On Friday, November 14th, SCORE will hold it’s Womens Networking Breakfast, starting at 8am.
This month Mindy Selinger, PowerPartner Connections, will be presenting "Build Your Network - Build Your Business."
It’s $35 through today, $45 after today, so if you want to network with about 150 other women solopreneurs, this is the breakfast you want to attend. If you do attend, track me down and say hello. You know me, I’ll be wearing the hat.
Another fabulous event this week is being held on Sunday, November 16th at Simply Ambrosia 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM Call Simply Ambrosia (760) 593-0350 to purchase a ticket for our afternoon tea, including tea, scones, jam & curd, tea sandwiches, and dessert. Tickets are $16.00, seating is at 2PM. Limited to 25 spaces. Live harp and flute music will set the stage for this event.
The time is now to jump into Social Networking. The opportunity to syndicate your content and deliver your marketing message to the masses grows each day. Are you being left behind?
According to Groundswell there are several categories of online activity. From the Creators, who publish blogs, web pages, upload video and music and write articles, to the Critics, Collectors, Joiners, Spectators, ending with the Inactives, there is change in each of those groups.
The largest growth is in the Spectator group, who read or watch consumer social content. The graph at Groundswell shows us that there is room to grow in each of these groups. But if the Spectator group is growing right now, and they are the ones who consume our content, wouldn’t you want your content to be there for them to find?
Friday, October 24th at 9am Pacific time I’m holding a private online class, Facebook 101, to help solopreneurs get their marketing message past the filters and out to the masses where it can be heard, or consumed. This is a great place to start.
If you’ve followed me at all, you know I believe the blog is the heartbeat of your online marketing megaphone and Facebook is the body that allows you to share your content easily with your friends. The opportunity for you to cut through the clutter with your message is tremendous.
Join me for Facebook 101 and start getting your message out there now. The sooner you start, the more you catch the growth wave in social networking.
Google has a feature that will let you list your local business on Google. it’s an easy, step through process that will list your site with a Google Map reference.
San Diego County Treasurer-Tax Collector Dan McAllister will provide valuable insight on the county’s tax collection process, present 2007-08 collection statistics and answer questions regarding today’s economy at the Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce First Friday breakfast Friday, October 3rd.
The office of the San Diego County Treasurer-Tax Collector will issue nearly one million tax bills for the 2008-09 tax year and is expected to generate in excess of $4 billion dollars. McAllister is responsible for the billing, collecting and investing of the county’s property taxes. He also is responsible for the investment and management of more than $6 billion dollars of public funds.
During the First Friday Breakfast, McAllister will discuss:
Recent changes to the tax bill and the new tax bill guide, which was redesigned to help tax payers understand their annual property tax bill.
The Local Banking Initiative, an effort to invest monies in local banks that promotes economic development and improves the quality of life for residents by supplying the banks with monies to fund mortgage, auto, small business and personal loans to San Diego County residents.
Several months ago I was introduced to Ad Surf Daily (ASD). You sign up, paying a monthly fee of course (they call it an "ad investment"), and simply click on links to "earn" your advertising investment back, and….of course, more $$$$$.
Now, being online for as long as I have been, I knew this was a scam right away. Traffic Swarm does the same thing, for FREE.
It seems the Florida Attorney General and the US Attorney’s office From the District of Columbia have served search warrants on ASD, asserting that they are a "Ponzi scheme … disguised as an advertising company."
California Attorney General, Edmund G. Brown announced on August 5th that the state is filing a lawsuit against Your Travel Biz.com for operating as a "gigantic pyramid scheme" that recruited tens of thousands of members with deceptive claims they could earn huge sums of money through it’s online travel agencies.
Today I received yet another call about an internet "get rich quick" scheme where you have to pay to be an affiliate. Be careful these days. There are those who will try to take advantage of you because they are counting on you not being very internet savvy. In internet marketing, rarely do you pay to be an affiliate.
Here’s a great tip on researching these new offerings….Google the multi-level marketing company name and add "scam", or "sucks" afterwards, so your search term would be….."MLM name" + scam. Read up about who is involved and what others have to say about the company before investing your hard earned money. I did and discovered that there is a long, questionable history with the people at the top of this "opportunity."
I was told this new product would drive traffic to my website. Upon further investigation, that claim couldn’t be further from the truth. As much as I like the person trying to sell me this new service, I’m not gullible when it comes to the internet and I could hear this person being coached in the background. Again, be careful. Do your due diligence in checking these firms out and, ask the person trying to convince you that this is the next best "money maker" how many MLM firms they’ve touted in the past 5 years. If it’s more than one, why?
There are MLM firms that offer great products and they sell with high integrity. I’m just urging you to check them out before giving your bucks to them.
Make sure to mark your calendars for the largest chamber expo in North San Diego’s Business community. Here are photos from last year’s expo. It was a great networking opportunity for north county businesses.
Ok, I’m here at the Score Women’s Breakfast and I’ve gathered all the exhibitor’s cards to share with you some of the women owned businesses in North County. So….here goes!!
On Friday, September 12, 2008 Tracey Downey, of Downey’s Chocolate, will present Ten Business Lessons Learned Through Chocolate to the Score Women’s Networking Breakfast. Tracey will inspire and delight the attendees with the details of her business background and evolution into a happy and successful small business owner.
I had the opportunity to visit Tracey at her shop to chat with her about her business, chocolates! I mean, really, who better to investigate chocolate than me?? Let me know what you think by commenting below!
On Friday, November 14th, SCORE will hold it’s Womens Networking Breakfast, starting at 8am.
Another fabulous event this week is being held on Sunday, November 16th at Simply Ambrosia 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM Call Simply Ambrosia (760) 593-0350 to purchase a ticket for our afternoon tea, including tea, scones, jam & curd, tea sandwiches, and dessert. Tickets are $16.00, seating is at 2PM. Limited to 25 spaces. Live harp and flute music will set the stage for this event.
Google has a feature that will let you list your local business on Google. it’s an easy, step through process that will list your site with a Google Map reference. 
Ok, I’m here at the Score Women’s Breakfast and I’ve gathered all the exhibitor’s cards to share with you some of the women owned businesses in North County. So….here goes!!
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