2003 Events
January 10, 2003
1st Annual Entrepreneurs Event
New faces, great food and terrific networking made our
1st Annual Event a big success! Thanks to everyone who
attended and helped to make it so memorable.
February 5, 2003
Karen Mandel
Karen Mandel has been a marketer, motivational speaker,
team builder, and coach for the past twenty years in
corporate America. She began her career at Walt Disney
World nearly twenty years ago, and recently completed
an eighteen year run with ARAMARK.
March 5, 2003
Kimberly Stever
Eastwick Marketing
Marketing Basics - The Starter Kit
Marketing Basics provides "the marketing-naïve"
with practical guidance and tools for building and executing
a marketing strategy. Kimberly Stever has over 18 years
as a marketing generalist and a resume which includes
Anheuser-Busch Theme Parks as well as CEO of the Greater
Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.
April 2, 2003
A Special Event
Business Showcase and Resource Exchange
Bring your rolodex and get ready to connect people!!
At this open-forum meeting we will exchange the names
of acquaintances and business contacts with other members
who may mutually benefit from each other's services.
The goal is to expand contacts while connecting people.
It will give us a chance to learn more about each other
and the growing needs of our businesses.
May 7, 2003
Lorette Pruden, Ph.D.
Is Your Strategic Plan Working?
Lorette Pruden is owner and principal consultant
of Inventive Strategies. Her company helps businesses
devise strategies that work, and implement them. In
her executive coaching practice, she guides entrepreneurs
toward the results they hardly dared to hope for. She
has a Ph.D. from Princeton University, is listed in
Who’s Who in America, and was a Mobil Incentive Fellow.
Lorette will outline the merits and relative simplicity
of a "Balanced Scorecard" approach. It shows you what
to do now (leading indicators) to get financial results
later (lagging indicators). By linking your strategic
plan to scorecard measures, the tactics for action are
built at all levels of the company. If you are a one-woman
band, all the more reason to have a simple set of goals,
targets and measures to guide you. This process will
clarify your thinking and bring focus to your activities.
June 4, 2003
Heshie Segal
The Secret To Becoming a JetNetting Center of Influence
Heshie Segal will be sharing some of her secrets on
how to increase your net worth by using her JetNetting
process, an alternative to the Networking process.
JetNetting gives you immediate tools you can use to
produce extraordinary results with the speed of a jet
in flight. It gives you the real secrets behind creating
meaningful connections in today's high-tech, high-change
world. Believe it or not, you will create explosive
profits by being of service to others, identifying and
understanding their needs, helping them to connect and
succeed. JetNetting gives you the steps you need to
build relationships and networks of value before you
need them. As a natural result, new business is created
for all parties involved.
Heshie is the founder of Business Connections
with Heshie and The Girlfriend Connection. As a professional
speaker, trainer, consultant, coach and writer, she
focuses on JetNetting, presentation skills, possibility
thinking, and attitude. Heshie Segal works with individuals
and companies that want to infuse their lives and workplace
with renewed energy and increased profitability. Her
relational approach to business boosts productivity,
dollars, and, yes, fun! Heshie is a member of NSA (the
National Speaker’s Association), has won NSA-Mid-Atlantic
Chapter’s Outstanding Community Service Award, has twice
won Chapter Member of the Year and this past year won
NSA’s Each One Reach One National membership drive,
an affirmation of what she does best, enrolling people
in areas that will be most beneficial to them.
July 2, 2003
Special Event
The Women's Business Forum will be Celebrating its First
Year Anniversary!
Thanks to everyone who attended the Anniversary party,
we had a great turnout!
August 6, 2003
Susan Race
Live Prosperously With Ease
Susan E. Race is a certified, professional personal/career
coach, author, professional speaker, seminar leader,
human resources executive and founder of Personal Growth
Systems. She envisions a peaceful world where individuals
feel valued. Bringing expertise from coach training,
human resources management, teaching and personal experiences,
Susan inspires audiences to take charge of their destiny
and create compelling lives.
September 3, 2003
Lynn Hefele
A Woman's Place
(Gail Madison will be rescheduled at a later date.)
Thank you to Lynn Hefele, Development Director from a Woman's Place for sharing her
insight and wisdom. A Woman's Place offers programs for victim survivors and their children, 24-hour
hotline crisis counseling, temporary shelter, support groups, court accompaniment and
advocacy, community education, training and systems advocacy, as well as volunteer opportunities.
October 1, 2003
Regina Ward
Focus Healing™ Inc.
Regina Ward has been a Registered Nurse for over 20
years and is the President of Focus Healing™ Inc.
Focus Healing™ has distinctively designed programs
that help patients and caregivers relieve the pain and
stress of illness. Find out how Focus Healings™
programs are designed specifically to assist people
in successfully decreasing pain, go into surgery feeling
in control, over-come insomnia, put restraints on a
rapid heart beat, consciously decrease high blood pressure,
effectively decrease stress, and gain a positive influence
over chemotherapy and radiation therapies. The people
that have been helped using Focus Healing™ techniques
characteristically find that they feel better physically
and emotionally. Visit the Web site at www.FocusHealing.com.
Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Special Evening Event at Honey Hollow
Maggie Strucker, Executive Director, Audubon Society
Thanks to all of you who joined us for an evening at The Bucks County Audubon
Society — Honey Hollow Environmental Education Center! It proved to be a great way to
spotlight individual businesses.
Wednesday, November 5, 2003
Cathy Ponist, Certified Public Accountant
Is It Time To Reclassify Your Business?
Are you a sole proprietor, nonprofit, or LLC? Should you incorporate?
Maybe you’re just starting a business. Whatever your situation, you should
know the advantages each of these "business entities" offers, and how to make the tax
laws work for you.
In her presentation, Catherine A. Ponist, CPA, will discuss the tax
advantages and disadvantages of these business entities. She will also explain
why you should re-examine how your business is set up: You might be better off—and more
profitable—switching to another business entity.
Catherine Ponist has been in public practice since 1986 and is a member of the
Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants. In 1993, she started her own
successful accounting firm, representing clients in a broad range of industries
varying in size and in volume of business.
Tuesday, Novebmer 11, 2003
Evening Event at 7:30pm
Coffee Beanery, Rt 611, Doylestown Barn Plaza
Al Benner
These successful Web sites: www.BennersGardens.com,
www.FriendlyFence.com,
www.MossAcres.com,
and www.PureMaine.com,
are currently owned by Al Benner.
Al is a local Entrepreneur with contagious enthusiasm!
Come and hear how he does it, what he’s learned and how he became
a success while working out of his home. He is going to focus on
using the web to grow a home-based business.
Wednesday, December 3, 2003
Gina Furia Rubel
Public Relations Strategies for the Small Business Owner
There are various public relations tactics you can employ to attract new
business and expand existing business. These tactics or strategies,
designed to increase awareness among your target customers, create an
ongoing buzz and position you as an expert in your industry, will boost your profits.
Consistent and effectively executed public relations strategies will improve your efficiency
and increase your bottom line. Attendees will leave with an understanding of how to
create an effective public relations campaign on a small budget and where to go for more information.
Gina Rubel, Esquire, has more than a decade of integrated communications experience.
After practicing law for several years, she focused on her passion for proactive, integrated communications.
Gina has developed and executed strategic communications plans for large and small law firms; supervised
crisis communications, risk management and media relations for internationally publicized death penalty trials;
planned events for major corporate, nonprofit, and philanthropic gatherings; and implemented programs
that include product launch, corporate branding, publicity, special events, Web site development, and
association relations.
Tuesday, December 9, 2003
Evening Event at 7:30pm
Coffee Beanery, Rt 611, Doylestown Barn Plaza
Holiday Share
Bring a brief description/portfolio/samples and photos...of your business. Place orders with other
business owners for the Holidays.
We’ll exchange cards (bring lots), share ideas with each other, and summarize how business is going.
Very informal and fun!
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