Erin, our hair stylist, receives her official LeTip badge.

Paul, our new Florist, receives his velvet business card holder & badge.

Patty Sterling, our estate planning expert, upgrades her badge color to green.

Can you believe that we're already a month into 2009?  It just seemed like last weekend when we were all cursing Llewellyn for winning the trip to Hawaii :-)

Jasmine (www.jasmineguerrero.com) welcomed everybody with her showboat table where she gave away home inventory kits, to help reclaim your stuff in case of theft or fire.

Mikel (www.webflexor.com) got everybody's heart pumping with a few quick yoga poses and then we started off the meeting.   

Once again, we had a great turn out from our guests - they always bring fresh new energy and meeting new people is best part of networking.  Thank you for visiting our chapter!

• Kathy - Event Planning (thanks for the mints!)
• Daniel - Technology Support
• Chris  - Direct Mail Advertising
• Michael - Financial Advisor
• Scott - Loan Officer
• Seth - Realtor

We look forward to seeing you again.  We also look forward to seeing  Karen, Debbie and Dr. Lawrence who were absent for this meeting  (although, I think Karen will still be vacationing in Mexico).

Llewellyn (www.spunlabs.com) with the help of Rich, gave a presentation on one of the practices of Agile: Pair Programming.  The two of them demonstrated how when 2 people truly collaborate the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. They did this by first demonstrating how NOT to work together, where one person is truly owning the work and the other person is just watching,  and then, when both people are contributing.  Not only was this a fantastic presentation, but they raised the bar on how beautiful the presenters should be.

Raffle prizes this week included Candy from Barbara, a iTunes gift card from Dr. Bakur, a Starbucks gift card from Rich, and a haircut gift card from Erin.  Thanks to all who participated and congratulations to the winners.

On a special note, our chapter's founder, Julia Orpheus, joined us for one last meeting before she moves to Atlanta, to become a regional director with LeTip.  Congratulations, Julia, and thanks so much for creating San Diego's premiere business networking chapter.  You will always be a WIN-ner in our book! 

We want to remind everyone that we will be voting on Seth, Scott, and Kathy next week.

And the weekly tip report: 17 tips and 4 escrow tips for our guests.   

Don't forget, Monday the 1st is February's Board of Director's meeting, 9:00 am at Llewellyn's (1121 Chalcedony Street, 92109).  

Sincerely
Llewellyn & Rich

Note to guests:  You are allowed to attend two meetings before applying to be a member.  On the day you will be voted in, you will still attend the meeting but will be asked to leave 5 minutes early during the voting process.  Please put a little thought into your commercials that day as they will reflect on how members vote.