On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Phil Roos, CEO of Great Lakes GrowthWorks and a member of the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch for 2020. His company’s mission is to “transcend disruption and inspire transformational growth” -- appropriate for small firms trying to cope with COVID-19. “Just hanging with it and having that perseverance and being willing to challenge all the assumptions, that’s what we try to help people do,” he says.
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with John Schmidt, the owner of Tri-City Groundbreakers, a full service heavy and civil contractor and a VIP member of the Small Business Association of Michigan. “We can do more with less,” he says. “We've implemented technology, GPS and automated grading, and we took some big leaps of faith and made some large investments early on that have really helped ramp up our production rates and make us more efficient.”
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Tobi Lyon, owner of Ngage Management, a full-service association and event management company that was named to the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch list for 2020. “It's okay to have failures, failures lead to success,” she says. “And being that authentic, and I think all of our clients, what they will tell you in what they value of us is all of our staff is very transparent. They're not going to give you a sales pitch and deliver things that they can't.”
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Monica Mitidieri, the owner of Monica’s Gourmet Cookies and a member of the Michigan 50 Companies to Watch for 2020. She started as a small caterer but now has her cookies in stores across the state. “I think it was just literally calling and finding out who it is that you need to talk to, not just oh, here's some cookies, tell me what you think later,” she says. “You really need to speak to somebody that's the decision maker.”
The Small Business Association of Michigan is the only statewide and state-based association that focuses solely on serving the needs of Michigan’s small business community. We have been successfully serving small businesses like yours in all 83 counties of Michigan since 1969. We’re located in Lansing, just one block from the Capitol.
Our mission is to help Michigan small businesses succeed by promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging buying power and engaging in political advocacy. When small businesses band together through the Small Business Association of Michigan, they achieve more than they could on their own.
Our 28,000+ members are as diverse as Michigan's economy. From accountants to appliance stores, manufacturers to medical, and restaurants to retailers, what unites the SBAM membership is the spirit of entrepreneurship…a spirit that drove you to start and continue to operate your own business because you believe you can do something better than anyone else is doing it!
(music licensed from www.jukedeck.com)