According to Michelle Villalobos, Founder, “Everyone is selling something. Whether it’s your products, your services, a point of view, an idea, a cause or simply yourself, every woman can benefit from learning how to SELL. Miami’s largest women’s conference returns to Miami for the 5th Summit – The Big CLOSE. Learn from, get inspired by and connect with top professionals from South Florida… and beyond. Featuring appearances by some of the business world’s most interesting, successful and educational speakers, panelists, gurus and prodigies.”

The video below tells the story of some of the past summits

The Faculty – including Nell Merlino, Mike Michalowicz and Michelle Villalobos, among dozens of other experts will share with the audience amazing insights, trends and vision.

And the content is RICH! Two days of non-stop expert presentations including:

Make Mine A Million & “Take Our Daughters To Work Day” Founder, Nell Merlino:

What Motivational Speakers Won’t Tell You About Building A Million Dollar Business

Toilet Paper Entrepreneur Author, Mike Michalowicz:

The 8 Secrets To Getting More Customers, To Buy More Things, More Often

“Chief Badass” & Founder of BadassBusinessWomen.org, Jessica Kizorek:

The Badass Guide To Selling Yourself… Without Selling Your Soul

Annette Nathan, Creator of Women & Wealth:

“Mission Control: A System To Manage EVERYTHING In Your Life”

The Male Panel:

How The Other Half WORK: Men On Success, Unscripted & Uncensored

Join hundreds of smart, successful, influential women from around South Florida and around the country on May 17th and 18th from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.

Venue: Miracle Theater, 280 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, FL 33134

General Passes, VIP Passes and the ALL-NEW VIP PLUS Pass are available! Go here to register: http://www.womenssuccesssummit.com/

I will be there! Hope to see you there…

WE Magazine will be collecting cards and doing a drawing for Four full-page ads for our Summer Issue. Be sure and find me and give me your card!

WE Magazine for Women is delighted to support the WBENC National Conference taking place in Orlando Florida on June 20, 2012.

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

For more than a decade and a half, WBENC has helped to open the doors of opportunity for WBEs. This important tradition will continue at the 2012 conference as WBENC continues to implement the Roadmap to 2020. The three-day conference will promote WBENC certification as the framework supporting the procurement requirements of corporate and government entities interested in doing business with women business enterprises. The event will also support WBENC-Certified WBEs who seek better access to procurement opportunities in these markets.

WORKSHOPS

Workshops will focus on economic impact and job creation; entrepreneurial training; innovation, technology and sustainability; and the best ways to access capital and develop new markets.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Several well-known personalities, including New York Times best selling authors, nationally recognized business leaders and C-level executives will offer valuable insight on business trends, economic forecast and how to succeed in today’s marketplace.

VIEW THE SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

BUSINESS FAIR

Boasting more than 3,200 registered attendees, last year’s Business Fair was a resounding success. The one-of-a-kind event drew 325 exhibitors, including more than 100 WBENC-Certified WBE exhibitors from across the nation.

There is so much more! Including a Matchmaker Program, Silent Auction, Sponsorship Opportunities and more.

Visit the site today: http://www.wbenc.org/wbencconf/

REGISTER HERE: http://www.wbenc.org/wbencconf/reg.php 

ABOUT WBENC The Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), founded in 1997, is the largest third-party certifier of businesses owned, controlled, and operated by women in the United States. WBENC, a national 501(c)(3) non-profit, partners with 14 Regional Partner Organizations to provide its world class standard of certification to women-owned businesses throughout the country. WBENC is also the nation’s leading advocate of women-owned businesses as suppliers to America’s corporations.

The Largest Gathering of Women for International Women’s Day in the History of the World!

Great News! The Women’s Information Network (The WIN) is hosting the largest gathering of women in the history of the world!

It’s the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day.

When and Where? March 8th – click on www.internationalwomensday.org/locations to find your city!

Who? Celebrities Deidre Hall (Days of Our Lives) Lisa Nichols (The Secret) Lauren Chapin (Father Knows Best) DC Cordova (Global Entrepreneur) Tamilee Webb (Buns of Steel) and other experts…

Why? To help you:

• Get Your Personal and Financial “mojo” working!

• Super Network with Hundreds of Amazing Women!

• Learn How to Strengthen Every Relationship in Your Life.

• Catapult Your Business Forward and Learn How to Take It Global!

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attend a first-class women’s event in your area, celebrating the 100th Anniversary of International Women’s Day!

Events for International Women’s Day are taking place in Washington, DC, Atlanta, GA, Miami, FL.  Boston, MA, Houston, TX, Denver, CO, Los Angeles, CA and New York NY!  Be sure and attend this once in a lifetime event with other women in your community!

Tickets for this Full-Day Life-changing event are only $35! Grab yours today!

When: Monday October 25th at 1 PM EDT

Where: The WE Magazine for Women Teleconference HOTLINE: Conference Dial-in Number: (641) 715-3840

Access Code: 361467#

About our Special Guest and This Session:

Dayna Steele is an entertaining and energetic motivational keynote speaker. The author of the best-selling business book Rock to the Top: What I Learned about Success from the World’s Greatest Rock Stars, she reigned for years as “Houston’s First Lady of Radio.” Taking her personal anecdotes and photographs with some of the top rock stars in the world, Dayna guides the audience in an innovative and unique way through her proven business success methods.

For years, Dayna was one of the top female rock radio personalities in the USA. With a legion of fans known as Steeleworkers, Dayna was known for her sultry voice, music knowledge, entertaining celebrity interviews and commitment to broadcast excellence. During her career, she was named one of the 100 Most Important Radio Talk Show Hosts by Talkers Magazine and nominated as Local Radio Personality of the Year by Billboard Magazine. Dayna will be inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame in the fall of 2010.

After leaving radio, Dayna created The Space Store, the world’s largest space related ecommerce venture, which she sold to a NASA aerospace contractor. She also started Smart Girls Rock, a product line currently available at www.smartgirlsrock.com to encourage girls to make “smart the new cool” or “geek the new chic.” And, Dayna founded Operation National Anthem, a series of free videos of active U.S. service men and women offered to venues throughout the country to play prior to the singing of our United States national anthem.

AOL calls Dayna “one of the foremost experts on career networking” and Reader’s Digest Magazine named Dayna one of the “35 People Who Inspire Us.” Her new book “I’m With the Band: Network Your Way into Anything, Anywhere, Anytime!” is scheduled for release in January 2011. Dayna lives in Seabrook, Texas with her husband, author Charles Justiz, and has three sons. Learn more about Dayna at www.DaynaSteele.com

In this interview with Dayna Steele about Finding Your Inner Rock Star you will learn the rock star principles to achieving the next level of success and standing out in the crowd in any industry. You will learn how to

• Take your performance to the rock star level

• Stand out in the crowd in your industry

• Learn the success-generating “rock star principles”

• Discover the most important business instruments

And MORE!

You are invited to attend this FREE teleconference call by dialing our conference HOTLINE below:

Conference Dial-in Number: (641) 715-3840 Access Code: 361467#

If you are a women in business have an ewomen business online,  a webpreneur doing business on the web, or have an offline business that could use some insights into how to get more publicity and notoriety your business this session is for you! Women on the web and women in business with a web presence either via a website, blog, social media or forum can learn from this session Find Your Inner Rock Star: Build Your Stage for Success in your businesses.

Feel free to share this with your friends and associates. Post to your Facebook and Twitter Accounts.

Be sure to join us on Monday October 25th at 1 PM EDT for an entertaining and slightly quirky interview that will help you promote your business online and offline!

Here’s the details:

If you can’t elevate the painful thoughts about your past, you stay stuck where you are … or even slip backwards.

You can elevate your consciousness to remove self-doubt, get rid of money fears and attract people you love to be with in personal and professional relationships.

Imagine being able to attract personal and professional relationships you love, rather than settling for painful relationships because your parents had an unhealthy relationship.

http://www.heart-based-service.com/expo/Mooney < == FREE real help

Do you know you have the power to eliminate obstacles and struggles?

Whether you are facing financial challenges, family problems, illness, addictions, bad work situation or painful relationship – solutions are only a thought away.

How is this possible?

Find out in the all-new Heart Based Service Expo.

Joining me at the no – cost, live, online Heart Based Service Expo with an amazing lineup of 20 handpicked speakers.

Check them out here: http://www.heart-based-service.com/expo/Mooney

Each of these experts are opening their hearts and sharing their wisdom – sharing the steps to success, revealing how to overcome obstacles and solve problems to achieve your dreams.

This is a complimentary event that is online, so you don’t have to travel.Money is not an excuse. You can do this.

Plus the recordings of the presentations are available for 48-hours after each presentation … again at no charge.

This expo is truly heart-based service in the highest good for all.

See for yourself at http://www.heart-based-service.com/expo/Mooney

Hope to share this special event with you!
 
Heidi Richards Mooney, Publisher
WE magazine for Women

P.S. Even though the Heart Based Service Expo is free to listen to and ask questions of the experts and you even get replay lines of the presentations at no charge, like all expos, there are great offers made during the event.

So in the spirit of providing you with all the details, when you click on the link above, depending on whatever extras you might choose, I might or might not receive some form of compensation.

Whether or not that happens, I’m just thrilled to be a part of and to invite you to such an incredible event.

So check it out today at http://www.heart-based-service.com/expo/Mooney

The Heart-Based Service Expo and other great holiday gift-giving ideas can be found in  our new Holiday Gift-giving Guide at http://bit.ly/1Z6LSF

Hedy Ratner, Co-President of the Women’s Business Development Center (WBDC), invites WE Magazine readers to the 23rd annual Entrepreneurial Woman’s Conference.  This year the conference will be held September 16, 2009 at Chicago’s Navy Pier.

2009 conference highlights include: Women’s Business & Buyers Mart, the oldest business opportunities fair for women business owners in the country, with nearly 200 corporate and government exhibitors who are committed to buying the products and services of women business owners; Corporate Connections, one-on-one meetings between certified WBEs and our corporate and government partners; the 23rd Annual Women’s Forum Breakfast, where nationally renowned women business owners share their personal stories of success – and the challenges they met along the way; the 23rd Annual Hall of Fame Awards Luncheon, honoring the achievements of women business owners and supporters of women’s economic development – and much, much more!

The WBDC is pleased to announce that Penny S. Pritzker, innovative business builder, civic leader and philanthropist, who is the chairman of four corporations, including TransUnion, Classic Residence by Hyatt, The Parking Spot and Pritzker Realty, will deliver the keynote address at the Annual Hall of Fame Awards Luncheon.

For a complete Schedule of Events and to register online please visit www.wbdc.org.

Rev. Dr. Lorraine Cohen is CEO and founder of Powerfull Living. With more than 20 years experience in life coaching, psychological counseling and sales, Lorraine works with spiritually-minded entrepreneurs, business owners, coaches, service professionals, and consultants. Recognized as a cutting-edge expert in her field, Lorraine coaches people to create a profitable business, meaningful career, and fulfilling life by aligning with their spirit. An expert in breaking through fear and removing barriers to success, she shows people how to get unstuck; to break through the confusion and roadblocks so that they move forward in all areas of their life. A sought after speaker, writer and broadcaster, Lorraine hosts her own internet radio shows: Powerfull Living Radio and Compelling Conversations Series for Powerfull Living with leaders in the field of business development, personal growth and spirituality.

About this session:

Could you use a little (or a lot) more publicity to spread the word about your Small Business? If so, then be sure to tune in to this teleseminar! In this 30 minute interview Lorraine will talk about the Key qualities that make guests great, how to distinguise yourself as an expert using interviews, common mistakes to avoid when being interviewed, how to leverage guest appearances to generate income, build credibility and grow your lists… and more. You can listen to the interview here: http://wemagazineforwomen.com/LorraineCohen.mp3.

Afterwards check out Lorraine’s program that begins  on May 27 – Changing Lives Using Radio & Teleseminar Interviews, 5-week mentorship program with broadcaster Lorraine Cohen Do you have a product or service you want to bring to a larger audience? Do you have a message you are bursting to deliver to enrich people’s lives? What would it be like if you had a greater opportunity to make a difference in the world? Imagine the legacy you could create by inspiring people to experience more joy, prosperity, and success in all areas of their life by sharing your heart, wisdom, and gifts… Learn a step-by-step road map to prepare your radio and teleseminar presentations as well as finding the right venues. Register now and instantly save $50 by using the coupon code RADIO when you checkout. Wednesdays, 6-7:30 pm EST. Get more info here: http://www.profcs.com/app/?Clk=3015371

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