Past Topics

  • Business and Personal Finance
  • Business Associations / Non-Profits / Local Politics - What we do to get involved and why
  • Business Development - Strategic Partnerships. Merger / Acquisition Strategy
  • Chris Bruhl, President & CEO of the Business Council of Fairfield County (SACIA)
  • Client/Customer Relations -- A discussion on strategies employed for everything from Collections to Up Selling / Cross Selling and Client Retention
  • Compensation & Benefits
  • Congressman Chris Shays
  • Customer Care -- The Unique. The Creative. The Cost Effective. The Technology
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) - Keeping the Customer's You've Acquired. Strategies and Success Stories
  • Direct Marketing - Snail Mail and Email, their success / failure, strategies that work and don't...and what we've learned
  • Direct Marketing - What's Working? Innovations. Strategies
  • Employee Benefits & Compensation
  • Ethics in Today's Business World
  • Financing Growth / Raising capital -- The New Rules and Approaches for Today's Economy
  • Finding and Retaining Great Employees
  • Funding, Financing and Financial Management
  • Lieutenant Governor Michael Fedele
  • Managing Your Human Capital - Improving Productivity. Managing Risk. Motivating
  • Marketing - New Approaches. Fundamentals That Still Work. Cutting Edge Tools
  • Marketing - The Creativity, The Budget, The Source
  • Mayor Dannel Malloy
  • Measuring your organization's performance
  • Outsourcing - Cost Effective Approaches. What Should Stay In-House? Structuring the Right Deal
  • Performance Management - How to Get the Best and Deal With the Worst
  • Picking our co's future stars - Recruiting and Selection
  • Power Networking
  • Prospect Database Management
  • Public Relations - Home Grown Through Retained Pro
  • Sales - Strategy, Execution, Technique ---> Crafting a Sharp Knife
  • Sales Compensation / Partnering Incentives - What we pay for the sale
  • Sales Force Development - Sourcing. Lead Generation. Training
  • Sales Tools - What We Do To Help Fertilize The Sales Pipeline
  • Strategic Partnering and Finder's Fee's - Who We Seek + What We Give To Get a Sale
  • Strategic Partnerships
  • Technology --Gadgets, Software, Web-enabled Tech
  • The Economic Outlook - Looking Back. Looking at Today. Looking Ahead
  • The Sales Series - Part I - Direct Marketing - What's Working? Innovations. Strategies
  • Top Talent - Recruiting Them... And Then Keeping Them
  • Tracking Our Competitors - Competitive Analysis, Strategies & Approaches
  • Training and Development - Methods Employed to Assimilate and Grow Our Talent
  • Viral Marketing - Creating a Buzz
  • Website Strategies - What we're doing to maximize the value and benefit received from  our website presence
  • What's going on in the Fairfield County business world?
  • Work / Life Balance