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Welcome New Members
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Roberta Godden
Director of Sales
Forest Hill Senior Living
Do you know someone who would benefit from becoming a new member of PWN? Invite a friend, colleague or business contact to attend a regular, evening meeting at no charge!
Current members can click here select "Member Login" once you are in your member profile print a PWN guest pass ($20 value). Another benefit of being a PWN member!
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Business Showcases
One of the benefits of a PWN membership is presenting a showcase of your business at our monthly meetings. Free advertising!
If you would like more information on
Showcasing your business contact:
Frances Esters
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Your 2016 PWN
Board of Directors
Julie Ahearn
President
Mary Jeanne Vincent Vice President 831.657.9151
Angelika Lipow
Treasurer
Diane Glim
Secretary
Doris Beckman
Membership Chair
Fundraising Chair
Rebecca Perry
Programs Chair
831.920.9333
Laurie Bend
Communications Chair
Loree Van Bebber
Past President
2016 Committee Chairs
Ileen Groves
Sandra Collingwood
New Member Orientation
831.373.5352
Virginia Roles
Ambassador Chair
706.580.3595
Vacant
Technology Chair
Deb Oleynik
Newsbrief Chair
831.747.1187
Frances Esters
Showcase Chair
Laurie Bend
Mixer Coordinator
Please contact a board member to join a committee or submit your suggestions and ideas.
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PWN Programs
(programs/events subject to change)
ATTENTION!!
We Have a New Location for
our 2016 Monthly Meetings
Monterey Tides
2600 Sand Dune Drive
Monterey, CA 93940
Ease-Networking: a Gentle, Fun, and More-Relaxed Form of Speed-Networking!
Special Event:
Joint Mixer with Salinas Valley Business Women's Network
For more information, contact
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Monthly Member Mixer
Event Date:
Thursday, May 12th | 5-7pm
Location:
Total Body Transformation Center
4 Harris Court, Suite C | Monterey
Join us for our first Member Mixer
of the season!
In collaboration with the
Professional Women's Network,
Cindi Webb,
Total Body Transformation Center
&
Janet Ostarello, PartyLite Candles
will be hosting a social mixer at
Cindi's center.
Enjoy light appetizers and beverages while you relax and network with PWN members and guests.
RSVP by May 9th to TBT-Center.com
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Would you like to host a member mixer at your business? You can partner with another member (or two) to host a mixer! The PWN Board of Directors is looking for members to host networking mixers! These informal mixers are a way for PWN members, new and seasoned, to learn more about each other's businesses in a fun, casual setting. You don't have to do this alone...ask another PWN member to host a mixer with you. If this opportunity sounds interesting and you would like to host a mixer, let's get started...It's as easy as 1-2-3!
1) Contact Laurie Bend, 2016 Communications Chair, to select a date/time to host your mixer.
2) Invite your contacts to attend and offer a light snack and beverage for all to enjoy.
3) Make connections, network and have fun while attendees learn about your business.
Sound simple? It is! All you need is the willingness to host the mixer, choose a date, invite PWN members, your contacts, colleagues and friends to attend, and provide light snacks during the mixer. PWN will help get the word out about the mixer through our eBlasts, Facebook page and the PWN website! Dates are available in July and August. Don't delay...contact Laurie Bend, lbend@pageonedesign.biz to get started.
Want to get more involved in PWN and have fun? Find out how you can become the PWN Mixer Chair and help organize these exciting member mixers. Contact Laurie for details!
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Board Member Highlight
Julie Ahearn - President
Persistence! This is the key attribute that Julie Ahearn, our PWN President, recommends in order to succeed in business. Never give up, no matter what, and trust in yourself. Her life is an example of these truths.
True Idea Productions and Photography grew out of Julie's lifetime of experience in film, video and photography. Photography was a calling from early in life, although she also thought about being an architect and a fashion designer. In high school she started making films and went onto major in Broadcast Journalism in college. After working at TV stations and production companies she was brought to the Monterey Peninsula to work on a project with the Navel Postgraduate School. That was followed by freelance work and then in 2010 she started her current business.
True Idea Productions is a video production company. Julie will translate your story into powerful video that not only connects you with your client, but also has them come back for more. In addition, she specializes in headshot photography that allows you to not only make a great first impression, but always a great impression. In both video and photography, your uses can vary from broadcast, to website, to social media and to the Internet. Go to her website www.TrueIdeaProductions.com for examples of her work and more information. Julie would love to work with you!
As our 2016 PWN President Julie's goal for this year is that every member of PWN realizes the value of this organization for themselves and for the growth of their business. In her experience as an entrepreneur the hardest part is always breaking the barriers of her own comfort zone. Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable has allowed her business to grow because opportunities present themselves when you are present to see them. PWN is one of these opportunities. She shares that it would be easy and comfortable for her to stay home and read a book or watch TV and pet her dogs. Showing up to connect with new people and stay in touch with current connections is enriching and rewarding. It's well worth the challenge. The next challenge is bringing more people together to widen the circle.
Julie's fun fact involves a nickname her brothers had for her. With lots of pets as a child, and a knack for making rock biscuits, she was known around her house as "Elly May", after the Beverly Hillbillies character! What I remember of Elly May is her sweet, yet feisty nature. Very fitting for this amazing woman who has taken on the role of our fearless PWN leader for 2016!
You can contact Julie at:
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Advertise your business at our
monthly meetings. Here's how.
Become a sponsor!
And yet another benefit of your PWN Membership is the opportunity to sponsor our monthly meetings. Becoming a sponsor helps offset the cost of the meeting and gains acknowledgement for your business.
Your business will be recognized in the Newsbrief, on the PWN website meeting details page and at the serving table at our meeting.
Sponsorships fill up early
so click below to
reserve your spot!
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QUIZ TIME!
How closely have you read your PWN Newsbrief? If you can correctly answer the question below, your name will be put into a drawing for $10 in PWN Bucks. That's just like $10 in cash to spend with any PWN Member!
Here is this month's question:
How much does it cost to showcase your business at a monthly meeting?
Send your response to
All correct answers will be entered in the drawing at the March meeting.
You must be present to win!
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Professional Women's Network
of the Monterey Peninsula
PO Box 1489
Seaside, CA 93955
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Upcoming
May Monthly Meeting
May 4th, 2016
5:30-7:30pm
PWN Member Appreciation
and
Spring Mixer
It's MAY MIXER time!
Like every month, your membership gives you a chance to gather together to share, connect, support, and learn. Only this month we're also throwing a BIG PARTY! Head to the islands (at least in your mind's eye) and enjoy mingling with the spectacular Pacific Ocean and just outside our new home at Monterey Tides. Delectable snacks, music, hosted wine bar, photo booth frivolity, cool raffles, some fun games, and real-live hula dancers performing ~ just for us!
We hope you'll want to be part of the aloha spirit! And to make it even MORE fun? Bring anyone you know who's interested in checking out membership with PWN ~ what a perfect night to introduce us to your friends! (And if your friends decide to join this night? You'll be entered into the drawing for a free year of PWN membership: win-win-win!)
The fee for this special night is $20. You can pay in advance online and make it super easy for yourself. Just head to www.pwnmonterey.org.
There's always a lot of fun and work going on beforehand to make a party sizzle, so if you're interested in participating in the party-before-the-party, contact our Special Events Chair, Myra Martinez and let her know you'd like to help.
You can reach Myra at 831-920-9333 or myrambroker@gmail.com, or check in with any Board Member who'll be happy to answer your questions.
See you soon!
Meeting Sponsor for May
Michael Laroco
INOSOT
Financial & Health Coaching Centers
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Informal networking begins at 5:30pm
with the program starting promptly at 6pm.
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For more information, contact
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If you are interested in becoming a meeting sponsor, contact Jen Harty, Fundraising Chair, then visit the PWN online store, go to sponsorships and select Meeting Sponsor, go to the PWN online store to make your sponsorship payment and you will be acknowledged at an upcoming meeting, in the Newsbrief and on the PWN website.
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Join us to
Mingle and Munch at Lunch!
PWN POWER NETWORKING
AND LUNCH
Thursday, May 19, 2016
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Please join us!
Bay Park Hotel in Monterey
(catered by Crazy Horse Restaurant)
1425 Munras Ave, Monterey, CA 93940
(Munras & Soledad)
Conveniently located just off Highway 1.
On the third Thursday of every month from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm, PWN holds a monthly Power Networking & Lunch. Parking is free and abundant at the front and back of the hotel. Our networking will be held either in the Safari Room - left of the Bay Park Hotel front lobby or upstairs in the private room adjacent to The Crazy Horse Restaurant. Look for the PWN Banner! In addition to networking with other business owners, attendees will enjoy soup and make-your-own-salad with a beverage, all for only $15 for members and guests.
Register early online at the PWN website for a discount and a chance to win your next PWN lunch free! Print and bring your registration confirmation to this event to be entered in a drawing to win a complimentary lunch at our next PWN Power Networking & Lunch. Only those who RSVP and pay online qualify for this special drawing!
Please note the new 11:30am starting time:
11:30 to 12:00 - Check-in & Networking
12:00 to 12:30 - Introductions
12:30 to 12:45 - Raffles/Testimonials
12:45 to 1:00 - More Networking Time!
Lunch includes: Soup & Salad Bar, Beverage, Tax, & Tip
$14 prepaid on the PWN website
$15 at the door (Cash, Check, or Credit/Debit Card)
RSVPs ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to assure we have room for all networking attendees. Thank you!
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Do you have unfinished marketing projects either stuck in your laptop or in a towering pile on your desk? Do you dread the time it will take as you struggle to complete these projects that have been on your "to-do list" for far too long? Break the DIY cycle and turn those design projects over to Laurie Bend of pageonedesign. Laurie knows the busy lives of PWN members. Release the stress of never finishing that new logo or updated rack card by letting a professional handle the details. Laurie has been a PWN for over 12 years and a graphic designer for 25+ years, earning her B.S. in graphic design from SJSU. Her knowledge, creativity, expertise in design and printing can solve any marketing challenge you may have whether it be a printed brochure, new logo, website ad or business card layout. Visit her website for samples of her work: www.pageonedesign.bizHere's what satisfied clients say about Laurie: Laurie Bend of pageonedesign is a top-notch graphic designer. Her ability to "think outside the box" means her clients receive contemporary, unique designs that convey both the quality and strength of their individual brands. Laurie's ability to marry her graphic design skills with the development of smart, compelling copywriting insures that her clients get more than a just a graphic designer. With pageonedesign, businesses get a marketing powerhouse!
From: Lori McDonnal, Community Programs Director - Special Kids Crusade
Laurie did an outstanding job designing and preparing the program for the Monterey County Business Council's 21st Anniversary Gala & Annual Economic Vitality Awards. She dealt with multiple award recipients providing multiple photos and biographical information and last minute changes up to the time of printing on the eve of the event with a calm and professional demeanor and delivered an excellent product. It's not often that we receive compliments on the layout and design of our event programs, but we received many at and after the Gala and we have continued to use the same for marketing purposes. We would not hesitate to recommend Laurie to others.
From: Brian Turlington, Executive Director - Monterey County Business Council (MCBC)
Contact Laurie today!
831.917.2118
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Are you interested in having your business highlighted here?
Simply go to the PWN online store and purchase the
After you have paid online, email your 250-word article (in a Word Document) to Newsbrief chair, Deb Oleynik no later than the 15 th of the month prior to your preferred publication month. Each month the PWN Newsbrief will highlight one member business. We will accept one article per Newsbrief on a first come, first served basis.
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Are you Getting the Most out of Your Membership with PWN?
Have You Posted Your Upcoming Events on the PWN website?
Have You Submitted a Member to Member Testimonial?
Here's how to post your upcoming event on the PWN website
Click here to visit the PWN website for listings of current member events and activities. As a member, you have the benefit of adding your upcoming event to our website at no charge. Sign in to your member profile to access the member events page.
We Want Your Member Testimonials!
If you have a testimonial (or two) you would like to share with the membership, please email them to info@pwnmonterey.org to be included on the PWN website Testimonials page. Our testimonials are now featured on the front page of the PWN website.
www.pwnmonterey.org
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Welcome current and new PWN members!
With our May Member Appreciation Mixer approaching, I want you to know that the Board and I are working to create value for our members. Here are a few of the highlights to celebrate from the first four months of 2016:
We guaranteed a regular home for our PWN meetings the first Wednesday of every month by shifting venues to the Monterey Tides. (The Embassy Suites did not have our regular meeting dates available for 2016.)
We asked you to brainstorm ideas for enhancing the positive impact PWN has on you and your business and are implementing those as quickly as practical.
We are shoring up our infrastructure. Mary Jeanne Vincent authored a conflict of interest agreement that ensures our bylaws reflect current best practices for non-profit organizations. Board members passed the new bylaw and agreed in writing to abide by those practices. She is also reviewing all of our bylaws to make sure they reflect current standards for non-profits.
Most recently, the Board made the decision to move our website to a member management system called Wild Apricot. Doing so enables the organization to save $168 every month ($2000 annually.) This is a major cost savings AND the result will be a fresher, easier to use website. It also incorporates the latest mobile responsiveness technology making it easier to navigate on phones, tablets and computers.
We are regularly attracting new professionals and business owners. Don't forget that you can still win a free one-year membership May 4th, if your guest joins before or during our Member Appreciation Mixer. Bring friends and buy your ticket now! Kudos to Myra Martinez for planning our exciting Hawaiian Luau.
One more exciting development: Jen Harty has been working with Michael Laroco on a very special fundraising event to be held in October. Details will be revealed at the Member Appreciation Mixer.
Please know that the 2016 Board is working on your behalf. We continue to Reach Out, Connect and Engage In PWN!
With much appreciation,
Julie Ahearn
2016 PWN President
True Idea Productions
831.915.8317
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Please join Laurie Bend, PWN Communications Chair, for a cup of coffee or tea and chat on any topic you want on Thursday, May 26th at 1:00 p.m. at Peet's Coffee in Monterey, 560 Munras. Have questions about networking? Do you want to brainstorm about business success strategies? Curious about fun activities on the peninsula? Any and all topics welcomed; PWN related or not!
We continue offering the opportunity for PWN members to be the hosts of our monthly "Coffee Talk." All you need to do is share an hour of your time as host, network and chat in a small, personal setting. It's fun!
Email Laurie Bend, pageonedesign, for details.
"Coffee Talks" are scheduled on the 4th Thursday of each month between 1:00 and 2:00pm. Please drop by (and bring a friend!) if you have some time!
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