Mandarin Area Professionals Jacksonville

August 25th, mark your calendar! Rick Balog is leading the kick off for the MAPs meetings. 8 AM at First Watch on San Jose South of 295. Come out and make some new connections or catch up/reconnect with others. Your input will help lay the ground work for making these "must attend" networking meetings.

Anybody with a truck that can pull a trailer interested in a road trip to Macon? I am trying to get the Spyders being used for the Road Warrior Foundation ride this year in place. I need to move one in a trailer from Jax to Macon. Date is flexible. Basically sometime in August. Trailer and spyder are about 2500lbs. (I offered to ride the bike up but unfortunately they need the trailer. :(

Be sure you aren't trying too hard to "push" to the market. A real connection with current and potential clients will help you focus on what is needed or wanted.

3 steps for putting a business idea into action Entrepreneurial failure is often a result of poor planning, writes Michael Hyatt. Pat Flynn's book "Will It Fly?" advises entrepreneurs to define their product, refine it and verify their hypotheses.

And we could all use more business.

Using Customer Stories to Win New Business Three small-business leaders reveal how incorporating customer stories into their marketing helped them increase sales and win over new customers.

Have you had "the talk" with your IT staff or provider?

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Let's start getting ready for 2015.
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