CommunityLeader Partners with Strategic Growth Initiative

Friday, March 2, 2012 - CommunityLeader Inc. announced today their partnership with Strategic Growth Initiative (SGI). Board chair, Jennifer Amys said, “I have known the SGI team for over five years. Their business development experience in working with syndicated alternative investments to help companies grow is the perfect fit for the emerging crowd-sourced funding space.”

Scott Bachman, SGI's founder and CEO, said “We are excited about Crowd-Sourced Funding opportunity and helping small and midsize access the needed capital to grow. We look forward to helping CommunityLeader design and support a system which brings transparency, confidence and success to the emerging crowd-sourced funding market.

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UpNet Technologies Engages SGI to Market their Integration Appliance

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - UpNet Technologies has engaged Strategic Growth Initiative to play a facilitative role in the market development of their new Integration Appliance. UpNet Technologies is an award winning technology companies specializing in complete multisystem integrations using patented proprietary platforms. UpNet provides on-demand cloud-based integration services in the Cloud meeting EDI, ERP2ERP, Legacy Migration and New System deployment solutions. Their new integration application allows clients and resellers to provide the same breakthrough trusted technologies and process from within their hosted environment.

SGI has had a business development/marketing relationship with UpNet Technologies since 2007. For more information visit: www.upnettec.com. If you are interested in being a beta user of the new Integration Appliance, please contact Joseph directly at joseph@sgione.com.

Live Chat - What Makes it Work?

Wednesday, February 8, 2012 - SGI Principal, Joseph Barisonzi, has written a guest column on the company blog for LiveChat, Inc. As an expert in the cultural, organizational and systems change surrounding the adoption of new technology, Joseph was invited to write a quick 10 point guide on the adoption of the LiveChat software. Based in Poland, LiveChat is an international leader in online customer engagement with over 300,000 users around the world.

SGI has been using LiveChat on many of our client sites for the past two years with tremendous success. We have also provided consulting services to clients on how to maximize the opportunity provided by real-time customer engagement via the web.

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Bambu Desserts & Drinks Engages SGI to Expand Nationwide

Thursday, December 1, 2011, San Jose, CA - "Made the way you love it!" is the slogan that has captured the appetites of thousands of Northern California Asian coffee and dessert lovers. "The last three years has been and exciting ride for my three sisters and I as we have opened four Bambu stores in Northern California," exclaims Kelly Nguyen, a co-founder and owner of Bambu Desserts and Drinks, Inc. "We believe the time is right to start opening stores across the U.S. and even around the world.”

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With over 50 years of combined experience, Scott Bachman and Joseph Barisonzi have been working with innovative companies at all stages of development to design, facilitate and implement growth. With very different personal styles and strengths, together they are an effective team to work with the unique personalities and culture of your company.

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In 2009, we made decision to start launching separate operating divisions within SGI in order to provide a higher quality of service to our clients. SGI focuses on strategic planning and implementation while its boutique brands, BusyWorkerBee, eBee5 and Sugar Pros provide tactical and marketing support services. By leveraging the same common vision, approach and methodology, these virtual SGI teams allow us to bring additional value and synergies to our clients.

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