A Little Love for Our Local Chambers…

We had two really great meetings this week.

One with Laura Petrella, CEO of the Cuyahoga Falls Chamber of Commerce and one with Patricia Pell, Home business Network Leader & Brad Nellis, Director of Member Networks for COSE (Council of Smaller Enterprises).

Cuyahoga Falls Chamber

Laura was extremely helpful. No sooner had we left the meeting than she had several emails waiting for me in my inbox — all pointing me to local lots that were available and city programs designed to encourage economic growth in downtown Cuyahoga Falls. Stuff that would have taken us hours to track down ourselves, she was able to zero in on immediately.

She understood the concept of coworking and immediately got it.

That and Laura is just an extremely savvy & gregarious person. It was kind of cool because she mentioned she was reading Malcom Gladwell’s The Tipping Point, one of my favorites. We quickly agreed she was a ‘connector’ — someone who’s able to bring people together to make things happen — to paraphrase Gladwell.
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Here come the big boys…

Rockefeller Group Business Centers has announced the opening of it’s first coworking facility at their 48 Wall Street location in NYC. I also heard rumblings that Regus has been toying with the idea in San Francisco.

While I’ll admit the competitive side of me cringes at the thought of the heavy weights getting involved. I do think there’s plenty of room for everybody at this point.
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