Other panel topics include:
     • Franchising: How, when, why, what to do and what not to do with Gina Butler, Debbie Gordon, and Rusty Powell
     • How to Grow Your Business with Eileen Katcher, Susan DePue, and Sheila Hearn.
     • How to Find Your Bliss with Marjorie Feltus-Hawkins, Sherry Deutchmann, and Rhonda Marco.
 
You will have the opportunity to network with other exciting women that are doing what you are doing.

REGISTER HERE!

NAWBO Business Luncheon
November 8th, 11:00-1:00pm

Please join us on Tuesday, November 8th, 2011 at Maggiano’s Little Italy for the last series in our NAWBO Business University.

11:00-1:00 pm – Lunch & Program

Effective Elevator Speech by Susan DePue

Does your Elevator Speech need a face lift? Would you like to learn how to communicate your main message quickly, clearly and distinctly? If so, join us for the workshop “Making your Elevator Speech Effective and Memorable” and learn how to develop an elevator speech that has your prospects saying “See me before you leave.”

Click on the link below to make your reservation and pay online. Reservations will close a few days prior to the luncheon, so reserve your spot NOW!

http://nashvillenawbo.com/luncheon/

Members-$25.00, Non-Members-$35.00, At the door without reservations, if seating is available-$40.00

We are women meeting women to build strategic affiliations & create opportunities to grow business. We are Succesful~Engaged~Committed~Women Business Owners.

Please Join Us!

Please join us for our next luncheon, Thursday October 27th at Maggiano’s Little Italy. Cindy Hazen will be our guest speaker giving her presentation titled “Interviewing and Assessment Tips for Hiring the RIGHT People”.  She will go over WHY hiring the right sales person is important, as well as give us techniques to determine who is the best fit for your company.

Click on the link below to make your reservation and pay online. Reservations will close on Tuesday, October 25th at 4pm, so reserve your spot NOW!

http://nashvillenawbo.com/luncheon/

Members-$25.00, Non-Members-$35.00, At the door without reservations-$40.00

We are women meeting women to build strategic affiliations & create opportunities to grow business. We are Succesful~Engaged~Committed~Women Business Owners.

Please Join Us!

Please join us on Thursday, October 13th from 11:00am-1:00pm at Maggianos Little Italy on West End Ave for the 2nd session of our NAWBO Business University series. This session will be lead by a panel.

Social Media 101

Our panel consists of Kimble Bosworth-President and COO of Proforma Printelligence, Courtenay Rogers-Marketing Coordinator for Bone McAllester Norton, PLLC, and Kate O’Neill-Founder and Ceo [meta]marketer.

Kimble, Courtenay & Kate will discuss real stories about using social media to grow your business, provide tips & outline a 13 step program on how to use it for business, as well as provide tools to track metrics for social media. Join us to learn from 3 women who have implemented this into their businesses and seen results.

Click on the link below to make your reservation and pay online.

http://nashvillenawbo.com/luncheon/

Members-$25.00, Non-Members-$35.00, At the door without reservations-$40.00

We are women meeting women to build strategic affiliations & create opportunities to grow business. We are Succesful~Engaged~Committed~Women Business Owners.

Please Join Us!

NAWBO Business Luncheon
September 29th, 11:30-1:00pm

Please join us on Thursday, September 29th, 2011 at Maggiano’s Little Italy for our September luncheon.

11:00- Networking with Speaker and other Business Owners
11:30-1:00 pm – Lunch & Program

Using Bootstrap Marketing to Grow your Business

by Dr. Jeff Cornwall

Do you want to understand the principles of bootstrapping as well as recognize the importance of it in the current economy and within your business? If so, then join us to hear Dr. Cornwall share his knowledge and help you build a stronger business.

Dr. Jeff Cornwall is the inaugural recipient of the Jack C. Massey Chair in Entrepreneurship at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.  He also serves as the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship.  He has a Doctorate in Business Administration and an MBA from the University of Kentucky.  

In the late 1980’s, Dr. Cornwall left academics to become the co-founder and President/CEO of Atlantic Behavioral Health Systems, headquartered in Raleigh, NC.  ABHS operated a variety of health care facilities and programs throughout North Carolina.  After nine years of rapid growth, he negotiating the sale of most of his corporations’ business interests, and returned to academics.  

He has received national awards for his work in curriculum development and teaching.  The Belmont entrepreneurship program has been named a Top 25 Undergraduate Program in the nation by Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.  Belmont University received the 2008 National Model Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Program Award from the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.  In 2010 Fortune magazine featured the Belmont as one of five universities to study entrepreneurship.  Dr. Cornwall is a Fellow of the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

He has published six books and numerous articles on entrepreneurship. 

His blog, The Entrepreneurial Mind, is among the most popular with a focus on small business and entrepreneurship.  The Entrepreneurial Mind is part of the Forbes blog network and was named by that magazine as a “Best of the Web.” It is also syndicated by The Christian Science Monitor and Business Insider.

Click on the link below to make your reservation and pay online.

http://nashvillenawbo.com/luncheon/

Members-$25.00, Non-Members-$35.00, At the door without reservations-$40.00

We are women meeting women to build strategic affiliations & create opportunities to grow business. We are Succesful~Engaged~Committed~Women Business Owners.

Please Join Us!

Please join us on Thursday, July 28th, 2011 at Maggiano’s Little Italy for our July luncheon.

11:00- Networking with Speaker and other Business Owners
11:30-1:00 pm – Lunch & Program

Getting to Know You and Your Business:
NAWBO’s Summer Networking Luncheon

Could your business benefit?

• If 40 other Women Business Owners know what you do?
• If you knew how 40 other Women Business Owners could help you grow?
• If you had an opportunity to clearly articulate what sets your business apart from your competition?

If your answer to any of these questions is yes,
then NAWBO’s July Networking Luncheon is for you!

Bring a friend as we spotlight your business, your friend’s business and our business.

Be ready to stand and tell us what you do and how you do it better than anyone else in your industry.

Click on the link below to make reservations and pay online.

http://nashvillenawbo.com/luncheon/

Members-$25.00, Non-Members-$35.00, At the door without reservations-$40.00

We are women meeting women to build strategic affiliations & create opportunities to grow business. We are Succesful~Engaged~Committed~Women Business Owners.

Please Join Us!

Here are some of the topics that will be discussed in the presentation: 

• Workers’ Compensation
• Fair Labor Standards Act
• Tennessee Corporations Business Act
• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Family Medical Leave Act
• as well as … employment discrimination; trademark, copyright and intellectual property issues.

Autumn L Gentry has been practicing business law for 11 years.  She has extensive knowledge in the areas of Business Torts; Consumer Protection; Insurance; Labor & Employment; Product Liability & Personal Injury; Workers Compensation.

Julie Hamner Johnston has been practicing business law for 14 years.  She has extensive knowledge in the areas of Commercial & Business Litigation; Estate, Trust & Probate; Intellectual Property & Trade Secrets Litigation; Libel & Slander; Music, Sports & Entertainment Litigation; Non-Compete & Anti Solicitation Agreements; Product Liability & Personal Injury. 

Come at 11:00 AM and network with other business women owners and our speakers.

As always, Nashville NAWBO meets the last Thursday of each month.  This month our meeting will be on Thursday, June 30th from 11-1 at Maggiano’s Little Italy.  Bring plenty of business cards and get ready for some great networking, fun company, and terrific learning . . . not to mention the fabulous food!