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Costco wholesale to
host area
businesses
Don’t miss a great opportu
nity to start the day off with some
valuable contacts! Up to 100 lo
cal businesses will gather for the
Portland metro area’s premier
networking event.
Networking begins at 8 a.m.
on Friday, June 20, at Costco
Wholesale, 15901 SW Jenkins
Road, Beaverton. Hosted by
C ostco w holesale and the
Beaverton Area Chamber o f
Commerce, the event is open to
all area businesses, and admis
sion is free. Call the chamber at
644-0123 for more information
about the weekly networking or
the other professional develop
ment opportunities available to
the business community.
The Beaverton Area Cham
ber of Commerce is a non-profit
organization o f 800 members
representing ap proxim ately
26,000 employees in the Port
land metropolitan area.
Learn how to
remember
customers’ names
at Chamber
Roundtable
Customers are pleased when
you remember their names, but
how do you keep track of all of
them? Learn how to do just that
at the June 18 B usiness
Roundtable, featuring Marilyn
Sangmeister of Customer Ser
vice from the H eart. The
rou n d tab le
is
held
at
McMenamins Pub & Restaurant,
2927 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.,
Beaverton, from 7 to 8:30 a.m.
In this week’s topic, “The
Name Game,” Sangmeister will
teach you how to remember your
customers’ names so they will
remember yours when they are
ready to buy.
The roundtable, hosted by the
Beaverton Area Chamber o f
Commerce, is a discussion group
designed to help business people
learn from their peers or local
experts. There is a $2 charge for
coffee and a muffin. Call the
chamber at 644-0123 for more
information.
The Beaverton Area Cham
ber of Commerce is a non-profit
organization o f 800 members
representing ap p roxim ately
26,000 employees in the Port
land metropolitan area.
Neighborhood Capital, Concluded
by
those gains in social and cultural skills We’re speaking
My final comment last week was, “I didn’t get my
of those cross-cultural school and playground activities
accounting clients with newspaper ads - it was through
and especially those formal and informal high school
conversations wherever I met people, many o f us ’know’ groups at a later state (from science to debating).
but can’t articulate.”
One needs to be comfortable, articulate and perceived
And I should have added, “and no matter how odd the
at ease in that latter venue for it is the defining threshold,
circumstance.” I recall a particular instance in point.
entrance into the university community and then the
While trying to survive on a three-
economic realities of a career. Last
client practice-and paying the late
year around this time, I emphasized
Bill McClendon $10 a month office
how important it is to talk with your
rent-I held down a three-nights-a-
children, to draw them out, extend
week bread and butter job waiting
them, convince them that their words
tables at a fashionable local night
and ideas are important. This was
club. A somewhat tipsy used car dealer vm tr r h ilH r a n
July 17, 1996 in my Observer col
requested “something more substan-
umn, ‘Perspectives’, “Children, Lan
tial than this napkin" on which to
guage And Norma Loquendi” (Norma
write a ladies phone number.
’
Loquendi actually is not a girl’s name,
I obliged him by offering the blank
but is Latin for “the common speech
side of one of my new professional
of the people”). And for an example
business cards, “Accountant & Audi
of how successful such language ex
tor.” Three weeks later I got a call
perience can be, I described the plea
from the gentleman, “I’ve had it with
sure of meeting a number o f secure
this bookkeeper o f mine’. I don’t
and accomplished young adults who
know where I got your card but I’d
had been students in the early grades
sure like to ' talk ’ to you. ” And talk we
at the local Black Educational Cen
did-over the phone a lot, while he
ter. Their neighborhoods work!
checked out my meager three references before inviting
And then one might wonder if I had some sort of
me out to make a personal presentation.
prescience at the time, for it was this January 8 when 1
A talkative and gregarious man who could convert a wrote a special article for the Observer attacking
comment about the weather into an extended colloquial
“Ebonics.”
discourse, he never blinked any eye on discovering that
The media informs us that this educational travesty
I was an African American. And given that his inquiries
has died a natural death, and we can only hope that the
had confirmed my reputation for competency he was
educationists have returned to teaching a decent level of
quite sure he had a winner, introducing me to other the “Norma Loquendi.”
dealers who became my clients. Many o f whom it turned
A reader makes an interesting point. “We had a
out had never experienced an “audit” conversation with
Million-Man-March, the million returned home but
a black person in their lifetime.
nothing much has happened. Where are the economic
That’s all well and good, using your ‘conversational
benefits that should have resulted from the investment of
capital at that level, advancing professional careers, but this much social capital? Is it to late for us to develop the
back at the neighborhood-where it all has to happen,
communication skills that are prerequisite to successful
beginning with the child-please continue and accerate
group action, neighborhoods that work?
I emphasized
how important it
is to talk with
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extend them,
convince them
that their words
and ideas are
important.
NationsBank has been named
corporation o f the year for 1997 by
the National Association of Urban
Bankers’ (NAUB). NationsBank
Dealer Financial Services president
Milton Jones accepted the ward in
Detroit, MI.
The NAUB Corporate Award is
presented to a corporation or finan
cial institution for its demonstration
o f outstanding performance in sup
port o f the NAUB mission, goals
and objectives. The Award is granted
to institutions nominated by a NAUB
Chapter or any individual member
of an associate or affiliate Chapter.
NationsBank joins past recipients
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NationsBank is looked upon as a
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bidding for procurement and profes
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