Photo: Adrianne Machina, John Jantsch and Kirsten Wright
Yesterday Kirsten and I drove down to San Diego, CA to join 200 enthusiastic, empowered women entrepreneurs at Microsoft Office Live’s Small Business “Vision to Venture” Women’s Entrepreneur event. What a great feeling to be surrounded by so many smart and successful women!
The keynote presentation “A Girl’s Guide to Building a Million Dollar Business” was given by Susan Wilson Solovic of SBTV.com. I sure recognized some of my shortcomings - but I vow to do better, starting today! I was also introduced to Rich Sloan, whose StartUpNation.com site has become a veritable small business bible/yellow pages. I had to wait until 2:00 p.m. hear John Jantsch, best-selling author of Duct Tape Marketing and one of my mentors, speak about how to start a marketing conversation. John’s speeches always get me excited about small business marketing. (I’m actually always excited about small business marketing, he just inspires me to do it better!) If you’re a women entrepreneur - or want to become one - and you live near Miami, Austin or Seattle, I encourage you to register for this Women’s Entrepreur event.
Also, if you’ll be near Irvine, CA next week, be sure to join us on April 23rd, 2008 for the Small Business Essentials Expo in Irvine, CA. Tornado Marketing will have a tabletop and I will be speaking about the best ways to recession-proof your marketing - on and off the internet. You can find out all the details on the OC Small Business Essentials Expo site.
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