San Diego Business Group

05/03/2018

Great presentations today by Eddie Martin and Arlene Flowers. Thank you both. AND Farhad is back. Welcome back my friend.

02/22/2018

Member Triumphs!
SDBG member Hiro Iwamoto completes the 2017 Arizona Ironman. Hiro is the groups motivational speaker and our "Hero".

10/05/2017

This Thursday we officially welome three new members to the San Diego Business Group.

Arlene Flowers - Treasury Management Services
Emily Self - The UPS Store 1841
Michael Moffatt - Insperity

Come and welcome our new members!

08/31/2017

We had a great meeting today. Bill Rice reviewed what he can do to help people with disabilities gain easier access to their homes. Bill, of ECIR Handyman Services in San Diego, offers a wide range of home maintenance and repair knowledge.

05/25/2017

We had a great meeting this morning! Our special guest speaker, Mary Barnett, was entertaining and full of information about mobile apps. Thank you so much Mary.

04/20/2017

Join us this Thursday, April 20th, and be our guest. We'll treat you to a buffet breakfast and welcome you to our weekly meeting. You can see how we conduct our networking group and support each other through good, solid business referrals. Breakfast starts around 7:10 am and the meeting runs from 7:30 am to 8:30 am. See you there!

02/21/2017

Come join us for our first social of 2017.

The San Diego Business Group is a successful, active and growing professional business networking organization in San Diego.

02/09/2017

Great presentation Simon! You are a true artisan.

The San Diego Business Group is a successful, active and growing professional business networking organization in San Diego.

02/08/2017

Special Upcoming Event
Date: Thursday, February 16, 2017
Time: 7:10 to 8:45 AM
Venue: Giovanni's Italian Restaurant - Kearny Mesa
Address: 9353 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, San Diego, CA 92123

Title: Follow Up Strategies That Will
Get More Clients & Close More Sales

Presentation by: Wanda Allen, Follow Up Sales Strategist & Professional Speaker

If follow up is an arduous "to do", then this “Follow Up Sales Strategies Presentation” is perfect for you. You'll learn that follow up is merely a matter of having effective habits and good systems in place. There's a lot of depth to it and understanding that will help put you in the ease of getting this all-important work done daily.
In the Follow Up Sales Strategies Presentation, you'll learn:
• Why using a system is critical for success.
• Follow up systems that don't work.
• How the right mindset will make the follow up process easier.
• Surprising sales statistics.
• Results of effective follow up.
• Improving your follow up skills will help you get more clients and close more sales!

BIO: Wanda Allen is a national speaker, coach, author and award winning business owner. She's the author of Follow Up Savvy and Follow Up Sales Strategies. Wanda had a 25-year corporate career where she held the position of Senior Vice President for 15 years. She has a sales background and worked with sales teams throughout her corporate career. She gained extensive training on business development, maintaining client relationships and customer service. She has a strong skill set for developing systems and applied this skill to the follow up process. What she teaches is tried, tested and proven. After leaving the corporate world to pursue her own business ventures, Wanda founded her business, Follow Up Sales Strategies. She is an expert in helping entrepreneurs, business owners and sales professionals improve sales performance, increase pipelines and client retention and become more referable by developing strong follow up skills.
Read more about Wanda on her Facebook and LinkedIn pages and on her website at followupsalesstrategies.com.

12/21/2016

Greetings from the San Diego Business Group.
We will not be meeting on December 22nd or 29th.
We hope you enjoy the holidays and have a prosperous 2017!

11/10/2016

We had a great meeting today! Gene Valdez was our special guest speaker and talked about the need for CEOs and small business owners to learn the basics about financial reports, cash flow management and business loan processes. Thanks to Gene and all our guests for making it a great experience this morning.

11/07/2016

Special Guest Speaker Eugene E. Valdez, MBA
Founder / President of The CEO Teachers
Date: Thursday, November 10, 2016
Time: 7:10 to 8:45 AM
Venue: Giovanni's Italian Restaurant - Kearny Mesa
Address: 9353 Clairemont Mesa Blvd, San Diego, CA 92123

Gene Valdez founded The CEO Teachers in 2016 when he left commercial banking to pursue coaching/consulting full time. During his 39 year business career he formed and operated another coaching/consulting business called The Claremont Advisory Company which focused on entrepreneurial coaching and financial management consulting. For the majority of his business career he was a senior commercial banking executive for several major business banks in Southern California including Bank of California, Wells Fargo and Citizens Business Bank.

During his 30 year commercial banker career Gene specialized in servicing the needs of privately owned small businesses with annual sales of $500,000 to $25 million. These years afforded him hands on experience on how the “money/loan game really works”, an insider’s view perspective he now shares with his CEO clients.

Gene’s personal mission is to increase the level of CEO business finance literacy in Southern California which he believes is the key to a business achieving long term viability. In addition to being a coach and consultant Gene is also an author, business columnist, public speaker and college business professor.

Gene has taught entrepreneurship and business finance as a guest lecturer at USC, Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State San Bernardino, Mount San Antonio Community College, Riverside Community College and San Bernardino Valley College. He currently is on the adjunct business faculty team of Chaffey College where he teaches two business courses, general business and leadership.

In addition to teaching Gene, has appeared on radio and TV as an expert on entrepreneurship and business finance and also co-authored a book titled, “How to Obtain a Business Loan from a Bank.” Over the years Gene, has written numerous business articles for the LA Times, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Ontario Daily Bulletin, Sun Telegram, Riverside Business Press and IE Business Daily.

Read more about Gene and his company's services at www.ceoteachers.com/.

Come and enjoy breakfast with us and learn from Gene's experience and advice. The fee for non-sponsored guests is $15 to cover the cost for breakfast. As always, our meetings are free to member sponsored guests.