Past Topics

  • Business and Personal Finance
  • Business Associations / Non-Profits / Local Politics – What we do to get involved and why
  • Business Development – Strategic Partnerships. Merger / Acquisition Strategy
  • Client/Customer Relations — A discussion on strategies employed for everything from Collections to Up Selling / Cross Selling and Client Retention
  • Customer Care — The Unique. The Creative. The Cost Effective. The Technology
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) – Keeping the Customer’s You’ve Acquired. Strategies and Success Stories
  • Direct Marketing – What’s Working? Innovations. Strategies
  • Employee Benefits & Compensation
  • Ethics in Today’s Business World
  • Financing Growth / Raising capital — The New Rules and Approaches for Today’s Economy
  • Finding and Retaining Great Employees
  • Funding, Financing and Financial Management
  • Managing Your Human Capital – Improving Productivity. Managing Risk. Motivating
  • Marketing – New Approaches. Fundamentals That Still Work. Cutting Edge Tools
  • Marketing – The Creativity, The Budget, The Source
  • Measuring Your Organization’s Performance
  • Outsourcing – Cost Effective Approaches. What Should Stay In-House? Structuring the Right Deal
  • Performance Management – How to Get the Best and Deal With the Worst
  • Picking Our Future Stars – Recruiting and Selection
  • Power Networking
  • Prospect Database Management
  • Public Relations – Home Grown Through Retained Pro
  • Sales – Strategy, Execution, Technique —> Crafting a Sharp Knife
  • Sales Compensation / Partnering Incentives – What We Pay for the Sale
  • Sales Force Development – Sourcing. Lead Generation. Training
  • Sales Tools – What We Do To Help Fertilize the Sales Pipeline
  • Strategic Partnering and Finder’s Fee’s – Who We Seek + What We Give To Get a Sale
  • Technology –Gadgets, Software, Web-enabled Tech
  • The Economic Outlook – Looking Back. Looking at Today. Looking Ahead
  • Tracking Our Competitors – Competitive Analysis, Strategies & Approaches
  • Training and Development – Methods Employed to Assimilate and Grow Our Talent
  • Viral Marketing – Creating a Buzz
  • Website Strategies – What We’re Doing to Maximize the Value and Benefit Received from  Our Website Presence
  • What’s Going On in the Fairfield County Business World?
  • Work / Life Balance