June Business Events

There are several events for women in business being held over this next week. I thought I’d share them with you.

Wednesday, June 23rd 7:30am – 9:30am
Connected Women of Influence Presents the CEO/Executive Panel Forum

Please join us on June 23rd for a special gathering of influential business-to-business women at Riverwalk Golf Club for the June CEO/Executive Panel Forum!

Meet Women CEO’s & Top Executives

Join Connected Women of Influence (CWI) members as we present our panel program series designed to bring the best and the brightest connected women of influence together for a morning panel forum!  More details…..

Thursday, June 24th 11:30am to 1:00pm
For You Network

Time and Life Management and Time Blocking

Come and Learn the essentials to put time back into your day and checkmarks on your to do list.

ERIK E. SWANSON has spent the past 12 years traveling the world, interviewing top achievers, and studying success.

He’s studied, and worked directly with top experts/ gurus such as Brian Tracy, Tom Hopkins, Jim Rohn, Tony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, Bob Burg, Jack Canfield, and has been a Success Coach with over 45 other speakers! Many of them have been featured in the best-selling book/ movie “The Secret!”

Bring a Friend (acquaintance, family member, business associate) RSVP to Barbara Eldridge at barbara(at)mindmasters(dot)com or 858-467-9091.

Vigilucci’s Seafood & Steakhouse
3878 Carlsbad Blvd
760 434 2580

Thursday, June 24th 6:00pm to 8:30pm
Extreme Bio Makeover

Are you proud of your biography and headshot?

If not, this is your chance to get professional help!

Your bio and headshot are instrumental in defining your image in traditional marketing and social media. Professional headshots and bio writing will typically run you from $200-$900. Get both for a fraction of the price at this exciting event! Investing in a professionally written bio and headshot by a professional photographer will be money well spent for years to come.

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION ENDS TODAY
Price – $59 before 6/17, $69 after 6/17, and $79 at the door. Includes bio writing, professional photography, food, drinks & networking! More details…..

North San Diego Business At Large

North San Diego Business At Large
Show Notes: April 12, 2010

The Women In Business Symposium is being held Thursday, May 20, 2010 at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. This is the 11th year Sheila McDonnell has been producing this event.

Sheryl Roush

Sheryl Roush, Sparkle Presentations, will be the Mistress of Ceremonies. Anyone who knows Sheryl can tell you it’s an excellent event to attend, just because she’s there. she brings a passion to any event she’s involved with, and she really does “come from the heart.”

Sheryl has authored a “Heart Book Series” with several titles, Heart of a Woman, Heart of a Mother, and her current releases, Heart of a Military Woman and Heart of a Business Woman. But that’s not all.

Dee Sanford

Dee Sanford, Dee Sanford International, is one of the two keynote speakers. Dee is a Motivational Speaker, Trainer, TV & Internet Radio Host, and Founder of Two Networking Organizations.

Dee will be speaking about “The Power of Big Dreams and the Boldness to Make Them Happen”

Judy Carter

Judy Cater, Comedy Workshops,  will be the Symposium’s other keynote speakers.

Judy is a professional comedian and will be speaking about Stress Reduction: Laughing Your Way Out of Stress—Turning Problems into Punch Lines.

The Early Bird deadline is May 10, 2010.  There are still opportunities to market your business through sponsorship, or becoming one of the exhibitors. Make sure to register now for this wonderful networking event.

On Thursday, March 25, 2010 nearly 400 women attended the Business Women’s Mega Mixer at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. The event benefited the Women’s History Museum.

Businesses Shown In Slideshow

Patti O’Neill Designs

Robbie Motter

Robbie Motter & Mindy Selinger

Firehouse Brewing Company

Senior Movers Master

Meeka’s Designs

Adcentive Group

Herr Photography

Sheryl Roush

American Business Women’s Association

Super Food Drive

Cork and Platter

For You Network

Head To Toe Expo

Girls, Inc

Kensington Cafe

Wanda Allen

Felena Hanson

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising

Michelle Bergquist

Lizza Rizzo

Colleen Connery & Judie Keys

Women’s Global Network

Queen Eileen

North San Diego Business At Large
Show Notes: March 12, 2010

Information on the Business Women’s Mega Mixer, March 25th

In this episode I interviewed Jennifer Finch, Firehouse Brewing Co. about how the Firehouse Brewing Co. came to be, and it’s a fascinating story. They also have a beer garden you can relax and sample their beers, as well as seeing the beers created. Learn how they give back to their community with their beers.

Firehouse Brewing Co. is one of the sponsors of the Business Women’s Mega Mixer being held on March 25th. Michelle Bergquist, Connected Women of Influence is one of the founding sponsors of the event.

The second half of the show Michelle shares some of the highlights of the Business Women’s Mega Mixer. If you’re a woman in business, or women are your “tribe members”, you’ll want to visit the site and check it out.  Early bird registration ends today, March 15th.

The Business Women’s Mega Mixer has invited 23 women’s organizations and offered them exhibit tables so they can share their resources with you. They expect 300 business women to attend the event and table tops are available.

Morgan Run Country Club

The Score Women’s Networking breakfast was held Friday, January 22, 2010 at Morgan Run Country Club.  If you follow me on Twitter, you probably saw the tweets from the breakfast.

I’ve been attending the Score Women’s Networking Breakfasts, each month, since 2004. When I started networking at the breakfast, there were two breakfasts each month, one in North County, one in Mission Valley. Each drew approximately 30-35 attendees.

It was November 2006 when we had the first joint breakfast.  Shortly after that, Score made a change, one networking breakfast, every other month, centrally located at Morgan Run. It was a stroke of genius. The breakfast became a “never miss networking event” for me and the attendance grew to 160 business women. (ok, and some men)

Anyone in the business community knows I’ve been an advocate of this breakfast. I think it’s one of the jewels of our small business community. If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I take pictures and tweet them up with a link to the business as a way of helping introduce the North San Diego Business community at each breakfast. Hence, my decision to step up and ask Score a few questions about the future of the breakfast after attending it Friday, given the attendance was 101 and not quite as many exhibitors as any recent breakfast.

It’s customary when asking a professional speaker to provide a 45 minute, pro bono, presentation, especially where there are exhibit tables being sold, to offer the speaker an exhibit (or speaker’s) table at the event. Score has decided to adopt their workshop policy of forbidding the presenter from marketing their business, thus Carolyn Gross was not offered an opportunity to share her products with the attendees…..of course, she could have purchased an exhibit table. This just doesn’t make sense.

These are my concerns.

• Those of us who attend regularly realize that the exhibit tables for these breakfasts sell out immediately.
• If you want a table, you need to purchase it ahead of time.
• Having a robust exhibit area offers the attendees the opportunity to meet other business owners and network with them.
• Having a large number of attendees offers the exhibitors tremendous value for their marketing dollars spent, and in turn, becomes a great event to exhibit your business.

As I see it, the exhibitors feed the attendees, and the attendees feed the exhibitors.

So, do the same people attend the breakfast each month? No. Many come for the program. Thus my concern.

• The speaking community in San Diego is small.  They all know each other.  Once the speaking community discovers that they are not permitted to market their business, and won’t be provided a speaker’s table for their books and products, does Score think it will be able to provide the same quality of speakers they’ve had in the past?
• If Score doesn’t provide the same quality of speaker, will it draw attendees?
• If Score doesn’t draw attendees, will it draw exhibitors?

If Score is going to change the Women’s Networking Breakfast (from the Agenda and the website) into a workshop, by adopting the workshop policies, then why sell exhibit tables? I don’t believe Score sells exhibit tables at it’s workshops, where it doesn’t allow it’s workshop instructors to market their businesses.  Now, in all fairness, I don’t know if Score pays them or if they offer the workshops pro bono. None the less, it’s seems somewhat hypocritical to enact part of the workshop rules, and not all of the workshop rules.

Score San Diego, I implore you to review this policy. In March you have Pamela S. Perkins, founder of the Human Communication Institute and author of The Art and Science of Communication: Tools for Effective Communication in the Workplace speaking. Having the opportunity to purchase her book could make the difference for an attendee. Please don’t deny the small business community tools to help them with their success by denying the speaker a table for her books and products. It’s a small price, a speaker’s table, that yields you great profits. It’s a system that’s been working for years, and can continue to work, if you can see past your workshop rules. This is still advertised as a networking breakfast.

So, small business community, what do you have to say? Is a speaker’s table too much to offer so Score San Diego can attract the best speakers possible to their breakfasts? Let’s have your comments….

Join the Vista Chamber of Commerce for our Pre-EXPO booth picking Party/Sundowner on October 7th at Ferguson’s Bath, Kitchen & Lighting in Vista. This event has been one of the best networking events of the year the last couple of years. Don’t miss out!

I’ve been helping market the Vista Business Expo for several years now. Here are some of my past interviews and you can use the Category drop down menu, choosing Vista Chamber, and you’ll see my expo posts.

November 2006 Gold Sponsor Interviews
November 2006 Expo Seminars
November 2006 Attendees and Exhibitors

The event starts at 5:00pm. Cost is $5.00 for Members, $10.00 for non-Members. EXPO Exhibitors get in for FREE. For more info, contact the Chamber Office – 760-726-1122.

Learn strategy building, business plan develiopment and networking to build your net worth.

On Thursday, September 10, 2009, 3pm – 6pm, the San Marcos Chamber of Commerce, Palomar College GEAR UP Partnership Program and California State University, San Marcos present Business Exchange and Symposium, an event for small business owners and those thinking of entrepreneurship.

I’ll spoke with Therese Cisneros-Remington the Program Marketing Advisor of Palomar College GEAR UP Partnership and the Founding President of National Latina Business Women Association San Diego Chapter and Joanie Priest, the President and CEO of the San Marcos Chamber of Commerce about the event and what it has to offer to North San Diego Small businesses.

August 19 from 8 to 9:15 am-Join the San Marcos Chamber of Commerce for informative, relevant information at a very low cost-$5 per person includes continental breakfast.

August Topic:
Blast off! Your Life, Your Business and Sales to New Heights!

(my interview with Allison)

Seminars held at the Valley of Discovery Room at City Hall. RSVP required to tayde@sanmarcoschamber.com

Mary Ellen Drummond will be the Mistress of Ceremony at the 10th Annual Women in Business Symposium. Here is my interview with her about the Symposium. Please feel free to leave your comments below and I hope I see you there May 14th.

The Carlsbad Chamber Sundowner Mixer will be next week, March 25th at the Bluwater Crossing. This will be our first time here. Come and meet other North San Diego Business owners.

The Carlsbad Chamber of Commerce First Friday Breakfast is April 3rd and it’s a networking extravaganza! There won’t be a speaker, but instead, there will be plenty of networking.

Personally, I’m looking forward to this event. Normally the Carsbad Chamber breakfast draws 100+ North San Diego Business owners. I’m thinking this is going to be very well attended. You’ll be moving around tables, meeting 7 other new people during each rotation. The Carlsbad Chamber is known for it’s table networking. I guarantee you’ll be making connections at this breakfast.

Just to give you a sample of what a Carlsbad First Friday breakfast is like, this is a brief video clip of our March speaker, Matthew Payne, Matthew Payne Consulting.