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Welcome to a new way of networking. A new way of thinking. A new way of doing business. Motor City Connect is a collection of professionals banding together to help each other – and our community – succeed.
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grow your business and |
gain expertise and |
strengthen your community |
We don't have a lot of rules and rituals. We think business should be fun. We love a good laugh. We think business should be profitable. Our successes benefit the community. We think we're better together. There is no limit to what we can accomplish when we focus our ideas, talents and resources. We are optimists. We're making a positive impact every day.
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: "I just sent this blast:
So I've been messing around with LinkedIn's new (relatively) blog engine and I have to suggest that you use it too. If you're a blogger, it's a great way to get your content in front of your contacts. And for whatever reason, LinkedIn will occasionally pick up your post and feature it in their "Pulse". This can get you.."
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The Incredible Influence of Online Reputation
: "A company called BrightLocal, late last year, released a survey of how people interact with customer reviews, and the results were interesting enough that when I stumbled upon it, I decided I had to share. Different people have had a lot of different takeaways from reading the survey, but the lesson that I learned is that a company's online repu.."
The Incentives That Actually Keep Tenants Around
: "Offering incentives in order to retain a good tenant is simply smart business -- it's significantly cheaper to maintain a current customer by giving them a small gift than it is to market and find a new tenant.
But how exactly to retain tenants (or, more accurately since we're clearly talking about incentives here, what comprises an 'effectiv.."
How to Take Advantage of Energy Incentives
: "Energy rebates and incentives are out there. Intelligent people who apply themselves to finding and applying for them can save themselves a lot of money -- but it often seems like the only way to stumble across them is by meeting someone who already knows where to look. That's because they come from a wide variety of disparate places:
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Motor City Connect Founder Terry Bean's new book is available from Amazon. It's the business book for anyone involved in business development (hint: we're all in business development).
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