Paul Hanrieder of Optimum on Site & Ken Wallewein of K&M Systems Integration will explain the cloud based office application software options available and how they can be integrated into your business.

Office Application Alternatives

Thursday, February 2, 2012. Ted Finningley of Finningley Professional Corporation speaks to the 7:30 NEWS Business Club.

Ted Finningley is a Chartered Accountant who has practiced extensively in the income tax and estate planning area for many years with a focus on income tax, corporate and estate planning for privately-owned businesses.

Ted has written and lectured extensively on tax and estate planning matters for several professional organisations and industry groups.

He has authored three tax and estate planning courses:

• Advanced Tax Planning Strategies.
• Compliance Matters Related to Terminal Filing Preparation.
• Estate Planning to Minimize Tax Leakage.

The 7:30 NEWS Business Club is pleased to have Ted speak to us on the topic Corporate Structures, Holding Companies, and Tax Planning.

Paul Hanreider or Optimum On Site brought the 7:30 News business club up to speed on the latest technologies on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.  3D TV’s are attracting most of the attention. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Du4qK5a4E

Avnish Mehta of Baxter Bean Strategic Direction & Training spoke to the 7:30 NEWS Business Club at our breakfast meeting at 7:30 am January 19, 2012 held at the Port’ O’ Call Calgary Airport Hotel.

Areas discussed included: Hiring a business coach,  assessing the personalities of employees and customers,  ensuring the right personality types mesh within your organization and with your customers during negotiations.

7:30 NEWS Business Club

Upcoming topics at one of the premier business clubs in Calgary include:

• Corporate Structures, Holding Companies, and Tax Planning with Ted Finningly.
• Increasing Personal Productivity, Reducing Stress, and Living your Passions with Karen Turner.
• Benefits of the Federal Business Developments Bank – Consulting and Research division. A FBDB representative will be here.
• Time Management, effective email management, and desktop tools that improve productivity.

Karen Turner of Turner Efficiency Coaching will speak to the 7:30 NEWS Business Club about Increasing Personal Productivity, Reducing Stress, and Living your Passion.

Avnish Metha of Baxter Bean will speak to the 7:30 News Business Club about business goal setting and ensuring you’re prepared for projections.

From Baxter Bean website:    Business is all about making an emotional connection. If your goal is to make money, you will make it through people. If your goal is to build an empire, you will need people to do it. If you want to be recognized as a leader, you need people to lead. Makes sense right?

Mark Kotris of VIP Moneywise/FundEX Investments Inc. spoke to a number of interesting financial issues including:

• Initiating trades before investment deadlines
• Trigger accrued losses before year-end.
• Philanthropic issues – donating securities to charity.
• Contributing to your TFSA.
• Managing capital gains appropriately

Our next Business Networking Event in Calgary will be on on January 20th at the Port’ O Call Inn. We will be discussing Pricing Strategies in a round table discussion format. With our diverse group of Business owners and mangers in our club, the topic will produce great insights as how some successful businesses:

• Price their products
• Overcome Price objections
• Compete with differently priced competiton

If you would like to attend this meeting, you can fill out a registration form here.

This week we’ll be meeting downtown at the 5th Avenue Grill, 5 Ave. & 5 St. SW, for a presentation entitled

“It’s 10 a.m.! Do you know where your IT projects are?”, led by Yogi Schulz of Corvelle Consulting.

We are very fortunate to have Yogi for the presenter on this topic: he is an expert project manager, and has presented on it to far larger groups.

AboutYogi Shultz

Mr. Schulz has over 24 years of Information Technology experience in various industries.  He works extensively in the petroleum industry to select and implement financial, geotechnical, production revenue accounting and land & contracts systems arising from changes in business requirements, the need to leverage technology opportunities and mergers.  His specialties include IT strategy, web strategy and systems project management.

Mr. Schulz speaks regularly to industry groups and writes a monthly column for Computing Canada that focuses on project management issues and solutions.

More information about Corvelle Consulting here:

Our  Calgary Business Group supports each other to help build each of our businesses. Not like poor “Bond” here.

Enjoy

I had to add this to our Blog.  It is a very sappy explaination to Americans about Canada,  but I don’t care.  Enjoy

We are looking forward to getting educated on Employment standards.  As business owners we all need to know this information.  Employees are very good at knowing their rights,  we need to know that we are operating our businesses properly

We are privileged to have Randy Sorenson from Employment and Immigration Workplace Standards  coming to give a presentation and to answer questions.

Hope to see a full house

We have a busy meeting planned this week!

First we two new prospective members — Norm Dawson and Kevin Hayes — who will providing 5-minute overviews of their businesses, and we will be voting on their acceptance into the club.  Kevin and Norm will both be asked to speak in more detail about their businesses at a later date.

Second, we have a guest speaker, Bob Jonathan from Key People Contracting, who will talk on “When does a contractor become an employee?”

Bob’s company specializes in working with the independent contractor legislation and providing cost savings to companies by converting employees to independent contractors within the CRA guidelines.

This was a very funny explanation of AT&T in the U.S. The funny thing is, its completely accurate. We have had similar stories of mergers in Canada, but not quite as extravagant. There is a commercial in the beginning, but its worth the wait to see the whole thing.

Cingular and AT&T Merger Explained

Barry Wong  of Cell-Tel Wireless will be speaking to our group about the latest developments in Cellular Industry.  With the addition of new competetors,  and new technologies showing up very day,  its easy to fall behind on the best solution for your business.  With Barrys 20+ years of Cellular experience he is going to walk us through some of the best ways to handle our cellular solutions.

We are all looking forward to his informal talk.

Ken is away in Hawaii,  so David Salmon will be our Chairman.  Looking forward to all the Calgary business owners who will be there.  Paul Handreider will be talking to the group about the Consumer Electronics show in Las Vegas.. We are all really looking forward to his talk.  Some very interesting launches happened there.

Check out the LV show here

I like this video on technology, enjoy

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This was our first meeting in the new year.  We were all looking forward to the future and came up with topics we would like to discuss.  We also came up with a survey to see which topics are the most important to the group.  Feel free to take our survey for topics that interest you and your Calgary Based Business.

Click on this link to take our survey.