Networking Events

New BEC Members

For Immediate Release

Atlantic City, NJ (May 2011): The Business Excellence Center announced today its quarterly update of new members. Jamie Siracusa will be releasing additional ownership, industry services and consulting with each company for PR, marketing, and training program opportunities.

Yell 360 Ltd (Formerly Yellowbook US Sales)

Dependable Power

Joanne Kurek, MSW, EMDR

Kelvin Troy Johnson- Professional Speaker

Updated- Scheduled Business Experts and Speakers

The Business Excellence Center and Jamie Siracusa are inviting local business experts, owners, trainers and speakers to present their material and programs

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Genewize- Genetic Breakthroughs in Nutrition and Anti-Aging

For info: 609-742-2806

Not much gets me excited in business opportunities anymore. I think I am jaded by all the “Miracle of the Week Juices” MLM reps hit me up for one new product (and sales twist) after another! But this new Genewize  Life Sciences sounded very cool to me. This nutrition and skincare company, formulate your vitamins and minerals based on bioscience analysis of your DNA.  How cool is that! So with my BioTech market research background, I was able to do a bit of digging. I also bought the product, tried the skin serum and I gotta tell you I have been exceptionally pleased with everything I’ve tried.

Here’s an excerpt: After examining your DNA, GeneWize will create your personalized formula for nutritional supplements and skin repair serum with 100% active ingredients individually selected to enhance or diminish the biological processes causing you to age. You are the one and only you, and GeneWize is the one and only direct marketing company specializing in genetically customized nutritional and skin care formulas.

It’s an all natural, organic delivered powerhouse of personalized nutrition. Genewize is blowing up on the west coast. I know this because my vegan sister from San Francisco came home for the holidays all excited with her little DNA read out and we compared our sibling  assessments! (She was very dissappointed I had already bought from someone else though!)

So for all of you business-opportunity seekers who have wanted and been waiting  to be at the beginning of something really really huge?   No more excuses…. You now have one! It costs next to nothing to get in $50 +/-, you get the product free after only 4 sales, and you get stock options along with a great compensation plan!

Click here for more information.

To your success- Jamie

Local Doc’s EMR Issues

Going With A Full Blown EHR, Sorta Sucks - A letter from Dr. Joe

After such a title, please know this up front: I love my EHR/EMR…most moments of most days.

What I don’t love, not in the least little bit, is changing how I go about dealing with everything related to patient care information capture, manipulation, and sharing. Converting from a tried and true workflow that has allowed me to provide the best care I’m capable of providing (at least, that’s as true as it could be with paper-based data) to processes that feel foreign and kludgy and downright odd sorta… well… sucks!

After spending our formative years learning how to navigate paper and penmanship (deterioration of the later aside), we are now challenged by the transformation to an almost entirely different way to manipulate our information. Further, it isn’t just how the data goes from brain to storage; it’s how that info is accessed, viewed, and managed.

Sure, we (my staff and I) have all been using computers for a while now (from 3 to 40+ years,) but none of us were even remotely prepared for the overwhelming shift in processes and the enormous learning curves we encounter by going medically electronic.

I’ve tried to think of a comparable or analogous change. Changing how we do banking, changing how we access news and gossip, changing how we buy and window shop, changing how we research and do schoolwork, changing from viewing three television channels which closed shop at 2:00 A.M.to a bazillion — all of these were virtually effortless. We all do all of these things now, even though we weren’t “skillsetted” with them in our youths. None of them seemed like a mountainous climb.

But, changing from free flow data capture, be it for SOAP notes or lab orders, via the familiar pen and paper format to the seemingly simple point-and-click tech of a PC has been, without question, the greatest challenge of my life. (OK, aside from raising kids, maintaining a healthy marriage, dealing with cluster headaches, and remembering to put the toilet seat down, that is.)

It isn’t just how the data goes from head to storage — it’s how everything gets accessed, viewed, shared, and integrated into pre-existing mental categories. My synapses have been strained beyond their original design constraints trying to establish new neural connections and pathways for this completely queer new work style.I hope I’m not alone when I admit to being exhausted by “change management.” Back in the “pre-EHR days,” it was really easy (relatively speaking) to go to work, see patients, and deliver myself home at the end of the day with some smidgen of energy reserve. Nowadays, my serotonin and dopamine stockpiles are so depleted that I barely have enough left over for fêting my youngest son’s latest fourth grade feat or catching a chuckle from my wife’s current chef-challenged concoction.Why put myself and my longsuffering staff through all this? Simple. Because, as I said up front, most moments of most days, I absolutely love my EHR. I am daily astounded by the new capabilities I am gaining to deal with data. The upside usually outweighs the downside. It is, without question, worth it.

However, that doesn’t mean this transition time doesn’t sorta suck. It does, big time.

From the trenches…“Always be yourself…unless you suck.” – Dr. Joe Whedon

3 More Workshops Still For October

3 Great Money Making, Game Changing Events

Thursday, Oct 28th  5:30 to 7:00PM

Optimize Your Professional Image

                                         
Career success comes as a result of more than talent, commitment, and hard work but is also determined by how you greet a client, conduct a meeting, deliver a presentation, entertain business contacts, and your professional image.

 FACT: 85% of your job success is based on your people skills and only 15% is actually based on knowledge of products and services.
 
You can have a significant advantage! Learn:

• Your Professional Brand Power
• Lasting First Impressions
• The Power of Social Capital
• Top Six Business Etiquette Mistakes
• Professional Etiquette Power Tips

Click Here To Register

When: Thursday, October 28th  From:5:30 – 7:00 PM (Snacks and refreshments will be served)

 Where: Business Excellence Center 
501 Scarborough Drive, Third Floor
Egg Harbor Township 
 
Cost: $25.00 for Pre-registration (Deadline 10/24 11:59PM)- $35 at the door 

 Speaker/Trainer: Debra Gitto- Local author and professional Ettiquette Trainer and owner of Gitto Consulting

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Wednesday, October 27th- 12:00PM to 1:30PM 

Power Networking For Quick Revenue 

 Are you tired of unproductive networking events and business mixers? Have you wasted valuable time only to meet sales reps, start-up and MLM ”professional” networkers? Most formal networking groups don’t even teach you the best way to network. It isn’t about how many business cards you have, it’s about helping successful businesses with money make more money! And you can get paid for your work or build a relationship into a partnership. 

 Come learn:

• The secrets of becoming a Power Broker
• How to identify and qualify the right targets.
• Learn body language secrets and bird-dogging tricks to mixers, luncheons, and events. How to work a room. 
• What you need to find out from every contact (..that you want to associate with.) 

• How to start a casual “joint venture or business alliance” realtionship.
• The key to it all? Proper and compelling follow-up!

When: Wednesday, October 27th, 12:00 to 1:30PM (Light lunch and refreshments provided)

Where: 501 Scarborough Drive, Third Floor, Egg Harbor Township, NJ 08234

Click Here To Register

Cost: $20 with pre-registration (deadline: 10/24 11:59PM)          $30 at the door (cannot guarantee lunch without pre-reg)

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How to Make Money With Facebook and Social Media! 

See Who Around Here Is Doing It Right 
 

Most business are doing it all wrong! Doesn’t it seem like everybody is putting up Facebook pages, Twitter profiles, and making videos for Youtube? Why aren’t people buying from them? Why isn’t anyone finding, commenting, or joining them? How would you like to see who “IS” doing it right and how you can too! Yes you can make money, find new customers and build your brand cheaper and quicker than any other medium!

 Stop Selling! Start Engaging                                                                   

If you are trying to “sell” on Facebook or Youtube, or Twitter, or push coupons and advertise specials, then you are missing the point and ruining an excellent opportunity to build a loyal customer base and brand awareness. There are several ways to grow your business with these new tools, but it needs to be strategic and well thought out! You can increase revenues but it may not be right from your fan page. 

We’ll share some local success stories and go live to some examples of both “good” and “bad”.

Click Here to Register for:

Workshop: Social Media Tips and Tricks For South Jersey Business Owners  

When: Tuesday October 26, 2010  6:30PM to 8:30PM

 Where: 501 Scarborough Drive, Third Floor, Egg Harbor Township, NJ 08234 (1/4 mile south of Rt322/40 (BHP) on English Creek Rd)

Trainer: Wendy Manganaro, Partner iColor Studio- Wendy is one of South Jersey’s most knowledgeable experts on Social Media. She is easily the busiest Social Media managers we’ve hired; designing and monitoring dozens of local businesses’ Facebook, Twitter and LinkIn campaigns. She is an engaging speaker, has given several talks to local businesses and was recently asked to speak in Boston MA. Her current (daily) research on SM and the partnership with iColor Studio (a Cherry Hill based advertising agency with a 25 year history of delivering quality, cutting edge campaigns) has made Wendy one of the best kept secrets in social media. They combine the latest in Web 2.0, Flash animation, graphic design and A/V technologies (and creators of the “Poducator ®”) to help marketing campaigns stand out and be more effective.

Fee: $20 Pre Registration / $30 at the door. (Space is limited- cannot guarantee late entries seating or material)