Service Above Self – The Rotary Club of Albany
Today I gave a presentation to a wonderful group of people at the Rotary Club of Albany (NY).
I spoke on the topic of using LinkedIn for Business, and I am proud to show off my certificate that I was given today.
“Service Above Self” Now that is a solid, worthy guiding principal.
Thank you Albany Rotarians!
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Capital Region Sponsor-A-Scholar At Barnes and Noble
Thursday is the day to start your holiday shopping!
Once again we will be at the Barnes and Noble in Colonie Center. You may also go to any Barnes and Noble and mention CRSAS and we will be given credit, we will also receive credit from any cheesecakes bought on Thursday. If you are not able to shop on Thursday we have five days of in store shopping.
Capital Region Sponsor-A-Scholar At Barnes and Noble
Online Shopping at BN.COM/bookfairs
Shop 12/8/11 through 12/13/11 to support our bookfair!
Bookfair ID#10626521
Happy Holiday’s and Thank you for your support!
From all the team at Capital Region Sponsor-A-Scholar.
The team here at Endorphin Advisors and Endorphin Business Center are proud supporters of Capital Region Sponsor-A-Scholar.
About Capital Region Sponsor-A-Scholar
The major goal of Capital Region Sponsor-A-Scholar is to equip each of its 90 Albany, Schenectady and Troy High Schools students with the academic and emotional support needed to complete high school, be accepted to, and graduate from college.
Academic support for these economically disadvantaged students includes: mandatory, weekly homework/tutoring sessions; PSAT/SAT preparation courses; Advanced Placement/University in the High School classes; summer enrichment and college preparedness programs; and graphing calculators. By giving the students the resources to successfully complete and excel in their courses, they can present themselves competitively as they apply to the various colleges across New York State and beyond.
Our documented success has shown that we are achieving our mission and improving graduation rates in the Capital Region. Currently, CRSAS graduates 96% of its high school students and 74% of the students who start college, earn a college degree. 150 of our scholars are currently in college, 135 of our scholars have finished college and many are continuing on to graduate school.
Many of these students are returning to the area to attend graduate school or for employment opportunities and serving as positive role models for the next generation.
To learn more about Capital Region Sponsor-A-Scholar, please visit www.crsas.org or call Bill Corbett at 518.852.2967.
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About Endorphin Business Center LLC
The Endorphin Business Center LLC (EBC) is dedicated to learning, education and on-going business training. We are committed to providing superior, on-going educational and training opportunities to help businesses, and individual professionals, achieve more. More success. More prosperity. More opportunities. More satisfaction.
Endorphin Business Center offers in-person, hands-on training workshops. Some are designed as introductory workshops while others are advanced, technical classes for experienced business owners, entrepreneurs and executives. All are open to everyone.
We are an Albany-based organization serving New York’s Tech Valley, and sponsoring Capital Region Sponsor-A-Scholar™.
To view our schedule of workshops, and to register online, please visit www.Endorphin-Business-Center.com or call 518.250.9035.
Stay Connected on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/endorphin-business-center-llc
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Endorphin Business Center – Workshop Schedule through First Quarter 2012
Business Skills Training Workshops
(First Quarter 2012)
12/8/11 – Social Media Marketing Made Simple (from Constant Contact)
1/19/12 – The Power of Email Marketing (from Constant Contact)
1/26/12 – Almost Everything You Wanted to Know About the Value of Your Business, But Were Afraid to Ask (from Teal Becker & Chiaramonte)
2/2/12 – Legal Issues for Entrepreneurs (from Law Office of Kara Conway Love)
2/16/12 – Social Media Marketing Made Simple (from Constant Contact)
2/23/12 – Getting Started with Constant Contact (from Constant Contact)
3/1/12 – Why Sales People Fail, and What You Can Do About It (from Sandler Training)
3/8/12 – HR Issues that Impact Businesses (from Pinnacle Human Resources)
3/22/12 – Brands and Trademarks Strategy: Learn How to Avoid the Many Common Pitfalls in Branding (from Hoffman Warnick)
For Workshop details and online registration, visit Endorphin Business Center now
About Endorphin Business Center LLC:
We are committed to providing superior educational and training opportunities to help business professionals achieve more. More success. More prosperity. More opportunities. More satisfaction.
Workshops will cover topics such as marketing, bookkeeping, corporate structures, financing, human resources and legal, tax, compliance and operations issues. Some are introductory workshops while others are intermediate or advanced-level workshops. All workshops are open to everyone.
We are an Albany-based organization serving New York’s Tech Valley, and sponsoring Capital Region Sponsor-A-Scholar™. Visit us at www.Endorphin-Business-Center.com.
Endorphin Advisors Adds New Intermediate-level Workshop to Endorphin Business Center
Workshop Title:
Learn the Next Step Up in Internet Marketing Strategy: The Four (4) Pillars of Internet Marketing
Workshop Description:
Using the Internet to market a business can be both time and cost effective strategies. Beyond using each of the possible tools available to you, how do you put together an Internet Marketing Strategy that is as effective as possible at generating new customers and new quality sales leads?
We will go beyond the basics of how to use a website, blog, email or social media (the 4 pillars) and show you how to integrate them into an effective, coordinated strategy that utilizes the inherent strengths of each of the “4 Pillars” and leverages all of them to something more powerful that the sum of the parts.
This Workshop Will Cover the Following:
- Define the “4 Pillars of Internet Marketing”
- The specific strengths and weaknesses of each of the “4 Pillars”
- Show you how to use them all together, and what a coordinated marketing strategy looks like
- Teach specific techniques of integrating the “4 Pillars”
Benefits of Attending this Workshop:
- Learn more sophisticated Internet Marketing Strategy
- Help you transition from random, shotgun marketing to integrated marketing and lead generation
- Learn valuable tips and techniques of integrating the “4 Pillars”
- Learn how successful Internet marketers (with big budgets, and lots of research) use Internet Marketing to generate new leads and sales on the Internet
- Learn how to evaluate the effectiveness of your Internet marketing, and discover where you have room for improvement and revenue generation opportunities.
Level: This is an intermediate-level, technical, strategic marketing management workshop. The material covered in this workshop assumes you are currently using the Internet for marketing your business.
This workshop is ideal for the following people:
- Business owners using the Internet, who want to improve their ROI (Return on Investment).
- Marketing professionals looking to learn more about Internet Marketing Strategy
Materials Provided in Workshop:
- Slides from presentation
Workshop Leader: Erik Bunaes, Endorphin Advisors
Visit Endorphin Business Center LLC at www.Endorphin-Business-Center.com
Albany is at a tipping point
“Albany is at a tipping point,” says an article in Crain’s today titled “Chip manufacturing finds a place upstate.”
From events which occurred a decade ago, Albany, NY has turned itself into a leading, global technology center.
The article goes on to say: “The semiconductor industry in Albany has bloomed to more than 400 companies, more than New York City or the mid-Hudson Valley. The college estimates that its funding has spurred billions of dollars in private investments that have helped create 12,500 high-tech jobs statewide, a number it expects to double within 10 years.”
Daniel Armbrust, chief executive of Sematech, an association of semiconductor manufacturers says “When people ask me, ‘Why did you relocate this year to Albany?’ I tell them it’s because of what happened a decade ago.”
“Albany is at a tipping point,” Sematech’s Mr. Armbrust said. “The desire to work across company boundaries created Silicon Valley. And that’s what’s happening here.”
The article continues: “Companies have begun flocking to the college and to the area; more than 200 have workers at the campus. The semiconductor industry in Albany has bloomed to more than 400 companies, more than New York City or the mid-Hudson Valley. The college estimates that its funding has spurred billions of dollars in private investments that have helped create 12,500 high-tech jobs statewide, a number it expects to double within 10 years.”
Read full article: http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20111106/SMALLBIZ/311069980
By Erik Bunaes, Endorphin Advisors
About Endorphin Advisors:
Endorphin Advisors is a unique management consulting firm and marketing agency. We help businesses develop and implement short and long-term strategic plans, while also providing day-to-day business development, marketing and financial forecasting services to select clients committed to aggressive growth. We generally serve business-to-business and service-focused businesses.
Started in 2005, we help start, manage, grow, finance and, where appropriate, to sell businesses.
Our strategic marketing services focus on generating new business through the Internet. We specialize in closed-loop Internet (“inbound”) marketing; the use of relevant, useful content (widely distributed across web, blog, email and social media properties), targeted offers, landing pages and analytics.
Find them at www.EndorphinAdvisors.com.
Constant Contact Training Workshops at Endorphin Business Center
Learn to effectively market your business, and how industry leaders are doing it, with Constant Contact and the industry-leading email marketing system.
Join these Constant Contact-developed training workshops and learn email marketing and social media marketing from the experts.
Workshop Description: The Power of Email Marketing
Build the relationships that are the key to your business success with easy, inexpensive and highly effective email marketing! In this ninety (90) minute Constant Contact-developed workshop, we will provide tips to increase your email deliverability and open rates, write good headlines and content, and perhaps most importantly, strategies for getting — and keeping — high quality prospects, customers and members.
Bonus: All attendees receive “Transform your business in 60 days,” a valuable guide from Constant Contact. This step-by-step manual will get your business up and running on email marketing and social media marketing in just 60-days.
http://www.endorphin-business-center.com/workshops/the-power-of-email-marketing/
Workshop Description: Social Media Marketing Made Simple
In just ninety (90) minutes, this information-packed, Constant Contact-developed workshop will review the essential strategies and best practices a business or organization should understand in order to successfully get started with social media marketing.
Bonus: All attendees receive “Best Practices in Social Media Marketing,” a Constant Contact Guide featuring specific best practices in social media marketing for business.
http://www.endorphin-business-center.com/workshops/social-media-marketing-made-simple/
Location: Berkshire Bank, Colonie Branch, Shaker Pine Plaza, 151 Vly Road, Colonie, NY.
Go to Schedule and Online Registration
Try Constant Contact Email Marketing free for 60-days
About the Endorphin Business Center
The Endorphin Business Center LLC (EBC) is dedicated to learning, education and on-going business training. We are committed to providing superior, on-going educational and training opportunities to help businesses and individual professionals achieve more. More success. More prosperity. More opportunities. More satisfaction.
Endorphin Business Center offers in-person, hands-on training workshops. Some are designed as introductory workshops while others are advanced, technical classes for experienced business owners, entrepreneurs and executives. All are open to everyone.
To view our schedule of workshops, and to register online, please visit www.Endorphin-Business-Center.com or call 518.250.9035.
Go to Schedule and Online Registration
Try Constant Contact Email Marketing free for 60-days
New Business Skills Training Resource in Tech Valley, NY: the Endorphin Business Center
Endorphin Business Center LLC Launches
Business Skills Training Center is Newest Training Resource Dedicated toGrowth and Success of New York’s Tech Valley
Albany, NY – October 27, 2011 – Meeting head-on the need for improved business training in today’s economy, we launch a dynamic, new business resource, the Endorphin Business Center™, with a stated mission of helping business owners learn to better run their businesses.
“In our rapidly changing, global economy, business owners and professionals are finding an increased need to learn and hone new business skills in order to stay competitive in our relentlessly challenging business climate,” said Erik Bunaes, president, Endorphin Business Center LLC. “Our commitment to education and training has led us to significantly expand our education and training services and provide a valuable, new skills development resource to benefit Upstate New York’s Tech Valley.”
We plan a robust schedule of in-person training workshops designed to help business owners, entrepreneurs and professionals develop and hone crucial business skills. There are a wide range of skills required to run a successful business, and those skills are precisely what we will provide through the Endorphin Business Center.
Our workshops are hands-on, functional workshops, ranging from introductory-level workshops to intermediate and advanced-level, technical classes. There will be a variety of workshop formats, and all will provide useful, concrete skills, tools and resources which can be applied immediately to improve virtually any business.
What Skills Will We Teach?
We will continue to work with our participating experts to develop new workshops on relevant topics in pursuit of our stated mission of “helping business owners, and their employees, better run their businesses”. Topics will include:
- Marketing Strategy
- Online Marketing
- Business Planning
- Budgeting & Bookkeeping
- Tax Compliance
- Securing Financing (Investment, Loans and Credit)
- Corporate Formation & Operation
- Contracts & Intellectual Property
- Employee Compliance & Management
- And much more
Workshops will be led by a variety of local, acknowledged business experts and will always provide real-world tools to help put into action what is learned. Tools may include workbooks, spreadsheets, checklists, procedures or other valuable resources.
As of today, we can offer workshops from trusted business experts, including:
- Endorphin Advisors
- Constant Contact
- Hubspot
- Teal, Becker & Chiaramonte, CPAs
- Pinnacle Human Resources LLC
- The Law office of Kara Conway Love
- Hoffman Warnick
- ADP
- Berkshire Bank
- Sandler Sales Training
- CFO-for-Hire
- IntegralOne Network Solutions
As an Albany-based organization, we are dedicated to the success and improvement of our local economy. As part of this focus, we are proud to have committed to donate a portion of all revenue, along with our time and expertise, to the Capital Region Sponsor-a-Scholar™ program, a terrific program which “assists economically disadvantaged young men and women to graduate from high school and attend college.
To view our schedule of workshops, and to register online, please visit www.Endorphin-Business-Center.com or call 518.250.9035.
About Endorphin Business Center LLC
The Endorphin Business Center LLC (EBC) is dedicated to learning, education and on-going business training. We are committed to providing superior, on-going educational and training opportunities to help businesses and individual professionals achieve more. More success. More prosperity. More opportunities. More satisfaction.
Endorphin Business Center offers in-person, hands-on training workshops. Some are designed as introductory workshops while others are advanced, technical classes for experienced business owners, entrepreneurs and executives. All are open to everyone.
To view our schedule of workshops, and to register online, please visit www.Endorphin-Business-Center.com or call 518.250.9035.
About Capital Region Sponsor-A-Scholar
The major goal of Capital Region Sponsor-A-Scholar is to equip each of its 90 Albany, Schenectady and Troy High Schools students with the academic and emotional support needed to complete high school, be accepted to, and graduate from college.
Academic support for these economically disadvantaged students includes: mandatory, weekly homework/tutoring sessions; PSAT/SAT preparation courses; Advanced Placement/University in the High School classes; summer enrichment and college preparedness programs; and graphing calculators. By giving the students the resources to successfully complete and excel in their courses, they can present themselves competitively as they apply to the various colleges across New York State and beyond.
Our documented success has shown that we are achieving our mission and improving graduation rates in the Capital Region. Currently, CRSAS graduates 96% of its high school students and 74% of the students who start college, earn a college degree. 150 of our scholars are currently in college, 135 of our scholars have finished college and many are continuing on to graduate school.
Many of these students are returning to the area to attend graduate school or for employment opportunities and serving as positive role models for the next generation.
To learn more about Capital Region Sponsor-A-Scholar, please visit www.crsas.org or call Bill Corbett at 518.852.2967.
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Center for Economic Growth – 15th Annual Technology Awards (A Review)
Center for Economic Growth
15th Annual Technology Awards
June 29, 2011
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Albany, NY
Keynote Speaker: Jon Gordon
Jon spoke of the 4 critical qualities needed for successful companies, which are:
1. Optimism
2. Vision
3. Trusting Relationships
4. Innovation
He also drew a comparison between the need for these characteristics in successful businesses as well as in a successful regional economy. He was specifically complimenting CEG, Tech Valley and the valuable local business culture we have here in the Capital Region of upstate New York.
Many other speakers, including award winners, spoke of two additional ingredients evident in successful businesses, which are passion and persistence.
Inspirational, well-attended awards event in Albany, from which I came away full of endorphins.
Time to get back to work!
Here is a run-down of the 2011 CEG Tech Award Winners:
PROMISING NEW START-UP, Carma Systems, Inc. (www.carmasys.com): An aspiring high-growth start-up company whose venture is showing promise.
ECONOMIC WINNER, Autotask (www.autotask.com): A company that exhibits substantial and sustained growth in sales and profitability, contributing to the overall regional economy and employment.
TECHNOLOGY IN PRODUCTION, Automated Dynamics (www.automateddynamics.com): A company that has developed or utilized new technology to significantly improve its production processes.
TECHNOLOGY MENTOR, Amy M. Johnson, President, Capstone, Inc.: An individual who champions the vision of Tech Valley, as well as offering their time, expertise and knowledge networks in support of individual technology companies.
TECHNOLOGY ENTREPRENEUR, Stephen J. Petti: An individual who has contributed to the development of the technology economy through the formation of new businesses, generation of wealth and exemplifying the risk-taking entrepreneurial spirit.
LEADERS OF TOMORROW, Lindsay A. Tucker, Greane Tree Technology and Ted Ottey, Intellidemia: A student intern who has made a significant contribution to his or her company going above and beyond the expectations of his/her employer.
About CEG:
Since 1987, the Center for Economic Growth (CEG) has been committed to fostering visionary economic growth throughout the 11-county Capital Region, as well as a significant portion of the Tech Valley corridor.
As a private, not-for-profit organization we work with a diverse group of members and partners to advance the ability of the region and its assets to succeed in the global marketplace. With a focused and strategic approach we work to:
1. GROW local companies by offering tactical business development strategies and services;
2. ATTRACT opportunities for technology investment and expansion throughout Tech Valley, and
3. PREPARE communities to achieve their desired economic growth while enhancing the region’s excellent quality of life.
In addition to support from its dedicated members, CEG receives funding and resources from the NYS Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR), New York’s high-technology economic development agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) / Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) and National Grid. Learn more at http://www.ceg.org/.
Become a Guest Blogger on the Endorphin Advisors Blog
Can We Help You Share Your Skills & Knowledge With Potential Customers?
Businesses of all sizes and kinds are looking for great ideas, insight and ways to improve business. They are looking for new ways to better compete in a rapidly changing and highly-competitive environment.
You are an expert: knowledgeable, experienced, connected and ready to help businesses out.
Here is your chance!
Blog Topics
We want to include a wide variety of appropriate business-related topics on the Endorphin Advisors blog. From marketing to business development, from social media to technology. From sales skills to management strategy, from legal, finance, efficiency tools and human resources to leadership, emerging trends and entrepreneurship.
Topics to help small businesses and insight to help entrepreneurs, seasoned executives and high-octane sales pros. This is also a great chance to help the next generation of business professionals and entrepreneurs learn new skills and to ramp up their contributions quickly.
Perhaps you may earn a new client somewhere along the way, too.
Benefits of Guest Blogging (also known as Content Marketing)
There are almost too many benefits of blogging to list here, but here are a few reasons why you should be a guest blogger:
- 1. Blogging widely shares your knowledge and expertise
2. Blogging is an effective way to reach new customers, and stay in contact with current customers and partners
3. Guest blogging helps you get in front of potential customers when they are in early stages of their buying process/cycle
4. Blogging is a low-cost marketing tool
5. Blogging helps differentiate you from your competition
6. Blogging generates discussion on topics that are of interest to you and your customers
7. Guest blogging helps bring new traffic to your website, your own blog and your social media sites
8. Blogging provides an excellent tool for broadly sharing news, events, promotions, discounts and announcements
Help Others Succeed, and Enjoy Their Success
We are excited and energized teaming up with talented, experienced business professionals, such as yourself, to share their expertise, strategies, tips and tools to help others succeed and grow. We are taking the first step in a journey today, one that we hope will help an entrepreneur, business owner or executive (or two) to enjoy more success. Of course, using content marketing as a strategy to widely distribute your own expertise and knowledge is a smart strategy for your own business, too.
Can you help us to help our friends, old and new, to more enjoyment, fulfillment and satisfaction from their professional careers?
If you have any questions or want to become a guest blogger,
please contact us at 518.250.9035 or info@endorphinadvisors.com.
The Fine Print:
How do I submit articles? Submit articles to guestblog@endorphinadvisors.com. Please also include a brief bio, including a photo (if you choose), contact info and a link to your website. We will try to post appropriate article submissions within 48 hours, and send you an email with link to your post.
Note: No articles or blog posts will be posted which are unrelated to business. This includes anything inappropriate, such as sexual, political, religious, blatant advertisements, harassing or any illegal articles or blog posts.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s)
We recently updated our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s) on the Endorphin Advisors website at http://www.EndorphinAdvisors.com.
We have added more information about our services, expertise, culture and committment to excellence.
After you review our Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s), please let us know if you have any questions or comments.
Thank you!
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