How has Smaller Indiana helped your business?

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Permalink Reply by Katharine Williams on June 17, 2009 at 4:11pm

My name is Kate Williams, and I am Special Projects Coordinator at the Indianapolis Peace Institute, a local 501 (c) 3 non-profit. I just joined Smaller Indiana, and am excited at the ability to advertise upcoming community events that the Institute is hosting. I have been able to advertise our "Social Networking (with a Soul)" series that takes place on the 3rd Thursday of each month, and have already heard from people who found out about the activity on Smaller Indiana. It has provided me a great opportunity to reach my target market of young professionals interested in community issues, and I look forward to developing more contacts!

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Permalink Reply by Pat Coyle on June 17, 2009 at 4:29pm

Katharine,
Welcome. Glad to hear your investment in time is already paying off. Hope to learn more about the Peace Institute as you share your stories here. Good luck!
Pat

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Permalink Reply by Noah Coffey on June 17, 2009 at 4:15pm

Smaller Indiana has definitely helped us connect (and stay connected) with a large group of technically savvy marketers and new media professionals. We've found a pool of talent that we've tapped for our budding blogging and social media conference, Blog Indiana. Not only are we able to connect with great talent to lead our workshops and panel discussions, we are better able to provide relevant conference sessions through monitoring and participating in the many focused group discussions on Smaller Indiana. Noah @ 317-348-0572

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Permalink Reply by Pat Coyle on June 17, 2009 at 4:30pm

Noah,
Recruitment is a whole other area I tend to forget about, but I'll be lots of Smoosiers have found new employees and vendors through SI. Thanks for the reminder...and glad to hear SI has helped your Blog Indiana event.
How's that baby??
Pat

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Permalink Reply by Noah Coffey on June 18, 2009 at 11:29am

Baby is doing well! She is eating more and more and slowly starting to sleep a little longer during the night. Still sleep deprived, but her smiles more than make up for it. :)

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Permalink Reply by Cissi Sherlock on June 17, 2009 at 4:17pm

My name is Cissi Sherlock and just yesterday, my community outreach organization graduated from being a church ministry to being a viable entity recognized by the IRS and headed to the status of 501c3.

My organization is called Operation "OpenUP!" Our goal is to help disenfranchised people in our community have a connection to needed services by providing them with free recycled cell phones and low cost activations so that they don't miss important phone calls for the services they need.

I've belonged to a high-powered community consortium for about three years. I was invited to join the group for the purpose of helping to grow my outreach program. In that time, there was no visible growth that I or other members of my organization could see.

After joining Smaller Indiana over a year ago, the first thing that happened was that I made friends! And, not only were they friend on the Internet, we shared face time with our groups and other networking entities and functions. As friends and as business constituents, we started forming partnerships outside Smaller Indiana and getting jobs, as well as getting the job done.

I met such great people as Lou Begnel, who threw himself into the growth of Operation "OpenUP!", Amy Stark and Shawn Quick-Raflik, Karen Wolfley who helped me put on a fundraiser, Chris Flener who has been my employer for the last year and we have several other things on tap for the future, Ben McCann whom God sent to me as an angel on earth. He helped me to redesign my Ning and expanded my world by doing so. Then there are my buddies Scott Emmet, David Mark, Steve Stuck, Duke Snyder, Mike and Amy Magan, Annie Sever-Dimitri and the many who brighten my day by being a part of my group "make me Laugh -Show me the FUNNY!"

These people and other members of Smaller Indiana have been my friends, have kept me sane, have donated phones to Operation "OpenUP!", have helped me grow my organization and have just brought a smile to my face. In turn, I have referred several people to SI.

I could say so much more! Thanks to Smaller Indiana, I hope to continue to grow my organization and my friends.

Again, I am Cissi Sherlock, Founder and Director of Operation "OpenUP!" and this is my Smaller Indiana success story!

I can be reached at 317-605-8584 or email to operationopeup@gmail.com

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Permalink Reply by Pat Coyle on June 17, 2009 at 4:31pm

Cissi,
Your energy is infectious. SI wouldn't be the same without you. Thanks for sharing all of this!
Pat

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Lee on June 18, 2009 at 3:03pm

Congratulations, Cissi!

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Permalink Reply by Pat Coyle on June 22, 2009 at 8:58pm

Rocky,
What does this have to do with the question asked?
Pat

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Permalink Reply by Bj Davis on June 17, 2009 at 4:38pm

My name is Bj Davis; I own Bjava Coffee and Tea. Smaller Indiana has helped me connect with people looking for locally owned businesses to hold small gatherings, and meetings.
Many of the people I have met on Smaller Indiana have become regular customers for my fresh roasted coffee for their own use and as corporate gifting.

I have also connected with others in businesses for which I have used their services.
I can be reached at the store at 317 280 1236

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Permalink Reply by Pat Coyle on June 17, 2009 at 4:40pm

Thanks, BJ. Sorry I don't get to West side very often anymore. I miss playing guitar and singing in the back room!!

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Permalink Reply by Bj Davis on June 17, 2009 at 4:41pm

Ah well the back room is pretty full of roasting and baking equipment!

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