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The Blogging Ace

Welcome to The Blogging Ace, a Calendar of Long Island Business Networking and Live Music Events

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I'm Back

I'm Back to Blogging...

To all,

I started this blog when I had my Real Estate License as a way to disseminate information about Real Estate, Long Island, get my name out there and hopefully derive some business from the effort.

After leaving the Real Estate Business, dabbling with websites, DirecTV, Recruiting Services, Cargo Services, Real Estate Consulting, Permit Expediting,  ect... over the past few years and I have come to the conclusion that instead of trying to focus on a single product or service, that I should be utilizing my MBA from Dowling College, my BS from Hofstra University, my 25 years in Corporate America and over 5 years owning my own consulting company to use my knowledge to help Small Business's concentrate of their core business, while I take care of all of their consulting needs.

I will be utilizing this Blog to allow Small Business to blog about what they know, while I take care of the technical details for them.  This will allow my blog to have more varied information for my readers and a chance for the Small Business Community to Blog about their expertise.

Feel free to contact me for any ideas for blogs or if you have a blog you want me to post for you, I always welcome content and I am more that happy to provide the technical know how to allow you do educate and advertise your business.

Thank you all for your support and encouragement over the years and I look forward to helping as many people as I can and creating the best blog to entertain, educate and advertise.

Thanks...
ACE

ACE Consulting Expeditors, Inc.
Alex C. Elie, MBA
Principal / Senior Consultant 
150 Vets Hwy, Suite 1492
Commack, NY 11725 
Tel/Fax: 800-223-1670
Mobile:   631-504-2637
EMail: TheConsultingAce@gmail.com

Expediting your consulting needs since 2009...

Check out my Blog at...TheBloggingAce.BlogSpot.com
Get 2-35% cash back on your everyday purchases...Just ask me how...

ACE Social Media Links...
Twitter: Twitter.com/AlexCElie
Facebook: Facebook.com/AlexCElie
Blog: TheBloggingACE.BlogSpot.com
LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/AlexCElie

The Power of Networking

The Power of Networking

October 8, 2009

Hello, my name is Alex Charles Elie, aka ACE, and welcome to my first blog.  I’m 46 years old and I’ve been through a lot in my life.  I’ve always wanted to write a book about my many experiences,    figuring someone could learn something from my successes, failures and everything in between. I’ve started a few times and I have stories here and there and I decided to start compiling them in a blog so I could get feedback and see if anyone would be interested in what I had to say, so here goes nothing…

I figured I’d start working backwards and tell you what happened to me last night, but first a little background on the ACE man.  I was born in Brooklyn in 1963 to Gerald & Jacqueline Elie, who named me Alex Charles Maurice Elie.  My two middle names came from my two Grandfathers.  Being the first born, they both wanted dib’s as a namesake, so I got them both.  When I was young, I  noticed an ACME truck in a parking lot and realized that those were my initials. Being a huge Bugs Bunny/Road Runner fan I thought how cool is that and started using those initials.  In 7th grade, I was writing stuff on the blackboard before my math teacher arrived and he asked me why I wrote ACME on the board and I told him that they were my initials.  He then put his hand over the ‘M’ and said, if you drop the ‘M’, your initials would be ACE, and then my nickname was born.  It really wasn’t my true nickname until I went to StonyBrook University in the fall of 1981.

National Lampoon’s Animal House was a big influence for many college bound   students in 1981, and the students’  in Langmuir dorm were no exception.  We had a naming ceremony and all the      incoming freshmen were given nicknames.  If you already had a cool nickname, and we all approved, that’s what was used, if not, you were assigned one, with most of them from the movie with names such as Belushi & Flounder.  So when they came to me, I offered up ACE and it was unanimously approved, and from then on I was known as ACE.

Anyway, back to last night.  I’m an IT (Information Technology) Executive, formally working for Citibank, NA.  I was a Vice President working as a Group Manager and was instrumental in setting up their CBNA Project Management Office.  I was transferred to a newly formed Audit & Compliance team and set up new processes and procedures to ensure that Citibank pass their 2009 internal audit before   getting laid off earlier this year.  I was given a six month severance package which included outplacement services at Right Management.  The 3 most important things I learned from them and my training as a Licensed Real Estate Agent is Networking, Networking and Networking.  I was already members of PMI and AITP and they both had networking parties at the FOUR Food Studio in Melville.         

(515 broadhollow road, Melville , NY 11747 631.577.4444 http://www.fourfoodstudio.com/)

I’ve been there a few more times and last week the owner sent me an invite to a free party last night to kick off their TGFM   promotion, Thank Goodness Four      Mondays, with free drinks until 9:00. After the free drinks were over, I ordered a 4 cheese flatbread appetizer with shrimp which the barmaid accidentally gave to someone else.  20 minutes later they apologized and gave me a free beer and another pizza. They also delivered a pizza to the couple next to me.  Being alone, I offered to share and we all shared all 3 pizzas. We introduced ourselves and it turned out that Bob has a band called Copycat that plays at the Riverview in my home town of Oakdale.  They are an all white band that play Soca, Calypso, Reggae, Top 40, 80s and Rock-n-roll.  I looked up their website on my PALM Treo, www.copycatband.info and found out they are playing next at Macarthur Park in Rockville Centre on Oct 17th and at El Mariachi in Rockville Centre for a Halloween party on the 31st.  Then I asked him what he did in real life and he told me that he ran an  IT (Information Technology) Department for an Aerospace company and asked me what I did.  I told him that I just got my Real Estate License to cover myself between IT Consulting jobs and that I was a Senior IT Project Manager.  His eyes lit up as I handed him my ACE Consulting Expeditors IT Networking card and we talked shop for a bit.  I told him that I used to work for Loral Fairchild Systems and the next thing I know, we are setting up time for an interview later this week.  I’ll let you know what happens on my next blog.  Please feel free to leave comments with your networking success and failures…

Thanks…

The Blogging ACE

Alex C. Elie, Realtor, MBA
Licensed Sales Associate
Century21 Prevete Real Estate

70 Manetto Hill Mall
Plainview, NY 11803-1302

Tel/Fax: 800-223-1670
(C) (H) 631-504-2637
Email: RealtyACE@Optimum.net

Search listings like a Realtor; visit my listingbook site at...AlexCElie.Listingbook.com

ACE Consulting Expeditors, Inc.
Alex C. Elie, MBA
Principal / Senior Project Manager
169 Commack Road - Suite 374
Commack, New York 11725-3442
Tel/Fax: 800-223-1670
(C) 631-504-2637
EMail: C21RealtyACE@gmail.com

Visit TheConsultingAce.com for all of your consulting needs…
Expediting your consulting needs since 2009...

Check out my Blog at...TheBloggingAce.BlogSpot.com
Get 2-35% cash back on your everyday purchases at…CashBackAce.com
For the best Health and Wellness products on the internet, click here…AlexCElie.MyArbonne.com

ACE Social Media Links...
Twitter: Twitter.com/AlexCElie
Facebook: Facebook.com/AlexCElie
Blog: TheBloggingACE.BlogSpot.com
LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/AlexCElie

The Grand Opening...

The Grand Opening…
September 20, 2010

Today is the first day of the rest of my career…

This is my Linked in post that I shared with my network on Monday morning…

Today I permanently transition from a corporate drone to a truly Independent Consultant, with the grand opening of my web site, which I bought from myself on Friday, am creating today on Monday and debuting on Tuesday at our monthly AITP meeting.  I hope to see most of you there, and if not, I’ll send out my website link when I complete it tonight.  (Yes I’m starting with a blank page at 10am today and will have a completely functional website by midnight tonight.)
Read more on my blog, which I’ll be updating throughout the day…

http://bit.ly/dqqYsF

ACE
631-374-1698
Alex C. Elie
ACE Consulting Expeditors, Inc.
Expediting your consulting needs since 2009…

My transition started after my job was displaced at CitiGroup in December of 2008, reinforced with a mutual decision to terminate my consulting contract at Cablevision and culminating with last Friday’s AITP meeting when I decided to go for it and sponsor a table at next Tuesday’s AITP Battle of the Operating Systems meeting to launch my Website and Consulting Company to the world.
Look out world, The Consulting ACE is here to stay…

I called the WebCenter Design Center at 10:51 and started working with my WebCenter Specialist Michelle.  Since the demo site I utilized was a Real Estate site, she deleted all the pages and we are starting off with a new template, more closely resembling a consulting firms layout.  I described the general idea that I had for the site and emailed her my company flyer and brochure for her to use to set up my website.  She was also checking on my 10 domain names that I created on Friday to see if they were ready to use.  I then left Woodhaven and ran some errands.  I needed to return a Belkin router to Costco that I couldn’t seem to set up properly and pick up a DVD player to show my WebCenter Presentation at the AITP meeting tomorrow.  I’m updating this blog from Johnny Rockets at the Broadway mall, thanks to my optimumwifi connection, getting ready to call Michelle to see where we are at.

I bought the website & domain on Friday, www.TheConsultingACE.com and jotted down ideas for my website over the weeked and on Monday @ 10:51am est, I started to work with my webcenter design team to start building my website. I gave Michelle my idea’s over the phone and emailed her my business flyers and the CYO Hoodie flyer & she went to work.  We had a few calls throughout the to clarify what I wanted and add new pages to my site.  I finally freed up after 10 pm to look at what she did and send her comments to she could update the site prior to my Noon launch.  Turns out she forgot to publish it and it was still in her development workspace, so I couldn’t see what she did yet. When we last spoke, she said that she was going to have someone finish my ACE Commerce Express Page to sell the CYO Hoodies and when she got in at 7am, we could make some last minute changes, see if my domain name was ready & link it to the site.  I woke up at 7am to call Michelle to publish it when I realized that she works in Las Vegas, which translates to 10am est, 2 hours from my launch & I was planning on getting to & setting up for the AITP Sponsorship table at the Huntington Hilton from 10 to 12.

I tried to call Michelle, hands free, from my Company car, and got a different Michelle from the design center. She tried to find the first Michelle but she was already usy with another client and she offered to help. I explained my delema and she published the site and we walked through the site over the phone, made additional changes and republished. My domain name was finalized and she was able to associate TheConsultingAce.com to my new website.

I got to the Huntington Hilton with Sally, my Market America business partner, and at 11:15 am. I was finally able to see my site after setting up my table, at 11:51 am, 25 hours after I started with my Michelle’s from the MA Design Center Team. This is the version that is up and running right now. The only thing missing was to fill out a form with ITransact to accept credit card payments and let the know which bank account to deposit the payments.

Please give me your impressions of the site as it is now and any suggestions you have would be appreciated as I get ready to customize and grow the site.

If I could do this over the phone in just 25 hours, imagine what I could do in 25 days with a computer.
Keep checking back as I will blogging about the next 25 days of updating my website for it’s official grand opening 25 days later on October 22, 2010, the day before the Sayville Fall Fest on Saturday, October 23rd, 2010 in Sayville, NY.


The Blogging ACE

Alex C. Elie, Realtor, MBA
Licensed Sales Associate
Century21 Prevete Real Estate

70 Manetto Hill Mall
Plainview, NY 11803-1302
(W) 516-433-5777
(F) 516-433-5490
(C) (H) 631-374-1698
Email: RealtyACE@Optimum.net

Search listings like a Realtor; visit my listingbook site at...AlexCElie.Listingbook.com

ACE Consulting Expeditors, Inc.
Alex C. Elie, MBA
Principal / Senior Project Manager
169 Commack Road - Suite 374
Commack, New York 11725-3442
(C) (W) (H) 631-374-1698
EMail: ACE@TheConsultingACE.com

Visit TheConsultingAce.com for all of your consulting needs…
Expediting your consulting needs since 2009...

Check out my Blog at...TheBloggingAce.BlogSpot.com
Get 2-35% cash back on your everyday purchases at…CashBackAce.com
For the best Health and Wellness products on the internet, click here…AlexCElie.MyArbonne.com

ACE Social Media Links...
Twitter: Twitter.com/AlexCElie
Facebook: Facebook.com/AlexCElie
Blog: TheBloggingACE.BlogSpot.com
LinkedIn: Linkedin.com/in/AlexCElie