Please join the Women’s eCommerce Association for four exciting interviews this week – eWednesday Chats™ and 1st Fridayz™ (participant instructions at the bottom of this message).
Here’s the scoop:
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 (10:00 AM Eastern Time) (9:00 AM Central, 8:00 AM Mountain, 7:00 AM Pacific)
Never Let ‘em Get You Down! The Challenges and Bureaucratic B.S. of Taking An Invention to Market with Denyse DuBrucq, EdD.
Denyse DuBrucq, EdD. is an educator and inventor. She serves as Managing General Partner of two partnerships holding her inventions, one dealing with the electronics inventions and the other those dealing with fires and crises. She discovered how to use Liguid Nitrogen to stop fires. Prospects for her invention are world wide to reduce the carbon released to the atmosphere during fires and to preserve water resources. She anticipates demonstrations in China to control their severe coal mine fires and in California for the Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention to end wildland fires quickly and efficiently. In 2003 with the Iraq War underway, the Iraqis threatened to explode their oil wells 20 feet below the surface. To control these events without losing rights to the technology as happened in her work to control the Kuwait well fires in 1991, DuBrucq started writing the first Liquid Nitrogen patent focusing first on the Iraqi task, and, as the ideas kept streaming, the a wide group of fire and crises control capabilities. August, 2003, she offered the US Army Corps of Engineers means to quickly end the oil pipeline fires in Iraq , where these fires took 10 days to end, enabling them to be controlled in one day. The compensation she requested never happened because it had to be paid by the company that lost profits because of the new required speed of fire control. In this session you will learn about Denyse’s journey of disappointment, promises not kept, political two-stepping and other challenges she has faced to get her products to market. Unwavering in her quest to succeed, Denyse has put together a team that she feels will help her get the much needed funding, attention and outcome she knows can and will change the world.
* Wednesday, April 30, 2008 (6:00 PM Eastern Time) (5:00 PM Central, 4:00 PM Mountain, 3:00 PM Pacific)
The Passion, Power and Potential of Blogging from the Founder of PROBLOGGER – One of the Most Popular Blogs in the World with Darren Rowse (This session is a WEBINAR ONLY and not accessible via teleconference)
Darren Rowse is a full time Blogger making a living from this new and dynamic medium from blogs like Digital Photography School. In 2002 Darren stumbled upon an article about ‘Blogging’. He didn’t know it at the time but that moment changed his life. Within 24 hours of reading the article he had started his own Blog called Living Room – a personal blog where he explored issues of Pop Culture, Spirituality and Blogging ever since. From the experience Darren has since started many other blogs. As his blogs have grown in popularity and generate income, his Blogging journey has taken him from a hobby (some would say an obsession), to a part time job through to a fully fledged business in recent times. Darren slowly built his blogging into a income source that has enabled him to dedicate more and more time to the medium to the point where he is now a full time blogger with ProBlogger.
In 2005 Darren embarked with three others on the biggest blogging project he’d ever done – b5media – a blog network that has hundreds of blogs written by hundreds of bloggers from around the world on a wide variety of channels/verticals. Darren is VP of Blogger training at b5media. Prior to blogging Darren had many interesting jobs including being a youth minister for his church. Darren will be joining us live from Melbourne , Australia .
Friday May 2, 2008 – 9:30 AM Eastern Time (8:30 Central, 7:30 Mountain, 6:30 Pacific)
Unconventional Wisdom from a Woman with a Vision for an Invention that Sold Millions! An Inteview with Tomima Edmark, Inventor, Entrepreneur and Author
Tomima Edmark is the inventor of the wildly successful TopsyTail, a hair accessory for women that she marketed by herself to revenues of $150 million. This extraordinary product earned her instant fame among the nation’s small-business set and put Edmark on an entrepreneurial path that continues today. She has since developed a series of additional consumer products, written several successful books and created a variety of e-commerce Web sites. Along the way, she became known for her entrepreneurship and was featured on television shows and in business publications like Good Morning America, Oprah, Forbes Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.
In 1999, Tomima realized there was a gap in the options women had to buy lingerie; our choices were department store, lingerie boutique or mail order. Why shouldn’t we have the same ease buying bras that we had for, say, tee shirts or music? An entrepreneur with a series of unconventional successes, Tomima turned to the internet and HerRoom was born. For Tomima, HerRoom isn’t just about shopping for sexy lingerie. She wants women to find the styles and sizes that fit them best—for all body types and tastes.
With a BFA in Fashion Design and an MBA, she uses her left brain and right brain to understand both the design and business of the women’s lingerie market. Tomina is going to share how she got the idea for TopsyTail, her journey to taking her invention to market and the steps she took to that led to its ultimate success.
Friday May 2, 2008 – 11:00 AM Eastern Time (10:00 AM Central, 9:00 AM Mountain, 8:00 AM Pacific)
IS ANYONE READING YOUR BLOG? How to go from 0 to 2,000 subscribers in 3 months! Interview with Tina Sue of Think Simple Now
Tina Su is very passionate about Personal Development, Spiritual Growth and Photography. Working full time with amazon.com as an experience designer and technical program manage, Tina is able to flex her creative muscles and with it lots of freedom & flexibility. She is also a professional photographer with her own studio in downtown Seattle. On the side, Tina is the co-founder of an internet startup. She also consults part time critiquing websites on their ease of use. In 2006, Tina ran a very profitable ebay business selling wholesale women’s apparel.
To realize her vision of helping others on their personal development journey Tina Su started a little blog called Think Simple Now on September 27th, 2007 with zero experience in blogging, internet marketing or writing. By the time Christmas came, 3 months later, she had 2135 subscribers. ‘Think Simple Now’ focuses on finding clarity, motivation, productivity, creativity and happiness. Think Simple Now gives you simple steps towards positive change. She knows your time is valuable. The goal of Think Simple Now is to create practical and applicable articles aiming at making a positive contribution to your life.
There are two ways to attend these sessions (Except Darran Rowse which is a WEBINAR ONLY EVENT)
To join online visit http://www.wecai.org/eWednesdayChat.exe or call the teleconference bridge line at US +1 712-775-7100 - Access Code is 910681#
*These sessions are being recorded and will be made available to our Elite and Lifetime Members as well as guests who are online or in our conference room during these interviews.
Hope to see you there!
Well, I have the distinct pleasure of being a part of another GOALS blog conversation this time started by my friend, Katherine Reschke, Life Coach and owner of Passions that Pay, where entrepreneurs realize and monetize their life passions online.
For me this last couple of months have been truly wonderful. My business is really hitting new heights and my customers are simply terrific.
I believe that when I did this Goals conversation for February I had mentioned that I had completed “refining” my brand for my business. I have continued to tweak that in the last couple of months to make separate pages for my services and I believe the navigation of the site is easier.
Also, I am happy to see that my newsletter subscribers have increased steadily since it beginning, which is nice to see. I am happy to see that people are interested in the information, resources and ideas I have to help them.
Last time for the blog conversation I did mention a new product…one for speakers (Speakers Forms Kit).
That I am still working on because I have decided that I would first like to expand my Coaches Forms Kit. However, my goal for May is to have updated the coaches forms kit AND complete the Speakers Forms Kit as well.
For May, I would also like to have my newsletter subscribers increase by 10%.
May is a big month for Virtual Assistants as it is International Virtual Assistants Day on May 16th. Come back to my site because there will be a SPECIAL you will only be able to receive on that day.
Now, I would like to continue this blog conversation with three friends of mine, Jenn Givler and Michelle Waters and Heidi Richards.
Beverly Mahone, founder of Boomer Diva Nation and Author of Whatever! A Baby Boomer’s Journey into Middle Age hosted the 1st Annual Boomer Diva Nation Girlfriends Retreat in Daytona Beach, FL last weekend.
Beverly said, “I could tell you how it went but I’ll let you see the video for yourself”.
Here is the link to the video about the “happenings” that went on there.
http://growingbolder.com/media/Relationships/Boomer-Divas-on-the-Move-131233.html
Looking forward to next year! (I wasn’t able to make it this year, however, I so plan on making it next year)
And be sure to check out the PICTURES also from the event! Go to the link Girlfriend Retreat.
For this weekly post at eMoms at home, I wanted to give 5 factors to think about before searching for a virtual assistant. I feel that if you serious about hiring someone to help with your business, you need to have the pieces put together so when you are done, you feel better regarding your decision.
Once you understand how virtual assistants work and you have determined the goals for your business, you can start to streamline the process by outlining six factors that will get you one step closer to being able to acquiring a great virtual assistant that you can establish a growing long term business relationship with for your business.
To read the rest of the article, please follow this link, 5 factors to think about before searching for a virtual assistant.
I had the wonderful honor of talking with Judy Davids, author of Rock Star Mommy & guitarist of rock band The Mydols a couple of days before a WECAI event called 1st Fridayz where she was interviewed about her book by Heidi Richards.
The thing that I really recognized about Judy was the enthusiasm in her voice about what she was doing….her dream was being fulfilled by being in a rock star band called the Mydols. And she even took her dream and passion one step further when she chose to write about her adventures of following her dream in her book called Rock Star Mommy.
Today is the 1st stop on the virtual book blog tour of Judy Davids book, Rock Star Mommy.
I kindly invite you to stop by each day and read up on the various interview and book reviews for Judy Davids and her book Rock Star Mommy.
You can follow along the virtual book blog tour by coming back to this blog (and it is posted on Judy Davids’ blog too) and check the schedule below or you will also be able to follow along each day of the tour at the end of each post will be the previous day’s blog post url and the following day’s blog post url.
April 25th Joy Rose of Mamapalooza starts the tour at Mamapalooza blog
April 26th Gayle Nicholson host of Writers Block Radio continues the tour at Writers Block Radio Blog
April 27th Lisa Fredette of Passionate About Life Coaching continues the tour at Passionate about Life Coaching Blog
April 28th Karlyn C of From Karlyn continues the tour at From Karlyn blog
April 29th Tiffiany Petrossi of Rockin Moms continues the virtual book tour at the Rockin Moms Blog and her My Space Page
April 30th — Yana Berlin at Fabulously 40 and her post
http://fabulously40.com/blog/1446/Look-at-what-people-are-saying-about-Judy-Davids-and-her-book-Rock-Star-Mommy/
May 1st – Lisa Marie of Metro Chick Radio and her post at http://metrochick.com/blog.php
May 2nd – Katherine Reschke, Life Coach & owner of Passions that Pay - http://passionsthatpay.com
May 3rd – Heidi Richards, founder of The WECAI Network and Virtual Woman’s Day http://www.virtualwomansday.blogspot.com
May 4th — Betty Lynch, author of Back to the Table My Country Kitchen post at http://www.mycountrykitchen.com/blog
May 5th – Heidi Caswell hosted at her Connect Simply Blog http://www.connectsimply.com/blog/michigan-mom-tells-her-story-about-being-a-rock-star-mommy/
May 6th – Kathie Thomas hosted at her Blessed Readings Blog http://www.blessedreading.com
May 7th – Teresa Morrow hosted at her site for Key Business Partners at http://www.keybusinesspartners.com/2008/05/07/business-life-lessons-i-received-from-reading-judy-davids%e2%80%99-book-rock-star-mommy/
May 8th – Beverly Mahone of Boomer Diva Nation hosted at http://www.babyboomerbev.blogspot.com
May 9th – Amy Sherman of Bummed out Boomer hosted the blog tour at http://www.bummedoutboomer.com
May 10th – Karlyn C of Wahm Buds hosted at http://www.wahmbuds.com
If you ever wanted to follow your dream, it can be done! Just ask Judy…she did it!
Thursdays is Networking Day at HER Mastermind Group on Ryze
and I wanted to share with you a few interesting topics that have been brought up in regards to networking:
Have you evaluated your networking efforts lately?
Felicia Slattery responded: “You are so right about needing to manage the networking activities. When I evaluate where to spend my limited time, I look at the opportunities to build relationships and as a way to get the word out about my business. And I look for something user friendly so I can jump right in instead of figuring out how it all works.”
Kristine Sheehan responded,”I do sit down twice a day to review and read emails and network posts. Depending on my morning rush (the kids)I visit two or three networks. WHat’s interesting to me is that I find the time to do all I set out to do… even if it’s just to read what’s going on.”
and Sandi Thompson said, “Spending hours a day is getting cumbersome and making a schedule is a great idea. In addition to online networking, I am participating in local high profile groups as well: Toastmasters, Chamber of Commerce events, women’s networking groups, etc.”
And on April 17th I posted this question: When you Network…what “footprint are you leaving behind?
Bea Kunz responded to my question by saying this, “What we do and give to others, we are doing and giving to ourselves.”
How simply elegant and to the point. Thanks Bea!
So please join in the conversations at “>HER Mastermind on Ryze and be apart of the fun, support and journey with us!
Well, I just read a very interesting post by Mary Clare Hunt of In Women We Trust (also the cover women of the Spring ‘08 edition of WE Magazine for Women.
Her post was reflecting about some emails she had received from other women (such as Toby Bloomberg and Yvonne DiVita) about her cover photo on WE Magazine this time.
And Mary went on to talk about an email she received from Diane MacEachern who had mentioned that someone else brought up the question of Why do we Gather? And Mary replied, “For the same reason we blog together…to support each other.”
And I SOOOOO agree with that!
Mary even had a quote at the top of the post by Yvonne and it said ” Ever notice how bloggers talk about the same people over and over? That’s because we have relationships with them.” Yvonne DiVita, Lipsticking.
In reading this post, I was lead to a group of amazing women and the causes and organizations that they are a part of and I would like to share these with you.
I hope that you will also take the time to join and be a part of them with me.
Emily McKhann – The Motherhood
Diane MacEachern – The Big Green Purse
Kimberly Danek Pinkson – Eco Mom Alliance
And Mary’s post ended by stating this simple fact…why do green women gather? Because we can.
However, I would like to take it one step further. We gather because we care!
