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WBO “Free to be Me” Business Convention
October 10-12, 2008
Houston, Texas

Friday Night Motivational Speaker:
Felicia J. Slattery, M.A., M.Ad.Ed. with Communication Transformation
Time: 7pm-7:20pm
Topic: Creating Connections During the Conference: A Communication Expert’s Tips to Make the Most of Your Networking Time

Saturday Morning Key Note Speaker:
Felicia J. Slattery, M.A., M.Ad.Ed. with Communication Transformation
Time: 8:15am-8:50am
Topic: Credibility, Confidence, Communication & Cash Flow: How to Build Your Business, Create Amazing Relationships, and Have Fun!

Attend our WBO Business Convention

Saturday Seminars & Workshops:

Speaker: Melodieann Whiteley with Helms Briscoe
Workshop: Planning the Ultimate Event
Time: 9am-9:50am
Description: One Day seminar or weekend event. How to organize your next meeting for maximum success!

Speaker: Suzette Holley with Earnest Holley Memorial Theater
Workshop: Customer Service/Staying Motivated
Time: 9am-9:50am
Description: Building loyal clients and retaining them for life. Learn how to stay motivated, even on those days when nothing seems to go right.

Speaker: Sue Pistone with Sue Pistone Associates
Workshop: S.O.S. The Simple Organization System
Time: 9am-9:50am
Description: Clear the clutter and have more time for yourself! Find everything fast and easy with this system used all over the country for over 20 years.

Speaker: Kennette Reed with Kennette Reed & Associates
Workshop: Discovering Your Passion: The Thing That Makes Your Heart Sing
Time: 10am-10:50am
Description: Many people spend a good portion of their life trying to find their niche. It is our purpose to utilize our unique gifts/talents, and discover the joy of doing so. Following your path, may include many unscheduled stops, but experience and understanding will be gained. Through persistence, you’ll find the joy, excitement, and knowing that comes from doing what is perfect for you. You’ll discover your passion; “The Thing That Makes Your Heart Sing™”.

Speaker: Ellen Delap with Professional-Organizer.com
Workshop: Organizing: Papers and Productivity
Time: 10am-10:50am
Description: Losing money and your sanity from disorganization? Join Ellen Delap CPO owner of Professional-Organizer.com to learn strategies to create your own systems and routines for paper management. Ellen will share tips and tools, including organizing products that will enhance your effectiveness and efficiency.

Speaker: Angelina Musik MOMtrepreneurs Omni Media Network founder
Workshop: Believe and Achieve as an Expert and Grow Your Business
Time: 10am-10:50am
Description: Learn how to strengthen your belief system as an expert while building your credibility and visibility in your community, industry and for the media to notice.

Speaker: Kioni Carter with Tru Transformation Coaching
Workshop: Understanding the Vibrations of Your Life: An inside out look at your life and business success.
Time: 12:15pm-1:45pm
Description: Discuss how we attract things into our lives and how universal principles play a key role in how our lives play out!

Speaker: Camille McConnell with Success Coaching
Workshop: Breaking Free from Limiting Beliefs
Time: 12:15pm-1:45pm
Description: As women business owners, we are most free when we are liberated from feelings of self-doubt, stress, and worry. These feelings limit what we can accomplish and how we view ourselves and others. I will teach simple and powerful exercises on how to break free from any limiting belief that we will practice together during the workshop.

Speaker: Linda Stiles with Stiles & Associates
Workshop: Sudoku Leadership
Time: 12:15pm-1:45pm
Description: Leadership is a game and the game has changed. There are 9 principles of leadership a sudoku games teaches. This workshop will focus on three principles and teach you the tricks of the sudoku champions.

Speaker: Lisa Fredette with Passionate About Life Coaching
Workshop: How Success Depends on Your Relationship With Yourself
Time: 2pm-2:50pm
Description: Providing strategies for identifying the things that you do to sabotage your success both on a personal and professional level.

Speaker: Tammy Munson with New Media VA
Workshop: It’s a Womans World: How new media helps women succeed
Time: 2pm-2:50pm
Description: An introduction to New Media, podcasting and blogging, and how it applies to women and their businesses.

Attend our WBO Business Convention

We are selling raffle tickets for some amazing prizes that will be given away at our upcoming online WBO Spring Market on March 20, 2008!

WBO SPRING MARKET EVENT PAGE

Good news- if you can’t attend- you can still win!

Bad news- You need to attend to win the best prizes!!

WBO SPRING MARKET EVENT PAGE

Great news- Refer ladies to purchase raffle tickets and win 1 Free raffle ticket per lady you refer and purchases ticket!!

Easy! Here are some beautiful graphics for our upcoming event, tell everyone you know and start winning those prizes!!

WBO SPRING MARKET EVENT PAGE

Our goal is to raise $1,500 for our Building Plan Project!

Help us, so we can help you!

Amount raised: $76 (1/28/08)

WBO SPRING MARKET EVENT PAGE

Women Business Owners (WBO) is an international 501c3 non profit organization, founded in February 2004. Our organization provides education and support for more than 3,000 women business owners throughout the world with online and offline resources.

WBO’s mission is to help more women succeed in business. Our plan is to provide physical locations for women to conduct business in a professional setting at affordable prices.

With your support, WBO will be able to purchase vacant buildings in cities with a minimum of 10 businesses owned by women with $5,000 or more a year in revenue. WBO will renovate these buildings; providing a minimum of 15 office spaces, 1 board room, and an open front area for a receptionist. (1 office space will be used for a WBO Branch Office) We will rent out each space for $100-$850 (depending on size of space) a month for return revenue. Each office will be equipped with internet service, phone jack and one phone answering line.

Instead of one woman being a success and making her million dollars, there will be potential for a minimum of 14 women in each area to make their million dollars.

We are building businesses, one building at a time!

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We are currently in the funding phase of our project. We are currently requesting funds from corporations, foundations, and the government to help us with our mission.

If you know of a potential supporter, please contact us.

Our Current Project Budget: $275,000

Contact Anna Campbell: info@womenbizowners.org

http://www.womenbizowners.org

Spring is in the air, come join us as we learn, shop, laugh, and network. Women from all walks of life will be joining together to grow their business, meet other women, and share what they have learned through networking.

Women Business Owners (WBO) will be having their annual Spring Market online event, starting Thursday, March 20th, 7am-3pm PST/8am-4pm MST/9am-5pm CST/10am-6pm EST.

This event features 7 hours with vendor presentations, games and prizes. We are calling out raffle ticket winners every hour! For those present on March 20th, they will have the chance to win special raffle prizes, including tickets to the WBO Convention on October 10-12 worth $125 each and one Convention Silver Sponsorship worth $750!

Raffle tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5 and you don’t have to be present to win any prize except for the seven (7) convention tickets and one (1) convention silver sponsorship.

Visit today to sign up as a vendor (receive 30 minutes for $10), be a sponsor ($20 per business) or purchase a raffle ticket at http://www.womenbizowners.org under Spring Market for more information.

We would like to thank our sponsors for making this event happen:

Admin Services
http://www.admnsrvcs.com/

ALCO Consultants, LLC
http://www.alcoconsultants.com

Fogtnotes
http://www.fognotes.com

Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity! We encourage you to participate by either becoming a sponsor, a vendor or attending for your chance to win.

See you there!

Women Business Owners is an International non-profit organization that helps you discover the power of business ownership through classes, mentoring, networking, advertising, and more within your busy work and personal schedule. We believe YOU are the heart of your business. Learn how to market your business, reach your goals, find new customers, and more.

Women Business Owners (WBO) is an international 501c3 organization, founded in February 2004. Our organization provides education and support for more than 3,000 women business owners throughout the world with online and offline resources.

WBO’s mission is to help more women succeed in business. Our plan is to provide physical locations for women to conduct business in a professional setting at affordable prices.

With your support, WBO will be able to purchase vacant buildings in cities with a minimum of 10 businesses owned by women with $5,000 or more a year in revenue. WBO will renovate these buildings; providing a minimum of 15 office spaces, 1 board room, and an open front area for a receptionist. (1 office space will be used for a WBO Branch Office) We will rent out each space for $100-$850 (depending on size of space) a month for return revenue. Each office will be equipped with internet service, phone jack and one phone answering line.

Instead of one woman being a success and making her million dollars, there will be potential for a minimum of 14 women to make their million dollars.

We are building businesses, one building at a time!

Join Us: http://www.womenbizowners.org

Newnan, GA - Ms. Gazelle Simmons has recently become an author of her first e-book entitled “What is a Virtual Assistant (VA) and How you can become one?” available to the public for only $10. This informative book details the initiative for becoming a VA as well as tips on networking, marketing, education, business strategies and scam alerts. This book is a must read for anyone looking to become a VA, find a VA, or market to VAs.

VAs are mostly home-based entrepreneurs who assist with administrative support from their own offices. VAs work with other business owners to help them become more successful by freeing them to work on other aspects of their business.

Ms. Simmons is a Virtual Assistant and will be celebrating her 10 year business anniversary in June of this year. Her clients have been and continue to be small business owners, independent contractors, website owners, financial advisors, undergraduate and graduate students, writers, realtors as well as individuals looking for administrative assistance.

For more information about Ms. Simmons and her new e-book, she can be reached by phone 678-423-3187, by email help@admnsrvcs.com or visit her web site at www.admnsrvcs.com.

Houston, Texas – January 2008 - WBO has officially joined Meetup.com to expand and reach more woman business owners, giving them more opportunities to meet others in person. The purpose of WBO at Meetup is to be able to arrange networking events in different areas across the United States, regardless of their location.

Women Business Owners (WBO), a non-profit organization founded in 2004 in Houston, Texas whose mission is to provide education and support for women business owners throughout the world with online educational resources, classes, workshops, mentoring, seminars, networking and referrals.

We welcome all women who own businesses to join our group and take advantage of all we have to offer. Enrollment at Meetup.com is free and, barring a few simple rules, there are no membership obligations. We do encourage that you also join the main WBO web site to take advantage of tons of information to help your business grow.

To join or to find out more, you can find us at http://smallbiz.meetup.com/821. For more information about Women Business Owners, visit their website at http://www.womenbizowners.org/ or by email at Info@womenbizowners.org.

Media contact - Ingrid Gonzalez - ingrid@alcoconsultants.com

Visit today and grab your copy:
http://womenbizowners.org/magazine/

Hot Topics:
-Losting Weight No More Excuses
-Business Classes
-Celebrate & Leverage Your Success
-January Basket Contest
-Trial Offer Increase Your Sales
-7 Big Bang New Years Resolutions
-Speech Making Secret Weapon
-Keeping Those Resolutions
-Guarantees - Should You Offer Them
-Online Spring Market
-Annual Business Convention 10/10-12/08
and more!

Our Volunteers are the heart of our group. They provide the day to day services that each of our members appreciate. Our volunteers participate in welcoming new members to our group, sharing information about our group, and being a positive role model for fellow business owners.

WBO News Magazine Art Editor:
Creates or finds artwork for magazine cover and articles. Sends to Production Coordinator by deadline. 4 hours per month.

WBO News Magazine Sales Coordinator:
Retains advertisers and sponsors for magazine issues. 5 hours per month.

Educational Committee Members:
Assist Educational Coordinator with lining up classes and speakers throughout the year. Promoting the classes and speakers through various online and offline venues. 4-6 hours per month.

Contest Coordinator:
Create monthly contests for group, promote contest to group members and general public for participation, retain donations from women business owners, and help with occasional group related contests. 5-6 hours per month.

Use our Volunteer Form - Here

Each Coordinator will have an initial 30 day trial period. Within this time period the Coordinator will have time to decide if this position is right for her and we will have time to see how the Coordinator is handling her new position. We will be available for questions and help during and after this time period.

We have also put together a non-monetary compensation package for our Coordinators.

Contact our Volunteer Coordinator with your specific questions:
maryella@womenbizowners.org

Women Business Owners (WBO) http://www.womenbizowners.org
501c3 Non-profit organization that works with you to make your
business work.