Key Business Partners, LLC

Last week I had written a post about WECAI and outlined the memberships options, how to join WECAI and just some* of the benefits of joining. Well, are you ready for more!

I know you are saying, this has to be too good to be true, however, I am here to attest and you can email and ask me questions about WECAI if you would like, however, I am trying to tell you “You really have NOTHING to lose and MUCH to gain by becoming a member of WECAI!” Yes, again, I am a Charter Elite Member which means I did pay money to become a member—however, it has paid me back SEVERAL TIMES over! I have received quite a few clients from being a part of WECAI and have gained exposure and credibility by being associated with such a distinquished association.

Ok, ok, so onto the next part of how you can gain exposure for your business through FREE events at WECAI Network:

You are invited to join 1st Fridayz(tm) brought to you by the WECAI
Network(tm).

1st Fridayz(tm) is a 36-hour email networking event that takes place on the
eFriday Forum listserv. 1st FridayzT begins this Friday, September 7th at 8
AM Eastern Time and goes until 8 PM Eastern Time on Saturday, September 8th.
In addition to participating in lively discuss topics of interest to women
business owners, professionals and executives. 1st FridayzT networking
events allows participants to get to know more about the products and
services each offers.

1st Fridayz(tm) are designed to be a rich mix of conversations, one-on-one
interviews, and panel discussions. And the beauty of an email event is that
you can come and go and interact as you please. You are not attached to your
computer keyboard unless you want to be.

Like previous 1st Fridayz(tm) the September event has a twist to it. The
first 20 people to reply to this message will have the opportunity
participate in a 10 minute “blog showcase” in our (pc friendly) online
conference room. Your blog will also be added to the 100 Great Women
Bloggers List we will be unveiling on the WE Magazine blog in September.

Since the showcase focus for September is blogging, we will ask you to show
us your blog as well as answer so key questions such as why you started your
blogs, what your goals are, your focus, target audience and what you enjoy
most about blogging? We will also want to know what you find to be the most
difficult part of starting/maintaining your blog as well as how you promote
it. In essence, the September showcases will be mini-interviews.

Showcases will take place in the conference room and will scheduled between
12:30 and 1:30 pm, 4:30 and 5:30 pm, and 8:30 and 9:30 pm on Friday and
11:30 and 12:30 pm on Saturday (all Eastern Daylight Time). Times are on a
first-come basis. Go here to convert the time in your part of the world:
www.timeanddate.com.

For those of you who are unable to join us in the conference room, you will
be able to hear the conversations and participate via a teleconference
bridge line. You will be able to showcase your blog even if you cannot
attend in the room, because you will supply the URL of your blog, and we
will follow along with you – while you are on the phone you can give a tour
via your own computer.

Teresa Morrow of Key Business Partners (http://www.keybusinesspartners.com)
is the September Showcase Chair and will be coordinating the showcase times.
Her email is keybusinesspartners (at) gmail.com. You may also reply to this
message with “SHOWCASE” in the body of the email and I will forward it to
her.

And we have an educational component to our event. The theme for September
is Blogging for Business and five or six guest experts will be interviewed
during our Conference Room Networking times. The experts we have lined up
so far are Patsi Krakoff and Denise Wakeman aka The Blog Squad, Liz Strauss
of Successful and Outstanding Blog(gers), Heidi Caswell of Connect Simply,
and two other “surprise guests!”

Because you are a part of our Global Network, you are invited to attend at
no charge and participate in these discussions. And as a valued member, you
may invite one person in your circle to attend and introduce her to our
network. If each member invites one person to attend, we have now doubled
our potential network. And as a thank you for participating you will
receive a directory with a complete list of every participant.

There will be book and prize give-aways throughout the 36-hour event and
even a few surprises. BTW, if you attended in the past, you don’t have to do
re-sign up, just fill out a networking profile before the event!

So if you have not attended a previous 1st Fridayz(tm), please go to
http://listserv.familynet.net/mailman/listinfo/wecai and register.
Because this is an email networking event you will receive the discussions,
questions, answers and introductions via email to your inbox. I recommend
you set your email at DIGEST, so you won’t be inundated with messages. I
also recommend you not use your primary email address if another one is
available. This will help you separate your important business messages from
the networking event.

One last thing, I recommend you create a folder to put the messages in so
you can check them when you have time and not feel overwhelmed by the amount
of information that will be shared, and fully absorb all the information as
well as reconnect with those women who attended.

Early next week you will be asked to submit a “networking profile”
introducing you to the group. Even if you have completed the profile from
our previous event, please do so again. We are going to encourage
participants to click on your links and get to know you. We will also be
using the information you supply to create questions participants can answer
and some will even include an opportunity to “W.I.N.” some great prizes.

If you would like to donate a prize, let me know and I will include it in
Future communications, in our next eMonday News as well as post it to our
blogs – Virtual Woman’s Day – http://www.virtualwomansday.com and WE
Magazine for Women’s http://wecai.org/wemagazine/. This is a great way to
gain extra visibility for your products and services.

THANKS! We look forward to networking with you.

Heidi & Suzannah

Co-Founders – The WECAI Network(tm) – http://www.wecai.org
“Helping Women Do Business on and off the WEB”

So, please go and sign up for this great event that is this Friday, Sept 7th and Saturday, Sept 8th. Believe me, it is what you put into it and it is going to really be great!!