Doing Our Part to Go Green in Business Can Be Done Using Trade Tradesource acknowledge that it is every person, as well as every business’ responsibility to do their part to reduce our carbon footprint and help our environment. We also strive for a reduced paper environment within our own offices, efficient and power-saving systems, from lighting and computers, to car-pooling! Our Newsletters are even offered on-line and in the future will only be mailed by paper to those specific members who prefer the paper version to the on-line version.
You, as a Tradesource member you can also help do your part while boosting your business through the use of trade dollars. We have innovative and prudent solutions for recycling, re-using, and off-setting unnecessary waste, starting with some of the newest members that are listed in this issue. Take advantage of the ideas you find, come up with your own ideas and start offering them to our member base on trade! Talk to other businesses you know that are doing their part and ask them to join our group. Help us become the best environmentally aware club of business owners in Arizona. Let me also take this opportunity to mention some of our long-standing members who have services that have a low environmental impact. They are listed in our “Green” Members section of this Newsletter. Contact them, and do your part to Go Green. Tradefully Yours, Mary Ellen Rosinski, CPA, CTB
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Is having clean water breaking your pocketbook? Traditional Water Softeners that use salt or potassium create acidic and brine residues which harm the environment and waste water, all leaving a negative impact. Bottled water makes an even harsher impact on the environment with the plastic waste. Walt Kemmer has the answer to this problem. “Our Salt Free Water Filtration combined with our impulse technology is the most comprehensive product which offers no ill effects of salt water softeners and is a fantastic solution that replaces RO Drinking Water,” says Walt. “We do not experience the same waste and high acidic water that occurs from an RO drinking water system. Our House Water System is very efficient and wastes very little while delivering perfectly balanced pH levels for drinking water. There is NO maintenance, NO salt, NO potassium, NO filters to change and NO acidic RO water. There is NO reason to buy bottled water anymore when you own an mPULSE 3000 system since you get fresh filtered water (with all the nutrients) at every faucet in your home. Our eco-friendly system discharges NO brine into the environment and is the best solution for hard water.” To learn more information, contact Deep Blue Water toll-free at 1 (877) 882-4695 or visit their website at www.4deepblue.com.
At the Phoenix Convention Center, 100’s of booths, over a million dollars of gift items! Be a part of the biggest barter event in Arizona, be exposed to 1000’s of businesses! Booths start at $150.00 100% barter! For best booth location, call to reserve yours today!
! The Greenway High School ROTC has generously donated their time and talent to our Trade Fair this year to benefit Toys 4 Tots, a non-profit organization that helps under-privileged children experience the Holidays the way all children should, with hope, joy and excitement. Tradesource, Inc. has joined with Greenway High’s ROTC in this effort and is contributing $2,000 in toys for the Toys 4 Tots program. This collaboration has blessed us with the ROTC’s help and entertainment! Greenway High’s ROTC is opening our Fair with the presentation of the colors, and enthralling us after lunch with their military-style demonstration.
Following the honoring of the flag in the morning and the lunchtime demonstration, the young men and women will be helping with our curbside package check service. They will also help members with moving product from the booths to vehicles and with quickly closing down at the end of the fair. With this new, much needed and appreciated help, we expect that this year’s package check service will run quite smoothly. We also ask all members and shoppers to do their part in thanking the ROTC by donating toys purchased on trade or by offering trade dollars to the Toys 4 Tots cause. Your donations will be accepted at the Registration Desk.
GREEN TRADE MEMBERS ARCHITECTURE – Green Sustainable Norris Architects Contact: Tom Norris @ 480.734.7711 Scottsdale
CONSIGNMENT
FURNITURE
MoD Architecture + Planning Contact: Moazam Khan @ 602.561.4658 Phoenix
Hopscotch Children’s Consignment Contact: Yvette Rushford @ 602.938.4998 Glendale
WINDOW TINTING
AUTOMOTIVE – Fuel Efficiency Gadgetman Technologies Contact: Ron Hatton @ 307.413.0342 Gilbert
EXTERMINATING
CARPET CLEANING – Environmentally Friendly Madsam Carpet Cleaning Contact: Rich Jones @ 602.997.5522 Phoenix
SPORTS EQUIPMENT
COMPUTER - Rebuild & ReUse ACS Contact: Steve Heidt @ 480.223.7397 Chandler
– ReUse Clothing Encore Fashions Contact: Janie Snyder @ 602.395.1271 Phoenix
- Natural Natur Zone Pest Control Contact: Bill Stewart @ 602.330.3333 Chandler –ReUse Play It Again Sports Contact: Matthew Sanchez @ 623.939.7799 Goodyear
– ReUse & ReStore The Corner Office Contact: Aaron Ingersoll @ 480.929.0617 Tempe - Reduce Electricity Star Window Tinting Contact: Scott Falos @ 480.940.9577 Chandler
POOL
– Environmentaly Safe Rick’s Pool Care Contact: Richard DeRouin @ 602.301.9333 Phoenix
LANDSCAPING
– Low Water (Xeriscaping) Ground Scapes Design & Landscaping Contact: Roy Brown @ 480.497.4130 Mesa
WELCOME NEW TRADE MEMBERS A Tame Palm Tree trimming services, Palm trees or ornamental plants, bushes or trees, shrub seeds, landscape contractor, one time clean ups & removal services and yard maintenance services. Contact: Andrew Pisher @ 480.331.1263 533 E. Mission Ln., Phoenix Urban Kidz www.urbankidzwear.com Children’s apparel shop that fills the gap between luxury boutiques and run-of-the-mall stores. High quality, unique and trend–setting yet moderately priced clothing. Over 80 brands of clothing and accessories for boys and girls from newborn to size 14/16 and gifts to fill any child’s wish list. Contact: Lila Metcalf @ 602.510.0343 8787 N. Scottsdale Rd., Ste. #220, Scottsdale Robbi Hess www.robbihess.com Freelance writer/editor/blogger with more than 20 years experience as a writer, editor and co-publisher at weekly and daily newspapers, trade magazines and medical trade journals. Published author (A Complete Idiot’s Guide to 30,000 Baby Names) and founder of Romantic Gem Books, Robbi is available for both long and short-term writing, editing and blogging projects. Contact: Robbi Hess @ 585.590.9716 Torva Fine Arts www.torvafineart.com Fine Art for people to see and enjoy. Designed to enhance a viewer’s experience of their own world by use of crisp detail and intense color to solicit the “Wow” response from viewers. Lucretia Torva has developed a successful decorative art business, creating murals and trompe l’oeil finishes for homes and businesses through out the Phoenix area. Contact: Lucretia Torva @ 480.251.3817 2505 E. Waltann Lane, Phoenix Translight Pictures www.translightpictures.com A full service creative film and video production shop, with an experienced Management Team and cutting edge Creative Staff. An in-house, on-line High Definition editing suite enables us to take a project from concept through final product delivery. We are the Entertainment Industry’s premiere source for filming locations in the State of Arizona. No need to spend time and money doing preliminary scouting. Translight Pictures has done the work for you. Contact: Matthew Earl Jones @ 818.554.7000 300 W. Osborn Rd., Phoenix B2BCFO www.alschaapcfo.com Most of the decisions made in today’s business world involve the company’s financial leader. In order to sell them you have to know how to speak CFO. In order to speak CFO you have to know the terminology, you have to understand what motivates a CFO and how to solve the problems that they face every day. A CFO worries about Cash Flow, how to conserve cash, how to produce cash and how to get more cash. We create value by encouraging strategic thinking, how to position the company for the products and services they provide or how to improve operations. We also make sure the financials are accurate, banking relations are up to date and effective budgets are in place. Business owners are passionate about their businesses but many times, they work IN their business not ON their business. I force them to think strategically even to the point of being pushy and thinking outside the box. Contact: Alexander Schaap @ 602.369.0017 28840 N. 46th St., Cave Creek Napa Auto Care Center Automotive services, Limousine services, Auto Repairs and Most parts (excluding tires) are 100% on trade. Call us for more information and a quote for your repair! Contact: Gabe Heck @ 602.274.7770 4720 N. 16th Str., Phoenix Captivated Customers LLC www.captivatedcustomers.com Companies today are shedding business at an alarming rate due to one primary reason: a poor customer experience. But that doesn’t have to be your story. Research shows that building great customer experiences, not slashing your overhead, is the key to greater profits. The customer experience has never been more powerful – nor have customers ever been more vocal about it. Only 4% of your customers will come back after a bad experience. Your Customer Experience Strategies matter. I get results when it comes to creating an exceptional customer experience – the kind that creates loyal fans of your business. My number one goal is to help take your customer’s experience to an unprecedented level of success. Contact: Norma Huibregtse @ 480.694.6940 4757 E. Greenway Rd., Suite 107B-269, Phoenix
WELCOME NEW TRADE MEMBERS Dans Pro-Lock Re-key locks, duplicate keys, pick open or drill locks, set up master key systems and work into master key systems as well. Also can service alarms, exit devices and magnetic locks, and can get all lock related products and lockboxes at a discount rate. Guaranteed everything will work perfect on all locks I touch. I have industry experience of 9 years in commercial and residential, licensed and insured. Contact me at accessdan@gmail.com. Contact: Daniel Legge @ 602.245.4967 6618 S. 44th Place, Phoenix National Production Network www.nationalpn.com National Production Network is a full service video production company who specializes in quality video production. We only use the best hi -definition equipment to ensure incredible clarity and color of your video. Our experience is in shooting aerial footage and creating feature videos for small and large companies! Television commercials are also a specialty. Contact: Kelly Griffin Porter @ 602.739.5060 8912 E. Pinnacle Peak Rd F9-175, Scottsdale SNIP www.mybarbershop.com The Classic American Barber Shop with a Modern Twist. SNIP is a guy’s place and stocks grooming lines made for men. SNIP is a progressive and dynamic full service barber shop. Owned and run by a Master Barber, SNIP’s goal is to exceed the expectations of what a trip to a barber shop should entail for the men of Phoenix’s west valley. Offering classic and contemporary men’s hair styles, traditional wet shaves, fresh razors every time, hot towels, the nation’s finest in men’s grooming lines, checker boards, and candy like when you were a kid, plus a Pool Table! Contact: Darryl Brandt @ 623.247.7647 9897 W. McDowell Rd., Suite #740, Tolleson Carothers Brothers Glass www.carothersbrothersglass.com Glass and partitions; Commercial, residential. Custom shower doors, mirrors, chipped edge mirrors, and custom mirror art. Window Replacement! No job too small! Contact: Noah Carothers @ 480.699.3688 833 E. Baseline Rd., #196, Gilbert Pup Tent www.pup-tent.com An alternative pet boarding solution that matches “Host” families (those who take in a dog/pet for short term in-home care), with people and families who need to board the dog/pet, but do not want to use a traditional kennel or expensive pet sitter. Contact: Karri Godec @ 480.745.1445 or 414.379.2749 3600 N. Hayden Rd., Scottsdale Krize Bistro www.krizebistro.com Built on a love for coffee. We offer the freshest roasted coffee in town, personalized service and a conscience friendly, more superior product. Most of our coffee is Fair Trade certified and organic. We offer the finest coffee from around the world and package our coffee in biodegradable containers. Just another way the environment, growers and consumers benefit by the way we make a living. Contact: Josh Krize @ 480.455.7744 1240 E. Main St., Mesa Strategic Marketing Systems LLC www.strategicalliancebroker.com Email marketing is the fastest way to turn your trade dollars into cash! Over 276 Million in email addresses available on trade. Imagine sending out only 5 million emails with a .5% response selling a $49 product... that would be an additional $1.2+ Million in Revenue!!! Sales Leads & Marketing List, Business Sales Leads, Business Email List, Consumer Sales Leads, Consumer Email List, Opt In Email List, Email Lists, Email by County/City, Email List by Zip Code, Targeted Emails, Realtor List, Medical List, Mortgage Broker List, Canada Marketing List. Contact us with your needs by emailing to info@strategicalliancebroker.com Contact: Nick Owens @ 480.212.2188 3370 N. Hayden Rd., Ste. #123, Scottsdale Optimal Health Center www.optimalhealthcenter.net Offering the most complete Chiropractic resource in Tempe area. We explain every Chiropractic procedure in advance, which is often mentioned by our delighted patients. “If you want a healthy body, don’t wait until it’s broken”. Get the best results in the shortest amount of time with peace of mind. Contact: James Garrett @ 480.730.9636 3415 S. McClintock Dr., #101, Tempe
WELCOME NEW TRADE MEMBERS Landnet Systems, Inc. www.landnetsystems.com Real Estate Broker, Real Estate Consulting, Commercial Real Estate Properties, Real Estate Acquisition, “Millionaire Maker Reveals Secrets” seminar, Entrepreneurial programs. Contact: Steve Thomas @ 480.998.9909 7702 E. Doubletree Ranch Rd. Ste 300, Scottsdale Scott Dial Carpet Care www.scottdialcarpetcare.com Cleaning carpets in the Valley of the Sun since 1992 with only one goal…to make your carpet clean and look great at an affordable rate. The referrals of customers, friends and family have built Scott Dial Carpet Care since the beginning. Call or e-mail scottdial@cox.net to schedule an appointment…I look forward to cleaning your carpet. Contact: Scott Dial @ 480.813.6447 2464 E. LaCosta Pl., Chandler EZ2C Image Detailing Automobile Detailing, Auto Refinishing for High-end and Classic Collector cars. Contact: John Andrews Jr. @ 602.793.6335
Desert Discount Tree Care and Removal Tree trimming and removal Shaping, Planting & Stump Grinding Yard Clean-up & Hauling Valley-wide Services Fully Insured Call for Free Estimates (602) 686-8733
123 S. Hardy Dr., Tempe
Diamond Jim’s Jewelry & Gifts Jewelry Repair (480) 299-414 6005 N. 16th St. Phoenix, Arizona 85016
Bently’s Restaurant Review Pie Zanos Gourmet Pizza Kitchen 7350 W. Bell Road, Glendale (623) 334-5101
One of the BEST Pizza places in Arizona. They even have Peanut Butter and Jelly Pizza. On my pizza I had Pepperoni and Mozzarella cheese. You can choose your own kind of crust, toppings and sauce. For dessert they have carrot cake, chocolate cake, and chocolate and strawberry fudge. Lots of choices for drinks from Orange Juice and other kid drinks to Mom and Dad Drinks of beer and wine. A “must-go-andeat-there-at-least-once” kind of place. I can’t wait to go back.