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July 2010
NAWBO's mission is to strengthen the wealth-creating capacity of its members and promote economic development; to create innovative and effective change in the business culture; to build strategic alliances, coalitions and affiliations; and to transform public policy and influence opinion makers worldwide.
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July 27, 2010 - "KY WBE & State of The Commonwealth" - Special July Meeting
Location: Masterson's - 1830 S. 3rd StreetTime: 11:00 a.m. - 11:30
a.m. - New & Prospective Member Orientation 11:30 a.m. -
12:00 p.m. - Registration & Networking 12:00 p.m. -
1:00 p.m. - Program
Speakers -
Adam Edelen, Chief of Staff, Office of the Governor, Commonwealth of Kentucky
Visit with fellow business owners and hear more about the status of
Kentucky WBE Certification. Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear's Chief of
Staff, Adam Edelen will give a report on the "state of the Commonwealth"
and other governmental topics that relate to women owned businesses.
This will be NAWBO's final luncheon at Masterson's. Thank
you to Sueanna Masterson for her years of in-kind
donations to the Louisville Chapter. Come celebrate a Louisville
landmark on July 27! To share your memories of Masterson's, go to www.memoriesatmastersons.com.
Pre-registration Required by July 23rd at
5:00 p.m.REGISTER NOW August 17, 2010 - "The Personal Credibility Factor" - August Meeting
Location: Hotel Louisville - 120 W Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202 Time: 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - New & Prospective Member Orientation 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Registration & Networking 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Program Speakers - Sandy Allegier, Allgeier HR ConsultingSandy Allgeier is an author, speaker, trainer and consultant who focuses
on assisting organizations maximize their human potential. Prior to
beginning her business in early 2000, Sandy had over 25 years experience
as a human resources professional, directing HR functions in a variety
of Fortune 500 business settings. Today, she is a member of the
National Speakers Association, and a featured speaker nationally.
Sandy's new book The Personal Credibility Factor: How to get it, keep
it and get it back, published in 2009, has been featured in over 100
publications (including O Magazine!)
Pre-registration Required by August 13th at 5:00 p.m.REGISTER NOWAugust 19, 2010 - "Beyond Infinity - Marketing Without Ceilings"
Social
Media Seminar Series - Part II
Twitter & Facebook
Location: Indiana Wesleyan University - 1500 Alliant Avenue, Louisville, KY 40299 (off Blankenbaker Parkway) Time: 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Registration; 1:30 - 4:30 p.m. - Seminar Speakers - Sheryl Connelly - Marketing Media Management and Lesa Seibert, Xstreme Media
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Summer Social Networking Event
Join NAWBO Louisville and GLOW (Greater
Louisville Outstanding Women) for our annual Summer Social
at Captain's Quarters on
the river for an evening of networking, food and fun. Bring plenty of
business cards. There will be drawings for door prizes.
The event is FREE. Food and drink are on your own. Remember to BRING A GUEST and introduce them to NAWBO.
A NAWBO 101 will be held at 5:00 for
those interested in learning more about, joining or who have just joined
NAWBO. Our Membership chairs will share information about NAWBO and
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New NAWBO Louisville Members for June
Karen Alsup - KMA Production
Kirsten Bullock
Tiffany Kelley Jenkins - Kelley Construction
Jenni Laidman - Jennilaidman.com - Writer, Editor, Reporter
Katherine Semmes - Semonin Realtors
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NEW NAWBO Louisville Website
- When you log into the member area, you will see an updated Member Directory under Membership. Please log in and update your information and upload your photo.
- Also under Membership, you will find Member Job Postings. Do you have a job in your company that you are looking to fill? Post it here where fellow NAWBO members can see and send referrals your way.
- Under Get Involved you will find the NAWBO Discussion Forum. This is a place for members to interact with each other and talk about topics that are important to them. There are discussion areas for each committee - so if you have something to share with a committee, post it here. There is a Suggestion Box - have an idea, let us hear about it.
If you can't remember your log in, just send an email to webmaster@nawbolouisville.org to request a new one. Watch for more new items coming soon.
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On July 6, Gr eater Louisville Inc. is launching Try It Local, an
electronic group discount program offering deep discounts of 40-90% off
retailers, restaurants, service providers and more. Best of all, these savings
are delivered right to your inbox - for free! Sign up today at www.TryItLocal.com
- and share the link with your friends and colleagues.
Here's how it works: Each
weekday, a business offers a one-day-only deal at a deep discount (for
example, $100 in spa services for $40, or a $50 restaurant gift card for
$20). The offer is delivered to Try It Local subscribers via email, social
media and TryItLocal.com.
Besides giving you access to some
unbelievable deals, Try It Local benefits the en tire business community.
It encourages citizens to explore new venues, drives new customers to member
businesses, and since the program is 100%
local, all of the proceeds are reinvested right here in the local economy.
If you think your business would
benefit from this level of exposure, visit TryItLocal.com or call GLI at (502)
625-0035. Participating businesses keep 70 percent of the day's total
sales, and are responsible only for determining the deal, and preparing to meet
increased demands for products or services.
Louisville
abounds with local retailers and restaurants, and now you can explore these
offerings more affordably than ever. We hope you are as excited about this new
program as we are. Look for the first deal on Tuesday.
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Do You Have News for the e-Newsletter?
Have you been in the News recently? Is there announcement for your business? Are you chairing a charity event? Let us know when you have news about you or your business?
In an effort to keep the eNewsletter fresh and informative, we are instituting new guidelines for copy submissions regarding members' business-promotion articles. Copy content should not exceed 250 words for these types of articles. By limiting the word count, we will be able to feature more members' information.
Keep those articles coming in, as it is great to share your company news with the NAWBO membership!
The deadline for the July issue is July 23, 2010. Send your articles about promotions, news coverage, accomplishments, grand openings, opportunities, etc. to director@nawbolouisville.org or lesa@xstrememedia.com.
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Member Perks - Buy NAWBO 1st Program
In the Member's Area of the web site is the Buy NAWBO 1st program where NAWBO Members, Sponsors and Partners can offer discounts on goods and services to NAWBO Members. You can access it under Membership and Programs, but you must be logged in to see the discounts offered. There are already quite a few great deals available. To see information on this new program, visit the Buy NAWBO 1st page on the NAWBO Louisville web site.
Current offers include:
- Corporate Sponsor Louisville Magazine offers these discounts to NAWBO members:10% discount on advertising and 50% discount on subscriptions - Regular one-year subscription price is $22. NAWBO members pay $11. Two-year is $36, $18 for NAWBO members.
- Royal Fine Jewelers offers NAWBO members a 25% discount off of jewelry repair and appraisals
- Corporate Sponsor Underwired Magazine offers a 10% discount on advertising to NAWBO members
- Corporate Sponsor Kentuckiana Healthy Woman Magazine offers a 20% discount on advertising
- Corporate Sponsor Today's Woman Magazine offers a 10% discount off rate card for ads placed in Today's Woman, Today's Transitions and Today's Family magazines
- Corporate Sponsor Xstreme Media, LLC offers a 10% discount off any of their services
- Moss Hill offers a 15% discount off all products
- Bikinis and Bifocals offers a 10% advertising discount for ads placed on their web site
- Evanston Publishing offers a Free book consultation and a Free Guidebook "Selling Your Book"
- J Vary & Associates offers a 1 hour free session with Joe Vary
- Signarama Downtown offers a 10% discount off services
- TKT & Associates, Inc. offers NAWBO members a $200 discount off of their FastTrac GrowthVenture program
- Utterly Organized offers your 1st hour of organizing Free
- Home Cuisine offers a 10% discount off of meal plan prices
- Sunny Daize Boutique is offering members a 10% discount off their purchase
- Blooms in LaGrange and Betsye's Blooms in Simpsonville are offering a 15% discount to NAWBO members and sponsors on all products.
- Event Photographers, Inc. is offering a 10% discount off any professional service, either in-house or on-location.
- Jamie L. Wyman, Attorney at Law, is offering a discounted initial business consultation and 10% off all services. See full details in Buy NAWBO 1st member area.
- Mojo Jewels is offering 20% off purchases on their web site.
- Integrity HR offers members one free "Employee Problem" phone consult and/or one hour review of human resource practices to assess your HR risk. - NEW
To see additional details on these discounts and how to get them, LOG IN to the NAWBO Louisville web site and select Buy NAWBO 1st under Membership. (You MUST be logged in to see this page for the offers).
If you have special offers for NAWBO members and are interested in participating in the Buy NAWBO 1st program, send the details to Lesa Seibert, Xstreme Media, LLC at lesa@xstrememedia.com.
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NAWBO Louisville and PNC Bank are proud to announce the 2010-2011 WEDO Mentoring program, a program that will unites a select group of
Louisville's women business owners with experienced business advisors
for eight intensive business development planning sessions.
Like
all of our women's business growth programs, WEDO Mentoring promises a
high-quality experience. Through a discerning match process, we will
personally connect participants with the expertise to address specific
business topics ranging from intellectual property and talent management
to sales strategies and financing and more. We want to learn about your
challenges and goals, provide a structure for thoughtful planning and
the exchange of ideas, and set you on the course to continued success.
How far can you grow? PNC Bank is ready to help. If you feel
that WEDO Mentoring can benefit your business, we encourage you to apply
now. We can only offer this exclusive program to a limited number of
participants, and we believe that our community's business owners will
be excited by this new form of support from one of the region's most
dedicated advocates for women's business issues. The sessions meet monthly in September, October, & November 2010 and January,
February & March 2011.
For questions on
this program, please visit https://www.nationalcity.com/wedo/mentoring.asp or contact Austin Anderton, 502-581-5695 or
Austin.Anderton@NationalCity.comThis e-mail address is being
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NAWBO Membership Committee
So how is your NAWBO Membership going? Are you feeling
connected? Involved? There's a way to insure that you do feel connected - by
joining a committee. I am a veteran of committee work, and I love it because
that's how I've learned what's REALLY going on! It's a little like Masterminds,
in that committee members really get to know one another, but it can represent
a little less time commitment than some Masterminds groups. NAWBO President, Lesa Seibert, of Xstreme Media LLC, has
asked me to join with Jeanine Moneypenney, of Moss Hill LLC, to help Jeanine continue
with her excellent Membership work.
Membership will be a key committee in the next two years, as our Chapter
prepares to host the 2012 national NAWBO Women's Business Conference here in
Louisville AND celebrates NAWBO Louisville's 20th anniversary.
I am a strong believer in "Many hands make light work." So
if you're thinking "Oh dear - Membership means hours or work and hundreds of
phone calls," we're thinking "Not necessarily." We don't have that kind of
time ourselves, and it is certainly NOT in NAWBO's bestinterest to make the work so time-consuming one's business goes down the drain!
So consider helping out - however much you can swing:
- Maybe it's sending a dozen email reminders a
month at 11 p.m., to fellow members noting their membership is about to expire.
- Maybe it's calling members, at a certain point
in their membership year, to check in with them on how it's going.
- Maybe it's helping us put together a simple
monthly membership networking series.
- And maybe it's helping us with our New Member
initiatives to bring new talent and ideas into our Chapter.
Take the first step and get more information. Send an email
to Cindy Eagles of MP Videos at cindy@mp-videos.com, with a cc to Helen Overfield at director@nawbolouisville.org, with NAWBO MEMBERSHIP in the subject line. Tell
us what kinds of things you're interested in doing and also when - and whether - you can do
committee meetings. If you only want to do NAWBO stuff at home, at 11 pm, in
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NAWBO Louisville Member News
Sign-A-Rama Downtown Gets Arena Sponsorship
Maggie Harlow, President of Sign-A-Rama Downtown and NAWBO Louisville Past President was awarded a five year signage sponsorship with the new KFC YUM Center for their signage.
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Do you have any news to share about yourself or your company? If so, please send to lesa@xstrememedia.com for inclusion in our monthly e-newsletters.
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Louisville Metro Office for Women
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NAWBO e-Newsletter Sponsorship
Are you interested in reaching over 200 women business owners in the Louisville area monthly? Would it benefit you to reach over 3,000 business owners in the Louisville area quarterly? Then you need to sponsor the monthly NAWBO e-News. The e-news is sent out the end of each month with information and articles about events, members, local happenings, etc. The yearly sponsorship includes a full color 600 pixel wide ad with link to your web site and two featured articles during the year. (1/2 year sponsorships are also available). Act now by contacting Lesa Seibert at lesa@xstrememedia.com. | |
NAWBO Membership FAQ's
Frequently Asked Questions about Membership:
Q. Can I join NAWBO locally and not nationally?
A. All memberships go through our National NAWBO office and members must join at both - at the national level and the local chapter level. Take full advantage of all the perks of national and local membership by visiting both websites: www.nawbo.org and www.nawbolouisville.org.
Q. I received communication from national NAWBO that my membership was expiring soon - I think they have my date wrong, how can I find out?
A. This is the #1 most frequently asked question and where most misunderstandings about membership arise. Memberships are valid one year from the date a member joined. Renewals are due the month you expire. There is a grace period for renewals (so you don't have to re-join as a new member, as national renewals dues are slightly less), however your date of expiration remains the same - one year from the date you first joined. It is not one year from the date you paid your renewal.
Example: Brenda Business Owner's New Year's resolution was to network more, so she joined NAWBO online January 1, 2008. Her membership expired Dec 31, 2008. January 2009 came along and she was more focused on her New Year's resolution to hold weekly staff meetings with her employees, and renewing her membership Dec 2008 simply slipped her mind. She attended a NAWBO meeting in March 2009 and it prompted her to send in her renewal. Her renewal was 3 months "late", but it was during the grace period. The due date was Dec 31, 2008, even though she paid it March 2009.
Her next expiration date will NOT be March 2010 - one year from when she paid her renewal - it was still Dec 2009!
You can contact the local NAWBO office (502) 625-0248 or the National office 1-800-55NAWBO for specific clarification of your membership.
Q. What are the membership fees to join NAWBO?
A. There are 3 basic fee structures:
- $ 50 local + $100 national = $150 for emerging businesses
- $100 local + $150 national = $250 for established businesses
- $150 local + $150 national = $300 for supporting members/non-business owners.
There are other membership options (retired, student, sustaining, etc.) See details on our web site.
Q. I have a question about my membership - who do I contact?
A. Local - Helen Overfield, Executive Director of NAWBO (502) 625-0248 director@nawbolouisville.org
National - Joyce Lee 1-800-55NAWBO or memberservices@nawbo.org
Q. My contact information has changed - who do I contact?
A. You can log onto the national website www.nawbo.org and update your profile and your company's profile. Contact the NAWBO office at info@nawbolouisville.org to change information locally or to obtain your local log on information. Please update your contact information if it changes, so you receive all the communication from NAWBO!
Q. How do I get a list of members?
A. Electronic membership lists are emailed quarterly to all members. You can also contact the NAWBO office to request one. Members are also listed on the Louisville NAWBO web site and the National NAWBO web site by their last name.
Q. Are employees at my business members of NAWBO?
A. National and local by-laws dictate that membership in the organization is in the individual member's name - not in the name of the company. Therefore each person must maintain their own membership. You may bring a guest or a prospective member at non-member rates.
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Create Your Own NAWBO Sponsorship Package
NAWBO depends heavily on our partnerships with corporate sponsors. Without them we would not be able to support the programs we offer our members and the business community. In return, our sponsors enjoy visibility among women business owners and community leaders.
In addition to the EPIC sponsorships and chapter sponsorships at the levels of Visionary ($15,000), Leadership ($10,000), Champion ($5,000) and Supporting ($3,000), our chapter recently created a sponsorship program called Create Your Own Package. Any business can take advantage of the visibility offered by these options.
Create Your Own Package Sponsorships:
$1,500 Meeting and educational seminar sponsor
$1,500 Presenting sponsor of EPIC silent auction, includes booth
$1,000 E-newsletter sponsor, with linked ad and two company articles for 1 year.
$1,000 Printed newsletter sponsor, with ½-page ad and article in each issue for one year/ 6
issues
$ 500 Educational material sponsor
$ 500 Company logo on website with link
$ 500 Postage sponsor
$ 500 Food & beverage sponsor for event, with visibility on promotional materials
$ 280 Table at annual signature event
$ 250 Half a corporate table (4 seats) at EPIC luncheon and awards ceremony
$ 250 Featured article in E-newsletter or printed newsletter
$ 200 One-year participation in Buy NAWBO 1st Program
$ 200 Promotional or information material at a NAWBO meeting
$ 150 Ad in E-newsletter
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Corporate Sponsors
PNC
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Ads In NAWBO Louisville Print Newsletter
Advertise in the NAWBO Louisville print newsletter and get your message out to the whole community. Issues are published in Feburary, April, June, August, October and December.
Ad Sizes & Rates:
Business Card Size: 3.5" x 2" vertical or horizontal, $75
¼-Page: 3.75" w x 5.25" h, - $100
½-Page: 7.5" w x 5.25" h, - $150
Full-Page: 7.5" w x 10.5" h, - $300
6 X Rates: You will receive a discount for ¼-, ½- and full-page ads if you commit to six consecutive issues.
All ads are to be submitted as high-res pdfs. To ask questions or reserve space, please contact
Denise Spalding at Allegra Print & Imaging East, 502-895-1530.
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NAWBO Louisville E-Newsletter Committee
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Contact Information
Helen Overfield, NAWBO Louisville Executive Director
email: director@nawbolouisville.org
phone: 502-625-0248
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