Meeting Notes – September 28, 2011

Ms. Jane Perini and Mr. Wib Middleton, co-owners of Thunder Mountain Design & Communications were the featured presenters at Wednesday’s meeting.

Thunder Mountain Design & Communications works in graphics, marketing and sales, featuring books, cards and accompanying material with the books, which would include Books with CDs, business cards, letterheads–great for startup companies. Thunder Mountain does many kinds of books–cover to cover: writing and editing. They do postcard marketing, rack cards, magnificent photography that was circulated for all to see at the meeting. They do Print on Demands books (one copy at a time). They stress empathy and connection with their clients: connect with what the client is really all about, everything is integrated to fully brand their clients.

“At Thunder Mountain Design & Communications, we work with ideas, words and images to put a little magic in your message. Our expertise spans graphic design, art direction, writing, photography, marketing, and public relations. With decades of producing creative solutions we’ve gotten pretty good at listening, intuiting, creating, collaborating and delivering something more for your marketing dollars than you thought possible. From stunning logos, brochures, persuasive copy and ads that jump off the page, to a great website that gets results, Thunder Mountain Design & Communications is ready to partner with you.” Ms. Perini has been in business since 1978.

For an initial free evaluation of your communications needs call (928) 203-0254.

You will leave with fresh ideas, new perspectives and approaches you may never have considered—regardless of whether we end up working together.

The featured speaker was Mr. Michael Woods, loan officer for Chase Bank in the Village of Oak Creek. Michael was born in New Orleans, moved to South Central Los Angeles at age seven in 1965, a month before the Watts riots. During high school, the daily thought pattern was how not to get beaten up that day. “People didn’t mess with me, because for some reason I attracted crazy enough gang members around me that no one messed with me.” He became a bank teller right out of high school, because a person from a bank talked to the high school Junior Achievement group. He was a teller at Security Pacific for 5 years, then was asked to manage a small S&L bank at age 21, and started a small S&L at 22. He had already learned that you can’t really make a lot of money on the operations side of a bank. “To be continued at later date,” since Michael had only described his life to about age 26 in his talk today.
The Sedona Referrals Club meets Wednesdays at 7 a.m. at the Heartline Cafe in West Sedona. Each meeting features a showboater & a speaker. Each member and guest is allowed a one-minute commercial as part of the meeting format. The club promotes prospect referrals and each business category is represented by only one member. For information, contract Mr. Jeff Teele at 300-5361 or Mr. Bill Klauser at 202-7193 or visit our website www.sedonareferralsclub.org