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Women Business Owners of Southeastern Michigan
Meetings on the Second Tuesday of the Month
at
The Quarter Bistro & Tavern, 300 S. Maple, Ann Arbor
(new location for 2010)
We are grateful to our sponsors:
Key Bank, United Bank and Trust
We thank The Quarter Bistro and Tavern for their hospitality and look forward to holding our meetings at this location in 2010.
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To WBO Members and Guests,
It was great to have so many people join us for March's WBO meeting. Because of the amount of people, our next meeting will be held in the other room of Quarter Bistro, the Sun Room. We look forward to seeing you all there!
Since Sandi's talk, I've been inspired with a renewed commitment to incorporating Social Media strategies into my own business. Even though its taken a couple of conversations about the value of social media, it's finally starting to sink in! I recently came across this video on You Tube, and thought you all may appreciate it too!
The Social Media Revolution:
Sandi, as a gift to all of us, also sent us all a link to her training on Blogging. Just click on this link to learn more about the strategy of Blogging. Enjoy!
Blogging Webinar - by Sandi Maki and Allan Curtis
Password: blogging
Another opportunity WBO is involved in is Women Making Connections on April 21st. We are volunteering for the event as a way to give back to the women business owner community and share about our organization. If you would like to volunteer and connect with women through WBO and Women Making Connections, please email Theresia, and she will fill you in on the opportunities available. Enjoy the rest of March and we'll see you all soon!
All my best,
Theresia Radtke
2010 WBO President
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| March Meeting Summary:
Growing Your Businesses with a Social Media Strategy
OVERFLOW CROWD ! Bring in more chairs and more chairs and MORE CHAIRS ! The energy level was high and over 40 members and guests heard a great presentation from Sandi Make of the InSight group from Brighton. After an energetic time of networking, Sandi provided an overview of social media at a glance.
Social media is conversation, friendship and connection. Sandi provided a fun "road map" for the steps for social media. The pathway starts with understanding the need and use of social media and then takes us through the various steps to being productive and creative users of social media in marketing.
Sandi discussed Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In. No matter what or all the sites used, the Home Page is crucial. She encouraged everyone to have their own personal Home Page . All sites should lead to you. In addition she strongly encourages and recommends blogging, blogging that is uniquely you. Her ending comment was that we should surround ourselves with people who help us find our bliss and they will find their bliss also.
( It seems that the team concept works even in social media- "together everyone accomplishes more." )
Respectfully submitted by:
Secretary Lu Parsons of Keller Williams Realty |
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April Meeting Features:
Date: April 13, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm Networking and light refreshments
6:30 pm Program & Meeting
2010 Location: Quarter Bistro & Tavern
300 S. Maple Ann Arbor
Dues: $55 per year
Guests: $10.00
Speaker Topic: Business Planning/S.W.O.T.
Analysis/SCORE Support
Speaker: Muriel Converse
Muriel Converse has been a SCORE counselor for almost  eight years. SCORE, known as Counselors to America's Small Businesses' is a volunteer organization under the SBA that provides free, confidential business counseling to small and new businesses.
Before becoming a SCORE counselor, Muriel spent many years as a researcher at the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center. Looking for a new challenge, she decided to branch out into the business world and started a company, MRA Inc., focused on providing academic-quality survey-based research for the commercial sector.
MRA's clients were mostly in the automotive sector. It's primary work entailed designing, managing, maintaining and providing dealer and management reports for Chevrolet's Customer Satisfaction Survey Program. In addition, it specialized in customer satisfaction research and program evaluations. |
| WBO Business Spotlight: Spread the Word
Feature your business next month! Is your business social -on Twitter, LinkedIn, Blogging? Let WBO members help you get the word out about all the great things happening in your business. Share 2-3 paragraphs about your successes with us so we can help you grow! Email me by April 16th with the information you would like others to know about you to be our May Spotlight Business. Your business will be archived in the WBO newsletters !
Opportunities Available: May, June, July,
August, November & December*
* The sign up sheet passed around @ March's meeting was never returned to me so if you signed up be sure to contact me @ lspensley@jwsservices.net I believe two members were interested in September and October. Thanks for your help! |
| WBO Announcements:
1) More Sandi Maki!!! April 15, 2010
NAWBO U Social Media Psychology
Every where we turn, we hear that social media has become an important force in business marketing, which is true. But having an account in a social media platform such as Facebook or Twitter is simply not enough. It starts with having goals and incorporating the best elements of what's available in the social world today. Join us for this NAWBO U event and identify the most important social media site for your business, get a roadmap of a social media strategy, know where you're starting and where to turn for the next pieces of information. For complete details and to register click here.
2) Alina Verdiyan, CRC, a financial advisor at Investment Solution Services, LLC is holding a seminar on April 20th. The seminar "Retirement Planning for Women" will be held from 5:30-7:00 pm at Ann Arbor Public Library, Pittsfield Branch. Contact Alina's office @734 213 5683 to register.
3) Women Making Connections, 5th annual networking and business expo will be: April 21st 4:00-7:00pm at 306 S. Main St., down the street from Connor O'Neill's. With the simple mission of bringing women together in a social environment to meet and build relationships that will help us grow our businesses, you will connect with other women business owners and women in the community, find out about other non-profits in the Ann Arbor area and have fun! There is help needed to put on this event, email Theresia if you are interested in volunteering and helping the event be a success!
The WBO Newsletter will be emailed two weeks prior to next month's meeting (April 27, May 25, June 22, July 27, Aug. 24, Sept. 28, October 26, Nov. 23 and Dec. 28). Please keep these dates in mind when submitting announcements for your fellow WBO members to take advantage of business specials or opportunities available to them!
Opportunities:
WBO Business Spotlight: Spread the Word
$15.00 will allow you the opportunity to spotlight your business to WBO members and also be archived in the WBO Newsletters for future reference. | |
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In Closing..
For more than 20 years, the Women Business Owners of Southeastern Michigan has served the area's sole proprietors, partnerships, and LLCs with the opportunity to learn more about being a business owner through education, networking, referral and support at monthly meetings featuring an outstanding lineup of expert speakers on relevant business topics. We hope you will join us on the second Tuesday of each month at the Quarter Bistro and Tavern, 300 S. Maple Rd., Ann Arbor, MI to learn more about the organization, meet sister business owners, share your advice and knowledge and network with peers.
Join WBO next month for our meeting on April 13, 2010!
Sincerely,
Laura Spensley,
2010 WBO Communications Chair
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