Alex Fees: I’m Alex Fees on Small Business Television. We are coming to you from Cleveland, Ohio at the 2008 COSE, Small Business Conference. COSE that’s C-O-S-E the Council of Smaller Enterprises, a group the yields through the experience of its membership.
Steve Krisfalusy: SJK Beringer Group offers world class IT Design and Support Services now for small to medium businesses. I’m an ex-CEO of the telecom industry that develop global solutions with lawsuit.
Alex Fees: Okay, you used to own a company?
Steve Kristalsuy: Yes Sir.
Alex Fees: It is now a women owned company?
Steve Krisfalusy Yes Sir.
Alex Fees : And what your saying is your consulting with them or?
Steve Krisfalusy: I am there consultant for costumers, developing business technology strategies. I am a businessman what knows enough about technology to be dangerous.
Alex Fees: Well, we know a of all about women own companies, SBTV is partially woman owned Susan Wilson Solovic. Is that a different environment to function in?
Steve Krisfalusy: From my market standpoint, I think it’s emerging.
Alex Fees: Yeah!
Steve Krisfalusy: I think it’s starting to get some of the recognition type of thing that it should, from a personal standpoint, it’s interesting.
Alex Fees: Yeah.
Steve Krisfalusy: Probably the best partners I’ve ever hand, I’m your classic serial entrepreneur with 20 corporations under my belt.
Alex Fees: Right.
Steve Krisfalusy: But, I think they’re much more detail oriented but also much more amiable in personal regarding their costumers.
Alex Fees: Yeah, what about when you said from a market standpoint? What about marketing? There’s a fact that it’s women owned, I mean, does it appeal to women in particular or suggest women owned and appeals to both genders.
Steve Krisfalusy: Good question. I think that’s growing especially on the woman BtoB part. Re-engineered the company in ’05 but the company is been around for over 20 years.
Alex Fees: Really and you mentioned quit a corporate history part of that. What’s your background?
Steve Krisfalusy: Over of my career, I started up 20 corporations between 95and 2000, ran five telecom from simultaneously, global losing bar developing 217 technologies solutions for their 800 pound gorilla customers.
Alex Fees: What are you doing in you spare time?
Steve Krisfalusy: Fishing hunt.
Alex Fees: Oh yeah.
Steve Krisfalusy: Very engaged with COSE, I sit on three boards. I am an editor for their business technology section called Mind Spring. I am speaker at many events including this conference, where I am also task member to design the conference.
Alex Fees: Wow! So you’re way hooked up with COSE.
Steve Krisfalusy: Again, the idea is I spend about 70% of my time today volunteering to educate small businesses. I am a classic member where I started over 20 years ago just to get Health Benefits and was not engaged.
Alex Fees: Right! It sounds like it was all about health benefits.
Steve Krisfalusy: Absolutely.
Alex Fees: Steve talked to me about the changes, the evolution of COSE since then. It’s about much more than health benefits now.
Steve Krisfalusy: Absolutely. I think they’re now much more aware in modifying their strategies to meet the current needs of small business and I think the thing that impresses me the most is they listen. And they will modify their programs and needs of the system to help. Our website is sjkberinger.com, also COSE Mind Spring and our office number is 440-356-3636.
Alex Fees: Okay, good deal. He is Steve Krisfalusy, Steve I appreciate you being here.
Steve Krisfalusy: Thank you Sir.
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