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MY PINNACLE NETWORK ANNOUNCES AUGUST 2022 SCHEDULE OF IN-PERSON B2B NETWORKING MEETINGS.

My Pinnacle Network recently announced a full slate of business-to-business networking meetings for August 2022. My Pinnacle Network meetings are as follows:

My Pinnacle Network – Westborough, Tuesday, August 2, from 8 a.m. – 9:30 a.m; Zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85269319168?pwd=dGpQY0I1ajNsZDhtakVKZFgvblN4Zz09, Meeting ID: 852 6931 9168 Passcode: westboro One tap mobile +16465588656,,85269319168# U 

My Pinnacle Network – Wrentham (FORMERLY Mansfield), Wednesday, August 3, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Zoom info: Zoom info: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81203476184; Meeting ID: 812 0347 6184; One tap mobile, +13126266799,,81203476184#

My Pinnacle Network – Marshfield (FORMERLY Pembroke), Thursday, August 4, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.; https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85474205664; Meeting ID: 854 7420 5664; One tap mobile +13017158592,,85474205664#

My Pinnacle Network – North of Boston, Tuesday, August 9, 7:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. 300 Trade Center, Suite 5900, Woburn, MA. The meeting is also online at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88902199004?pwd=VXM5RlVIbWF0YjNJQkZSamVZUFkxUT09 Meeting ID: 889 0219 9004, Passcode: 922763, One tap mobile: +13126266799,,88902199004#

My Pinnacle Network – Newton (FORMERLY Needham), Thursday, August 11, 7:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. Zoom info: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2133819865?pwd=WEpnVXA3MFpEOWw3L1FYNUtYRFkwQT09; Meeting ID: 213 381 9865; Passcode: MPN2020; One tap mobile +16465588656,,2133819865#

My Pinnacle Network – Braintree Third Thursday, Thursday, August 18, from 7:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. Zoom info: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81298429790; Meeting ID: 812 9842 9790; One tap mobile +13126266799,,81298429790#

If you are not a member and want to attend a My Pinnacle Network meeting, My Pinnacle Network at admin@mypinnaclenetwork.com. There is no charge to visit a My Pinnacle Network meeting.

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My Pinnacle Network announces July 2022 schedule of in-person B2B networking meetings.

My Pinnacle Network recently announced a full slate of IN-PERSON, business-to-business networking meetings for July 2022. My Pinnacle Network meetings are as follows:

My Pinnacle Network – Westborough, Tuesday, July 5, from 8 a.m. – 9:30 a.m; Zoom meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85269319168?pwd=dGpQY0I1ajNsZDhtakVKZFgvblN4Zz09, Meeting ID: 852 6931 9168 Passcode: westboro One tap mobile +16465588656,,85269319168# U 

My Pinnacle Network – Marshfield (FORMERLY Pembroke), Thursday, July 7, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.; https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85474205664; Meeting ID: 854 7420 5664; One tap mobile +13017158592,,85474205664#

My Pinnacle Network – North of Boston, Tuesday, July 12, 7:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. 300 Trade Center, Suite 5900, Woburn, MA. The meeting is also online at https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88902199004?pwd=VXM5RlVIbWF0YjNJQkZSamVZUFkxUT09 Meeting ID: 889 0219 9004, Passcode: 922763, One tap mobile: +13126266799,,88902199004#

My Pinnacle Network – Wrentham (FORMERLY Mansfield), Wednesday, July 13, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Zoom info: Zoom info: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81203476184; Meeting ID: 812 0347 6184; One tap mobile, +13126266799,,81203476184#

My Pinnacle Network – Newton (FORMERLY Needham), Thursday, July 14, 7:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. Zoom info:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82353757149 Meeting ID: 823 5375 7149 +13017158592,,82353757149#

My Pinnacle Network – Braintree Third Thursday, Thursday, July 21, from 7:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. Zoom info: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81298429790; Meeting ID: 812 9842 9790; One tap mobile +13126266799,,81298429790#

If you are not a member and want to attend a My Pinnacle Network meeting, My Pinnacle Network at admin@mypinnaclenetwork.com. There is no charge to visit a My Pinnacle Network meeting.

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My Pinnacle Network announces June 2022 schedule of in-person B2B networking meetings.

DATELINE: BRAINTREE, WRENTHAM, NEWTON, MARSHFIELD, WESTBOROUGH AND WOBURN, MA …My Pinnacle Network recently announced a full slate of IN-PERSON, business-to-business networking meetings for June 2022. This marks the first month where all My Pinnacle Network will meet in person in June. My Pinnacle Network meetings are as follows:

My Pinnacle Network – Wrentham (FORMERLY Mansfield), Wednesday, June 1, from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., Wrentham Village Premium Outlets, Community Meeting Room, 1 Premium, Outlet Blvd, Wrentham, MA 02093 (Past restaurants in the front of the complex.  Proceed to the end of the shops.  Look for sign noting “Bus Zone/Drop Off”).

My Pinnacle Network – Marshfield (FORMERLY Pembroke), Thursday, June 2 6, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., Work Local, 892 Plain Street, Route 139, Marshfield, MA 02050. Located in between Sullivan Tire and Santander Bank.

My Pinnacle Network – Westborough, Tuesday, June 7, from 8 a.m. – 9:30 a.m at Corridor 9 Chamber of Commerce, 30 Lyman Street, Westborough, MA 01581.

My Pinnacle Network – North of Boston, Tuesday, June 14, 7:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. 300 Trade Center, Suite 7610, Woburn, MA.

My Pinnacle Network – Newton (FORMERLY Needham), Thursday, June 9, 7:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. at Fairway Mortgage – The DeMarco Group, 180 Wells Street, Suite 300, Newton, MA 02459.

My Pinnacle Network – Braintree Third Thursday, Thursday, June 19, from 7:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. at 100 Grandview Road, 3rd Floor Conference Room, Braintree, MA 02184. All My Pinnacle Network meetings will be hybrid so that members or guests can also attend online. Please contact My Pinnacle Network at admin@mypinnaclenetwork.com for Zoom login info. There is no charge to visit a My Pinnacle Network meeting.

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Recruitment Playbook: 29 Tactics to Increase Candidate Flow and Develop Your Employer Brand.

Recruiting and retaining talented, resourceful and engaged employees is more critical than ever. But how does a company compete? Debra J. Parent, PHR, SHRM-CP, CHHR has developed a 29 step “Recruitment Playbook” that helps companies surround candidates with positive messages and entices them to take the next step. She reveals that formula in this free webinar.

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Trading cards in the Trading Pit.  “Live” networking event meets at Stockholders Steakhouse, Weymouth on Wednesday, June 8, 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.


Mathew Phillips, SSPNG

It’s been two, long years, but “live” networking is returning. Businesspeople are invited to a face-to-face networking event at Stockholders Steakhouse, 1073 Main Street, Route 53, Weymouth on Wednesday, June 8, 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.  The event will take place in the restaurants private room, The Trading Pit.

The event is sponsored by three leading organizations including My Pinnacle Network, South Shore Networking Professionals and Rockland Trust.  Participation is $19.95 per person.  Hearty and complimentary hors d’oeuvres will be served.  A cash bar will be available.  To RSVP, click here.

 “We are delighted to bring people back together again,” noted Steve Dubin, one of the founders of My Pinnacle Network.  “Many businesspeople are anxious to see each other again and renew relationships and start new ones.”

Joe Moser of Rockland Trust added, “Most business owners and executives are extroverts by nature.  This live event opens allows us all to connect.”

“Remember good old fashioned business cards, handshakes and three dimensional smiles?” asked Matt Phillips of South Shore Networking Professionals. “We all missed that human interaction and it is great to get back to it.”

Background on the event sponsors

Sponsors of the event include My Pinnacle Network which hosts monthly meetings for business-to-business professionals at five locations throughout Massachusetts including Braintree, Mansfield, Needham, Pembroke, Westborough and Woburn; South Shore Networking Professionals which connects business people monthly at locations throughout the South Shore; and Rockland Trust, offering a wide range of banking, investment, and insurance services to businesses and individuals through retail branches, commercial lending offices, investment management offices, and residential lending centers located in Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, as well as through online, mobile and phone banking.

To RSVP, click here.

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Be my guest: The best and most underutilized newsletter hack

Many companies start newsletters with the best of intentions. Then work gets in the way. The weekly newsletter turns bi-monthly, monthly and then quarterly and then on no particular schedule at all. Before long, your customers and people in your network wonder if you have a newsletter at all.

How do you get back on schedule and stay on schedule?

First, recommit to getting a newsletter out on a certain day/week of the month. Create a budget of story ideas so you know what you will be writing about several editions in advance. And then, take advantage of the most underutilized newsletter hack out there:

Guest columnists.

Invite people from your orbit to contribute content every so often.

Wait a second. Isn’t this a newsletter for my product or service? Why bring in somebody else who will talk about something other than what my company does?

Well, first things first, you invite a guest columnist who does offer something of value to your readers. In the past, our sister company PR Works has welcomed contributions from business coaches, IT specialists, HR providers etc. Many of our readers own a small business and these topics are of interest.

So, how did that help?

First, it provided content. Don’t underrate that, especially when our readers found it helpful.

Second, it provides insight into the types of professionals we work with. It certainly doesn’t hurt your company image to be associated with smart people.

Third, it provides you additional audience members as your guest columnist will want to share your newsletter with their customers and network.

Our own Joe D’Eramo recently showcased this strategy. In case you didn’t know, Joe started a newsletter called My Home Office Hacks, sort of a virtual water cooler for people who work from home.

One of the work from home topics he addressed is what foods to keep in the house. He invited a Wellness & Nutrition Coach, Marissa Szabo, to share some pointers. That issue can be found here.

“This was by far one of our more read issues,” said Joe. “What was interesting was the amount of people who saw the article on LinkedIn. Those are largely people from Marissa’s network. It really was a win-win and we’ll have Marissa back at some point with another wellness tip.”

You can sign up for Joe’s newsletter here.

If you would like to be a guest columnist for an upcoming My Pinnacle Network newsletter or PR Pointer, drop a line.

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Take credit for networking

photo of b2b networking group My Pinnacle Network-Westborough.

At the My Pinnacle Network-Westborough meeting last Tuesday, David Allen of Balance Wealth Advisors encouraged members to take credit for “getting up and coming to a networking” by posting a screen shot of our zoom meeting and posting to social media.

While not everybody may be thrilled with how they look in Zoom world, it’s a good idea and practice for several reasons:

  • Content for your social media sites, particularly LinkedIn
  • Tagging opportunities on a LinkedIn post so you can be seen by the connections of your fellow networking group members
  • Tagging the companies of those networking group members, also bringing you to another audience
  • An increase in page views and reactions to your posts.

If you doubt the last one, give it a try with your next virtual networking meeting. To see what that might look like, check out My Pinnacle Network’s Joe D’Eramo’s post.

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Embracing the New Workplace

Employers can’t fill critical positions. More than 40 percent of current employees are resigning. Customers and clients are annoyed by lack of service, product and attention. What can an employer do? In response to this crisis, a complimentary webinar entitled

“Embracing the new workplace. Hiring and retention solutions in challenging times” was held on Wednesday, December 8, 9 a.m. To RSVP, please visit shorturl.at/buCIJ. Employment expert panelists included Denise Noble of HR Engineers based in Franklin, MA; David Sawyer of Safer Places based in Middleboro, MA and Brad Pinta, Esq. of Pinta Law Group located in Quincy, MA. Steve Dubin of PR Works, Plymouth, MA moderated the discussion. The panel will offer specific advice, tips and examples of how to attract and retain the best and brightest.

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Embracing the new workplace. Hiring and retention solutions in challenging times. Scheduled for Wednesday, December 8, 9 a.m.

Employers can’t fill critical positions.  More than 40 percent of current employees are resigning. Customers and clients are annoyed by lack of service, product and attention.  What can an employer do?

In response to this crisis, a complimentary webinar entitled “Embracing the new workplace.   Hiring and retention solutions in challenging times” is scheduled for Wednesday, December 8, 9 a.m.  To RSVP, please visit shorturl.at/buCIJ.

Employment expert panelists include Denise Noble of HR Engineers based in Franklin, MA; David Sawyer of Safer Places based in Middleboro, MA and Brad Pinta, Esq. of Pinta Law Group located in Quincy, MA.  Steve Dubin of PR Works, Plymouth, MA will moderate the discussion.  The panel will offer specific advice, tips and examples of how to attract and retain the best and brightest.

Noble will expand upon new methods of attracting quality candidates to the workplace and how to create a work environment that encourages employees to be heard, seen, valued and connected to a common goal.  Sawyer will outline how to use custom background checks to make a better and more informed hiring decision. Pinta will underscore his personal challenge with hiring and firing legal staff and the ironic litigation that could arise from these processes.

The business community is encouraged to attend. The event is sponsored by three leading organizations including My Pinnacle Network which hosts monthly meetings for business-to-business professionals at five locations throughout Massachusetts including Braintree, Mansfield, Needham, Pembroke, and Westborough; South Shore Networking Professionals which connects business people monthly at locations throughout the South Shore; and Rockland Trust, offering a wide range of banking, investment, and insurance services to businesses and individuals through retail branches, commercial lending offices, investment management offices, and residential lending centers located in Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, as well as through online, mobile and phone banking.

Please RSVP for the event at shorturl.at/buCIJ. Or call My Pinnacle Network at 781-582-1061.

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Rebroadcast of “Maybe Franchising is Right for You Or Not”

You’ve thought of being your own boss, controlling your own destiny, expanding your income and latching onto a proven business model. This webinar entitled Maybe Franchising is Right for You? Or Not provides some answers as Dana Hall of FranNet outlines what the advantages and pitfalls of franchise ownership.

The first part of the discussion focuses on whether you have the mindset of someone who is not a wild-eyed entrepreneur, but an independent business owner ready to plug into a tightly woven system. Hall also addresses the general upfront financial requirements, potential buildout costs, operations and sustainability of various franchise models.

Dana Hall is a franchise consultant with FranNet of Boston and provides expert advice and guidance for prospective franchise business owners. FranNet’s proprietary Personal Franchise Assessment tool, thorough and personalized one-one consultation, and a 30 plus year history of excellence sets FranNet apart. Hall has more than 30 years of experience in financial analysis, strategic business planning, operations, and local store marketing.

Hall was the director of finance for retail operations for Panera Bread during a period of rapid store growth and increased profitability. He was responsible for budgeting, strategic financial planning, KPI development and reporting, store metric evaluation, and profitability improvement for 900 company-owned locations generating $2B in revenue. He held a similar role for the Wendy’s Company in the New England Division, in addition to a strategic Marketing role for the Northeast Region. Hall has also served as a Franchise Business Consultant advising and counseling franchisees in the field on improving operations, driving incremental sales and generating increased profits.

He graduated from North Adams State College with a BS in Business Administration/Accounting and holds an MBA from Suffolk University in Boston.

The event was sponsored by My Pinnacle Network, which hosts monthly meetings for business-to-business professionals at five locations throughout Massachusetts including Braintree, Mansfield, Needham, Pembroke, and Westborough; South Shore Networking Professionals, which connects business people monthly at locations throughout the South Shore; and Rockland Trust, offering a wide range of banking, investment, and insurance services to businesses and individuals through retail branches, commercial lending offices, investment management offices, and residential lending centers located in Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, as well as through online, mobile and phone banking.