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Benay CEO Wins Sage Bookkeeping Award
Featured in the September 6, 2019 article "Sage Announces the Winners of its Inaugural Circle of Excellence Accounting Awards" by Globenewswire.
Benay CEO Dawn Reshen-Doty won the Bookkeeper Partner of the Year award from Sage's Inaugural Circle of Excellence Accounting. She beat out 70 other nominations from across the country.
Featured in the December 29, 2017 article "Association CEOs Talk 2018 Trends and Disruption" by Tim Ebner
"Change is inevitable, and planning for the future can be tough. We asked a few association CEOs what trends might result in the largest disruptions for 2018. As the new year begins, it’s only natural to be thinking ahead. For association CEOs, that probably means thinking about any potential..."
Benay: The True Story
Dawn Reshen-Doty's BNI presentation explains what makes growing the business and team at Benay such a personally and professionally fulfilling endeavor.
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Listen to Benay CEO Dawn Reshen-Doty on Community Economic Development Fund's podcast, posted October 29, 2017 (Duration 0:16:12)
"Learn how to make teamwork happen in your organization.
CEDF client alumnae Dawn Reshen-Doty of Benay Enterprises in Danbury, CT, explains how she learned to let go and let the team handle the work."
Listen here or on CEDF's Soundcloud
Featured in the March 26, 2017 article "The new world of small-business ownership" by Chris Bosak
"Starting a business is the same as it’s always been. Then again, it’s completely different.
Entrepreneurs need to embrace the tried-and-true methods of succeeding in business, such as networking, gleaning customers through referrals, staying ahead of trends, and spending..."
Featured in the February 1, 2017 article "Bonus CEO to CEO: Even More Reflective Leadership Advice" by Associations Now Staff
"If you could give your 25-year-old self a piece of advice, what would it be? It’s a question that a lot of people had answers for, many of which we couldn’t get into the issue. But we made room for them here. Check a few of them out below.
Stephen P. Stahr, CAE CEO, Million Dollar Round Table, Park Ridge, Illinois
Don’t be afraid to suggest...."
Featured in the June 9, 2016 article "Benay Enterprises shines in back-office space" by Kevin Zimmerman
"'If you don’t ask for it, you don’t get it.'
That’s something of a mantra for Dawn Reshen-Doty, president of Benay Enterprises, which provides back-office administrative management and bookkeeping services for companies seeking to focus on their core business and reduce their administrative costs. It’s a saying that has served her and her Danbury company well over more than a quarter-century, as she said most of Benay’s business is garnered through personal meetings and word-of-mouth.
'Our clients are our best sales...'"
Featured in the April 21, 2016 article "Winner of business awards helps ease owners' mind" by Dirk Perrefort
"At Benay Enterprises, a successful day is helping clients to grow their business.
The company, this year’s recipient of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Connecticut minority-owned business award, is the brainchild of local resident Dawn Reshen-Doty, who took over..."
Listen to Benay CEO Dawn Reshen-Doty speak about business and more (Duration 0:47:15)
Featured in the July 7, 2015 article "Don't Be The Office Schedule-Wrecker" by Sue Schellenbarger
"Most offices have at least one—the manager or executive who is chronically late for meetings.
These schedule wreckers get tied up, sometimes in another meeting, sometimes mysteriously, and leave a half-dozen colleagues idling..."
Featured in the article "Growing Against the Grain: Meet the Entrepreneur360 Contrarians" by the Entrepreneur Staff
"Through surveys and available data, we've examined hundreds of small businesses and come away with six archetypal sets of practices and characteristics that we believe are representative of most growth companies operating..."
Featured in the March 30, 2015 article "CTSBDC Client Benay Enterprises Wins SBA Connecticut Minority-Owned Small Business Award" by Lyra Capone
"Dawn Reshen-Doty, a Danbury businesswoman and the president of Benay Enterprises, Inc., has been selected by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to receive the prestigious 2016 Connecticut Minority-Owned Small Business Award. Benay Enterprises provides..."
