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The Hive BUZZ: SPECIAL EVENTS Announcement

BIG Event Friday

Networking & Learning opportunities to GROW your business… We have plenty for you to choose from this Friday with 2 events in one day!

Friday morning, as we mentioned in yesterday’s Weekly BUZZ, we have Uncle Jay’s Traveling Breakfast Network here at The Hive RI.  Come on by (tell your friends too) & don’t forget your business cards.  We’ll have Allie’s Donuts and coffee PLUS some seriously fun (and worthwhile…talking ROI here!) networking so it’s a win/win and you won’t want to miss it!  For more info, click HERE.

Then, if you still have enough energy or weren’t able to make the morning event…our Hivers from Hub Digital Marketing, Amy Fields and Tuni Schartner, will be presenting at the East Greenwich Chamber of Commerce Lunch & Learnat Finn’s Harborside at noon.  It’s going to be a robust Q & A on all things Digital/Integrated Marketing.  Our colleague and HUGE Hive supporter, Patricia Raskin of Raskin Resources, will also be on that panel with Amy and Tuni answering questions about how radio and podcasts can be part of an integrated marketing strategy! To register and learn more about this event, click HERE.

Continued professional development is so very important and we hope you’ll be able to attend either of these events.  If you can’t this time but you are interested in coworking…grab your work and come on by.  We won’t charge you anything the first day or two…seriously!  So swing in, grab a seat, settle in and crank out some serious work in a relaxed yet professional environment!  Here’s a video that kind of nails what coworking and connectedness is all about, click here to watch!

The Weekly BUZZ: Allie’s Donuts and Uncle Jay’s Traveling Breakfast

Announcement…no Lunch & Learn scheduled this week BUT we have Allie’s Donuts and Uncle Jay’s Traveling Breakfast!!!

Mark your calendars for a GREAT networking event this Friday morning right here at The Hive RI with the infamous Uncle Jay!

Uncle Jay’s Traveling Breakfast series is always worth your time so come on by this Friday morning from 8:00-9:30 for some coffee and Allie’s Donuts!

Increase & expand your network…
Invite your friends and business associates. Let everyone know about you and what you have to offer the business community. And…remember to bring plenty of business cards!

A Working Community:
Come join our awesome community! We have office space available – one of the 4 coveted ‘Hive’ offices is opening up on 12/1. It’s $300 per month – no deposit & month to month, we just ask for 30 days notice if you’re leaving. We also have a couple of private offices in The Rodman Bldg., $325 & $340 per month – both include heating/cooling/electricity/general WiFi and both require a one year lease and deposit. We have other larger spaces available – 1,000 sq. ft. and up – check those out here.

Coworking:
Stop in and ‘test drive at The Hive’ for free a day or two to see if our environment might be a great fit for you and your team! Our monthly rate is super affordable at $100. We also have a private flex office available at $75 per day, $50 for 1/2 day and $200 per month for 1-2 days a week (monthly contract), as well as a private conference room available at $10 per hour. Email Tuni Schartner if you have questions or want to schedule space or a tour: tuni@hubdigitalmarketing.com.

Don’t forget to check out The Hive RI’s and Pause at the Mill’s Facebook pages regularly as we post all kinds of interesting things on both, including events and happenings here at the Mill at Lafayette, as well as around the state!

The Weekly BUZZ: Personal Development Lunch and Learn

Improve Your Business Through Personal Development at this week’s Lunch & Learn!

3 Ways to Improve Your Business Through Personal Development with Guisela Pinto Caballero:
There are many reasons why you may have started your own business. Regardless of your WHY, your business growth is a reflection of your personal growth and development.
Common wisdom encourages us to avoid mixing our personal life with our business life. In this presentation, you will see WHY you should be doing just that.

Guisela will focus on:
*Examining the WHY of your business
*Personal development versus business development
*3 areas of personal development that impact your WHY
*Why mixing your personal life and business matter
*Envisioning your life and business as one!

To learn more or register, click here.

“While studying for my master’s in social work , one of the first things we learned was to work from a strength’s perspective.

I really love that this was part of my learning. Otherwise, clinicians and even clients tend to focus on what’s wrong, what is not working, how “wrong” one feels.

I have taken this and much more into my coaching practice and I am happy to support you from the same strength’s perspective.

If you want to make some positive shifts and start moving in the direction you know you are meant to be on….let’s talk!” Guisela

A Working Community:
Come join our awesome community!  We have office space available – one of the 4 coveted ‘Hive’ offices is open now and another is opening up on 12/1.  It’s $300 per month – no deposit & month to month, we just ask for 30 days notice if you’re leaving.  We also have a couple of private offices in The Rodman Bldg., $325 & $340 per month – both include heating/cooling/electricity/general WiFi and both require a one year lease and deposit.  We have other larger spaces available – 1,000 sq. ft. and up – check those out here.

Coworking:
Stop in and ‘test drive at The Hive‘ for free a day or two to see if our environment might be a great fit for you and your team!  Our monthly rate is super affordable at $100.  We also have a private flex office available at $75 per day, $50 for 1/2 day and $200 per month for 1-2 days a week (monthly contract), as well as a private conference room available at $10 per hour.  Email Tuni Schartner if you have questions or want to schedule space or a tour: tuni@hubdigitalmarketing.com.

Office Space:
Check out our Mill at Lafayette website and visit the Available Spaces page to see if we have something that might work for you and your business – there’s a video on that page that can give you an idea of what the spaces look like.  Spaces up to 7k square feet available.

Weekly BUZZ: Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from The Hive RI!

FYI – Need work space?

Come join our awesome community!  We have office space available – one of the 4 coveted ‘Hive’ offices is open 11/1.  It’s $300 per month – no deposit & month to month, we just ask for 30 days notice if you’re leaving.  We also have a couple of private offices in The Rodman Bldg., $325 & $340 per month – both include heating/cooling/electricity/general WiFi and both require a one year lease and deposit.  We have other larger spaces available – 1,000 sq. ft. and up – check those out here.

Thursday’s Lunch & Learn

Nice to Meet You – Now What?

OK you finally got the courage up to attend a networking event and you came home with a bunch of business cards. So what happens next? Well, if you’re waiting for the phone to ring you had better think again. Meeting people is a great first step but the secret is in the follow-up.

Join us as we learn how to make the best of our networking. In this presentation you will:

  • Learn the importance of follow-up

  • Learn the reasons why so many people don’t follow-up

  • Identify your’ follow-up style and how it affects you and others you interact with

Info on the presenter & RSVP here.

Coworking:

Stop in and ‘test drive at The Hive‘ for free a day or two to see if our environment might be a great fit for you and your team!  Our monthly rate is super affordable at $100.  We also have a private flex office available at $75 per day, $50 for 1/2 day and $200 per month for 1-2 days a week (monthly contract), as well as a private conference room available at $10 per hour.  Email Tuni Schartner if you have questions or want to schedule space or a tour: tuni@hubdigitalmarketing.com.

Office Space:

Check out our Mill at Lafayette website and visit the Available Spaces page to see if we have something that might work for you and your business – there’s a video on that page that can give you an idea of what the spaces look like.  Spaces up to 7k square feet available.

Weekly BUZZ: Available Office Space

Welcome to this week at The Hive RI!

Come join our awesome community!  We have office space available – one of the 4 coveted ‘Hive’ offices is open 11/1.  It’s $300 per month – no deposit & month to month, we just ask for 30 days notice if you’re leaving.  We also have a couple of private offices in The Rodman Bldg., $325 & $340 per month – both include heating/cooling/electricity/general WiFi and both require a one year lease and deposit.  We have other larger spaces available – 1,000 sq. ft. and up – check those out here.

Thursday’s Lunch & Learn

3 Proven Steps to Overcome Your Fear of Speaking:

*No, this isn’t GroundHog Day, and yes you did read this last week…our presenter was under the weather so postponed last week’s Lunch & Learn.  He’s all better now and will be here this Thursday.

We are all pretty comfortable talking to people we know. It’s usually the fear of the unknown that we hesitate to face; and few things are more scary than people we don’t know. Specially people that we are going to want to sell to. Whether it’s a product or a service, we fear rejection or just looking silly.

Many of us are trapped behind the hesitation and downright fear that can prevent us from stepping up. That holds us back from doing what we know we need to do to grow our business. That makes it impossible to come out from under the shadow of fear that keeps us from the success that we deserve.

The presenter is Richard Austin:

Rich Austin is president and founder of Speaking of Success, LLC. He has taught and coached business people, entrepreneurs, and students in the art of public speaking. As a life-long stutterer, Rich understands better than most, the fear of approaching new people and engaging them in conversation.

Rich has trained thousands of people here in the U.S. and in Europe. Over many years of public speaking and training, Rich has developed a proven approach to verbal engagement that makes people listen to what you say, understand what you do, and appreciate who you are.

Learn more and check out his website here.

Coworking:

Stop in and ‘test drive at The Hive‘ for free a day or two to see if our environment might be a great fit for you and your team!  Our monthly rate is super affordable at $100.  We also have a private flex officeavailable at $75 per day, $50 for 1/2 day and $200 per month for 1-2 days a week (monthly contract), as well as a private conference room available at $10 per hour.  Email Tuni Schartner if you have questions or want to schedule space or a tour:tuni@hubdigitalmarketing.com.

Office Space:

Check out our Mill at Lafayette website and visit the Available Spaces page to see if we have something that might work for you and your business – there’s a video on that page that can give you an idea of what the spaces look like.  Spaces up to 7k square feet available.

Weekly BUZZ- Overcome Fear of Speaking

Welcome to this week at The Hive RI!  

Thursday’s Lunch & Learn

3 Proven Steps to Overcome Your Fear of Speaking:

We are all pretty comfortable talking to people we know. It’s usually the fear of the unknown that we hesitate to face; and few things are more scary than people we don’t know. Specially people that we are going to want to sell to. Whether it’s a product or a service, we fear rejection or just looking silly.

Many of us are trapped behind the hesitation and downright fear that can prevent us from stepping up. That holds us back from doing what we know we need to do to grow our business. That makes it impossible to come out from under the shadow of fear that keeps us from the success that we deserve.

The presenter is Richard Austin:

Rich Austin is president and founder of Speaking of Success, LLC. He has taught and coached business people, entrepreneurs, and students in the art of public speaking. As a life-long stutterer, Rich understands better than most, the fear of approaching new people and engaging them in conversation.

Rich has trained thousands of people here in the U.S. and in Europe. Over many years of public speaking and training, Rich has developed a proven approach to verbal engagement that makes people listen to what you say, understand what you do, and appreciate who you are.

Learn more and check out his website here.

Coworking:

Stop in and ‘test drive at The Hive‘ for free a day or two to see if our environment might be a great fit for you and your team!  Our monthly rate is super affordable at $100.  We also have a private flex office available at $75 per day, $50 for 1/2 day and $200 per month for 1-2 days a week (monthly contract), as well as a private conference room available at $10 per hour.  Email Tuni Schartner if you have questions or want to schedule space or a tour: tuni@hubdigitalmarketing.com.

Office Space:

Check out our Mill at Lafayette website and visit the Available Spaces page to see if we have something that might work for you and your business – there’s a video on that page that can give you an idea of what the spaces look like.  Spaces up to 7k square feet available.

News Alert: We have 2 small offices available, one is $325 per month & the other is $340 per month – these are year leases and include HVAC, electricity & general WiFi.

Weekly BUZZ – SEO

Welcome to this week at The Hive RI!  

Thursday’s Lunch & Learn
Title Building SEO into your website:
In this lunch and learn, Alex will show us 10 areas on the webpage that should be optimized for SEO. We will also look at the SEO optimization of the website as a whole. Specific topics covered with include:
-Title tags
-Meta-descriptions
-Alt tags
-Content
-Website structure

The presenter is Alex Bungener – check out his website here.

Coworking:
Stop in and ‘test drive at The Hive‘ for free a day or two to see if our environment might be a great fit for you and your team!  Our monthly rate is super affordable at $100.  We also have a private flex office available at $75 per day, $50 for 1/2 day and $200 per month for 1-2 days a week (monthly contract), as well as a private conference room available at $10 per hour.  Email Tuni Schartner if you have questions or want to schedule space or a tour: tuni@hubdigitalmarketing.com.

Office Space:
Check out our Mill at Lafayette website and visit the Available Spaces page to see if we have something that might work for you and your business.  Spaces up to 7k square feet available…

Weekly BUZZ – What We Do

What is the weekly BUZZ really like here?
We get work done here!  Alone.  Together.  As a community.  Last week was a very busy week full of BUZZ here at The Hive RI and all throughout the Mill at Lafayette…projects, proposals, business plans being created and solidified, meetings with clients, meetings with potential clients, team meetings, sales pitches, mergers and acquisitions, houses being designed, healing, hair, skincare, IT staffing positions being filled, new community members moving in…and SO much more.  Just another day in the life!  #community #business #MillLife #WeLiveHere

Thursday Lunch & Learn: 
Go from being Hassled to Happy with Encore Executive Coaching’s Mary O’Sullivan (who also happens to have her practice based right here in our mill community).  Check out Mary’s LinkedIn profile here.

Done with 80-hour work weeks, living out of a suitcase and neglecting your health? Are you at the top of your profession, but got laid off in a merger or acquisition? Did you fail to see the handwriting on the wall? Are you too young to retire, too old to be promoted and feeling burned out and miserable? Then this workshop is for you!

A 4 Step Process to Clarify What You Really Want and Take Action to Get It…
*Learn to take small steps to make big changes
*How to get what you deserve from your current situation when contemplating a job, career or relationship change
*How to tell what you can and cannot control about your current situation
*When and How to Formulate your Plan B

To RSVP and register for this week’s The Hive RI Lunch & Learn, click here!

Coworking:
Stop in and ‘test drive at The Hive‘ for free a day or two to see if our environment might be a great fit for you and your team!  Our monthly rate is super affordable at $100.  We also have a private flex office available at $75 per day, $50 for 1/2 day and $200 per month for 1-2 days a week (monthly contract), as well as a private conference room available at $10 per hour.  Email Tuni Schartner if you have questions or want to schedule space or a tour: tuni@hubdigitalmarketing.com.

Office Space:
Check out our Mill at Lafayette website and visit the Available Spaces page to see if we have something that might work for you and your business.  Spaces up to 7k square feet available…

Weekly BUZZ – Food Truck Thursdays!

Food Truck Thursdays

Announcing Food Truck Thursdays…
We are SO excited to announce Food Truck Thursdays are starting a week from this Thursday!  Mark your calendars, tell your friends & stop by the Mill at Lafayette for lunch!

Blog:

Have you checked out our blogs?  We have the www.millatlafayette.com website chock full of information (including our blogs) in case you’re in the mood to peruse!

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Exercise at the Mill?

Classes have been growing & we have some fantastic practitioners and new classes like Yoga on the beach!  Check out our Fb page for Pause at the Mill and please feel free to share.  We have classes listed as ‘events’ – take a 1/2 hour or more to just ‘pause’ and recharge your battery… *New Schedule here!

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Networking:

We’re going to keep promoting this event up until it happens NEXT Monday, August 8th… Total Exposure Networking (T.E.N.)

Our Lunch & Learn program will be back August 18th but in the mean time we’re hosting Richard Austin’s next T.E.N. event!  Total Exposure Networking…have you heard of it?

At most networking events you’re lucky if you get to talk to 9 or 10 people. Even then, are you delivering your message or just talking about the weather or the latest news headlines? At Total Exposure Networking (TEN), we make sure that you get to deliver your pitch to everyone in the room! Our unique TEN format consists of starting out with food, drink, and general conversation. Then, when everyone is there, we pick 5 people, and they each have one minute to give their pitch to everyone in the room. Now for the good part – we then take 10 minutes to allow anyone to talk with those who just spoke – to ask questions, learn more, and make appointments. Then we pick 5 more and do it again, and again, using the 5/10 format until everyone has had the opportunity to deliver their pitch to everyone in the room! A perfect TEN!
***Read more about this event and RSVP HERE!

Community:

Join our Mill at Lafayette community…we are offering a really great special – sign a lease by 9/1 and get your first month’s rent FREE! Reach out to: tuni@trsstrategies.com or call 401-255-7413.  Here’s a list of available spaces open within the mill.  There’s a video on this page that shows the 3rd floor that is now ready!

And…don’t forget we continue to offer our awesome deal at The Hive RI of $100 monthly memberships for our coworking space – total access Monday thru Friday 9:00-5:00!

Social Media:

Don’t forget to ‘like’ us on Fb – we share information there on a daily basis!

Art:

We are SO excited to announce…’it’s official, Cindy Wilson Photography (our photographer in residence here at the Mill) will be a permanent rotating show’ (on the left side where the internal office’s are) here at The Hive RI.  She is such a busy lady with shows throughout the region on a regular basis, teaching photography to individuals and classes, and traveling the world with her Profundo Journeys groups but somehow she manages to keep our walls filled with beautiful works of art.

Michelle Gradus Parenteau’s Soul Awakening Art Show is still up too.  We recommend self-guided tours anytime during regular coworking hours (Monday-Friday 9:00-5:00) and if you are interested in purchasing any artwork within our gallery – please email tuni@trsstrategies.com.

Mill tenant named community champion

Tenaciously dedicated to the Southern Rhode Island business community, Tuni Schartner of The Hive RI received the honor of receiving the “Community Champion” award