January 2016 | Monthly Newsletter for the NAWBO San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
President’s Message:
Happy New Year! Whether it’s saving more money, eating healthier, or spending more time with family, all of you have goals for the New Year. This applies to your businesses as well. Many successful entrepreneurs set goals each year because of the simple fact that setting goals predicts whether a business will grow.
One of the goal setting tips I have seen drive returns is building a stronger network. Women-owned businesses are the fastest growing segment of the economy. Becoming a member of NAWBO-SFBA or a strategic partner with us positions your business for local exposure while supporting the dynamic community of women business owners. Every time you attend a NAWBO-SFBA programming event you have the opportunity to make a new contact. That contact can open a door to an opportunity you may not have even considered. NAWBO-SFBA members could become customers, connectors, collaborators, or avenues to exciting places.
Why should you join this community over all the others? NAWBO-SFBA members are sophisticated, authentic, ambitious, business owners who are open-minded to giving. They engage in something bigger than their businesses. If you are looking for relaxing, inspirational, empowering programs that provide advocacy opportunities, education and access to resources, NAWBO-SFBA is the community to join. Additionally, NAWBO advocates for you. We continue the conversation about gender balanced leadership, we provide access to government and private company contracts and we help women business owners get access to capital. Our chapter is building a more collaborative economy to help our members achieve bigger dreams.
The first step to achieving your 2016 goals is joining NAWBO-SFBA. Click here to join us and read below to learn more about the new NAWBO membership opportunities.
As we begin 2016, now is the time to re-evaluate old marketing plans and implement new ideas for a more productive year. To help you get started, our first event of the year is a Google workshop on January 14th. You will learn how to become a Google Supplier (because who doesn’t want to provide services or products to one of the largest companies in America), how to use Google Small Business Tools for better efficiency and optimization and how to put your business on Google so it gets noticed by potential customers.
I hope you will join the community in 2016.
Emily
Educational Speaker Series Workshop
Date: January 14th
Early Registration Ends: January 12
Registration Link: http://bit.ly/NAWBOSFBAESSJanuary2016
Location: Google SF Headquarters, 345 Spear Street, SF
Time: 3:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Jumpstart Your Business in 2016 with Google!
Join us for a hands-on, how-to, learn-more workshop at the Google offices in downtown San Francisco. Their Small Business experts will teach us how to:
- Become a Google Supplier – Google is specifically working to expand their outreach into minority, women, veteran and LGBT owned small businesses
- Google My Business – customer cannot do business with you if they cannot find you. Make sure you’re taking advantage of all of Google’s location tools.
- Optimize your Marketing – Learn best practices around Adwords and Google Analytics to give you customer insights and advertising tools.
Learn more about the event here:
Professional Development Forums
Oakland
Thursday, January 7th
Location: Faz, 1111 Broadway, Oakland CA 94607
Google Map & Directions
Time: 7:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Early Registration: Tuesday, January 5th
Registration Link: Forum: http://bit.ly/OaklandPDFJanuary2016
Too Busy to Grow? Smart Strategies to Expand Your Business AND Get Your
Freedom Back
Phone calls. Client appointments. Email. Meetings. Marketing. More marketing. And more client appointments. You have a vision of something much, much bigger, but how do you expand when you're already maxed out? Participants will learn:
- The #1 thing you must do to grow your business within the chaos of running your business
- The top 3 things that keep you stuck and spinning – and how to bust through them!
- How to reduce or eliminate wasted time, resistance, and learning curves in your quest for expansion
- Simple techniques to give you focus and the ability to create successes every day
About the Speaker
Mary Cravets is a Productivity Expert, Business Strategist and Speaker who works with ambitious entrepreneurs who are too busy to grow, and help them double their incomes and get their lives back. Mary’s entrepreneurial journey includes successful careers in Real Estate, business-to-business Networking Events and now Business Coaching.
Tri Valley
Tuesday, January 19th
Location: Faz Restaurant, 5121 Hopyard Rd, Pleasanton
Google Map & Directions
Time: 12 noon – 1:30 p.m.
Early Registration: Thursday, January 14
Registration Link: Forum: http://bit.ly/TriValleyLunchJanuary2016
Are You Ready to Create an Extraordinary 2016?
Ready to make 2016 your most extraordinary one ever? Want to make sure that all those visions and goals you have for yourself actually happen rather than just stay as pie-in-the-sky dreams?
Join Master NLP Trainer and Coach Shannon Presson to learn:
- 3 things you must include in order to make your dreams come true
- How to recognize (and eliminate!) the one story you’re telling that sabotages even your best intentions
- 2 things you need to let go of in order to skyrocket your success
This fascinating and colorful presentation will reveal powerful insights to help you identify the stories, beliefs and myths that either help or hurt your ability to achieve what you want in life. You’ll come away with the clear understanding of how to specifically create what you want in 2016, what might be holding you back and the confidence to now do something about it!
About the Speaker
Shannon Presson is an NLP Trainer and ICF coach certified in Equine Experiential Learning. She specializes in deep transformational work for entrepreneurs and professionals who are ready take their work and their leadership to a new level.
Shannon is also President-Elect for NAWBO-SFBA and facilitates the NAWBO Success Circle Mastermind
Marin
Tuesday, January 26th
Location: Il Fornaio Restaurant | Corte Madera Town Center • Corte Madera, CA 94925
Google Map & Directions
Time: 7:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Early Registration: Friday, January 22, 2016
Registration Link: Forum: http://bit.ly/MarinPDFJanuary2016
Intentional Business Development for 2016 – figuring out what YOU need to get to where you never imagined yourself to be, is the first and most important step to your success.
January always feels like falling in love - a rush of adrenaline, a surge of endorphins, and a readiness to do whatever it takes to meet your goals.
Together, we will explore
Your mindset.
Your visions.
And then creatively state your commitment to get you where you want to be at the end of 2016.
We will use this surge of energy to explore categories in both our business and personal lives:
- Business Stretch Goals
- Money Mindfulness
- Time Management and your wrestling match with it - get out of busyness
- Identifying your BIG dreams.
We will infuse our plans with Radical Self Care and Daily Routines and Rituals.
Being in community supports our biggest visions. NAWBO is just the place to launch your best 2016
About the Speaker
Lisa Pepper-Satkin is a Business Coach and Licensed Psychotherapist. She combines all of that study into creatively coaching people therapeutically through whatever it is that gets in your way. She has over 20 years of experience and uniquely tailors her coaching to clients' needs. She is the creator of myHeartyKid - a program teaching kids how to talk about self esteem.
MEMBERSHIP NEWS
New Membership Structure for NAWBO
Beginning January 1, NAWBO is changing its membership categories and dues paying options. Moving forward, there will be just 3 categories of membership:
Premier Member: Voting membership open to any women business owner. You’ll receive all the discounts and benefits NAWBO has to offer and be listed in the on-line member directory.
Introductory Member: Voting membership open to early stage companies. You’ll be eligible for limited discounts and benefits and be listed in the online member directory.
Supporting Member: An individual or non-profit organization who subscribes to the objectives of NAWBO and wishes to lend support to NAWBO through membership. This category of membership includes the same discounts as the Premier member.
There is also a new option to pay monthly for your NAWBO membership monthly for a little as $19.95 per a month. That is less than a month’s worth of Starbucks coffee or a manicure. New members will be given this option when they sign up. Returning members will be given the option when they renew their membership
We will send additional communication specifically about the membership changes later this month. To join or renew your membership, follow this link: https://www.nawbo.org/membership
New and Returning Members
New Members
Maile Collmer, Owner of The Referral Institute of Contra Costa
Elizabeth Moulton, Owner of Fitness Hero’s LLC in Alamed.
Renewing Members
Anjenette Afridi, with Girly Goop Skincare in Alamo. She joined NAWBO SFBA last year.
Deb Doyle, Owner of Stage 2 Marketing in San Mateo. She has been a NAWBO SFBA member since 2012.
Bevlen Klein, President of NC Moving and Storage Solutions in Hayward. She has been a NAWBO SFBA member since 2007.
Lisa Mazza, Partner with Grimbleby Coleman CPAs . She joined the chapter last year.
May Pon, President of M.Butterfield Brown and Associates in San Francisco. She has been a NAWBO SFBA member since 1995.
Public Policy
Increasing Access to Capital
The U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce ( http://uswcc.org ) announces the association is establishing a national federal credit union to provide access to capital, ensure fair lending practices and deliver low cost business and savings solutions to members all across the United States.
“The U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce Seed Federal Credit Union™ is a game changer for women and small businesses,” states Margot Dorfman, CEO of the U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce. “After decades of challenges in securing fair access to capital and being targeted by predatory lending practices, women are now in the driver’s seat to control and operate our own national financial institution. Through our national federal credit union, women lead on the inside of the financial and lending system rather than standing on the outside looking in.”
Credit unions have a unique and rich history for women. Many may not realize, credit unions were the first financial institutions to lend to women in their own names. The U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce is extending and deepening that legacy by taking ownership of our financial future, driving the new women-led economy and opening the doors to greater financial opportunities for women and small businesses.
Access to capital is consistently ranked among women business owners’ greatest challenges in growing and elevating their businesses. Not only the amount of capital, but also the composition and cost of capital is holding women’s businesses back from realizing their full economic potential. America’s failure to assure women business owners are achieving maximum potential is not only impacting women and their families; this failure is robbing our economy of trillions of dollars in failed economic output and millions of lost jobs each year.
The U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce Seed Federal Credit Union empowers us to leverage the economic strength of women, government and private sector grant opportunities to provide affordable loans for businesses, teach women to be more astute with the capitalization of their businesses and develop our own savings and loan products specifically tailored to the needs of women and business owners,” states Dorfman.
The U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce Seed Federal Credit Union puts women in a position for other important financial activities like savings, education, mortgages, car loans, and retirement planning. The day has finally come when the maximum realization of women’s economic potential will be unleashed.
Dorfman concludes, “Credit Unions are member owned. We call upon women and supporters all across the United States to step up and be part of history – be a game changer for women.”
The U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce will be making a series of announcements over the coming months as the foundational steps are completed for the Seed Federal Credit Union. Details are available at the USWCC website (http://uswcc.org).
NAWBO News
NAWBO NATIONAL
The new NAWBO website has gone live. Take a look, explore the pages and know that it is going to be the basis of our new website soon.
NAWBO Leadership Development Training
Creating leaders for a world of change
When: January 29, 2016
Where: Phoenix Marriott at The Buttes in Tempe, AZ
Standard King or Double $184
Deadline: before 5pm Tuesday, Dec 29th
Book your group rate for NAWBO 2016 Leadership Development Training
Dress code: Business casual
Cost: $75 per person, includes breakfast and lunch.
Join us in sunny Phoenix for a day long leadership training workshop. The agenda will focus on building sustainable chapter infrastructure strengthening your leadership skills and contributing to the legacy of the women’s business community.
NAWBO CALIFORNIA
NAWBO California is a federation consisting of the nine NAWBO chapters in the Golden State. It concentrates on statewide legislative action issues and corporate relations, and supports the growth of chapter membership through education, marketing and public relations at the local level | Learn More
NAWBO SILICON VALLEY
January 19 NAWBO MONTHLY MEETING
Realize Your Future: Get more of what you want with a Personal Strategic Plan
http://www.nawbo-sv.org/page/events-detail?id=241
NAWBO SACRAMENTO
January Lunch & Learn
Wednesday, January 6th
Learn More: https://nawbo.org/sacramento-valley/events/january-lunch-learn
Upcoming Dates
Educational Speaker Series & Dinner
Thursday, February 11
Women in STEM
5:30 PM - 8:00PM
San Francisco, CA
Wells Fargo Bank Access to Capital Bank
March 10th, 2016