Kathie Nelson, LLC

Kick Start Your Business in Time for the Recovery

Tuesday, January 12th
Kick Start Your Business in Time for the Recovery, Christine Richards
WEO General Meeting

• Are you worried that 2010 will bring the same business results as 2009?
• Are you practicing the same sales and marketing techniques but expecting different results?
• Do you feel stuck and desire a way to kick-start your business?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you are ready for the wisdom of Christine Richards who will share with us how to find, engage and keep new customers using razor-sharp and purposeful conversation.

Applying the discipline and wisdom of the martial arts, Christine will discuss the traits you need to be a winner and master the skills and strategies that will dramatically increase your sales and profits in 2010.  

Attendees with learn how to:

– Find and “read” your best new customers
– Engage prospects in a purposeful conversation
– Increase profitable action for their business
– Deliver a powerful 15-second business introduction
– Keep new customers around for long-term profits
       

About Christine Richards

What do you do when you’re faced with virtually impossible obstacles? If you’re Christine Richards, you study karate, apply what you learn in the dojo to the rest of your life, and build the career and business that no one believed you could achieve. Today, a 1st degree black belt and 20-year business veteran, Christine brings gentle humor and engaging presence to her presentation: Kick Start Your Business in Time for the Recovery.

Agenda: 5:45pm Registration opens, Program begins at 6:00pm

Location: Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub, 112 SW Second Ave, 503.227.4057 Google Map

Dinner Menu: Roast Chicken, Rice Pilaf and Winter Vegetables with Butternut Squash Soup, Coffee/Tea and Bread

Vegetarian Option: Vegetarian Portland Pasta, Winter Vegetables and Butternut Squash Soup, Coffee/Tea and Bread

Early Registration (by 5pm, the Thursday prior): $25/members, $35/guests (includes Dinner)

Late Registration: $35/members, $50/guests (includes Dinner)

Connect & Thrive – Connectworks Strategic Networking

Networking is about the power of connecting for mutual benefit.  Strategic networking is about knowing where to show up, who to invest time with and the best questions to determine either.    We’ve organized this learning – connecting event to kick off the year to provide valuable insights to repositioning your network in 2010.   The market has changed, you’re offerings may have changed so it makes sense your network should change too.   You can expect to:

• Connect with other motivated talented leaders (Like yourself!)
• Learn fresh ways to activate and leverage your network (live and online)
• Practice what you learn
• Have fun!

Date & Time: January 13, 2009 5:30pm – 7:30pm  Postponed until February

Location: The Agency “Ultra Sports Lounge”
1939 SW Morrison St. off 19th and W. Burnside right in front of PGE Park. Click here to view our location on Google Maps.

(Parking available on the street or validated parking in garage beneath facility.)

No host bar – light hors de oeuvres provided

Cost: $10 Register here.

Treasure Mapping Workshop: Visualize Your Success

Connect to your Future – Start 2010 with Vision & Focus

Date/Time: February 20, 2010;  9 AM - 1 PM
Location: American Family Insurance, Wendi Eiland Agency, 12655 SW Center St., Ste 150, Beaverton
What to Bring: Scissors, glue stick and magazines (lifestyle, money or travel). We’ll provide the posterboard & coffee.
Price: No charge – But space will be limited!  RSVP Below.

Having trouble visualizing the year ahead?

When you’re caught up in the day-to-day of running your business and your life, it can be easy to lose sight of why you’re doing all of this and what you are trying to create. Treasure Mapping is a proven visioning process that harnesses the power of both sides of your brain to create your own “treasure map” to serve as a guide and reminder of what it is you really want to manifest in the coming year. Not only will we tap the creative juices in your right brain hemisphere we will exercise the left brain too by applying the numbers and practical initiatives that will keep you moving forward from January through December.

The Treasure Mapping workshop will help you start your year off with vision and focus. In this professionally facilitated event, you will craft not only a mental picture that supports your future vision of business and life but a physical visual as well.

Recognizing that each of us are whole people (not just our business) this workshop includes tools that not only focus your business goals but review and align life balance.

Here’s how we spend the day:

• We start the day with music, coffee, light snacks and networking
• Then settle in for a strategic visioning exercise
• Collect images and words that capture the essence of our vision
• Create your treasure map
• Discuss and define 2010 annual goals
• Evaluate, identify and plan for obstacles
• Design an action plan to get them done!

See what we did in the 2009 Treasure Mapping Workshop!

What People Have to Say about the Treasure Mapping Experience:

“I’ve taken this class for the past 3 years and found it extremely effective in my decision making process to have the visual map of the upcoming year. ”
Tia Ribary, Ribary and Associates.

“I’ve been doing treasure maps off and on for many years. It is amazes me what happens when I have that focus! I won’t miss this event.”
- JVB, Realtor

“I keep my treasure map over my desk. Looking at it brings me joy because it’s a constant reminder that I really am making my dreams happen.”
- EP, Consultant

“Creative vision is more than an interest in material things it is a commitment to a better future. Nothing will happen in your life that you do not inspire by your own initiative. Creative vision is the power which inspires that personal initiative.”
- Napoleon Hill

You won’t want to miss this highly motivating event coming up in January. Be ready to engage the right and left sides of your brain to tap into what motivates you and create a visual aide that focuses you.

Workshop Sponsored by:

Wendi Eiland Agency, Inc.
American Family Insurance
503-526-2999
www.wendieiland.com

Write it Rich – Tips for Reluctant Writers

September 15th & 22nd, 2009
Write it Rich!  Tips for Reluctant Writers
featuring Susan Rich

Do your words sell? Does your website copy bring you all the clients you need? Do people read your blog? Your LinkedIn profile? Your sales emails?  Does your struggle with finding just the right word keep you from spreading your good business news?

If you’re a veteran of the war with words, you’re a Reluctant Writer. But you can change that in just 2 hours with my class, Write it Rich! Tips for Reluctant Writers.

In  2-hour class you’ll learn how to:

• Organize your thoughts
• Pick your key message
• And write memorable, sales-grabbing copy

It doesn’t matter if you are writing for the internet or crafting a sales letter to a valued client: Compelling copy is how you tell your story and build your business.  It’s what sets you apart in a duplicated industry. It’s what moves you from just words on a page to becoming a solution-oriented resource that your customers will call on, time and again.

If you’re not sure how to find that all-important “all about you” sales nugget, Write it Rich! Tips for Reluctant Writers, can help.

In this fun, fast-paced session you’ll learn:

• How to spin your marketing message so that it works for you
• Why reading today’s headlines can build your business tomorrow and
• How to write DREAMY copy…how to choose those memory-making details that make you top-of-mind with clients

Time:  3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Cost:  Normally you’d pay $79 — but for the month of September ONLY you pay just $50.
Location:  North Portland Growth Place, 7415 N Oatman Ave, Portland, OR 97217, 1 mile west of I-5 on Lombard street
Registration:  Pre-registration, pre-payment is required to get this special rate. Seating is limited, so please RSVP today.

Call — Susan Rich, 503-341-6674
Write — susan@richwriting.com

Social Media Marketing Tele-Training

Thursday, October 1st
Social Media Marketing Tele-Training
Featuring Alex Mandossian

On Thursday, October 1st I’m co-sponsoring a teleseminar training on how to boost your profits and productivity utilizing the power of “electronic marketing” and online media.

QUESTION: Do you make these common mistakes in electronic marketing?

* Use audio or video at the wrong time
* Make your email teasers too wordy
* Get writer’s block with your blog posts
* Fail to start your own affiliate program
* Avoid 3 simple ways to get more traffic

My colleague Alex Mandossian can show the quick and simple ways to become a better electronic marketer.  Get access to his *free* tele-training.  This Social Media tele-training costs you nothing to attend and you will get to ask Alex any question (See below).  If you or a friend want to listen, click this:  http://www.1marketinglive.com/cmd.php?af=hhp5340&p=51

You can access Alex’s unique 45-minute tele-training during one or both of these two convenient sessions:

Morning Session: 9am Pacific/12pm Eastern
Evening Session: 5pm Pacific/8pm Eastern

You even get a 2-page page “Action Guide” that’s available for you to download now!

* * * Get Access to Alex’s Bonus Training * * *

If you’d also like as private access to a special, advanced training at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern, choose that option after asking your question: http://www.1marketinglive.com/cmd.php?af=hhp5340&p=51 

Master the Lifestyle of Your Business

Tuesday, September 15th and 16th
Master the Lifestyle of Your Business
Michelle Anton - Producer, Author, Director
a CEO Space Event

Get up close and person with former Oprah producer, Michelle Anton!

Recently Michelle Anton added another slash to her already busy career as a producer/director/writer when she added published author to her list of talents. She is the co?author of, Weekend Entrepreneur 101 Great Ways to Earn Extra Cash. With her extraordinary networking skills and boundless energy, she’s blazing a new path with blogging. Over the past 15 years she has produced nationally syndicated programming for such industry notables as Dr. Laura, Leeza, The Danny Bonaduce Show, Montel Williams and was a freelance associate producer working on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Michelle Anton is a much sought after producer whose expertise isn’t limited to just daytime talk shows. She produced documentaries for the A&E Biography series highlighting the life and career of Dorothy Dandridge, Rex Harrison, the Kennedy family and others. She’s worked with celebrities such as, Halle Berry, Robert DeNiro, Deepak Chopra, Anthony Robbins, Rush Limbaugh, Naomi Judd, Tyra Banks, Alex Trebek and many more.

Recognized by her peers, Michelle was nominated for the NAACP Image Award for the A&E Biography Series, profiling t he life and career of Dorothy Dandridge. In addition, she has won the Entertainment Industries Council, Inc.’s PRISM Award, and she’s a distinguished member of the Writers Guild of America.

Michelle, a CEOSpace Graduate and speaker, is now the VP of Club Operations for CEO Space.

Our meetings are a time for networking with other local business professionals, listening to speakers, business coaching, and developing proper business and marketing plans.

This group is for anyone that has a business, idea, invention or project that wants to learn how to grow a business, OR for existing businesses who want to HYPER grow their business. This is also an incredible playground for venture investors to spot new businesses and invest early.

Our meetings are in a safe environment of cooperation, and we will help you achieve your next goal. WE WON’T QUIT UNTIL YOU WIN!

Time: 6:30 p.m.
Cost: None
Location:
September 15th – The Club at the Historic Reserve, 1101 Officers Row, Vancouver
September 16th – The Hilton Garden Inn, 14850 Kruse Oaks Dr., Lake Oswego
Registration:  Click here for more information

Maximum Connections Job Fair

Thursday, September 24th
12th Annual Maximum Connections Job Fair

BE PREPARED TO MAP OUT YOUR FUTURE

Dress for success and bring copies of your resume (Please understand that resumes are accepted solely at the discretion and choice of individual employer. No employer is obligated to accept your resume unless choosing to do so.)

There is a great selection of job or training opportunities!

• AAA Oregon / Idaho
• Arrive Staffing Resources Inc.
•  City of Beaverton
• Clackamas Bakery
• Columbia Sportswear
• Combined Insurance
• Edward Jones Investments
• Everest College – Portland Campus
• Express Employment Professionals
• ITT Technical Institute
• Les Schwab Tire Centers
• Lile International Companies
• Richmar Associates
• US Army
• Warner Pacific College

Time: 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Location: World Forestry Center, Next to the Oregon Zoo off of Hwy. 26
Registration: Call 503-612-4200 Option 2, or visit www.WorkingInOregon.org

Click here for flyer!