February 2006

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NAWBO CALENDAR
Feb 24 Mentoring Training Program
March 7 Dinner Meeting: International Impact on Small Business
March 8 Remarkable Women Committee Meeting
March 13 New Member Reception and Orientation

AFFILIATE EVENTS
Feb 23 ABAOC Luncheon "Hong Kong–Engine of Growth and Risk Manager for China"
Feb 24-25 FWI District Conference
March 1 AWT Women's Technology Leadership Forum
March 4 WomanSage: Caregivers' Conference
March 7 WITI-OC Regional Network Event: Transforming Stress into Success
March 9 NLBWA Orange County's Largest Mixer III
March 21 PCE Dinner Meeting: No-Cost and Low-Cost Internet Marketing Solutions for the Small Business Owner

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WELCOME NEW CORPORATE MEMBERS!
Select Portfolio Management, Inc.- A Registered Investment Advisor
Welcome to Dave Jones and Select Portfolio Management, Inc., one of NAWBO-OC’s newest corporate members. Select Portfolio Management is a wealth advisory firm that applies a strategic and comprehensive approach to managing your wealth. They look at the entire picture, in the present and for the future, in order to devise strategies that incorporate the important aspects of your life. By listening to his clients, Dave and his team learn what financial challenges are affecting you today and what your definition of financial security is. Then, he and the team at SPM can provide viable solutions to help you achieve your financial goals. Their planning services include investments, asset protection, advanced tax reduction, retirement, insurance, as well as estate planning, trust and giving strategies. As a special offer to NAWBO members, Select Portfolio Management is providing a complimentary detailed financial analysis! To learn more, call Dave at 949-586-5656 or send him an email.

Anaheim Memorial Medical Center For more than 45 years, Anaheim Memorial Medical Center has been a renowned community resource for the finest acute, outpatient and emergency care. In addition to outstanding general medical and surgical services and all private patient rooms, Anaheim Memorial has excellent programs for heart care, endovascular services, pain management and breast care. For growing families, The Birth Place provides labor, delivery, recovery and post-partum care in a comfortable, private setting with a high quality neonatal intensive care unit. The medical center's emergency department is highly regarded by the community for its state-of-the-art services and commitment to care. Anaheim Memorial's community benefit programs provide superior services to North Orange County. With the addition of the women and heart disease program, HeartMatters, Anaheim Memorial is creating innovative programs focused on women. To learn more, contact Laura Garcia, HeartMatters Coordinator 714-999-3943.

WELCOME NEW BOARD MEMBERS!
Kimberly Gerber - Vice President, Economic Development
Through workshops, seminars, strategic planning and coaching, Kimberly Gerber and her company, Excelerate, help professionals at every level of an organization optimize their talents and resources to enhance individual and team productivity to increase profitability. In this work, Kimberly applies best practices learned as an executive at Starbucks Coffee and Fleetwood Enterprises, as well as entrepreneurial expertise gained as the founder and leader of three start-ups. As NAWBO-OC’s Vice President of Economic Development, Kimberly and her committee are responsible for raising funds and corporate awareness to support the long-term success of the group and its programs. Her committee is presently seeking five new members to assist with 2006 initiatives. If you are interested in gaining exposure for your businesses through interaction with local corporations, please email Kimberly.

Erica Yamaguchi - Affiliates/Diversity Committee Chair
Erica Yamaguchi, a licensed Real Estate salesperson, uses her background in project management and qualitative analysis to help clients buy and sell homes efficiently. She helps them understand how their real estate transactions fit into their bigger, financial picture. As Chair of the Affiliates/Diversity Committee, Erica's goal is to strengthen NAWBO-OC's relationships with our affiliated organizations. She will be working with them to create new opportunities and events that will help all of our members. If you are interested in volunteering for the Affiliates Committee, please email Erica or call her at 714-749-0837. She is especially looking for members who already have established relationships with our existing affiliates (see list).

MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
On January 16, Rena Loveless of A Pole Lot of Fun was featured in a segment about pole dancing, the new fitness craze taking North America by storm. The piece, by Lori Kelman, ran throughout the day on KFWB, AM 980.

Dee Putman-Elliott was featured in a Jan Norman article in the Business Monday section of the OC Register on February 6. Jan's article, "Employees by Day, Entrepreneurs by Night," discussed business owners who are running their own businesses while still working as employees elsewhere. Dee discussed her venture, YouGottaGoTravel.com, an online travel company she is building with her husband, while still working as VP Sales & Marketing at Executive Moving Systems. And that's in addition to founding and running our great mentoring program. Go Dee!

Janis Dinwiddie has been getting press attention on several fronts. As the consultant who is engineering the city of Newport Beach's Centennial Celebration, Janis earned kudos in the Jan. 3 Daily Pilot, and elsewhere, for the city's award-winning float in the Rose Parade—a remarkable feat for a first-time float! Janis' Dinwiddie Events also was praised in the December issue of Special Events Magazine as producer of the First Team Real Estate Invitational Regatta and a full weekend of events along with the race. All told, it was a very successful fundraiser for Hoag Hospital's Heart and Vascular Institute.

Nahid Casazza of Aspyrre Professional Coaching, and Judee Slack, of SlackTax, Inc., were both cited in Jan Norman's January 23 article in the OC Register on how local companies are viewing the 2006 business year. In the article titled "Sunny Side Up," Nahid, Judee, and other business owners in O.C., discussed their expectations on hiring and profits and other business issues for 2006. Fortunately for all of us, the business owners have a positive outlook!

Hilary Kaye, NAWBO-OC board member and president of HKA, Inc., was quoted in a BusinessWeek Online article by Karen Klein on February 1. The article, "So, You Want Some Attention?" discussed how startup companies can best generate attention through publicity and Hilary explained how important it is to target press releases to the right media outlets.

Cathy Daugherty, president of NAWBO-OC, and our NAWBO chapter both received great coverage in the Feb. 10 issue of the OC Register. The newspaper reported Cathy's challenge to the membership to wear red to the Feb. 7 dinner meeting, whose topic was corporate wellness and women's heart health. Cathy pledged to donate $10 to the American Heart Association for everyone who wore red, the color promoting heart health. The chapter heard the pledge loud and clear—out of 129 attendees, 103 wore red and Cathy wrote a check to the AHA for $1,030.

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COMMITTEE NEWS
Mentoring: 2006 Mentors and Mentees—Please remember the mandatory training/kick off luncheon on Feb 24th from 9am - 1pm. Stay tuned for more information from our Chairman, Dee Putman-Elliott. For questions, call Dee at 714-813-7190.

Education: In case you haven't heard, NAWBO-OC has a new Education Committee! The members of this committee will be working together to provide classes, workshops, resources and Success Teams to enhance your business knowledge and management effectiveness. The committee is currently looking for members interested in developing curriculum in the areas of business planning, marketing and public relations, finance and accounting, operations and processes, sales and business development, leadership and management. They also need people to help with our new member scholarship program. Please contact Markell Steele at (877) 210-3252 if you would like to be part of this exciting new endeavor!

Communications: DID YOU KNOW that many educational articles, written by members, get incredible rankings on the top search engines? In fact, of the top 40 search terms for the month of January, 19 were contained in an article written by a member! If you want FREE exposure for your business this is an opportunity you can't pass up. To submit your article (500 words or less on a subject related to business) just fill out the submission form, then email your article to me. It will be proofread by the communications committee and published on our articles page within a week or so, and a linked excerpt will be broadcast in the next issue of the e-news.

KUDOS
Jennifer Coony has been promoted to Partner in the Audit Department of Hein & Associates' Irvine office. Jennifer specializes in financial reporting for both public and private companies in a variety of industries. She has extensive experience in Generally Accepted Accounting Principals (GAAP) and Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) disclosure and reporting requirements. Congrats, Jennifer!

Shaila Mistry was recently chosen to be part of Women’s Policy Institute, which is part of the Women’s Foundation of California. The Institute's purpose is to develop more leadership and knowledge in women’s organizations so that we may then work the system to our advantage. In this capacity, Shaila is in Sacramento for a week every other month, or more if there are hearings, testifying, etc. She is actually writing the language of bills, and mentions NAWBO–OC whenever she can! Good work, Shaila!

Congratulations to NAWBO members who received their 15 year awards at the February dinner meeting: Nita Busby and Rachel Owens, pictured between President Cathy Daugherty (Chapter President) and Pam Adams (Member Retention Chair), as well as Judee Slack, Linda Pinson and Donna Beverly who couldn't make it to the meeting.

THANK YOU
A special thank you to Jolanta Lukawski, M.D., medical director of Sue & Bill Gross Women's Wellness Center at Hoag Hospital, for speaking at our February Dinner meeting. Dr. Lukawski bravely ventured out on the very day her baby was due to share how we can promote better health in the workplace. Thanks also to Dipti Itchhaporia, M.D., who spoke to us about heart health for women. And thank you to members who donated prizes for February's Opportunity Drawing:
Hoag Hospital, Rina Santora: Basket of gift certificates
Custom Motors, Barbara Page: Gift certificate from Godiva Chocolatier
Holistic Integration, Lilian Mavridara: Acupressure therapy session
Athletic Club for Women, Zeena Dhalla: Private pilates session, two personal training sessions
Image Center, Dr. Katherine Ahn: Gift certificate for Minuet Day Spa
Churm Publishing, Steve Churm: ¼ page full color ad in OC Metro
Anaheim Memorial Medical Center, Laura Garcia: Five gift certificates for Personal Cardiac Screening

WANTS & NEEDS
Virtual Office and Office Space Available in beautiful Newport Beach location. Call Susan Hansted Kuntz at CMM Advisory Group, Inc. 949-863-9774.
Land/Building needed for a pre-school in South Orange County, either for sale or lease. Please contact Firoza Diddee (949)874-5996.

HELP WANTED
Sales Assistant/Inside Sales person desired for growing computer & high-tech sales organization. Related experience desired. Contact Jodi Jenner, CEO, CUE Technologies, 61 Columbia Suite E, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 E-mail hr@cuetech.com 949-362-4002.

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CORPORATE & COMMUNITY MEMBER NEWS
2006 Office Depot Success Strategies for Businesswoman Conference Join other NAWBO members at the 2006 Office Depot Success Strategies for Businesswomen Conference, March 26 to 28, 2006, at The Westin Diplomat Resort & Spa in Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood, Fla. This conference creates an environment where women in business come together to gain practical knowledge, build relationships and draw inspiration from some of the nation's most distinguished business leaders. For more information visit www.officedepotsuccess.com.

SBA, SCORE Launch 2006 Business Matchmaking, online component to be added to highly successful initiative. Business Matchmaking, made possible through a co-sponsorship between the SBA, SCORE and HP, matches small businesses with buyers from the corporate sector as well as local, state and federal governments. Since its inception in 2003, Business Matchmaking has, through regional events held all across the country, generated more than 36,000 one-on-one appointments, resulting in more than $37 million in contracting opportunities for small businesses... more

February 28, 2006 Principal Financial Educational Series for Women Business Owners presents Get Balanced: Simple Strides for Work-Life Harmony. Do you feel stretched thin from clients, employees, family and social obligations pulling you in every direction? Do you feel overwhelmed with the decision of choosing between the growth of your business and the quality of your private life? You don’t have to! During this class, learn how to break out of your current cycle with several simple steps for striking work-life harmony. The Principal Financial Group®, the nation’s 401(k) leader and premier provider of employee benefits, and its national network of producers is again hosting, in 2006, a "Women in Business Teleclass" educational series designed exclusively for women business owners. Teleclasses are scheduled at Noon Central Time. Space is limited. Pre-register for classes at www.principal.com/women or see teleclass archive for audio transcripts of past classes. See list of upcoming teleclasses.

March 8, 2006 Computer Security & Your Business The U.S. Small Business Administration, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Federal Bureau of Investigation will be presenting two workshops to enhance awareness of the importance of Information Technology (IT), the risks associated with IT, and tips on risk management. These FREE workshops will take place at the Rancho Santiago Community College District office, 2323 N. Broadway, Santa Ana from 8am-noon and 1-5pm. Topics will include:
• How and why your data is vulnerable
• What can you lose through an information security breach?
• Practical steps to protect your operations
• How to use information security vendors and consultants
• How to evaluate tools and techniques based on your needs
This program is intended for the managers and staff of small businesses and organizations, specifically those with limited in-house resources. Pre-register by contacting Zanetta Emery 714-560-7449.

NEWS FROM NATIONAL
You Can Help the Sister Study Find the Causes of Breast Cancer. We've all been touched by breast cancer. Whether we've personally experienced the disease or have a relative, girlfriend or colleague who’s dealt with the challenge head on, breast cancer can be devastating. In the midst of the uncertainty, it’s reassuring to know there’s hope on the horizon. In an effort to find the causes of breast cancer, the Sister Study is seeking the help of women whose sisters had breast cancer. Learn more.

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