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November 2011
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Greetings!
As we mark our 25th year, we'll be sharing some special features with you each month. This month, Yvonne Campos has jotted down 25 of the most valuable lessons she's learned over time by starting and running our business. We continue with snapshots of Campos Inc team members so you can get to know our team a little better, plus stories of the early days at Campos Inc. Enjoy, and have a Happy Thanksgiving!
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A memorandum from the desk of Yvonne Campos
- Trust your gut.
- Have a clear yet flexible vision.
- Client retention is one of the best strategies a company can have.
- People like to do business with people they know and like.
- Help others. Share your time, your knowledge and your connections to help others, and watch them go to extraordinary lengths to help you.
- Hire people who have different smarts than you who can help fill any existing gaps in talent.
- Pay attention to your industry - the changes, the future. Be thinking ahead and quick to
 move. - Give your employees the opportunity to fail in an environment that rewards effort and lessons learned from mistakes.
- Know the financial implications of business decisions. You need to understand the numbers.
- You can grow yourself right out of business.
Read more of Yvonne's 25 Business Lessons Learned on our blog. |
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| A Deep Dive with Project Manager and Online Marketing Associate, BreAnn Decesere
 Q: What's your favorite thing about Pittsburgh? A: It would be the tie between the old and new in the city - old, historic buildings refurbished for new purposes - and the diversity of neighborhoods within the city and variety of restaurants and shops within each. Q: If you were to show someone around Pittsburgh for the first time, where would you go first and why? A: I would start at the Strip District and work my way down to the Cultural District downtown by the evening, especially if they love food like I do. There are so many great shops and things to see in the Strip that a lot of visitors pass over. For a less food-oriented route, I would say Station Square and the incline to Mount Washington or a look from the West End Overlook.
Q: Thinking of any TV/film character, who do you identify with the most?
A: Tina Fey/Liz Lemon, her character on 30 Rock - I love when a female can be light-hearted, sometimes even make a fool of themselves, and still be a strong figure in the workplace. She has her own sense of humor and gets what she wants in her own, somewhat backwards, way.
Q: What is your most treasured possession?
A: My memories, pictures and mementos from my trips abroad during college - I studied abroad in Rome and traveled all over Italy during my time there, a spring break trip that included Paris and a 4x4 excursion across Tunisia, and an international business course that traveled to multiple locations in China and Japan - including Beijing, Xian, Tunxi, Shanghai, Kyoto and Tokyo.
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Out & About
11/16-18 Amy Dubin and Rusty Stammer will be traveling to UPCEA 2011 Marketing Seminar in Las Vegas, and Amy will appear on the panel, Market Research 101, discussing how to implement market research in the education sector (more on our work in the education sector HERE)
12/1 Amy Dubin attending the PDMA's Management Challenges at the Front-End of Innovation event in Cranberry
12/8 Yvonne Campos serving as a judge and some of the Campos Inc team attending the AMA Pittsburgh Marketer of the Year Awards at the Lemont
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HisStory: Dane Chamberlain, Call Center Interviewer
Dane joined us in 1995, and helps recruit quality respondents for our focus groups. Visit our blog for Dane's interesting background and some funny stories from his Campos Inc experience over the years.
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 Trending: CMU's Entertainment Technology Center, ETCglobal We recently visited client Carnegie Mellon University's ETCglobal site and were inspired by the incredible things we saw. ETC's mission is to foster the future of new ideas and processes related to story telling and entertainment. Our takeaway? What's next is right here.
 | | A video visit to ETCglobal |
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What's New on VO!CE of the Region
If your bank introduces a monthly fee for using a debit card to make purchases, will you shop around for a new bank with a better deal or no fee for this service?
 
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