The Performance Group Wins Spirit of Small Business Award.
Michael Fitzgerald's Performance Group has been award the honorable "Spirit of Small Business" Award for the West Ventura County Company of the Year. The Business Times and the Los Angeles District Office of U.S. Small Business Administration conceived the Spirit of Small Business to recognize the accomplishments of small businesses. The Performance Group was chosen based on demonstration of sustainable enterprise (especially overcoming hardship or other obstacles), industry leadership and community awareness. The Pacific Coast Business Times will publish the fourth annual Spirit of Small Business special section and host a special awards luncheon at the Fess Parker's Double Tree Resort in Mid-August 2006. The commitee that selected the winners were Bill Watkins, director of UCSB Economic Forecast Project, Alberto Alvarado, director, Los Angeles District Office and Henry Dubroff, the owner and Publisher of the Pacific Coast Business Times.
Peter Godinez of The Performance Group Crowned Ventura County's Best Salesperson
Michael Fitzgerald (aka Michael Fitz - Best Local Band), Stephanie Kinnear (Editor of Ventura Reporter), Roylin Downs (Publisher of Ventura Reporter) and Peter Godinez (Best Salesperson) at the Ventura Reporter Awards Celebration at the Ventura County Art and History Museum. _____________________________________________________
Neil Young and Michael Fitzgerald At Capitol Records April 6, 2006
Mike Fitzgerald (Michael Fitz), President of The Performance Group and legendary Neil Young ("Heart of Gold") together at Capitol Records April 6, 2006 for the recording of Neil's soon to be released CD "Living with War". Also pictured is famed Producer Rosemary Butler.
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VC Life & Style Magazine Advertisement (Winter/Fall 2006)
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The Performance Group Helping English as 2nd Language Students How to Sell Themselves
The Performance Group volunteered their time to work directly with the Ventura Adult & Continuing Education (VACE) Students where english is their 2nd language. Classes were conducted to help these student during the interview process in either obtaining jobs or starting their own businesses. It is all about how you treat and engage people. Making the person in front of you the most important person at that time.
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Cheesecake Factory Oscar & Evelyn Overton Charitable Foundation
Every year The Performance Group supports the City of Hope Cancer Center and The Cheesecake Factory Oscar and Evelyn Overton (Shown above) Charitable Foundation. The Performance Group's contribution and involvement helped to exceed it highest expectation. The Performance Group provides office technology equipment to The Cheesecake Factorys throughout the United States.
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Ventura Star Interviews Performance Groups Godinez on Desk/Office "Clutter. by Jenni Mintz (Ventura County Star Business Reporter) http://www.venturacountystar.com/
The very informative Ventura County Star Newpaper interviewed The Performance Group's Office Technology Consultant, Peter Godinez on the subject of office desk clutter and the solution of dealing with it. The article addresses the consequence of have a unorganized office desk (frustration and wasted time and money). Several tips and statistically numbers are offered by Mintz. Multifunction Devices (devices that copy, print, fax and scan) are quoted as potential contributors to minimizing the "clutter" factor.
The Performance Group'sPeter Godinez was appointed as a Executive Board Member of the California Coast Venture Forum (CCVF). The CCVF is a non-profit organization whose mission has been to mentor, advise and promote growing companies in markets in California. Launched in 1996 by a group of Santa Barbara executives, the CCVF is now in its 10th year of operations. They select companies with sound business plans and help them in thier search for funding to grow through education, training and asssitance with venture capital acquistion. For many years CCVF has focused on a technology corridor, encompassing the counties of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura and northern Los Angeles.
Principal of the Day - Foothill Technology High School
The Performance Group made its 3rd visitation to the Ventura Chamber of Commerce's "Principal of the Day" at the benchmark Foothill Technology High School. Principal Joe Bovas (shown above with ASB president) and staff provided a hospitable welcome to Peter Godinez, office technology consultant to The Performance Group.
The Performance Group attended this California State University Channel Islands Connection Luncheon. University President, Richard Rush spoke the the audience of the progress that CSUCI is making in our community in the area of Academic programs, Construction projects, STudent recruitment and the development of an athletic department at the university. Presently the University has 2,600 enrolled student with it 1st graduating class scheduled for 2007. Dr. Terry Ballman, chair of the Academic Senate at the university also spoke. Twenty-two present students attended the event. Other business leaders in attendance were women of the year Pat Richards, man of the year David Press, entrepreneur of the year Keith Grim and the honorable Camarillo Mayor Stan Daily.
Ventura Poinsettia Awards The Ventura Chamber of Commerce sponsor the Annual Poinsettia Community Awards in the Month of December 2005. Some of the awards presented were small, medium, and large business of the year, police officer of the year, male & female student of the year. The Performance Group was nominated for the medium sized business of the year, but the award went to Sheeler Movers and Storage company. The Performance Group favorite customer of the year award was Kathy Putnam of Ventura Unified School District who is picture above with our own Doug Shonk, Supplies Account Representative. _____________________________________________________________
California State University Channel Islands Business & Technology Partnership 3rd Annual Holiday Mixer
The Performance Group had the opportunity to attend and enjoy the California State University Channel Islands Busines & Technology Partnership's Third Annual Holiday Mixer. Brian Farrell, CEO of THQ http://www.thq.com spoke on "Bridging the Gap: Education & The Business of Video Games". Brian spoke on video gaming history and future. He also showed a presentation created by Monica Vallejo (THQ) that interviewed some of the creative staff at THQ showing their daily activities and responsibilities. Notable business leaders and celebrities were in attendance. In attendance were Dr. Richard Rush, President of CSUCI, Keith Gunther, performance technology consultant, MC Pauline Malysko, president of Logix, Tania Garcia, Community , Government, Alumni Relations Assistant Office of Advancement (also semi pro hockey player), Henry Dubroff, owner and editor of the Pacific Coast Business Times, and Kurtis Gunther, future volleyball superstar. The event was a huge success. If you would like to find out more about the Business & Technology Partnership please visit the following web-site http://www.csuci.edu/about/btp/ ________________________________________________
The Performance Group took part in the Business Leadership training entitled "Finding the Leaderhip Zone that was held at Calvary Community Church in Westlake. Peter Godinez had an opportunity to meet top business leadership from the region. Pictured above are Michael Reagan, son of former President Ronald Reagan and CEO/President Larry Thomas of Guitar Center. _____________________________________________________________
The Segue Program - Empowering Students to Explore, Find and Act on Their Lives Path. Ventura High School.
The Performance Group is investing in the future of our youth by spending time talking with students about career. The Segue Program provides students some food for thought on what they might possible do when they graduate from high school and tackle higher education and training. The Segue Programs are available at Ventura High School and Hueneme High School. Peter Godinez spoke to the students about sales and marketing, but encouraged all students that selling was a form of treating people with care and respect with the most appropriate words and behavior.
http://www.segueprogram.org ____________________________________________________________ The Performance Group's Peter Godinez had the Author of "Copy This" written by Kinko's founder, Paul Orfalea sign a copy of this book. The reason this is connected to The Performance Group is Peter was on the team that brought Kinkos to its high success level. Many of Peter's mentors and selling associate are list in the book. Such people as Harry Waaler, Steve Leider, Natalie "Fleet" Orfalea, Bill Murray, Jack Woodruff, John Rinauldi, Dan Federickson, Edd Hoyes, Liz Soprano, Scott Borgart and Glenn Carter are provided a big thanks for they contribution to Kinkos. The Performance Group continues it pursuit to solve business pain as Paul Orfelea did and still does.
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Performance Group Support the Women's Economics Ventures http://wevonline.org The Performance Group on January 26, 2005 celebrated the our business women via the 2005 WEV (Women's Economic Ventures) Business Women of the Year Awards at the local Ventura Four Points Sheraton. Some of the individual awards went to Estela Flores (WEV Client of the year), DeBorah Cherry Joye (Entrepreneur of the Year), Barbara Stein (Professional of the Year) and Ellen Brokaw (Trail Blazer of the Year). Other nominees included Cathy Cagle (Baby Belle Bottoms), Nancy Lindolm (CEO Oxnard Chamber of Commerce), Susan Murata (Silverstar Automotive), Si-Si Pflaumer (Selah Cafe), Maria Prince (Paychex), Laura Rodriguez (Trial Lawyer) and Ella Williams (Aegir Systems). It was also Marsha Bailey's, CEO of WEV birthday that day. The group all sang "Happy Birthday" to her. Peter Godinez is pictured with Marsha above.
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Performance Group Meets the Candidates
The Performance Group attended an great opportunity to meet some of the Candidates that the Ventura Chamber of Commerce are endorsing for the race for Ventura City Council and Ventura School Board. The endorsed candidates for City Council in attendance were Brian Brennan, Neal Andrews, Jim Monahan and Ed Summers. John Hecht, John Walker and Velma Lomax were in attendance for the run for School Board. Also attending the event was CEO of the Ventura Community Memorial Hospitial, Gary Wilde. The event was hosted by the Golden China restaurant.
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Pacific Coast Business Times (October 17,2005) The Performance Group celebrated the up-and-coming business leaders of the Tri-Counties via the Pacific Coast Business Times. The event took place at the luxurious Topa Tower in Oxnard. Some of the winners of the 40 Under 40 award that The Performance Group nominated and won were Chris Chirgwin, President of Lanspeed and Leslie Johnson, Vice President of Wells Fargo.
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On September 12, 2005, The Performance Group Sponsored the California Counties Chapters 9th Annual Golf Scholarship Fund Raiser at the beautiful Spanish Hills Golf and County Club. The CalCPA main function is to provide a local forum at which CPAs can meet together to discuss issues and common topics. The Performance Group (courtesy Sharp)donated several items (including a golf putter) that was raffled at the dinner following the golf event. Many CPAs and their clients enjoyed a wonderful day together in our Ventura County Weather. ___________________________________________________________________
KEYT Santa Barbara Television Advertisement The Performance Group ran a series of commericals on the very popular KEYT television station in Santa Barbara channel 3 on prime time spot when targeted marketed are watching the local news. Television spot were at the 6:00 am morning news and at 6:00 pm event news. The TV spots feature customer testimonials from Tobin and Wiker (Kevin Dickman) and Affinity Bank (David Grant). Michael Fitzgerald opens the commerical and closes it with a shot of the Hewlett-Packard 4345 Multifunction Product.
Pacific Coast Business Times "101 One Hundred" Event
The Performance Group sponsored the Pacific Coast Business Times http://www.pacbiztimes.com to honor the top 100 Companies along the corridor of the 101 freeway for our regional counties. Some of the top companies. Carl Karcher Enterprises (Carl's Jr.), Amgen, Jordano's and several privately held companies were honered. The event was covered by a 3 minute television feature on the KEYT News at 11:00 PM where Peter Godinez was quoted as saying that the event was "as exciting as the academy awards". Our Hewlett-Packard Business Partner Manager Hope Ganon and Marketing Manager Gail Richley were in attendance.
The Performance Group took part in the Annual Ventura Chamber of Commerce "Principal for a Day" Event where top Business Leaders from the area acted as principals for a day. The Performance Group sent their Technology Office Consultant, Peter Godinez to the infamous Ventura High School who was graciously welcomed by Larry Emrick, Principal. Peter was able to meet many of the administrators, teachers, counselor, students and parents from Ventura High School. The mayor of Ventura, Brian Brennan was on hand with Peter to welcome hundreds of pre-school aged children for the Annual Reading Festival. It was a profitable event for all involved and The Performance Group was there.
Michael Fitzgerald, President of The Performance Group was nominated for West Ventura County Business of the year. Over 450 business people from the region were there to celebrate at the Fess Parker Double Tree Hotel in Santa Barbara. Honored speaker, Hector Barreto, President George W. Bush's Small Business Administor was in attendance to acknowledge the region's spirit of small business' success and importance.
The Performance Group was a sponsor in the 1st Annual Pacific Coast Business Times "Tech View" . While the Pacific Coast Business Times chronicles the important technology topics in the technology sector in the monthly Tech Focus section and the Enterprise pages, this allow regional experts in important topics to deliver a message in a more depth and in a more commerical way. This supplement proved to be a informative and useful resource for the reader. The article was written by Mike Fitzgerald, Performance Group President and Peter Godinez, TPG Technolgy Consultant.
How to Choose an Office Technology Provider (It's not just a copier anymore)
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Pacific Coast Business Times (October 17,2005)
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