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Meeting Notes from March 15th, 2011

Zacc — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 03:00:46 +0000

Discussion and News

ProBest Pest Management
Bedbugs continue to spread across the US – stay safe. Find more information on Bedbugs by searching for the word “bedbugs” at ProBests’ blog.

AZ HEAT
National Safety Associates (the makers of Juice Plus), Children of the Nations International, and The Grove have partnered to bring Juice Plus to malnourished Malawian orphans and their guardians. If you would like to sponsor two people for only $41.75 a month with a commitment of one year, please contact Juli at (480) 430-5888 or Juli2by2@yahoo.com.

SixChip Consulting
A special promotion geared towards helping Realtors get more out of their smartphones is in the works and will be offered starting in April. More info at the next meeting.

Sun Valley Solar Solutions
Luke Days Air Show is happening this Saturday and Sunday March 19th & 20th. There will be many 1000′s out there. Bring your business cards.

State Farm Agency – Mary Contreras
Join us for our 9^th annual Spring Fling on Saturday April 2nd from 9 AM to 1 PM. Free windshield chip repair, professional family photos, charity car wash, refreshments and fun activities for the kids. DOWNLOAD THE FLYER

Thanks to everyone who attended the meeting today.

Meeting Notes from March 1st, 2011

Zacc — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 21:53:06 +0000

Discussion and News

Bell Mortgage – Debbie Flinn
Bell Mortgage is now a Homepath lender! Selected red properties are on a Homepath list. 3% down payment and it can be gifted. Also no appraisal is required. Call Debbie Flinn at (602) 430-7541.

ProBest Pest Management
ProBest is teaming up with Marcie the Bedbug sniffing dog – read all about it at our blog.

Prepaid Legal – Lin Bourgeios
Pre-Paid Legal’s Identity Theft Shield provides you with an up-to-date credit report and a detailed analysis of your personal credit score. In the event of identity theft a trained expert will take the steps to help restore your name and credit for you.

AZ HEAT
Juice Plus is 17 raw, vine-ripened fruits and vegetables in capsule and gummy form. 18 studies have been published in medical journals to date. the research shows after taking consistently for 1 year, Juice Plus strengthens the immune system 200% – 400%, increases blood antioxidant levels 500% and reduces DNA damage 66%.

Ben Franklin Plumbing
Do you like the taste of your water? It is important to know what is in your water before showering and drinking it. Everyone can test the chlorine level, if you have a swimming pool, use the same test kit. Chlorine in our tap water is very dangerous when heated high. Your water will also taste bad and give you other health concerns like breathing or skin concerns, any many other organ related issues. Dr. Oz is a big supporter of reducing the level of chlorine in your home tap water for better health.

SixChip Consulting
SixChip Consulting deals with hard drive malfunction and data loss regularly – when discussing which brand of hard drive is recommended, even though some manufacturers do have a better track record than others, having all of your valuable data on one hard drive no matter who makes it, is a bad idea. Carbonite.com provides a quick and easy way to get a copy of your valuable data safely off-site.

State Farm Agency – Mary Contreras
Mary Contreras can help you better understand your retirement plan. She can help you find money that you didn’t know you had, NO CHARGE!

Realty Executives – Sandi Nilson
Real Estate Broker specializing in residential sales. 31 years of experience working with buyers and sellers.
Sales to investors are moving well.

Sun Valley Solar Solutions
APS Residential Solar program taking applications for approvals in the first week of July at $1.60/watt. SRP Residential Solar program is still open at $1.00/watt. SRP new rebate levels will be announced May 1st for the upcoming year. Summer rates kick in May 1st, if you are interested in solar.

Thanks to everyone who attended the meeting today.

Meeting Notes from February 16th, 2011

ANTS Scribe — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:56:15 +0000

Discussion and News

Sun Valley Solar Solutions
A 100% bonus depreciation is available for commercial solar projects through the end of 2011.

ProBest Pest Management
Bedbugs are still making a big comeback – for the latest, follow my blog at CallProBest.com/blog

ProBest is celebrating its 30th Anniversary this year.

Complete Print Shop
My advice to all business owners – If you are not advertising, your competition is.

Go to YouTube and watch our new video @ Complete Print Shop. Take the tour.

State Farm Agency – Mary Contreras
We help people who are frustrated with the cost of their insurance, dissatisfied with their agent/staff, and unhappy with the quality of service they are receiving.

Ben Franklin Plumbing
Punctual Plumbing Service for all your water treatment, water heater and plumbing needs. We are here 7 days a week, no extra service charge.

Check out openforum.com/yourbusinesstv

AZ HEAT
Juice Plus, a whole food supplement is partnering with Children Of The Nation (COTN) to get Juice Plus to orphans in Malawi Africa for free. Email Juli2by2@yahoo.com to learn more, donate or participate.

SixChip Consulting

Android 101 Workshops scheduled for February and March. Visit sixchip.com/android101 to register – tell a friend!

ANTS Business

The ANTS website is undergoing some changes and improvements.

A new ANTS logo is being considered.

Keith has made a 1 page info sheet and has asked that each attendee fill out and return this sheet after each meeting in order to help generate information for the website. DOWNLOAD THE DOCUMENT

An ANTS business card is going to be printed and replace the brochure that has been used in the past and will reflect the colors and theme of the ANTS website.

Referrals and Recommendations

Complete Print Shop

Dependable Solar’s comments today were very informative.

State Farm Agency – Mary Contreras

Shayla referred Ben Franklin Plumbing.

Ben Franklin Plumbing

Saw a great article about ProBest in a national magazine.

Thanks to everyone who attended the meeting today.

Meeting Notes from June 15th, 2010

ANTS Scribe — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:45:04 +0000

Featured Speaker

Realty Executives – Sandi Nilson

Realty Executives was recently ranked 11th largest broker in the U.S. and also 18th in volume in the U.S.

90% of people in the market for a home will be search for it online.

Roundtable Discussion and News

TMI Sonora Telemarketing

Ask for the sale. Call your old customers and ask them why they don’t use you – they may have simply forgotten.

Bell Mortgage – Debbie Flinn

The conventional loan people now want picture id’s and a 2nd credit report at the end of the loan process.

Also there are talks about bringing back the first time home buyer tax credit.

Ben Franklin Plumbing

Ben Franklin has been bought by Direct Energy and is now the largest home services company in the US.

AZ HEAT

Juli recently toured the Juice Plus manufacturing plant in San Diego – when they say vine ripened, it is litterally true. Fruit sold at stores is sprayed with chemicals twice before it gets to you.

Juice Plus is NSF certified, which involves being tested for heavy metals. ARTICLE

Thanks to everyone who attended today.

Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information

Meeting Notes from June 1st, 2010

ANTS Scribe — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:43:44 +0000

Featured Speaker

Wilfredo Benitez with TMI Sonora Telemarketing

Let our telemarketing professionals train your team or do the cold calling for you.

Roundtable Discussion and News

Alliance Flooring

Moving their showroom to Tempe in the coming Weeks.

SixChip Consulting

SixChip Consulting will be offering two new classes soon, in addition to the Blogging 101 class currently offered for free every month: an Introduction to Android class will be offered at least twice a month & a monthly How to Be Safer Online featuring the YubiKey will also be held monthly.

Realty Executives – Sandi Nilson

Sales are up from last year but prices are down – its expected to take 2 or 3 years for our market to normalize here in the valley.

ProBest Pest Management

Be aware of foreclosed homes in your area that may have pools that are going neglected – these are breeding grounds for mosquitoes and they need to be treated. Weeds in the front yard may be a good indicator.

State Farm Agency – Mary Contreras

Right now the replacement cost for homes are about $150 a square foot so that means that buying a home is way cheaper than repairing or building new.

Think twice about co-signing on a car or a home because you can be held liable – if they don’t have proper insurance, you could be in a world of hurt.

Precious Treasures Childcare

Precious Treasures Childcare recently was awarded the Wells Fargo Trailblazer award. ARTICLE 1 ARTICLE 2

AZ HEAT

Juice Plus is now offering the Juice Plus Effect – try Juice Plus for 90 days. Anyone can now sponsor military personnel.

Bear Grylls (from Man VS Wild on the Discovery Channel) has partnered with Juice Plus.

Thanks to everyone who attended today.

Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information

Meeting Notes from May 18th, 2010

ANTS Scribe — Thu, 20 May 2010 13:36:36 +0000

ANTS Business

Lin Bourgeois with Prepaid Legal is keeping her foot up after a fall in NYC.

JerriJo of Aunt J.J.’s Attic is now blogging. Visit his new blog at http://auntjjsattic.wordpress.com/

Featured Speaker

AJ with Dependable Solar

Solar rebate money is going away and might return in October.

Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information

Meeting Notes from May 4th, 2010

ANTS Scribe — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:00:13 +0000

ANTS Business

Ben Franklin Plumbing’s CEO’s were on NBC’s The Apprentice last Sunday night. Ben Franklin was chosen to participate because of their ethics and high values. Visit Win100grand.com and enter to win$100,00.

Laura with Holy Cow Organizational Consulting is leaving the ANTS group; her husband’s job is taking them to Connecticut.

Realty Executives – Sandi Nilson is now blogging. Visit her new blog at SandiNilson.wordpress.com

P & G Assembly also has a new blog. Visit his new blog at DennehyFurnitureAssembly.com

Featured Speaker

Linda Stanfield with Ben Franklin Plumbing

Working in the insurance world you see 1 in every 3 claims are water damage related. Save money in the long-run by having your plumbing checked out now and help prevent a major catastrophe.

Each Ben Franklin Employee is extensively trained and certified, and are continuing to be trained 5 hours a week.

Water treatment is becoming more and more important. Educate yourself and pickup a chlorine tester from Home Depot and test your water.

Ben Franklin strongly stands behind their warranties.

Roundtable Discussion and News

SixChip Consulting

Comarco Recalls (Targus) Power Adapters for Laptops Due to Burn Hazard PRESS RELEASE

Beware Facebook’s ever-changing policies regarding how they use your data: Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information via EFF.org ARTICLE

Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets via CBSNews.com ARTICLE WITH VIDEO

Bell Mortgage – Debbie Flinn

The First Time Home Buyer Program ended on Friday, April 30th so we are “back to basics ” regarding mortgage financing with no stimulus package from the government. Bell Mortgage offers many types of home financing, FHA, VA as well as Conventional loans. We do Owner Occupied, Second Home as well as Investor loans.

Realty Executives – Sandi Nilson

Renting houses in the valley is getting harder due to the demand for rental property growing as rental properties are getting harder to find. Lenders are now focused on short sales and modification instead of getting foreclosures on the market.

Aunt J.J.’s Attic

Look at your calendar and see who’s birthday is coming up. Aunt J.J.’s Attic offers many creative and custom gifts for any occasion.

Precious Treasures Childcare

Opening a new location in July near Ray and Rural road.

Ben Franklin Plumbing

Applications for the (amazing!) 2010 AAAME class, a two-year business mentoring program, are now available on-line. OFFICIAL SITE

Dependable Solar

Big changes in solar up ahead; lots of companies should be going away because APS is out of money already and SRP is running out.

AZ HEAT

Give the gift of health to Mom this year with Juice Plus for a year.

Visitors

Allen Crowder with Employee Benefit Exchange, Corp.

Thanks to everyone who attended today.

Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information

Meeting Notes from April 20th, 2010

ANTS Scribe — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 05:26:24 +0000

ANTS Business

Congratulations to Shayla, whose 2nd child is due tomorrow.

Featured Speaker

Wilfredo with TMI Sonora Telemarketing.

Roundtable Discussion and News

ProBest Pest Management

ProBest is working on building a bug mobile and State Farm is going to wrap it. Follow ProBest’s blog as this idea develops.

Dependable Solar

SRP announced a rate drop from 3.00 to $2.15.

Prepaid Legal – Lin Bourgeios

Credit restoration is Prepaid Legal’s specialty, and can also help with identity theft prevention.

The Garbage Guy

The price of steel is up again so if you have metal to recycle, it may be worth it.

SixChip Consulting

The password management involved in using the internet these days is a nightmare, but the YubiKey can help. The YubiKey is a tiny one-button device that acts as a USB keyboard when plugged into a computer. When pressed, the YubiKey generates complex passwords for use with Windows, Mac, Linux and the internet. OFFICIAL SITE

Ben Franklin Plumbing

All Ben Franklin Plumbing employees are drug and criminal record free.

Morr Film & Video

Old damaged video tapes are still recoverable, so don’t give up on them just yet.

Visitors

Kevin Johnston with AFLAC

Thanks to everyone who attended today.

Meeting Notes from April 6th, 2010

ANTS Scribe — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 05:07:33 +0000

ANTS Business

ProBest is looking for a trailer for a special project.

We should each mention who a good lead for us is during our 60-seconds.

Featured Speaker

Ken Britt with the Complete Print Shop

Q: Who revolutionized printing back in the 1400′s?
A: Johannes Gutenberg

Fast forward to now – you could buy MS Publisher and design your own flier and print it off yourself. This flier may look good on your computer (which is 72 dpi) but when it the print comes out fuzzy you’ll realize that you could have better spent your money having a designer create it correctly for you. This is what separates the mom and pop setups from the professionals.

Thoroughly review your proofs – we all make mistakes. I have a calendar which is missing the 8th day of the month.

We all get junk mail because it works!

Roundtable Discussion and News

State Farm Agency – Mary Contreras

Windshield claims greatly affect your rates – Arizona drivers are 9 times more likely to have windshield claims than any other state.

Ben Franklin Plumbing

Visit our website to read our blog post about the Arizona Cash For Appliance Rebate starting April 12th. Ben Franklin Plumbing will be matching the rebate on qualifying water heaters.

Dependable Solar

Bad news for those considering solar: “APS seeks to lower solar installer rates” (via the Phoenix Business Journal)

ProBest Pest Management

Keith is now a certified entomologist.

ProBest was featured on ABC 15 last week for about two minutes. What the video here.

ProBest met and exceeded its goal to raise $500 for the local Big Brothers Big Sisters. ARTICLE

Realty Executives – Sandi Nilson

Watch for creative foreclosures.

The Garbage Guy

April is a pivotal month for valley weather - if you want to be parking in your garage when the heat hits, call The Garbage Guy today.

Aunt J.J.’s Attic

Visit our website for a great selection of completely custom baby shower gifts.

Thanks to everyone who attended today.

Meeting Notes from March 16th, 2010

ANTS Scribe — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:22:14 +0000

ANTS Business

Thanks to Juli for booking the ANTS meeting at TC Eggington’s. The food is remarkable but consider ordering a half-portion!

Featured Speaker

Keith with ProBest Pest Management

The article How to Boost Your Customer Referrals in 7 Simple Steps is from a marketing site called DuctTapeMarketing.com.

Laura from Holy Cow will be in charge of making sure everybody takes 60 seconds or less in an effort to leave 15 minutes at the end of our meetings to discuss referrals and other ideas.

AJ will try to come up with some kind of flier advertisement.

Lets welcome and encourage our guest to return and help our new members set reasonable expectations.

Roundtable Discussion and News

The Garbage Guy

Removed a hot tub just this morning.

Visit GarbageGuy.com for some ugly pictures.

AZ HEAT

Juice plus is the most studied nutricuetical in the world.

Bell Mortgage – Debbie Flinn

The Feds have been buying Mortgage Back Securities since 2009 and their purchases of over ONE TRILLION DOLLARS in MBS will end March 31st.

Effective February 1st, FHA has lifted their 90 day Flip rule, meaning FHA will now insure loans to borrowers that purchase a home that has been owned 90 days or less by the seller, but, the big box banks have indicated to us just in the last couple of days that they will NOT allow financing on flipped properties within the first 90 days.

Dependable Solar

SRP solar rebates will drop again May 1st – now is the time to go solar.
Dependable Solar with be in booths 708 & 710 at the Build it Green “BIG” Expo March 18,19 and 20th.

Looking to make your home or business more sustainable? Over 200 exhibitors will be showcasing a variety of “green” products and services that can help you help the environment. MORE INFO

Prepaid Legal – Lin Bourgeios

Pre-Paid Legal is a 35 year old company that is on the NYSA. You may not have a legal situation, but an attorney can help if you have had trouble with a warranty on a product you purchased, had a car repair bill that was not the amount you authorized, had problems with an insurance claim, had to collect child support, need to prepare or update your will. Our Identity Theft Shield membership includes, an up-to-date credit report, continuous monitoring and Identity restoration by licensed investigators.

ProBest Pest Management

Take precautions when traveling – 19 states have confirmed cases of bed bugs. Look up your hotel before you get there at BedBugRegistry.com.

State Farm Agency – Mary Contreras

Mary Contreras State Farm Customer Appreciation Spring Fling will be on Saturday the 27th of March Don’t claim windshield repair; it may hurt more than you think.

Visitors

Jon Anshutz with Anshutz Graphic Design

Thanks to everyone who attended today.

Meeting Notes from March 2nd, 2010

ANTS Scribe — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:00:38 +0000

ANTS Business

Sandi Nilson was the first guest to blog on ProBest Pest Management’s blog. LINK

The Intro To Blogging class will be held this Friday at 3:00 PM at ProBest Pest Management’s office.

Juli has volunteered to look into a new meeting location for the ANTS meetings. Send any suggestions or requests her way.

Featured Speaker

Sonya Stockhaus with Faith Real Estate & Investments

We are starting to see the slightest glimpse of property appreciation.

Roundtable Discussion and News

SixChip Consulting

Firefox is a great alternative to Internet Explorer and offers an incredible amount of add-on’s. OFFICIAL SITE

The add-on Invisible Hand tells you if the item you are about to buy is cheaper on another site. OFFICIAL SITE

State Farm Agency – Mary Contreras

The Mary Conreras State Farm Agency is using TMI Sonora Telemarketing for their telemarketing needs.

The biannual customer appreciation day is coming up March 27th.

AZ HEAT

Juli is a certified nutrician coach.

Ben Franklin Plumbing

Servicing the valley for 26 years.

Alliance Flooring

Has some great sales on floor tile until April.

ProBest Pest Management

Honeybees are going to be out in full force this year because of all the rain we’ve had lately – don’t attempt to handle them yourselves.

Visitors

Chiropractor James Stubbs
Electrician Greg Speaks
Organizational Consultant Laura Hertzler

Thanks to everyone who attended today.

Meeting Notes from February 16th, 2010

ANTS Scribe — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:00:48 +0000

ANTS Business

Linda Stanfield gave an update on her son.

An Intro To Blogging class is being planned for later this month – more details to come.

Featured Speaker

Juli Bryan with AZ HEAT

Roundtable Discussion and News

Prepaid Legal – Lin Bourgeios

Single parents really need a will; if you know someone who doesn’t have one, call today.

Alliance Flooring

Prices that beat Home Depot.

Complete Print Shop

Now is the time to spend more on (printed) marketing, which is up 10% from last year.

Ben Franklin Plumbing

Ben Franklin Plumbing is going to be on NBC’s The Apprentice starting May 2nd.

Dependable Solar

Solar is a great tax free investment (12%)

SRP tax credit goes from $2.70 a watt to $2.55 a watt May 1st.

Aaron Investigations & Research, Inc

Attending a speed networking even on Feb 25th at 6:00 pm. Contact Wayne for more details.

Thanks to everyone who attended today.