Welcome to the Website of the SNG (Sunrise NETWORKING Group, LLC).  If you will click on the "About Us" tab, you will find out about one of Metro Detroit's hottest new business NETWORKING group.  However, before you click on the "About Us" tab, let me tell you why we got started, and our philosophy. 

Let me start off by quoting Jackie Robinson, a well-known baseball player, “A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”  I don’t think it was by accident that the SNG got started.  My prayer has always been to make my life have meaning, to make the world better because of the brief time that I spent in it.  The SNG is allowing me . . . and the other members . . . to do just that!

It started in 2002 when I had a young mortgage broker pleading with me to start a networking group.  He told me that I knew everyone, and that he didn’t so I should start the group.  I emphatically refused telling him that I knew I would be the one stuck running it.   He was very persistent!  The fifth time he called me, I was drawing a big breath to tell him, “NO,” and to quit calling me, when I felt something telling me to say . . . YES!

I told him I would invite some people to breakfast, but I was going to run the group, if it formed, my way.  We would meet only a couple of times a month, and there would be NO REQUIREMENTS for people to do anything except show up.  I thought about myself, I wouldn’t want anyone to tell me what I had to do, that is why I am independent, and I think most business owners and sales reps feel the same way.

The first breakfast on Thursday, June 13, 2002, had five people in attendance.  Nothing happened until we got up to leave.  One person reached across the table and gave one of the others a lead.  Then one of the other people in attendance mentioned it would be good for another person at the breakfast to call on his friend who could use his services.  I pointed out that we had just had a successful breakfast that resulted in two people getting leads.  With the suggestion of getting together twice a month, and inviting others, we have grown to over 300 members.

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