Connections – August 2010

Hello, Members!

I hope you are all enjoying your summer.  Now is a good time to start to put together a marketing plan for the next quarter, and to make networking is a strong component of that!  Just look at the wonderful submissions this month as shining examples of how effective networking is!

Diane Sargent of South Shore Elder Services, Inc. (SSES) gives a big ‘thank you’ to the following members who gave so generously of their time and money to enable SSES to host its fifth successful Aging is Everyone’s Future conference in May:  Phyllis Wenzel, Image Resolutions, print sponsor; Robert Petrelli & Susan Peters, Mt Vernon Mortgage; Sheila DeWolfe, Norwell VNA & Hospice; Tina Dwyer, South Shore VNA & Hospice;  Lynda Chuckran, Welch Healthcare and Retirement Group; and Lucille Sorrentino, Weymouth Health Care Center.  Still more SSWBN members contributed to an informational table so that SSES could provide valuable information to guests:  Katie Howard, SSWBN; Laura Willis, Willis-Works Communication and Gen-Sights; Janet LaBerge, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap; Jennifer Moran, Home Instead Senior Care;  Julie Gibbons, New York Life;  and Toni Eaton, Old Colony Hospice.  Diane gives a special acknowledgement to Lynda Chuckran, Laura Willis and Susan Peters, who shared their personal stories of how they incorporated caring for a family member into their busy professional lives.

Diane Sargent wrote further that she is ‘truly grateful to the wonderful staff at Visiting Angels’ for their generosity and hard work, which will enable SSES to help many seniors in our communities through SSES’ Special Needs Fund.  Visiting Angels of the South Shore raised $15,000 for South Shore Elder Services and Old Colony Elder Services at their first Dancing with the Angels fundraiser in May at the Plimoth Plantation. More than 200 guests danced to live music by the White Heat Swing Orchestra to raise money for the Special Needs Fund shared by the two agencies.  The Special Needs Fund helps elders in 34 communities on the South Shore with everyday necessities of life, such as food, clothing, shoes, fuel, medicine and shelter.  To learn more about SSES, contact Diane at South Shore Elder Services, Inc.

Lois Wood of Lois Wood Graphic Design thanks Victor Moulton of Moulton Cleaning Company.  “My cousin was visiting, and placed her overnight bag on the best chair in our house,” said Lois.  “Some potent stuff that she uses on her hair leaked on the chair, and the chair seemed to be ruined.  I called Victor to come down and look at it.  He was there right away, and used an arsenal of machines and liquids for quite a while until he got the chair looking great again!  When I asked how much I owed him, his response was so reasonable that I suggested a barter (I’ve been secretly wanting to update his business card since the day I met him).   He agreed, and I finally got to design a business card for him that is reflects better the great job that he does — and what a nice guy!”

Janet Laberge from Dirty Deeds thanks Loraine Fields of The Flower Mill for providing the beautiful centerpieces at Celebration.  Dirty Deeds had donated the containers from clean-outs, and it was fun to see how creative Loraine was in putting them to good use.  Janet also thanks her ‘minions,’ Judy Walsh Rodriguez of Watch All, Michael Christopher of Interactive Digital Systems, Kristen Ford Hernandez of Premiere Pros and Loraine Fields of The Flower Mill “…for the total team effort and strong support system (meaning the rolling metal cart under my throne, I mean seat) that made for a successful entrance without anyone getting hurt.”  Thanks also go to Jennifer McCauley Logue for writing a great press release about Celebration! that Janet forwarded to the Pembroke Express, along with a picture from member photographer Kat Hanafin. “Any time Dirty Deeds gets in the paper and it’s not the obituaries or the police blotter, it’s a good day,” said Janet.

Katie Howard of SSWBN thanks Diane Sargent of South Shore Elder Services for hosting our new member breakfast along with Bonnie Spence, our new member from Raffael’s, and South Shore Country Club for hosting Celebration! Both served as such great venues, and Diane and Bonnie stood out as hostesses par excellence!

And I am sending a big THANK YOU to Kathleen Keegan of Real Estate Rocks for recently referring a client to Premiere Pros.  We appreciate that she entrusts us with her carefully cultivated clients!

Thank you everyone for these great submissions.  These connections will help you increase your internet presence — so please keep them coming!!

Kristen Ford-Hernandez
Premiere Pros
Email: kristen@premierepros.com

A person’s pride should begin with who they are, not what they have accomplished.
~ Raymond C. Nolan