Strictly Business back at Cameo Nightclub - 11-18-09

The first person I saw when I arrived at this week's Strictly Business networking event at Cameo Nightclub in Wilmington, NC was Jon Hicks of Ethos Design Studios. Strictly Business is hosted each week by Curtis Wright of The Big Talker FM. Curtis is a shy type, that's his car below.

Each week a non-profit organization is featured and this week it was the Cape Fear River Watch. Carrie Frohling works with CFRW and just got back from her honeymoon (oh-oh, maybe she has a different last name now, someone help me out?). Talking with Carrie was Ian Hunting, proprietor of The Pepperoni Grill in Boiling Springs.

Joe Abate, Program Director for Cape Fear River Watch and Brian Crounse, an event planner for the film industry who recently moved to Wilmington.

Robert Lewis of Lewis Dental Labs.

Jon Hicks chatting with Paul Whitehouse of Lopermedia.

The Big Talker Curtis Wright himself and Melinda Haynes of PrePaid Legal.

Pat Herrmann and Vincent Prisco.

Mark Evans of Green Cleaning Technicians and Paige Freeman of Sea-Comm Media.

Elaine Huston of PrePaid Legal and Rich Huston of UFirst.

Curtis, Scott Ball of Coastal Document Systems, and Russ Hauptman of Sea-Comm Media (last week I mistakenly wrote Russ's name was Doug, but he was a good sport about it).

Stephanie Williams of Edward Jones with photographer and landscaper Robert Freeman.

Elaine Huston with Jennifer Altman of SendOutCards.


Another fine turn out that was Strictly Business!

Sea Coast Realty Leland Office Oyster Roast

Each month Denise Kinney, the managing broker of the Leland office of Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Realty sets a contract goal for the 20-odd Realtors who work in the office. If we make or exceed the goal (or rather I should say 'when', because we usually make it), Denise plans a party. This year we've hit our goal most months, and last evening we had an oyster roast at our office to celebrate exceeding our October goal target.

Realtor Sean Skutnik, a multi-talented guy who also fishes, gardens, and cooks, did the honors of picking up and cooking the oysters and he did a fine, fine job. Here's Sean below with the initial load of oysters on the cooker (this was a very small portion of the oysters - we went through two huge cartons of them).

Office Manager Kari Essig and brokers Peter David, Linda Killian, and Craig Spafford.

Broker Howard Bailey, Kari, and Allyson Kinney with her mom Denise.

I left fairly early but the festivities went on for hours.

I wonder what Denise will think of when we beat our goal this month?

SendOutCards Luncheon - Holiday Cards and Gifts for Business

Each month Marge and I sponsor a luncheon at Antonio's Pizza and Pasta in Leland, NC where we present a business topic and also provide information about SendOutCards - with the focus on using SOC for business marketing.

This month, with the holiday season upon us, the business topic focused right on the central point of our SendOutCards focus, "Business Holiday Card and Gift Giving." We had a lively group of about a dozen people and it was entertaining and informative (at least I thought so, but then I was the main speaker).

Before the luncheon started Marge Brown, Doc Hamm, David Merrill, Kerry Kasotsky, and Jennifer Altman chatted.

If you'd like more info about our monthly business topic meetings, comment on this blog or email Marge@FatCityCards.