in the credit card industry is providing web-based technologies for taking online payments. Marc is a direct reseller for Visa, Mastercard & Discover and competes with national banks and can process any size of merchant. Marc’s largest volume merchant used to be MBC’s own Salvin Dental, and is now the US National Whitewater Center and the national franchise Mosquito Squad.
Marc comes from a background of entrepreneurial parents who owned and operated several Hair Salon Spas in Pittsburgh. His mother was an award-winning color specialist and has been in the hair industry her entire life. The financial salon management experience had led his father to develop a software application back in 1985 which ultimately formed a national hair salon software company that is still going strong today and services thousands of salons in the US and Canada.
Marc has a daughter named Lindsay who is a second-grader at Selwyn Elementary.
His mantra is that “Luck is when preparation meets opportunity!”
March 6, 2013
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Frank Spencer brings an extraordinary perspective to leadership. An outstanding scholar, teacher, author, entrepreneur and speaker, Frank guides organizations of all types in synthesizing strategy, values and implementation. He has applied his unique talents in fields as diverse as finance, real estate, affordable housing, Christian conferencing, public policy, education, mergers and acquisitions. As President and then CEO, he led Cogdell Spencer Inc. to national prominence in healthcare real estate, culminating in an Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Frank has now turned his efforts to the new role of CEO of Habitat for Humanity Charlotte.
March 20, 2013
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Frank Scibelli can credit his restaurants’ success with a love of authentic cuisine and family traditions. The Springfield, MA native grew up in a big Italian family where there was always something delicious cooking in his mother’s kitchen and it was tradition to have large family dinners.
After a career in consulting, Scibelli found himself in Charlotte, NC with memories of his mother’s kitchen inspiring him to form a career in the food business and open his first restaurant, Mama Ricotta’s. Since opening in 1992, the restaurant has quadrupled in size and has become one of the most well-known Italian restaurants in the region. The success of Mama Ricotta’s led Scibelli to eventually expand his restaurant empire to include Plate Perfect Catering, Cantina 1511 and Big Daddy’s Burger Bar and Paco’s Tacos & Tequila all Charlotte favorites.
April 3, 2013
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Presentation Link:
Creating a Web presence has never been easier. Creating an effective website that brings qualified leads
to your sales team has never been harder. William McKee, founding partner of Knowmad, will share tips and examples of how his digital marketing agency helps clients use the Web to drive sales. From SEO to pay-per-click to email newsletters to social media, Internet Marketing can be perplexing when you're also trying to run a business. At the end of the day, the highest value of a corporate website is the number of qualified sales leads you've received. Get practical advice on ways to increase your traffic, get more leads and grow your business. Topics include: · The state of Internet Marketing in 2013 · Client case study · Introduction to Inbound Marketing On a personal note, William and his wife, Elizabeth, live in the Chantilly neighborhood with their dogs, Mac and Noli. As the executive director of Leadership Charlotte, Elizabeth is an active member of the community. When not in front of a computer, William enjoys travel and being outdoors. A long-time student of yoga, he practices & teaches at 8th Street Studio in Elizabeth.
April 17, 2013
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Patrick D. Cannon, a native Charlottean, was first elected to a Charlotte City Council district seat (District 3), in 1993 at the age of twenty-six, becoming the youngest person elected to a City office. He was then elected citywide in 2001 as an At-large member of the City Council where he serves as Mayor Pro Tem. Cannon has been appointed Mayor Pro Tem each of the four terms he has served in an At-large capacity. He is now serving his eighth term in office, making him the longest serving member of the board.
He chairs the Community Safety committee, vice-chairs the Economic Development committee and is a member of the Governmental Affairs committee.
Cannon is a small business owner, operating and managing a parking management firm he founded in 1998, He is also a managing partner for a business development and reduced energy lighting distribution firm and a regional community affairs radio talk show host on “105.3” FM. He and his wife, Trenna, have a daughter and a son.
May 1, 2013
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Ira Bass, President of IB Media LLC (www.IBMedia.biz) is Your Virtual Media Director & LinkedIn Guy. He has used the power of LinkedIn to start and grow his business (www.LinkedIn.com/in/IBMedia). Today, he has conducted LinkedIn workshops for companies including Richard Petty Motorsports and ATCOM, associations including the Union County Chamber of Commerce and groups such as the Financial Executive Networking Group and Village of Lake Park on how LinkedIn can assist in effectively reaching their business goals. He and his partner Linda Bass are available to conduct a workshop for you and your organization. Ira will be speaking about:
May 15, 2013
, 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Come experience "Speed Networking" at its finest! As a member of MBC, we want you to know other members you might have only briefly interacted with. We will be issuing table assignments as you sign in. Here is the perfect method of learning a little bit more about the people you see twice a month! You will spend 10-15 minutes with each table group discussing your company - then rotate. In order to both receive and provide the best possible experience for everyone, please come with answers to the following questions about you and your company: What does your company do? Who is your target market (what do you consider an ideal client)? What is a good referral to you? What are your goals as a member of MBC?
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