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Tom Bowman      tom@bowmancpa.com      www.bowmancpa.com
Bowman & Company, CPA, PC
Tom's CPA firm was formed in 1987 to serve the needs of the small business owner. The firm provides complete small business services ranging from payroll and bookkeeping to tax and business planning. Tom was recently voted the SBA's Accountant of the Year.

 

Sandra Collins      scollins@htbrown.com       www.c21htbrown.com
Century 21 HT Brown Real Estate Inc-Corporate Relocations
Sandra has been working with relocating families since 1981 through her affiliation with Century 21. She has earned her certified Residential Professional designation from the Employee Relocation Council and works closely with many relocation management firms and employers moving a mobile workforce. Help available for new hires, job transfers, investors and first time buyers of real estate. Many related services available.

Type of tips desired: Any business or person whose business is moving them in or out of this area and need to buy or sell permanent housing. Also, someone who needs to sell a home in this area and wants a guaranteed sale of their home.
 

Rocky Conklin      rockyc6967@aol.com        
Von Paris Moving and Storage - United Van Lines
The name Von Paris has been synonymous with quality since 1892! We were one of the first moving companies in the nation to convert to a motorized fleet and were pioneers of long distance moving. As one of United stock holding agents, we offer a complete range of moving and storage services, as well as the experience and know-how to move you around the corner, around the country or around the world. At B. Von Paris we deliver total quality service. It's our heritage and our future. It's one of the reasons we are known as "The Mover With Gentle Touch" Please give me a call at 800-866-6355 ext. 8579 ask for Rocky!  
 
Jack Degele      jack@hcbc.biz
Degele & Associates
Insurance - All companies and all kinds.

 

Richard Fields      rfields@manekin.com             www.manekin.com
Manekin, LLC
Commercial and Industrial Real Estate
Richard Fields, SIOR, Senior Vice president with Manekin, LLC Corfac International has been working in the Baltimore/Washington Corridor based in Columbia/Howard County for the past 20 years, serving the needs of landlords, tenants, buyers and sellers in executing commercial transactions. Both corporate and community based requirements involving office/flex leasing, building sales, land sales, retail and industrial leasing are assignments that are engaged and completed in a timely fashion.

 

Dave Hartman      dave@hartmanconsulting.net      www.hartmanconsulting.net
Hartman Consulting
In many growing companies, critical technology decisions are made by office management staff or junior network technicians, who may not have the technology experience or business savvy to know whether their decisions are in line with your company’s strategic goals. Hartman Consulting, Inc. can provide that missing link between your business goals and technology needs! Our simple, low cost assessment methodology analyzes your company's current technologies, paying particular attention to those critical internal processes that have the greatest potential impact on your company's business strategy. Which customer-related and operational core competencies can help distinguish you from your competition?

As a former IT Director and Big Four consultant, Dave  understands technology systems. As important as technical proficiency is to keeping a company's systems secure and operating effectively, however, the bottom line is: technology needs to make businesses more profitable.

Small businesses must pursue every opportunity to decrease expense and increase profitability. As an example, for a $10 Million company with an Operating Margin of 16%, a 3% decrease in operating expenses can add over $100,000 to net earnings! It's not always about new technologies, sometimes it just means using current technologies (and processes) more efficiently.

We are a business technology consulting company whose mission is to align your IT with your company’s business goals. We work with your senior management staff to identify the current value IT brings to your organization. Together we develop an IT road map that complements your goals.

While we always strive to customize our services based on the needs of our clients, we offer the following core services: IT Value Assessments, Strategic Planning, Systems Audits, Project Management, IT Team Development, Temporary CIO and Outsourcing Assistance.

 

Dina Jolley     bsktsandbyond@aol.com     www.bsktsandbyond.com
Dina has been in the gift basket business for over 10 years, serving the metropolitan Baltimore/Washington and Virginia areas. She specializes in creating custom created gift baskets.

 

Jim Kinnear      jim@teamkinnear.com       www.teamkinnear.com
Re/Max Advantage Realty - TeamKinnear
An associate broker, Jim has over eighteen years real estate experience and has earned the ABR(Accredited Buyer Representative), CRS(Certified Residential Specialist), GRI(Graduate Realtor Institute) and SRES(Seniors Real Estate Specialist) designations. In his seventeen years, Jim was Rookie of the Year, Top Producer of the Year, is a member of the Re/Max Platinum Club and Hall of Fame and has sold over $80 million worth of real estate.

Type of tips desired: Any person or groups wanting to purchase or sell real property in the local area.
 

Joel Leifer       joelleifer@actioncoach.com     www.actioncoach.com/joelleifer
ActionCOACH
ActionCOACH is a Business Coaching and Training company founded in 1993 by entrepreneur and author Brad Sugars.  Entrepreneur's Magazine has ranked us the #1 Business Coaching Team from 2004 - 2007.  Currently, the Team consists of 1000 franchised business coaches in 23 countries.

The ActionCOACH process is structured to provide you, the business owner, with both short-term assistance and long-term training through our affordable Mentoring approach.

Based on proprietary sales, marketing, and business management systems, we not only show you how to increase your business revenues and profits, often quite dramatically, but also how to develop your business so that you, as the owner, can work less, relax more, and finally enjoy business ownership.

Our Business Coaches have broad and deep business experience, and are fellow business owners who have invested their time, money, and energy to make their own various business ventures successful.

Our goal in business is quite simple … to help you reach your goals.
Mary Ellen Marsalek      mmarsalek@baynational.com      www.baynational.com
Bay National Bank
Bay National Bank is a unique bank created exclusively to meet the complete financial needs of small to middle-market businesses, professional service firms, nonprofit entities and successful individuals. We are an innovative, entrepreneurial bank whose seasoned, solid bankers have the ability to listen, the agility to make decisions, and the resolve to follow through.

 

Gary J McMahon       garmcmahon@comcast.net    www.officiency.net
OFFICIENCY LLC
 
Your office furniture should serve you. Not vice versa.

How hard does your office furniture work for you and your company? (Besides collecting dust that would otherwise fall on the floor.) If your desks, chairs, tables, workstations, credenzas and shelves aren't working overtime for you, or if you're thinking about new furniture, you need to achieve maximum efficiency with Officiency.

How does your furniture and facility match your workflow? Your image? Your budget? Do you know what to do if you've made the wrong choice, how to get problems solved with one phone call, and where to find furniture that looks like new but is priced like used?

Look, you don't come to work every morning to think about furniture. We do. If there was ever a task ripe for delegation, that task would be choosing, finding, ordering and installing new furniture.

 

 
 
Nina Neal     nneal@whitmore.com     www.whitmore.com
Whitmore Group
Whitmore Group has been an independent commercial printer for over 60 years. We offer a variety of services in our 3 locations such as Digital photography, large format imaging , sheet fed - lithographic printing, mailing and fulfillment.

Nina has worked in the printing industry for 29 years. The first 27 years were spent working her Family Business, Reese Press.
 

Tracey Poler     tpoler@gvaarchitects.com       www.gvaarchitects.com
George Vaeth Associates, Inc    
GVA is a firm of experienced architects and interior designers in continuous operation since 1958.  Now in our 50th year, we have continued  a strong tradition of fine design and quality documentation established by the firm’s founders, Edward Rogers and George Vaeth, Jr.  We look to create strong connections with our clients, providing the most responsive and productive design experience while striving to make the entire process pleasurable .  Our portfolio comprises projects that include:

                    •          Corporate office buildings

                    •          Education buildings

                    •          Banks and Financial Institutions

                    •          Space Planning and Interior Design

                    •          Park and Recreation buildings

                    •          Government Facilities

                    •          Custom residences

In addition GVA has broadened its approach to energy conscious design and life cycle value of projects by offering LEED accreditation and green building design services. GVA considers the art of design and the craft of preparing documents equally important and feels that neither should come at the expense of the other. We pride ourselves as much on our latest design award as we do on our low record of change orders (typically less than 1%).

 

Our design portfolio reflects an individual response to each set of design circumstances to create projects that are as much about the client and program as they are about their specific sites and context.  GVA is able to offer the following services to clients: Architectural Services, LEED services, Interior Design Services, 3-D Modeling, Concept/Site Planning, furniture Selection and Specification, Programming, Artwork Selection, Space Planning, Landscape Design, Construction Administration and Cost Estimating.

Gerald Schrader      gerry.schrader@lakesidetitle.com       www.lakesidetitle.com
Lakeside Title
Coordinates the complexities of real estate settlements with skill, offering clients the reliability and experience of more than fifteen years of service. With the same precision and steadiness that distinguish the successful marathon runner. Marathon smoothes the way for buyers, sellers and agents in property transfers.

 

Charlie Stevens      cstevens@goldmanpromotions.com       www.goldmanpromotions.com
Goldman Promotions
Vice president of sales, our company is the nations 25th largest promotional products company. We specialize in corporate apparel as well as promotional gift programs including safety programs, business development, employee recognition's, executive gifts, and many more. With 25 years in the industry, I have the designation of MAS (Master Advertising Specialist)

 

Alvin Thompson        A_L_Thompson@comcast.net       www.bannekercenter.com

 

Lou Ulman      LUlman@offitkurman.com          www.offitkurman.com
Offit | Kurman, Attorneys at Law
Louis Jay Ulman is a Partner in the firm’s Estates & Asset Protection Group. Mr. Ulman’s practice centers on estate planning and elder law, including experience with families with disabled children, small business owners, asset protection, and charitable giving. A graduate of Dickinson College (B.A., 1967) and American University (J.D., 1970), where he has served as an adjunct professor, Mr. Ulman is a member of the Maryland bar.


Mark Westcott       mwestcott@corridormtg.com 
Brian Wigutow     brianw@handymanmatters.com    www.handymanmatters.com
Handyman Matters
Handyman Matters is committed to changing the face of the handyman industry. We specialize in small repairs indoors, outdoors, commercial or residential. Each craftsman works for the company and has gone through a background check and skill assessment.

Handyman Matters cares for each customer with the same integrity, respect and professionalism - regardless of the job, Every customer works with our knowledgeable, valued employees, not sub-contractors, and our work is guaranteed.

Brian Wigutow has a BS in Business Administration. Brian won the National Customer Service Award from the franchise.

 
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