Monthly Archives: September 2010
Posted by Michael Alfaro on September 28, 2010
Thank you to everyone who stopped by our booth yesterday at the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce Trade Fair & Culinary Showcase! Congratulations to the following winners:
2005 Bodegas Murcia Pico Madama [Jumilla, Spain]
Rating: 95+
SRP: $50
Winner – Debra Richlin, Bristol-Myers Squibb
2006 Cadaretta Cabernet Sauvignon [Walla Walla, Washington]
Rating: 90
SRP: $37
Winner – Copley Szostak, Present Company
2005 Clayhouse Hillside Cuvee
[ Paso Robles, California]
Rating: 90
SRP: $33
Winner – Barbara Aldrich, Long & Foster Real Estate, Inc.
2005 Buoncristiani Syrah
[Napa Valley, California]
Rating: 91
SRP: $55
Winner – Scott N. Schneider, Firmenich
We’d also like to thank Steve Itak from Victory Selections for providing the wine. Local Wisdom will be reaching out to all of the winners individually to bestow your new bottle of wine!
Posted by Derrick Larane on September 28, 2010
Last week was a busy planning week for myself and some of my Local Wisdom brethren. Michael and Tim spent a good portion of the week laying out and working through a detailed presentation for the IT team over at ELS. Throughout the week I would walk by the conference room and see Tim drawing out a diagrams or flow charts covering the entire white board. ”Pretty important stuff” I thought to myself.
Tracy, Pinaki, David, and myself were preparing for a the Princeton Chamber of Commerce 29th Annual Trade & Culinary Showcase. As Local Wisdom is freshly moved to the Princeton Area, we felt this annual trade fair was a fantastic opportunity to rub elbows with fellow business owners in area. More importantly having a booth there, would be a great lead generator. With fellow business owners and patrons walking around, you never know who has website design, development or curation need.
Week 39 should be interesting as we are attending the Trade Show and have been in talks with some strong prospects located locally and over seas. With my 100% sales close rate goal for 4th quarter, I am interested to see how these potential opportunities will play themselves out.
I love selling Local Wisdom capabilities and awesomeness. Till next week.
Posted by Derrick Larane on September 20, 2010
Well last week was my first full week back from paternity leave. My wife gave birth to our first daughter, Elena Aminah Larane. She continues to melt our hearts each day. But I am now back and reinvigorated to continue to spread the Local Wisdom, We love making websites, gospel to the masses.
This past week was awesome! Some of the highlights included attending two great networking events, and hosting another in our new office. Midweek myself, Tracy, David, and Tim went to the Princeton Chamber of Commerce Business Before Business Breakfast. We met and spoke with fellow members of the Princeton business community. We also sat through a fantastic presentation by Professor Graham Jones, Co-Founder and Director of a company named Lane4. The presentation centered around the role of leaders in creating conditions where their employee can thrive. I thought it was a great presentation that spoke to the current state of our economy and the pressures we as managers, place on our employees to be successful. To get the best of out your employees, Graham stated you must balance these pressures by acknowledging and rewarding the small wins and milestones along the way. Keeping your employees motivated and self assured that there managers value their effort goes a long way.
Later in the week, I attended a networking event sponsored by the African American Chamber of Commerce of NJ. This event was held at Deltas Restaurant in New Brunswick. I met with fellow African American business owners and executives representing both New Jersey and Philadelphia. Stephen A. Smith formerly of ESPN and now FOX News Network gave an inspiring talk about empowering the African American Business Community through networking and forging business relationships. Afterwards, I was able to speak to Stephen A. for a bit. On a side note I did not realize how tall he actually was.
On Thursday evening, Local Wisdom hosted a NJ Mobile Meetup meeting at our freshly moved into Princeton Junction office. Special thanks to Stephen Itak of Victory Selections for sponsoring with delicious wine, and the crew at Sun Bank for providing the pizza. The event went very well. David Spira and the Local Wisdom team would like to thank the guest speaker, Ken Kay (Angel Investor) and everyone else who came to the event.
Otherwise we continue on a track of busyness with curations and project with ELS, Perdue Pharma, and the Global Marketing Group of Johnson & Johnson. Till next week!!!
Topics: Chamber of Commerce, Princeton, sales
Posted by Michael Alfaro on September 15, 2010
Pritam Pebam wrote an interesting post on The Death of Buttons, and has a screenshot of a ‘new and improved’ Google homepage (after they recently announced the launch of their Instant Search feature).
Google Instant Search - Improved Homepage
You can see here that the ‘Search’ and ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ buttons are both gone.
I would love to see a Google without buttons from a UX standpoint…There are numerous ways that having automatic results and responses can help improve sites across the board.
Topics: Google
