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My dear friend Heidi posted a comment to a post that was done on her Ryze group, HER Mastermind that was started by Leah Jackman-Wheitner for the Monday Morning Marketing.

The question was…if you only had 1 hour to market your business for a week, what would you do?

Heidi started the conversation by writing a example of how she went to her local ice cream store (Carvel) and while she was there exchanged business cards and information with the manager to do some cross promotion between the two businesses. See, she was already going to the store to pick up an ice cream cake for one of her employees’ children, so while she was there she took the time to do some marketing and in return expanded her exposure to 200+ possible new customers. You can read the details here.

I thought that was quite clever of Heidi to be proactive in her marketing for her florist business while she was running an errand. And the manager at the ice cream store was more than willing to do some cross promoting (adding business cards to new customers and sending flyers with new order).

However, I wanted to bring something else to the “table” so here is my idea. I have chosen to show my example. My suggestion is to take 1 hr per week and become involved in blogging and leaving comments on different blogs AND add value by showcasing helpful advice. My suggestion is to build a blog “community” of those blogs that share a similar audience and your readers will enjoy spending time reading about as well.

Another friend of mine, Katherine Reschke did a post about blog commenting this week as well.

And I think that Dr Leah asked a great question and I would love to hear your suggestions as well to this question, If you only had 1 hour for marketing for your business, how would you spend the hour?

This weekend I had a great experience to be a part of Virtual Women’s Day hosted by Heidi Richards, owner of the WECAI Network. I had the opportunity to meet some wonderful ladies during the day and learn quite a few things as well.

Here a few highlights:

Found quite a bit about inventing, patents and the process from Julia Rhodes, inventor of Kleen Slate. She invented some wonderful useful tools for teacher and businesses alike…you have to check out the Kwik Chek II (cool paddles for the classroom or game playing like charades).

And Jenn Givler talked about social networking sites and how to utilize them for your business. Jenn is a intuitive business coach for helps healing businesses market their businesses using her Mindful Marketing Coaching Programs. Read more about her newest group coaching or her other coaching programs.

Also, at 2pm, Holly Buchanan and Michele Miller talked about their book, The Soccer Mom Myth, and how to properly market to women. Holly and Michele talked about how the misconception taking by some marketers that women think of themselves as a “soccer mom” is hurting their bottom lines.
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The event was sponsored by of course, The WECAI Network, HERMastermind on Ryze, Teresa Morrow of Key Business Partners and You’re One is a Million.

You’re One is a Million is an fundraising campaign by The Women’s Alliance, founded by Nicole Wild. This is wonderful idea started by one amazing women who rallied with two other people (read more about the details at You’re One in a Million and started a way for us help women in transition. If a million people donate just $1, then $1 million dollars can be raised to help women who need it. And hey, it is a possibility you could win a brand new Harley Davidson Motorcycle! Not bad!

So go right now and be a part of the movement…give $1 and be 1 in a million!

Thank you for all of those who came and made the day such a wonderful time!

Don’t forget the next great event by The WECAI Network….1st Fridayz on April 4th!

Here is what Heidi had to say about the Pre-Virtual Women’s Day Event today:

The first day of Virtual Woman’s Day is now HERstory and it was a huge success! Lisa Moren Bromma our kickoff Speaker and author of “Wise Women Invest in Real Estate” shared some fabulous tips. I got one idea that saved me at least $2,000! And several that will result in a nice income. She also gave a copy of her book to everyone who attended her session. The audio of Lisa’s session will be posted on the site next week.

Anyone who goes to http://www.virtualwomansday.com and leaves a comment will get a link to her session.

In addition, Rosalind Sedacca and Christina Rowe told the audience how they got MAJOR PUBLICITY and almost 400 people to show up at the worlds largest Divorce Party! There were so many ideas shared, my fingers were tired from writing them all down. Thank goodness we recorded their session too so I can listen later (and so can you if you leave a comment, or attend tomorrow’s sessions).

To check out the lineup for tomorrow, visit: http://virtualwomansday.blogspot.com/2008/03/virtual-womans-day-schedule-of-events.html

There are two ways you can attend.

You can join us via our teleconference bridge line – simply call the teleconference bridge line at (641) 715-3840 – Guest Access Code: 361467# (pound).

If you plan to join us in the web conference room (preferred) here are the downloading instructions for setting up and participating via our online conference room. You only need to download the room once, after that you can particpate in Virtual Woman’s Day(TM) as well as our other online conference events such as eWednesday Chat(TM) and 1st Fridayz^(TM)

1. To download the networking room please go to http://www.wecai.org/eWednesdayChat.exe

2. A box will pop up prompting you to save the program. We recommend you save the program to your desktop for easy locating each week. 3. After the download is complete, double click on the conference room icon on your desktop. 4. Once the room launches, you will prompted to enter your full name and click okay. (Please do not try to enter as Moderator.) 5. You do not need a password to enter the conference room.

*when you want to participate in the chat simply click on the conference room icon on your desktop! This will open the conference room and prompt for your name and password (above).

Be sure to join us, otherwise you will never know what you missed (okay, I’ll probably tell you later)!

and to get find out about the schedule of events for tomorrow…click here

AND….here is a list of all the lovely PRIZES

You don’t want to miss this event—it is a great time to network and meet new people and possible win some wonderful prizes!! Whoohoo!