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Press Play to Pause... April's Guided Breather to Increase Business Productivity (4 minutes)
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Hi everyone, Dale Shadbegian here with Brian Griffin from Rockland Trust. How you doing today Brian? I'm doing great deal. I am doing great Dale, thanks for having me. Good to see you again. Good to see you too. So we were talking about a lot of folks the last year. It's been kind of the state, not of paralysis, but sort of waiting right? and now we're hearing about the vaccine, things are opening up. People are back to strategizing about their business and you had some really great tips, that I wanted to capture and share with the business community. Yeah, again thanks for having me, and I think you're absolutely right Dale. We need to maintain our vigilance right now. I mean, we're not quite out of the woods just yet. I know that the, you know, the doors are opening for a lot of local businesses and that's wonderful to see but we've seen some upticks in certain markets, we want to do the right things, organizations. So hopefully people continue to follow those protocols. In terms of business, it's a great time for people to think strategically about their businesses. You know, the types of things I'm thinking about are:You know, what happens if revenues are flat with the prior-year for a company, what kind of things should they be thinking about? Well, if they are they got to be thinking about conservation of Capital You know, staying liquid, I would suggest talking to other people in their industry, to see how their navigating these waters. Other things like that, what happens if revenues go up 20% how they going to do with that? How are they going to fund that? Do they work with their trade? You know, do they have to go see their Banker about a working capital facility to cover those convertible assets? All good stuff, but all things that they should be planning for in advance to the best of their ability. Which brings about the importance of financials. Time After Time garbage in, garbage out in terms of financial information. If you got good timely financial information, and you're reviewing it on a monthly basis. It's going to help you organizationally to you know, to get through difficult times because you're able to respond quickly and react quickly to whatever the changing markets are. Which brings about the importance of trusted advisers. You need a good CPA. You need a good lawyer. You need a commercial Banker, a good insurance person, because they bring a wealth of Knowledge from different Industry. You need as a owner to expand your own horizons organizationally, not just looking at a tunnel, and that should help you, you know, and that's what Rockland Trust has done. We're a full service Commercial Bank. We've been around for over a hundred years and we're here to help you navigate those water. Awesome. Well, that was very well said, I took some notes here for myself. And I know on behalf of the business Community, really appreciate you taking the time out of your schedule to come and just talk to us a few minutes and give us these things that we can be thinking about just before things really crack open right. Thanks for having me.
Be Prepared For Summer Business With These Tips From Brian Griffin, Of Rockland Trust
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Cash Flow's with SCORE's James Dannhauser
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Read more on these great tips by Complete Payroll Solution's employees here: https://www.completepayrollsolutions.com/employee-retention-credit/ Hi everyone, Dale Shadbegian here with the folks at Complete Payroll Solutions. Hi everyone. How are you doing today? We're doing great thanks. Awesome. Who's got a tip for us today? Yes, I can definitely start. I'm excited to talk about the employee retention credit. I do want everyone to know that complete is charging a flat fee unlike some of our competitors that are charging 8% of the credit. Please go to our website learn about the ERC. Even if you're not using us, we want you to know about it, we want you to know the credits are available and what it means and I'll also include some links to send to you so that people can go to our blog and check it out. Awesome. Thank you. Stephanie, next? So I want to talk about some changes with the American Rescue to plan act and how it affects employee benefits. So some nice changes for employees. First. My favorite change is the change to dependent care. If you have any children that you were paying daycare or dependent care costs previously, you could write off up to $5,000 of your income pre-tax. To pay for these costs. We actually increased that. Now to 10,500. So that's a huge jump of the amount of money. You can pre tax out of your paycheck to pay for daycare costs. I was really happy about it cuz I know daycare can be so expensive. So that was a nice change.And if you have dependent Care at your work just ask the HR department to make that change for you going forward for the year. Another great change to COBRA is that any involuntary termination from April to September can actually, your Cobra premium can be subsidized So if your involuntarily terminated or your reduction in hours your whole Cobra premium can be subsidized. Your employer can pay for that and then will be reimbursed for a tax credit. So that is another nice change to Cobra because Cobra premiums are the full employer premium so they can be pretty expensive. So having that subsidized is really nice too. Those are the two benefit changes. I wanted to mention.Awesome great tips. So Karyn, So on my mind today are the vaccines and the ffcra. So when it comes to vaccines the conversation is around should we mandate the vaccine or should we strongly recommend and mandating the vaccine is generally going to be okay for congregate settings. So hospitals, prisons, it could be nursing homes and so on you're going to be okay with that but most other employers. It's a question mark as to whether you're going to get away with mandating that vaccine. So most are strongly recommending it. Now people who are not going to get Vaccinated for a number of reasons. Maybe they're afraid to, maybe they have an underlying medical condition or they have a strongly held religious belief. Those folks that don't get vaccinated are still going to find if they're going to need to be socially distance in a work environment or required to wear a mask and the employer may have to get into an interactive dialogue with the employee to see if they could reasonably accommodate an employee coming into a work environment potentially spreading a lethal virus to other employees. Even if they've been vaccinated you can still catch covid-19, you know and get quite sick from it. The other piece here is the ffcra which expired December 31st of 2020. The feds have extended it on a voluntary basis until September 30th, 2021. And that what that means is you can allow your employees to go out of work if they need to quarantine if they're sick with COVID. If they're going to get a vaccine if they have after effects with vaccine, you can actually use the ffcra time and then get a tax credit on the back end for any of that time. It is mandatory, but I'm strongly recommending that employers allowed there employees to use this time if needed and those are my thoughts for today! Wow, great tips. This is a tip packed month here in April, on behalf of the business Community. Really appreciate you taking the time out to bring this information to us, and be sure to check out the link to the blog that will include with the post. Thank you again. Thank you. Thanks everyone.
Complete Payroll April 2021
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Join Cape Cod Technology Council for this Coffee Q&A! See more events here: https://www.cctechcouncil.org/events/
Digital Product Thinking with Michael Kelleher
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Join us: Friday, April 16, 2021, 10-11 a.m. Register here: https://www.cctechcouncil.org/event/coffee-qa-liz-argo-on-electric-cars-earthtech-month-series/
Liza Argo - Electric Cars - Cape Cod Technology Council Coffee Q&A
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For their First Friday Event, they will have a discussion with Vineyard Wind employees! Transcript: 1 Hi everyone. 2 Dale Shadbegian here with a Cape Cod Technology Council and 3 the folks from Vineyard wind. 4 How are you doing today? 5 Doing great thanks for having us! 6 Awesome, we are here to talk about an upcoming tech council event 7 , which you are graciously participating in. Tell us a 8 little bit about Vineyard wind and what can we expect to learn about 9 when we when we attend this event. Sure, Vineyard Wind is an offshore 10 development company. 11 We have been developing 12 Vineyard Wind One for the last two years now and really with the goal 13 line of delivering the nation's first commercial-scale off-shore 14 facility about 15 miles south of the island. Southeastern Mass is poised to be a 15 real major hub and a major partner in this version of the industry. 16 It's an exciting landscape and getting more and more interesting and 17 exciting day by day. I bet 18 And we want to thank you all for providing us with this opportunity to 19 continue the dialogue. 20 This is a very ambitious mission we've taken on. 21 It's it's been a long road, and we're looking forward to sharing it 22 with you and answering all of your questions. 23 Awesome well I know these are great events. 24 They're easy. 25 They're all web-based. 26 You can just join, drink a coffee, you know kind of be part of the 27 conversation if you want or just listen, so really again, really 28 appreciate your time. 29 This is a big and exciting project for the community and can't wait to 30 see you there. 31 Thanks.
Cape Cod Technology Council Featured Guests
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Learn More: https://www.cctechcouncil.org/event/coffee-qa-agri-solar-earthtech-month-series/ Transcript: Hi everyone Dale Shadbegian here talking about an upcoming Cape Cod Technology Council event. We have with River Strong. How are you doing today River, tell us a little bit about your organization, what we're going to be learning about the events? A lot of folks are really excited. Thanks. I'm with the clean energy extension at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, I am the associate director there and we are invited to talk about dual-use solar and agriculture. This is about solar photovoltaics and agriculture working together. In other words, raising the panels up and ducting acted agriculture beneath the panels that might be growing food crops or grazing animals, growing hay. That kind of thing and it's a state program called the smart program that incentivizes solar dual-use programs around the state and our role is to help support the program along with those at the Massachusetts, Department of Agriculture Resources Gerry Palano may be joining us and the Department of Energy Resources at Massachusetts. This is a super exciting topic, Sorry I interrupted you. I'm really excited about it, because I've been thinking about putting like a little Greenhouse in my yard and then having solar panels above it, but there isn't really a lot of information about that. So, I know I'm like on a super small-scale, but I know this is definitely on people's minds and it's a great topic. It's a great way to support farmers, solar developers, and communities around State. We really appreciate you taking the time and bringing this expertise to the Tech Council. It's a web-based event. It's really easy to join, pour yourself a cup of coffee sit back and listen and learn something great with these two great folks here. So River, really appreciate your time. Thank you and really looking forward to seeing you at the event. You bet Dale, I'm looking forward to it.
Solar Technology Meets the Farmer
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Transcript: 1 Hi everyone were here today with Alysia Ordway talking about an upcoming 2 Cape Cod Technology Council event. 3 How are you today? 4 I'm excellent. 5 Thank you Dale. 6 How are you doing? 7 Great. 8 Thanks. 9 So tell us, I'm really excited about your upcoming event. 10 Tell us what are we going to learn? 11 What are we going to be talking about? 12 Give us an idea about what the events going to be about? 13 Sure, I'm just delighted to be able to talk to the community on Cape 14 Cod. 15 I am the director of Strategic Partnerships at XR Terra, were a 16 professional training program and we are focused in the implementation 17 of augmented and virtual reality. For those who are among the 18 uninitiated. 19 This is a fast evolving technology that is being used in all kinds 20 of use cases. For business application whether it's in Marketing, 21 Learning and Development, sales. 22 All different kinds of ways that these Technologies can be utilized 23 and with the advent of 5G Technologies the ability 24 to deploy 25 these Technologies has expanded. 26 Well, I think our audience hear at the tech council is perfect. 27 This is like a perfect topic. 28 I'm a self-proclaimed nerd. 29 This is really interesting to me. 30 It's kind of an area that I read about a lot, but I don't know about. 31 It will be really exciting for me to kind of join in and it's a zoom join 32 in kind of absorb what I can. Access to an expert to answer any 33 questions that we might have and and we look forward to seeing 34 everyone of the event and I appreciate you taking the time to make 35 this video and also to come and speak to our membership. 36 Looking forward to it. 37 Have a great day. 38 Thank you. 39 You too.
Joined By XR Terra's Own Alysia Ordway For CCTC First Friday
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Please meet Katie Geusz of Greentown Labs who will be our speaker on April 30. Her presentation will include: Overview of the Greentown Labs concept https://greentownlabs.com/ How Greentown Labs helps startups through incubator and accelerator programs Specifically will talk about a new partnership with Vineyard Wind who is our anchor guest for Earth Month.
Katie Geusz of Greentown Labs Will be a Featured Guest for a Coffee Q&A on April 30th
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#LocalFocus - Boston Business Technology
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Learn about Rachel Leone's March Promotional Product Feature! Transcript: 1 Hey Dale, check out these fabulous eco-friendly bags. 2 They were banned during covid-19. 3 But they're back with vengeance, and they're flying off the shelves now! 4 They're all different color, really fun, open them up and put all different great things in there. 5 Shopping, groceries, kid stuff. Is that a parrot on the bag? 6 It is, yeah. Its Puerto Rico, and then we have these. 7 We have some soccer bags for soccer games and then my 8 favorite. 9 Are these really big bags that can hold just about anything you need to 10 hold in them. 11 But these are these are back super popular and not super expensive 12 either. 13 I never gave up on my reusable bags are during covid. 14 It wasn't the most popular thing, but I had to bag my own groceries, 15 but I was fine with it because it seemed like plastic was a big deal 16 and we were just talking it away during Covid, it didn't matter anymore. 17 And then I was like this is going to go away eventually. 18 We need to get back eventually. 19 Yeah. 20 Here's another one. 21 This is a fun one, a smaller one, for like water bottles, but these are 22 super popular as well. 23 Great companies can get there. 24 What kind of promotion can you use these for? 25 What kind of customizations are you seeing happening? 26 We are seeing these from IT companies, believe it or not, even Law Firms. 27 Just giving them away documents maybe to offices. We're seeing them at sporting events, 28 schools, private schools, colleges. 29 Those are the most popular groups for using these bags. 30 Awesome. 31 Well, as always thank you for bringing us. 32 I get your newsletter to this is a great plug for a newsletter. 33 I love opening up and seeing what people are doing. 34 I love marketing, and I'm nosey to so thank you for bringing all 35 this great information to us every month. 36 Thank you. 37 Good to see you.
Fabulous Eco-Friendly Promotional Bags with Leone Marketing Solutions!
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Check out: https://leonemarketing.com/ Transcript: 1 Hi everyone. 2 We're here today with Rachel Leone of Leone Marketing 3 Solutions. 4 How are you doing today, 5 Rachel? 6 I'm doing great. 7 How are you? Good to see you again! 8 Is it snowing in the background there? A little snow a little dusting but it's all good. 9 It's all good. 10 So what do we have in the world of promotional marketing this month? 11 So water bottles is kind of a trend right now people getting back to 12 work and providing safe alternatives to employees. 13 I thought I'd show you some I have here, 14 Now. 15 This is the water bottle of law school. 16 It's called the Aria and it's a 20 oz water bottle and I love the 17 packaging because it just comes packaged like this and then I love 18 these different shapes and styles. 19 This is called the echo. 20 I just love it. 21 It's just a fun, little cork top there. 22 It's really neat. Drinking water is good. 23 So, then this one I may be known for putting tequila in it in the summer time. 24 It's called the quantum. 25 It's also good for, 26 Espresso drinks, lattes, it's a small 7.5 oz drinking. 27 This is cool. 28 And then my all-time favorite favorite favorite is called the CC. 29 It's a wine tumbler, its yeti quality but not as expensive and it comes in all different colors like red, green, blue. 30 You name it. 31 This is really fun fun wine and I love the packaging that it 32 comes with you just pop them in the mail, drop it at someones house, so water bottles have been a huge item in these past couple of months. 33 I always look to you to keep me in tune with what's going on. 34 Appreciate you tuning in this month and will see you soon.
Another Product Promo with Rachel Leone of Leone Marketing Solutions
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As Small Business Owners, we need more time, positive change, great advice, and flexibility. SCORE Mentors provide free mentoring and deliver this and more. Transcript:1.This is Dale Shadbegian here with Jim Dannhauser from Cape Cod SCORE.2.How are you doing today,3.Jim? Very well Dale.4.How are you?5.Great.6.Thanks.7.So today,8.We wanted to talk about mentoring as you know at the magazine here,9.I'm really big on mentoring.10.I get help, give help when I can, people ask about cash flow and11.marketing and web design and HR.12.There's all kinds of things on people's mind.13.But you know, we wanted to create a video that kind of talked about14.What about the folks who haven't come up for air?15.Right?16.How can score help these people?17.They're just like, you just said a minute ago,18.They're fighting the battles of that day.19.Mentoring doesn't have to be a big effort.20.Right?21.You just said before that people can send emails do it at their own22.pace.23.Give us some advice, people that have stepped forward and received24.the help and I've seen lots of people that get great help, what are25.some pointers for those folks who were thinking about mentoring and26.not sure what to do. Give us a little bit, like how was27.SCORE and how are the mentors helping these folks. Sure, I'd be happy to do that.28.Well, the first thing is that you have to realize the people think29.that mentoring is his huge big undertaking because everybody's very30.busy in business and they are as I said before fighting the fight of31.the day and just trying to get through that day to the next day.32.And don't want to take the time out to have a big mentoring process,33.but it's not that big a process you can make an appointment and spend34.as little time as you'd like, you can send an email.35.I do email mentoring so you can do it by e-mail.36.You can do it by phone.37.You can do it by video chat.38.Hopefully someday, we'll be able to do it in person again. Go in and39.have a very simple meeting with with two Business Executives who are40.retired who are doing nothing, but trying to help you. It's completely41.free and importantly it's always very confidential. See you go in and42.you basically have a simple conversation about your business where you43.are in your business where you would like to be and you get44.perspective on simple steps that you can take to try to improve your45.prospects are being successful in business.46.You may have one session and what you just get input from somebody for47.an hour and a half.48.It's a very informal it's not like going to49.Bank in a big committee you sit and have a comfortable conversation50.with experience Executives who are volunteers trying to help you and51.you then can continue with those people periodically if you would like52.or you can just have the one session and be done with it if you've53.gotten the help that you need.54.So the think the stress is, it is not a huge time commitment.55.You are dealing with people who have a desire to help you.56.You are doing with people who are doing it on a volunteer basis and57.it's completely confidential and you get valuable Insight from people58.who have been in your seat before.59.simple environment60.And as Mark says I don't know if he if he made it up or he grabbed it61.from somewhere, but it's Lonely at the Top.62.Sometimes it's nice.63.I64.I have Mentor sessions a couple times a year.65.Sometimes I feel like it's a Psychiatry session as much as66.You know asking for advice, it's nice to know that you're not alone.67.Isn't it great you have a conversation with somebody. 68.If you're fortunate enough in business to have a very good partner69.equal with whom you can have those kinds of conversations about70.important matters.71.That's great.72.If you don't then having the ability to talk to somebody who73.understands your business and your position and has relevant74.experience.75.It just helps you.76.Sometimes that used to help me just to be able to talk to somebody77.even if I didn't get anything positive in terms of feedback, but it's78.caused me to think about where I was and where I wanted to get and79.then formulate the positions that I was in. look I get it.80.I was in a small company for a long time.81.You feel like you're hooked up to a fire hose in the waters on full82.blast.83.You don't have a lot of time to step back and think about things but84.if you're going to be truly successful in business you want to do85.something that's leading you to create value and to do that.86.You have to make it part of your job to think about the intermediate87.and long-term as the plan.88.You can't grow successfully unless you get lucky89.without planning for it and having somebody that you can talk to,90.on a very informal confidential basis, can really help you to develop a91.discipline to improve your business significantly.That's the biggest benefit of SCORE, its people who have been....
Jim Dannhauser and Dale Shadbegian Discuss SCORE Cape Cod Mentoring
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#LocalFocus - White Wood Kitchen
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#LocalFocus - Cape & Islands Veterans Outreach Center
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