The Cumberland Business Incubator Open House was yesterday.  Thank you to all who attended and had the chance to network with our tenants and clients who are always happy to share information about their businesses.  There are great things happening in our tenant and client businesses. All are growing. Some of the connections are organic and occurring right within the building.  The Cumberland County Christian Women’s Job Corp is working with a cohort of women who are learning to have a solid relationship with one another, their mentors, money and their futures.

Momentum Behavioral Analysis is growing quickly with three locations – Crossville, Cookeville and Chattanooga.  Thirteen employees are working hard to serve individual families in these areas and the local school systems. The plan is for them to expand within the incubator later this summer to be able to provide a third treatment room in Crossville.

Life Abundance Consulting’s owner Deb Birdsall is providing her clients with a process developed by Bob Proctor to identify and achieve their true potential.  Within the walls of the incubator Deb is finding the support she needs for her website.

Maxify Marketing provided our Open House guests with the opportunity to be on the “Green Screen”.  Guests took to their option of a beach, the dessert, a farm, a newsroom or others to say a few words or to provide farmyard sounds.  John described how he can utilize social media marketing to improve the return on investment for any business’ internet presence.  He has been helping clients reach their ideal market and is helping tenants grow their business beyond what they have been doing on internet sales.

James with Tree of Life Beauty was pleased to show off their production area and explain how they have dominated the internet market with their products and plan to go global!

Tom, owner of TPM Technologies, met with Open House guests with ideas and explained the first steps in due diligence and market research to be taken before investing in a prototype of their idea.  Tom provides the engineering and prototyping for those ideas once they are proven to be unique and solutions to problems with a big enough market to support the investment.  Tom had the 3D printers humming printing tool holders for the Legacy 5 axis machine and spinners.  Yes, the ones kids are so crazy about.

I found a video about the things that happen in a co-working environment and it reminded me about the connections that are made within the Cumberland Business Incubator and among our other 260 clients.  Be sure to grab a cup of coffee or tea and learn more about the new world of work, people just like our clients and tenants, and how Erie is changing their landscape with a co-working space and incubator.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIjyrKZVSL4&feature=youtu.be

I look forward to hearing your thoughts about how people are working today and how they will be working in the future.  The CBI will be providing space, the mentoring and the connections.