Larry interviews Michael Rogers for this week's Innvations in Michigan Business. Michael is Vice-President of Communications for the Small Business Association of Michigan (SBAM). Michael talks about SBAM, including it's history, location and the different services that they offer. SBAM focuses soley on helping small businesses, which is a trait that helps seperate them from other organizations. Michael also elaborates on some future events that SBAM is holding in the future, and explains how these events help bring different small business owners and entrepreneurs together. Larry also has Michael talk about "Power Suites," which is a program that SBAM uses to help provide professional services to small business owners. For more information regarding the Small Business Association of Michigan visit http://www.sbam.org/

This week Larry Eiler talks with Jesse Bernstein, President of the Ann Arbor Chamber of Commerce, on the "Lucy Ann Lance in the Morning" radio show. They speak about how businesses in Michigan have been successful in part to the facilities of higher education. There is a good concentration of a highly educated workforce that helps to keep this area vital for businesses, new and old. Larry talks about how the funding of technologies and life sciences getting better in Michigan, and how this is helping compliment the region's businesses, and also help to bring in new company. He also talks about some of the new funding that goes into Michigan's automotive design engineering capabilities. They finish the discussion by touching on some of the other companies that are active and doing positive things in the south-eastern region of Michigan.

This podcast has Larry Eiler speaking with Mike Gould about the new and different ways for businesses to communicate with customers. Larry talks about a lot of the new media out there, including podcasts, webcasts, and blogs, and how Eiler PR of Ann Arbor, Michigan, utilizes these different types of media to reach their customers. Larry also discusses different internet-related ways that companies can target their very specific audiences. He cites examples of different ways to optimize Google to help pull up your company for your potential audience and ways to refine this. There is also discussion of this podcast, and how this podcast has been able to focus on Michigan economy specifically, and Larry has been able to talk directly through this means about the different flourishing businesses in the state of Michigan. They also discuss the different methods and tools that will utilize and facilitate these different technologies.

This week, Larry Eiler interviews Bill Hermann, the managing partner of Plante Moran. Plante Moran is a 1500 employee accounting and business advisory firm headquartered in Southfield, Michigan, with different offices across the Midwest and China. Plante Moran has been in business for over 80 years and serves middle-market companies that are entrepreneurial and across many industries. A lot of Plante Moran's clients are between the 20 & 200 million revenue range- the backbone of the economy. Bill has been at Plante Moran for his entire career, and has been managing partner since 2001, and in that time has lead the growth and development of the firm into new areas including international operations, manufacturing consulting business and the Plante Moran Trust. Bill Hermann talks about "Great Lakes Strengths," which is a report Plante Moran published that point out different ways to look at this region in Michigan, and the economic and workforce opportunities available. Bill discusses research results, providing ideas and insights, and then talks about some opportunities for the future.

This week's "Innovations of Eiler and Pasick" has Lou Perry from WLBY-AM interviewing Michael Finney, CEO of SPARK. SPARK's mission is to advance the economic development of innovation-based businesses in the Ann Arbor, Michigan region by offering programs, resources, and proactive support to business at every stage, from start-ups to large organizations looking for expansion opportunities. Michael and Lou talk specifically about Pfizer, and the opportunities that we can gain, and what we can do concerning the downsizing of the company.

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