Hope You Had a Merry Christmas & My Wishes to You for a Happy New Year!

...Well it's almost time for the most fun and productive phase of my new business venutre to begin with the New Year approaching. That  phase would be SELLING!

All the legalities of beginning a business have been concluded...I think. The neccesary banking/financial aspects are in place. My website and blogs created, and the most important of all for Steve Weintraub and Associates, LLC; the acquiring and representing of top quality vendor equipment and product lines from market leading companies to sell.

My target audience of prospects will be composed chiefly of municipalities, schools, daycare centers, homeowners' associations, apartment communities and institutional end-users. I've made calls on some in the last several weeks and the reception and learning curve has been positive! I can now speak with some authority and knowledge on such important things as ballfield grooming/striping machines and playgrounds (I represent  terrific manufacturers for each of these).

As I'd dwelled on in my first blog, the ascent of the Texas Rangers through the baseball playoffs to the World Series, which had delayed my business build-up process at times, did not end with the desired end result. However it was a great sports experience to live through which I'll never forget! Now my sports heart and soul resides with the Dallas Mavericks season and my favorite basketballer, Dirk Nowitzki. The Dallas Cowboys this year are NOT a matter for discussion.

If you have the time please check out my website http://www.steveweintraubandassoc.com/ and http://www.heartlandplay.com/  to see what I'm involved in.   Even better sign up to follow my blog, Governmentally Your$ which I hope to keep updated with information of interest from time to time.

My wish is that next year is a bountiful and healthful one for you and your families! If I can be of assistance with your business goals in 2011 please let me know. I of course would appreciate any assistance you can offer to further mine!

Governmentally Your$,
Steve Weintraub
Principal
Steve Weintraub and Associates, LLC
e-mail-steveweintraub@steveweintraubandassoc.com
http://www.steveweintraubandassoc.com/



Welcome to Steve Weintraub's New Blog!

As you may know I'd spent the last nearly 26 years of my life working for Penton Media and the last 15 specifically in their Public & Infrastructure Group.

Well that all ended on October 1st as it can for anyone of us who are not self-employed. Not a bad thing as it allowed me to pursue the many ideas and avenues I'd long thought of but was unable to make time for. Luckily for me a salesman can always sell and thus there can be and have been many opportunities I've been approached with and recommended by others to go after. Some were surprising and far afield of anything I'd ever done. All though were interesting and ponderable on their merits and were greatly appreciated. So it unleashed a lot of good thought and consideration on what I should do with my future. More on that later...

Weeks 1 and some of week 2 of unemployed life were spent de-coupling myself from my past Penton life. It's surprising how this takes longer than one would think to transition from one career life to another due to matters of administration, financial, heatlh care and ridding the home office of magazines, media kits, office equipment, etc. I did get derailed the second week I have to admit by the current Texas Rangers' playoff run and the spectrum of October Baseball Madness. I was offered and happily accepted these terrific tickets to a Dallas Mavericks'/Chicago Bulls game on Thursday evening. On Tuesday of the first day of the playoffs when the Rangers played Tampa Bay I'd watched the two games following that. Don't EVER recall having watched three baseball games in one day! Couldn't pull myself away from the set and I certainly had the time to devote to this at that time. All the while I'd been pondering the shape and content of my future work life and what I'd like it to look like and have come to a decision that finally made sense.

Trying to be as honest as possible with myself through this process I'd come up with my three best assets. 1) I'm very curious about companies and what they do. 2) I love to sell people concepts and things. 3) I am pretty darned knowledgeable about selling and marketing to government and industrial end-users.

With all that in mind which made me feel powerful and blessed I drove down to the Dallas County Records Building and registered my new business Steve Weintraub & Associates on October 19th. It was a powerful moment and day. Yesterday my new business cards arrived. I designated myself the title of "principal" of the company rather than president, founder or ceo simply because I've always liked that title designation.

My plan for my new company is to be an independent manufacturers representative in the Dallas/Fort Worth and North Texas areas selling to governmental, institutional and industrial end-users. The second portion of my new business will be a consultative one which will be to assist companies with their challenges of getting into the government market or aiding them with sales/marketing solutions on how to further and grow their government sales. I'm also adept in marketing to the commercial/industrial sectors as well btw.

If I can be of help to you with my new business venture in any way or you can help me with mine, please let me know. My pledge to you is to be as conscientious, hard working and service-oriented as I can be on your behalf.

Governmentally Yours,
Steve Weintraub