| NAWBO
CALENDAR
Sept 21 Members-Only
Mixer
Sept 28 Lunch & Learn:
Marketing on the Internet for Small Businesses (members only)
Oct 14 10th Annual
Remarkable Women Awards Luncheon
Nov 1 Dinner Meeting
Nov 17 New Member Breakfast
and Orientation
AFFILIATE
EVENTS
Sept 20 NLBWA
Breakfast: Jewelry Trends in Business
Sept 20 PCE Self-Publishing
the Book Within
Sept 21 WBEC-West Leadership
Forum: Creating Strategic Alliances
Sept 28 OCWLA: Grand
Opening Gala at Nordstrom’s benefiting Laura's House and/or
CASA
Oct 1 WomanSage
Seminar: Educating the Caregiver
Oct 4 OCWLA Lunch:
Women in Prison Who Kill Their Abusers, and Changes in the Law
Oct 11 WomanSage Salon: Does Your Family
Tree Put You at Risk?
Oct 18 NLBWA
Luncheon: "Latina Financial Guru, JULIE STAV"
Oct 25 ABAOC
Orange County Diversity Career Job Fair
Oct
29 WomanSage Conference “Creating a New
Agenda: 2005”
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NEW MEMBERS
Gerrie Adams, Xengaru Fun Foods
Diana Boley, Mr. Rooter Plumbing
Wendy Fischler, Affinity Flavors, Inc.
Kristie Holt, HER Consulting
Roberta Jorgensen, Jorgensen Architects
Gina Miller, Call, Jensen & Ferrell
Nancy Morales, SoCal Street Sweepers, LLC
Patrice Rakhshani, OCEDirectory
Brenda
St. Hilaire, M4 Strategies, LLC
Sarah Taylor, Trilogy Financial Services
Cheryl Westley, California Elwyn
MEMBER NEWS
 Dee
Putman-Elliott has started her own on-line
travel business. Whether it be business or personal
travel, you can count on a fellow NAWBO member
to take good care of your travel needs. To check
it out, go to www.yougottagotravel.com or
call her at 714-745-5491.
 On
October 3rd, Susan's Healthy Gourmet will
be starting a new program—Susan’s Healthy Kids & Families.
They will offer healthy "Backpack Lunches" as well
as "Busy Bee Dinners" for kids, aimed at helping
moms and dads ensure that their kids have access to healthy
meals, in particular, alternatives to school lunches and
fast food dinners.
 Susan
Medwied has been selected as a participant
in the City of Rancho Santa Margarita's inaugural
Citizen's Academy, a seven week community and
leadership development program designed to heighten
citizen awareness and create better informed
citizens who will promote a positive outlook
regarding the City and community as a whole.
 In
2001, Helane Cohen started Le Petit Cookery,
Inc. to offer "hands-on" kids' cooking parties,
classes and after school programs. In 2003 the company launched
an online store www.kidsaprons.com after
discovering there was a need for kids' chef hats, aprons
and cooking products. Le Petit Cookery has enjoyed so much
success that it has now moved to a 2200 square food corporate
office which also includes a warehouse.
 NAWBO-OC
members Susan Johnson, owner of Susan's
Healthy Gourmet, and Jenny
Rosoff, owner of Village Green Foods, spoke
on the Women
in Cuisine panel
at
the Orange County Conference for Women on September 14.
 Shaila
Mistry was
invited to be an official delegate to the United Nations
in Geneva, Switzerland,
for the 2005 World Summit on Information Systems.
191 countries will participate, and Shaila will represent 78
of them. She sees her purpose as "educating and influencing
decision makers globally to bring better accessibility
and distribution
to the populations of have-nots ... This may cross the paradigms
of north and south, east and west, male and female, and even
the great divide of age."
Shaila was also
selected by the Policy Institute in Sacramento to
write some bills to put through the house, and she will
be working with a small team for the next year on this project.
The purpose of
the
institute is to influence public policy, and in the process
train high
profile individuals for future political involvement.
MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
  Two
NAWBO-OC members were included in Jan Norman's OC Register article
on September 9 about the 2005 BizCon conference in Garden Grove. Smita
Salgaonkar, 2005 Remarkable Women co-chair and owner
of Neemo Enterprises, and Alice Lei, NAWBO-OC
past president and owner of Nightingale Technologies, were
among six panelists who discussed their success in multi-ethnic
networking before a standing-room-only crowd.
MEMBER
SPOTLIGHTS
 Diana
Zanzonico, V2K Window Fashions: Diana
Zanzonico, owner of V2K Window Fashions, works with busy homeowners
who have purchased a new home and are in need
of value priced blinds and shades. Her specialty
is custom fabric treatments and she loves working
with homeowners who are ready to take their home
from “simple to spectacular!” Diana
brings her mobile showroom to you... more
Michel-Joy
DelRe, Consulting Alliance: Consulting Alliance, Inc.
provides a unique approach to the field of training, management
and development.
We are a team of management consultants committed
to producing a shift in today's corporate culture:
from doing business as usual and maintaining the
status quo, to generating excellence in results... more
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KUDOS!
 On
August 17, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the appointment
of NAWBO-OC member Brenda St. Hilare to the
Fair Employment and Housing Commission. Congrats Brenda!
 MEMBER APPRECIATION AWARDS
At the September meeting, a Member Appreciation
Award was given to Nancy LaTouche for belonging to NAWBO-OC
for five years. Although not presented in person, five year
milestones were also achieved in recent months by Lena
Cerciello, Diana
Klimek, and Patti Eyres.
WANTS & NEEDS
Executive Office Space Available: Includes
receptionist, copier, fax, DSL, beautiful office. Great location
in Orange. From $600-$900/mo. (NAWBO member rate) Call Cathy
or Jim Daugherty at 800-387-0918 or email Jim@trademarkins.com.
Virtual Office and Office Space Available: CPA and bookkeeper
wanted to share office space and with business consultancy
and law firm. Beautiful Newport Beach location. Please call
Susan Kuntz at The CMM Advisory Group, Inc. 949-863-9774.
“Giving – Philanthropy
for Everyone” Seminar
Sponsor: Pamela Adams, A. G. Edwards
• Explore fundamentals, from straight gifts and donor advised funds to
family foundations
• Learn how to efficiently make gifts of appreciated assets
• Explore how affluent families reduce their estate tax to zero
• Discuss how business owners can undertake productive tax efficient philanthropy
Speaker: Carol Schaner, Tax/Trust Attorney, Gordon Rees LLP
Wednesday, September 28, 2005 or Thursday, October
6, 2005
6:00 – 8:00 PM at
19800 Macarthur Blvd, Suite 1400, Irvine,
CA 92612. Call Pam at
949-756-0353 for more information (member
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 THE
10th ANNUAL REMARKABLE WOMEN AWARDS LUNCHEON ON FRIDAY,
OCTOBER
14, 2005—presented
by NAWBO-OC and Farmers & Merchants Bank—is
just around the corner. Have you reserved your
seat or table? Our
venue, the Hyatt
Regency Irvine, can accommodate 850 guests, and we have
sold out for the past
three years. Don't
be left out!
SEPTEMBER
28, 2005: ENJOY
LUNCH WHILE LEARNING ABOUT MARKETING ON THE INTERNET Our
second "Lunch & Learn" (for
members only) is happening on Sept 28. Cost is $10 in advance,
and reservations are recommended to make sure we have a
lunch for you. Topics
to be covered include:
•
Common mistakes small businesses
make when trying to market on the Internet
• What you need to
understand about Internet users when planning, constructing,
or redesigning your website
• How to get users to explore your
site by improving usability
• How you can use the Internet to
build credibility and a strong brand
• How to get prospects to
visit your website
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COMMITTEE
NEWS
Communications:
Thank you to all members who have reviewed
your member
directory listings. If you
have not already done so, please visit the directory
page and
make sure your listing
conforms to NAWBO-national's revised format: 1) your business
description
must not exceed 250 characters (including
spaces), and 2) your
business category (the words
in bold
just
preceeding
your business description) must be a 2002 NAICS code title
(see www.naics.com/search.htm to
check this item). If you need to make a change, please use
our new directory
update form.
Programs: The Program
Committee is looking for additional committee members. Our
specific needs include
someone to oversee
our Showcase participants at the monthly meetings, and someone
to organize the monthly Opportunity Drawings.
This a terrific way to have some input on the topics of our
meetings, as well as meet and interact
with other members. If you are interested or would
like more
information, please email Linda
Hoitt, Committee Chair.
 THANK
YOU!
A very special thanks to our September
speaker, Mimi Donaldson. A very warm, funny,
and insightful presenter, Mimi treated everyone to tips on
how to get results through effective leadership.
Also, thanks
to those who donated prizes for the opportunity drawing:
American Home Mortgage, Kathy Mardaresco - Gift bags with skin care
products
Custom
Motors, Barbara Page - $100
gift certificate for auto service
Light4Beauty.com,
Liz Schmidt - Photini Microdermabrasion Créme
Mimi
Donaldson - DVDs/CDs (three products)
Minuet
Day Spa, Denise Stanek - Two gift bags with
skin care products
The
CMM Advisory Group, Susan Hansted-Kuntz - Four
hours incu space
V2K
Window Coverings, Diana Zanzonico - Two VIP
Passes for Sunset Magazine's Idea House tour
Village
Green Foods, Jenny Rosoff -
Lunch or dinner for two at Back Bay Rowing & Running
Club
 ONLINE CREDIT
CARD SYSTEM IS NOW WORKING!
At
long last, NAWBO-OC has installed a system to take credit card
payment
for events when you register online. This secure payment system
is available for all meetings and special event registrations,
including
our upcoming Remarkable
Women Awards. Plus, you can now pay with your American
Express card in addition to Visa and Mastercard. Please contact
the association
office if you
have questions or run into any problems when using the
new system.
CORPORATE
MEMBER NEWS
 September
8, 2005 BIZCON 2005 Southern
California Business Conference is one
of the largest multiethnic business trade show and networking
events in Orange County. 9am-1pm at Embassy
Suites Hotel, 11767 Harbor, Garden Grove more
info
September
28, 2005: Business Edge Workshop: Copyrights and Trademarks Learn
differences and values of trademarks and copyrights; Acquisition
and
protection of your trademark rights; State and Federal trademark
laws; Copyright protection of your original, creative works;
Rights of a copyright owner and more. 5:30-8:30
pm at 2244 Walnut Grove Ave, Rosemead, CA (Conf. Rm. B, GO4)
Free parking
and dinner provided by SCE. RSVP to Mary
Reid 800-333-4766 by Sept 26.
October
5, 2005 Building Buzz for Your Brand Learn the
magnetic characteristics that attract and win over clients
to be loyal
die-hard customers.
Even if you are good at differentiating your brand or have
a large share of the market, it no longer means you can
sustain and hold the high ground against tough competition.
5:30-8:30pm
at George Nakano Theater,
3330 Civic Center Drive North,
Torrance, CA. Free
parking and dinner provided by SCE.
To RSVP call 310-973-3177 by Sept 30.
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 Principal
Financial Educational Series for Women Business Owners—September
20, 2005 “How Small Companies Can Get Creative
to Win Big Clients” Featuring:
Jill Konrath, consultant and founder of SellingtoBigCompanies.com and Amilya
Antonetti, founder of Amilya’s
SOAPWORKS and president of AMA Productions. There
are many advantages that growing companies can offer potential
clients
that set them apart from the pack, including flexibility,
one-on-one attention and quick turnaround on projects.
By following a smart, creative and well-defined approach
when trying to attract FORTUNE 500 companies, women
business owners can go after big clients to achieve
business growth. Sign up for one or all of the upcoming free teleclasses
(see
list). Space is limited.
Get details and pre-register at www.principal.com/women.
NEWS FROM NAWBO-NATIONAL
NAWBO's Hurricane Katrina Response We
Need Your Help!
National Association of Women Business Owners and the National
Association of Women Business Owners Institute for Entrepreneurial
Development have established a Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund
to support women entrepreneurs who have been affected by the
hurricane. Click
here to make your tax deductible donation to this fund.
For a list of alternative groups to make a donation to assist
in relief efforts click here.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
First Annual Conference of U.S.-China
Women Business Leaders: October 21-23, 2005 in Bethesda,
MD. China
is the fastest growing economy in the world and predicted
to become the world's
largest economic center
by the year 2030. Whether you are seeking to expand your business
network within China, or simply contemplating the idea of doing
business with China, you realize this is no small task. Now,
we are making it easier for you, by bringing China to you in
this conference!
NAWBO National is a partnering organization for this event.
To learn
more, visit http://acweb.org/conference/index.html.
November 2, 2005: 4th Annual Industry
Day: Department of State Overseas Buildings Operations NAWBO
has been developing a relationship with The Department of
State,
Overseas Buildings Operations. This group is responsible
for all State Department buildings overseas, and contracts
with U.S. firms for needed products and services. They are
holding their 4th Annual Industry Day in
Arlington, VA to
introduce
attendees to contractors and
agency officials, and are specifically looking for women-
and minority-owned businesses. The small business office,
headed
by Louis
Pruitt,
will be holding
break-out sessions to teach smaller businesses how to do business
with them. more
info
CORRECTIONS
 At
the September dinner meeting, showcaser Deborah Brown was
introduced incorrectly. Her company, PR a la carte, specializes
in customized, affordable PR and marketing
campaigns, writing/editing, media placement, event planning
and more
for entrepreneurs in virtually all fields.
YOUR NEWS
HERE... Members: Send us your
news with our easy-to-use
submission form!
PROMOTE
YOUR BUSINESS! (members only)
Member
Showcase: The cost
of an exhibit at
monthly meetings is $75 for a
full table. see details
Monthly Advertising: BIG
audience, detailed ad! NAWBO-OC's monthly e-news, which
is sent to our full mailing list (1500+), accepts up
to three member ads per issue. $50/issue.
Banner Ad: Make
an impression on a BIG audience! Our website is viewed
by 3000+ potential customers every month! $100/qtr.
Member Spotlight: Help
other members get to know you better by telling us what
you do, why, and how you do it. No cost.
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