Archive for the 'Biz Strategy' CategoryAdvisors for your Business – Casual Relationships or Committed and Engaged?
@IGC, 16 W. 23rd St., 4th fl. Do you have advisors for your business? If so, are they casual relationships? Why not have committed and engaged advisors? Kathy Murray, CEO of BoardmyBiz.com, shares – “Our connections, friends and family are helpful. They listen. They offer advice. They look at the website. They comment on the pictures. We love their support and advocacy. However, their support is passing. For BoardmyBiz.com, we need a few committed advisors to help us form our thinking about our business model. We need additional financial expertise. We need others with valued small business relationships. READ MORE » Looking at 60 Affinity Group
@IGC, 16 W. 23rd St., 4th fl. RSVP: KLRan@aol.com
LOOKING AT 60 SPRING MEET UP A spring meet up for Affinity Group LOOKING AT 60, years, that is, is for women entrepreneurs who are approaching 60, or are on the other side of it and who want the additional support of a peer group to share, discuss, and brainstorm topics and issues that are unique to them. The meeting will be held at IGC on June 6, Wednesday afternoon from 4 to 6 p.m. Karen Rancourt will facilitate. IGC Affinity Groups READ MORE » Creative Professionals Affinity Group
@IGC, 16 W. 23rd St., 4th fl RSVP: igcrsvp@gmail.com with CREATIVES in the subject line. This brand new affinity group is designed to unite all the fabulous creative women at IGC in order have an established collaborative network of open and like-mined individuals to pass on referrals, share marketing ideas, and workshop through business decisions. Our first meeting will be a “meet and greet” and is open to all creative women in professions such as, photography, graphic design, artists, designers, MUAs and anyone else who feels they fit the bill. At this meeting, we would also READ MORE » From Blogger to Successful Entrepreneur with Cara Eisenpress, co-founder, Big Girls Small Kitchen
@IGC, 16 W. 23rd St., 4th fl.Want to transform your blog into a business but not sure how to begin? Cara Eisenpress, founder of Big Girls Small Kitchen and author of In the Small Kitchen, will answer this question and more. In this two hour workshop, Cara will be your trusty guide on how to use social media to your advantage to transform your blog into a viable business. She will discuss getting over “social media shyness”, why authenticity matters and how to interact with your followers. This is an opportunity to get READ MORE » 1:1 Affinity Group
@IGC, 16 W. 23rd St., 4th fl.RSVP: ewolper@mindspring.com Have You Checked Your Boundaries Lately? When you are running your own business, setting and maintaining boundaries is a very important part of your work – whether you are concerned about setting boundaries for your leisure time, or establishing rules with your clients, boundaries are your friends! In this session, we will talk about the daily issues we have with boundaries and will share best practices and ideas to help one another create the space we need to do our best work. Come with questions and READ MORE » Marketing to Moms Affinity Group
@IGC, 16 W. 23rd St., 4th floor RSVP: igcrsvp@gmail.com with MARKETINGMOMS in the subject line. Come Grab your piece of this Trillion Dollar market This group will be a collaborative working group that will share marketing ideas, research and tools. We’ll brainstorm and dream up marketing ideas, to test them together and share the information. From cross promotional events to email marketing to mom workshops at play space clubs like citibabes. Our goal will be to find out the best methods to attract and convert our target audience into loyal customers.Whether it’s sharing a table at a READ MORE » Marketing to Moms Affinity Group
@IGC, 16 W. 23rd St., 4th floor RSVP: igcrsvp@gmail.com with MARKETINGMOMS in the subject line. Come Grab your piece of this Trillion Dollar market This group will be a collaborative working group that will share marketing ideas, research and tools. We’ll brainstorm and dream up marketing ideas, to test them together and share the information. From cross promotional events to email marketing to mom workshops at play space clubs like citibabes. Our goal will be to find out the best methods to attract and convert our target audience into loyal customers.Whether it’s sharing a table at READ MORE » Marketing to Moms Affinity Group
@IGC, 16 W. 23rd St., 4th floor RSVP: igcrsvp@gmail.com with MARKETINGMOMS in the subject line. Come Grab your piece of this Trillion Dollar market This group will be a collaborative working group that will share marketing ideas, research and tools. We’ll brainstorm and dream up marketing ideas, to test them together and share the information. From cross promotional events to email marketing to mom workshops at play space clubs like citibabes. Our goal will be to find out the best methods to attract and convert our target audience into loyal customers.Whether it’s sharing a table READ MORE » The Right-Brain Business Plan®
@IGC, 16 W. 23rd St., 4th fl. Do you know where your business is heading in 2012 and beyond? Want a fun and creative way to plan for your amazing entrepreneurial success? Then come join the party at the Right-Brain Business Plan® workshop! You’ll roll-up your sleeves and craft a visual plan that lets your head know where your business is going AND inspires your heart to sing with joy. This fun and interactive workshop is perfect for you if… You don’t have a business plan and know you need one You’ve tried to do a business READ MORE » 1:1 Affinity Group
@IGC, 16 West 23rd Street, 4th fl. RSVP: ewolper@mindspring.com Where Are Your Ideal Clients Hanging Out? Ever wonder where your target market is going to look for you? Or where they are spending leisure time? What they are reading? Do they have favorite websites? Where you can find them?? In this session, we will share best practices and ideas about how to find our ideal clients. We will brainstorm together for new ideas, too! Please bring stories, questions and ideas. This will be a lively discussion! This group is designed for those who own businesses that serve clients on a 1-to-1 READ MORE » Help Us Help You
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*Limited to IGC members. Interested in membership? Apply here. READ MORE »1:1 Affinity Group
@IGC, 16 West 23rd Street, 4th fl. RSVP: ewolper@mindspring.com How to Handle Challenging Clients We all have them: challenging clients. How can we manage these sometimes difficult individuals who rely on us to provide our important services and/or products? In this session, we will discuss best practices and things to keep in mind as we navigate the rocky waters of our most challenging clients. Please bring stories, questions and ideas. This will be a lively discussion! This group is designed for those who own businesses that serve clients on a 1-to-1 basis. We will discuss, through selected topics, different ways READ MORE » Trademarks and Your Business
@IGC, 16 W. 23rd St., 4th fl. Establishing a strong brand is pivotal to business success and a trademark can become one of your company’s most important and valuable assets. If your company, however, has not taken the steps to insure that its name and any other trademarks are available for use, itmay be forced to stop using a mark or worse yet, change its name. This could be devastating to business, especially after much time and equity has been put into building a brand. Additionally, once it is determined that these names and/or marks are available, protecting the brand is READ MORE » A Style Workshop: Once Upon A Time, A Sleeping Beauty
@IGC, 16 W. 23rd St., 4th fl.RSVP: igcrsvp@gmail.com with SLEEPINGBEAUTY in the subject line. Member Spotlight: Silfath Pinto Join Silfath Pinto, the style guru behind Stylosophy, for a style-awakening workshop. Silfath is passionate about helping women realize and own their unique beauty with pleasure and confidence. She has made it her mission to share her styling knowledge and impeccable eye for fashion accessible to women. She sees beauty in every woman. Style is her weapon. Love is her motivation. Are you a sleeping beauty? Do you often wish for different features: smaller breast, narrower hips, longer legs, fuller hips, straight hair, thinner arms… Do READ MORE »Becoming a Money Magnet: Essential Ingredients to Making, Saving and Receiving More RSVP: igcrsvp@gmail.com with MONEYMAGNET in the subject line. Talking frankly about money has always been a taboo in our culture. It’s about time we stopped avoiding it and started noticing it, talking about it and receiving more of it! In this session, you’ll learn the simple science behind where your own money beliefs came from and how to shift them so that you can immediately start creating more. You’ll also finally understand your own value and get a step by step approach to raising your prices. Oh, and you’ll get clear READ MORE » Savor The Success: Six Degrees of Separation + NYC Mastermind
RSVP: igcrsvp@gmail.com with SAVORAPR in the subject line.***Spaces are limited. Tired of typical networking events where you have a drink in one hand and business cards in the other?Savor The Success founder Angela Jia Kim has developed a new way of connection called, “Give, Give, Get!” that has generated beaucoup business and increased revenue for thousands of Savor members.Not only have our members connected with each other on a deeper and more meaningful level, many have become lifelong friends (because quality entrepreneurs get each other). Savor The Success: Six Degrees of Separation + NYC Mastermind
RSVP: igcrsvp@gmail.com with SAVORMARCH in the subject line.***Spaces are limited. Tired of typical networking events where you have a drink in one hand and business cards in the other?Savor The Success founder Angela Jia Kim has developed a new way of connection called, “Give, Give, Get!” that has generated beaucoup business and increased revenue for thousands of Savor members.Not only have our members connected with each other on a deeper and more meaningful level, many have become lifelong friends (because quality entrepreneurs get each other). Savor The Success’ popular Six Degrees of Separation business READ MORE » Style Empowerment
RSVP: igcrsvp@gmail.com with DIXON in the subject line.***Please specify which time you would like to attend. Member Spotlight: Tiffiny E. Dixon Is your style empowered? Tiffiny E. Dixon of MEO Total Body Beauty hosts Style Empowerment Workshop. Here’s why you can’t afford to miss this seminar: Forget the Photoshop chop jobs littering the pages of beauty and fashion magazines and city billboards. From the narrow beauty ideals endorsed by Hollywood to the strict body molds presented on the runway, we’ve had enough! If you’re READ MORE » Master the Ask: How To Migrate Genuine Relationships Towards Revenue, Media, and Business Opportunities
@IGC, 16 W. 23rd St., 4th fl. RSVP: igcrsvp@gmail.com with CENIZALEVINE in the subject line. Member Spotlight: Caroline Ceniza-Levine We all have heard that networking is critical to a successful business. But what does that mean exactly? After you meet someone and develop a friendship, how do you turn this into business? The best networking is about building long-term, genuine relationships, but in order to take the next step and yield tangible business results from your network, you need to ask for the business. In Master the Ask: How To Migrate Genuine Relationships Towards Revenue, Media, and Business Opportunities, learn strategies to: follow-up READ MORE » |
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