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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
Small Business Week: New York Goes Social (Presentation Info)
Presentation by Erik Bunaes, Endorphin Advisors at Small Business Week: New York Goes Social in New York City. Wednesday May 18, 2011 at 1:30pm.
The Online Marketing Pay-off: “How do I know when my online marketing is paying off?”
Presentation Description:
Now that you have a great website for your business, and you’ve been blogging, tweeting, friending, linking-up and email marketing all your clients, friends and contacts, you are beginning to wonder; “Is all this effort and cost paying off?”
It is easy to jump into all the online marketing options available to you, but which tools are best to market your unique business? In this strategic marketing presentation, we will highlight several powerful, online marketing techniques used today to engage customers and generate new sales. We will also outline a process to help you set goals and measure performance (and ROI) for your online marketing initiatives.
After the presentation, I will post the slides here for anyone to download.
Check back soon!
Small Business Week: New York Goes Social
Join Constant Contact and Wendi Caplan-Carroll for three days of free events on May 17th, 18th, and 19th! Small Business Week: New York Goes Social. Come learn how to harness the power of digital marketing tools to grow relationships and revenue.
Register for one day or for all of our events. You will be hearing from celebrated speakers such as:
Eric Groves: Senior Vice President, Strategy, Corporate Development and Innovation at Constant Contact
Frank Eliason: Citibank’s Senior Vice President of Social Media
Lena West: Founder and CEO of xynoMedia
May 17th – 6:00pm – 8:00pm: SOLD OUT
Let’s Get Down to Business! NY Goes Social Cocktail Networking Party
Kick off our three day event in style!
May 18th – 8:00am – 5:00pm: SOLD OUT
Social Media Marketing Bootcamp
You’ll hear from the experts with multiple workshops and panels plus one on one coaching from SCORE-NYC! Attend as many as you can possibly schedule!
May 19th – 8:00am – 12:30pm: SOLD OUT
Constant Contact Social Media Summit
Our final day wraps up with three keynote speakers providing you with invaluable insight and information on how to take your Social Media Marketing to the next level. We will also celebrate SCORE-NYC for their 40 plus years of service!
Endorphin Advisors Joins the Constant Contact Partner Program
Solution Provider Program Delivers Effective and Affordable Online Marketing Tools to Win Customers and Build Strong, Lasting Relationships
ALBANY, NEW YORK — April 7, 2011 — Endorphin Advisors today announced it has joined the Constant Contact Partner Program (NASDAQ: CTCT) as a Solution Provider Partner. Endorphin Advisors will now be able to provide its clients with easy-to-use email marketing, social media marketing, event marketing, and online survey tools to help them create and build strong, lasting customer relationships.
“As we formulate and implement business development and Internet marketing strategies for our clients, access to effective online marketing tools is essential for success,” said Erik Bunaes, President, Endorphin Advisors. “The Constant Contact online marketing tools give our clients a valuable addition to our core services. Because of the tools’ ease-of-use and affordability, membership in the Constant Contact partner program provided a great solution to meet our clients’ marketing needs.”
Endorphin Advisors will now use Constant Contact’s online marketing tools, which are specially designed to help small businesses and organizations drive participation and strengthen relationships. These tools include:
- Email Marketing for quickly creating professional-looking emails, managing contact lists, measuring campaign results, and reviewing new list members;
- Social Media Marketing for turning fans, friends, and followers into customers. Harnessing digital word of mouth from Facebook, re-tweeting offers on Twitter, or posting a review on Yelp keeps the conversation going and generates a powerful buzz for small business;
- Event Marketing for efficiently promoting and managing registrations and RSVPs for meetings, functions, seminars, and events; and
- Online Survey for gathering feedback that helps meet customer needs, generate new ideas, and help grow a business or organization.
“Our tools are all proven to help small businesses connect with customers and build successful relationships with them,” said Steve Johnson, vice president, partners, Constant Contact. “We are pleased that Endorphin Advisors chose Constant Contact to provide its clients with our online marketing tools and we look forward to working together to be an even bigger factor in their customers’ success.”
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 and strategic and tactical marketing services to select clients committed to aggressive growth.
Endorphin Advisors specializes in Internet (inbound) marketing; online lead generation and nurturing strategies; content development strategies; and development of the web properties required for effective inbound marketing, including web sites, blogs, social media and email marketing tools.
Endorphin Advisors was started in 2005, and re-located in 2011 from Silicon Valley to Albany, NY. Find them at http://www.EndorphinAdvisors.com.
Satisfied with your online marketing? Endorphin Advisors offers a systematic, comprehensive audit and analysis of everything a business does online to market itself, including its website, blog, social media, email marketing, use of video, analytics tools, and more. Learn more at www.web-marketing-audit.com.
About Constant Contact, Inc.
Constant Contact’s email marketing, social media marketing, event marketing, and online survey tools help small organizations grow their businesses by building stronger customer relationships. More than 400,000 small businesses, nonprofit organizations, and member associations worldwide rely on Constant Contact’s easy-to-use, affordable online tools to create and deliver personalized, professional communications that engage casual customers, members, prospects, and passionate customers wherever they congregate online — from their email inboxes to their social networks. All Constant Contact products come with unmatched education, training and personal coaching services, and award-winning technical support. Founded in 1995, Constant Contact is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: CTCT) with offices in Waltham, Mass.; Loveland, Colo.; and Delray, Fla.; and a San Francisco office scheduled to open later this year. Learn more at www.ConstantContact.com or call 781-472-8100.
Constant Contact and the Constant Contact Logo are registered trademarks of Constant Contact, Inc. All Constant Contact product names and other brand names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of Constant Contact, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.
Please direct all press inquiries to:
Endorphin Advisors
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Erik Bunaes Recognized as Expert in Social Media Marketing
Completes Constant Contact Experts Training Program
Albany, NY – April 19, 2011 – Constant Contact, Inc. has recognized Erik Bunaes of Endorphin Advisors as an Expert in Social Media Marketing. Mr. Bunaes has successfully completed the Constant Contact Experts Training Program and is certified as a presenter for the “Social Media Marketing Made Simple” workshop.
“We believe the combination of Constant Contact’s industry-leading email marketing, social media marketing and event marketing tools and the strategic planning, implementation and on-going management capabilities of Endorphin Advisors gives businesses an unbeatable one-two punch to rev up sales via the Internet,” says Erik Bunaes, Endorphin Advisors. “With these available resources, no business should be left to struggle and labor over the strategy, details, implementation and on-going management of advanced Internet and social media marketing.”
In partnership with Constant Contact, Endorphin Advisors offers a full range of email marketing, social media marketing and event marketing tools, education and consulting services. To learn more or to schedule a training seminar on any of these topics, please contact us using the information below.
Erik Bunaes was previously recognized by Constant Contact as a Certified Email Marketing Expert, also through its Experts Training Program. Endorphin Advisors maintains a strong business partnership with Constant Contact as a provider of Constant Contact’s industry-leading email marketing, online survey, event marketing and social media marketing tools.
Erik Bunaes, an active speaker and seminar leader, is available to lead workshops in Upstate New York for the new Constant Contact-produced social media marketing seminar, “Social Media Marketing Made Simple.”
For more information, please visit http://www.EndorphinAdvisors.com or contact Erik Bunaes at 518.250.9035 or erik@endorphinadvisors.com to schedule a social media marketing seminar.
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 and strategic and tactical marketing services to select clients committed to aggressive growth.
Endorphin Advisors specializes in Internet (inbound) marketing; online lead generation and nurturing strategies; content development strategies; and development of the web properties required for effective inbound marketing, including web sites, blogs, social media and email marketing tools.
Endorphin Advisors was started in 2005, and re-located in 2011 from Silicon Valley to Albany, NY. Find them at www.EndorphinAdvisors.com.
Contact:
Erik Bunaes, President
Endorphin Advisors
Office: 518.250.9035
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About Constant Contact, Inc.
Constant Contact’s email marketing, social media marketing, event marketing, and online survey tools help small organizations grow their businesses by building stronger customer relationships. More than 400,000 small businesses, nonprofit organizations, and member associations worldwide rely on Constant Contact’s easy-to-use, affordable online tools to create and deliver personalized, professional communications that engage casual customers, members, prospects, and passionate customers wherever they congregate online — from their email inboxes to their social networks. All Constant Contact products come with unmatched education, training and personal coaching services, and award-winning technical support. Founded in 1995, Constant Contact is a publicly traded company (NASDAQ: CTCT) with offices in Waltham, Mass.; Loveland, Colo.; and Delray, Fla.; and a San Francisco office scheduled to open later this year. Learn more at www.ConstantContact.com or call 781-472-8100.
Constant Contact and the Constant Contact Logo are registered trademarks of Constant Contact, Inc. All Constant Contact product names and other brand names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of Constant Contact, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.
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