How has Smaller Indiana helped your business?

[Pat Coyle]

The IBJ is running a story about Smaller Indiana, Bigger Ideas this week, and they're looking for evidence that Smaller Indiana has helped businesses...if you have any stories to share, please add them ASAP to this forum. Have you generated new business? New customers? New key relationships? New speaking opportunities...etc. IBJ is looking for success stories...and they need them quick cuz they're on deadline...please add your story here and include your phone # if you can so IBJ might call you for more info...Thanks!!
Pat

[Ben McCann]

shortly After joining smaller indiana, I had a falling out with my employer and we decided to part ways. I decided to start my own business called CATALIST CONSULTING ... basically turning creating stategic relationships into a business. I was one of the first 200 or so people in SI and made connections and was able to research and get feedback on starting business, and the WHOLE social networking thing was TOTALLY NEW to me at the time, SMALLER INDIANA was my first ever social networking site. Since then I have used SI and the SOCIAL NETWORKING SKILLS i learned by being a part of SI to launch entire entities, grow my business by starting out as just me to being an 8 person company 1 year later. WE just hired an Operations Manger to handle all the business and employees etc...

Moreover, because of the BE MORE SERVE MORE philosphy that being a RAINMAKER and SMOOSIER has helped me refine, I started and ONLINE COMMUNITY in december specifically towards helping people in job transition using SOCIAL NETWORKING. Now CATALIST JOBS.COM has grown to almost 300 people and my analytics attribute a lot of that growth directly to SI.

I learned how to communicate better on the web, use the tools and drive traffic to my business and others, promote event based brand awareness, manage relationships with people that don't keep the same business hours or even on the same side of town for that matter. I have made multiple friends, a few enemies... and a lot of money.

I have used my knowlege and freely given it to hundreds of people and helped them grow their NOT FOR PROFIT, their BUSINESS, and their personal relationships.

When the FLOODS came to CENTRAL INDIANA ( FRANKLIN ) specifically, I used my SI network to launch and show people the devastation that had taken place in our community, by uploading video and sharing and letting peole know, SI became a powerful communication tool for me to COORDINATE VOLUNTEERS for the entire county. within 24 hours of the flood I was coordinating hundreds of volunteers and I used TECHNOLOGY and SOCIAL NETWORKING to communicate with multiple people to have a great impact.

The Newspaper Articles mentioned the network, but they didn't mention the TOOLS specifically... they left out SMALLER INDIANA... even though I told them about it by name. Oh well...

BOTTOM LINE... the people and the CONNECTIONS that SMALLER INDIANA bring don't always agree with me on every level, but it is the ENGAGEMENT and the ENERGY that keeps me coming back.

PEOPLE, IDEAS, CONNECTIONS, ABUNDANCE, ENGAGEMENT, PROFIT.

In LIFE, it is all about RELATIONSHIPS, built on TRUST, TRUST of CHARACTER, COMPETANCE, CHEMISTRY and last but not least ability to COMMUNICATE and resolve CONFLICT in an HONORABLE way... Smaller Indiana provides a platform to meet, learn, and grow in relationships, hold each other accountable to committments, words, actions, and COMMUNICATE effectively.

I now have 4 entities that I am growing and managing, all debt free... and all making a profit... THANKS SMALLER INDIANA FOR BEING A BIG PART OF IT.

BEN MCCANN
FOUNDER - www.catalistjobs.com
PRESIDENT - www.catalistfinancial.com
CEO/ PRESIDENT - www.thecatalistnetwork.com
OWNER - www.catalisttravel.com
317.441.4321
CREATIVE DIRECTOR - www.ciboindy.ning.com , www.cbmcindiana.ning.com , www.thecpop.ning.com & much more

[Cissi Sherlock]

And, that's why I love Ben McCann and all of the good friends I've made on Smaller Indiana!

[Ben McCann]

HERE IS THE VIDEO I USED TO SEND OUT AN S.O.S.


and here is what CATALIST JOBS has turned into... thanks to SMALLER INDIANA


Find more videos like this on catalistjobs
Here is one of the PRODUCTS we have created to help people market themselves smarter using social media.


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[Erik Deckers]

Smaller Indiana has helped me make personal and professional connections that have led to business opportunities, speaking opportunities, and even my current job as a professional blogger.

[Cissi Sherlock]

Though unrelated to the IBJ story, Everyone, I need your help.

If you are going to the 6,000 Member Party, please bring your old cell phone and charger so that we can help unfortunate people in our community have an open line of communication. We can have that cell phone cleaned out and reactivated within 24 hours and in the hands of a disenfranchised person needing a hand up and not an hand out.

Please help.

Just today I've had 5 intakes.

We have no phones.

One lady is an insulin dependant veteran wh'll have no phone to call her doctor in case of emegency. Her home service is being disconnected after today because she has no way of paying her bill.

People of our community need help.

Please help me to help them.

Look for me and my "recycle" box at the Rathskellar on Wednesday.

Thanks to you all!