Welcome to the monthly newsletter for the National Association of Women Business Owners® (NAWBO®) San Francisco Bay Area Chapter. This is the newsletter for August 2013.
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Member News
Welcome New and Renewing Members!
Message from the President
Members in the News & Member Spotlight
Member Benefits & Opportunities
Ideas, Inspiration and Opportunities
Procurement Programs
NAWBO SFBA Events
NAWBO®-SFBA Networking Breakfast - San Francisco: August 21 (third Wednesday of each month) NEW LOCATION at SBA!
NAWBO®-SFBA Networking Breakfast - Marin: August 27 (fourth Tuesday of each month)
NAWBO®-SFBA Networking Breakfast - Oakland: September 9 Note Special Date & Time This Month
NAWBO®-SFBA Monthly Educational Speaker Series & Dinner - San Francisco - Thursdsay, September 12
NAWBO SFBA Networking Breakfast Forum Walnut Creek -Become a facilitator for the Walnut Creek Breakfast Contact Us.
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Welcome to New and Renewing Members of NAWBO®-SFBA!
New Members
Karen Buckley, Owner of Communicore Consulting in Mill Valley, has joined our chapter as an Established Business Owner. Karen's telephone number is 415-888-3099 and her email address is kwbuckley@communicore.biz.
Elizabeth Davidoff, Owner of Davidoff Consulting Group in San Francisco, has joined our chapter as an Established Business Owner. Elizabeth's telephone number is 415-297-7119 and her email address islizdavidoff3@gmail.com.
Rejoining Member
Melody Brumis, Owner of Write On Time Solutions in Dublin, has re-joined our chapter as an Established Business Owner. Melody's telephone number is 707-396-0794 and her email address is mbrumis@wtsolutions.biz.
Renewing Members
Lisa Brent, owner of Marin Natural Medicine Clinic in Larkspur, has renewed her membership as an Emerging Business Owner. Lisa has been a NAWBO SFBA member since 2012.
Rebecca Doubledee, realtor with Coldwell Banker in Berkeley, has renewed her membership as an Emerging Business Owner. Rebecca has been a NAWBO SFBA member since 2012.
Cynthia Fassler, Owner of TSS Total Staffing in San Francisco, has renewed her membership as an Established Business Owner. Cynthia has been a NAWBO SFBA member since 2003.
Susan Grant, Owner of Grant and Ingraham, has renewed her membership as an Established Business Owner. Susan has been a NAWBO SFBA member since 1995.
Jane Hynes, CEO and President of W.A.Hynes and Co. in Petaluma, renewed her membership as an Established Business Owner. Jane has been a NAWBO SFBA member since 2002.
Judith Stark, Owner of Judith Stark consulting, has renewed her membership as an Established Business Owner.
Judith has been a NAWBO SFBA member since 2004.
MaryAnn Wetzork, Owner of Consulting Controllers Inc. in Alameda, renewed her membership as an Established Business Owner. MaryAnn has been a NAWBO SFBA member since 2012.
Time to Join, Re-Join or Renew your membership? Simply register online www.nawbo.org
Thank you for your membership. We look forward to seeing you at upcoming events, and to the opportunity to grow, thrive, and lead together!
August Message from the President
 (Below is the installation statement by our new President, Kay Robinson)
I have worked in support of women my whole life. The first feminist activity that had an impact on me was in Girls Scouts. Our scout leader wanted us to know what we really wanted and not just fall into routines typical of girls. With that encouragement we chose to do deep back woods camping, which was challenging and empowering. The other choice we made was to create a rifle club. We wanted to learn to shoot rifles because where I came from all the boys had rifles for hunting and we wanted to know what all the fuss was about so we took our curiosity to a rifle range.
When thirteen girsl showed up at the rifle range for the first time the men were aghast!
View the rest of Kay’s statement http://youtu.be/HtK2Fm_4Mck
Kay Robinson
President, NAWBO SF Bay Area 2013-2014
Members in the News & Member Spotlights
Are you a member who has news about your business? Please send your news to NAWBO SF Bay Area info@nawbo-sfba.org. "News" refers to recognition your company has received in the press, awards you or your company have won, or events that have happened. This space is not used for promotion of products or upcoming events. Thanks!
Let us know about your business NAWBO SFBA members may bring a promotion item to display on our Member Information Table at each Monthly Dinner.. info@nawbo-sfba.org
Member Benefits & Opportunities
 San Francisco Business Times - NAWBO Member Subscription Discount.
 A New Partner and Member Benefits with Constant Contact
NAWBO SF Bay Area has become a partner with Constant Contact to provide a benefit to our members.
A discount on Constant Contact products is available to members who sign-up for Constant Contact products through our partner portal and pre-pay for 6 months (20% discount) or 12 months (25% discount).
To sign-up and receive this member discount click on our partner portal.
If you are already a Constant Contact user just give us your username and you will be eligible for the discount as well. If you have a question or would like to provide your username contact, Wendi a info@nawbo-sfba.org
Promote Your Business
- NAWBO SFBA members may bring promotional brochures or flyers to display on our members' information table.
- Attendees have the opportunity to showcase their products/services with a marketing table. Cost for members is $50, non-members is $250. Contact Wendi info@nawbo-sfba.org to arrange.
- Submit your event to our online calendar. Click here to suggest an event.
Get Involved!
The best way to benefit from your membership in NAWBO®-SFBA is to get involved! You'll also continue to enhance your leadership skills and gain increased visibility for your business.
- Attend events (monthly mixers, networking breakfasts and special events)
- Give feedback & share your thoughts
- Join the board
- Chair or join a working group (working groups information)
- Marketing, Social Media, Public Policy, Affiliates, Programs & Membership
- Become a program facilitator (breakfasts or brown bag lunches)
- You can select your own location! How about Walnut Creek area?
Grow, Thrive and Lead!
Contact Kay Robinson president@nawbo-sfba.org to share your interest in being an active volunteer member of NAWBO SFBA!
Second Thursday (No Event in August - on holiday!)
Location: Sir Francis Drake Hotel
Thursday, September 12 Educational Speaker Series & Dinner 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM (networking, dinnner and speaker)
Special Speaker: JORY DES JARDINS, BLOGHER
HOW PASSION, PURPOSE AND POINT OF VIEW CAN CREATE A BUSINESS THAT IMPACTS THE WORLD
As women entrepreneurs, you’re focused on the “how-to’s” of building, optimizing, promoting and delegating in your businesses. But as you grow, your perspective of what matters grows as well. You begin to ask yourself “how do I want to impact the world, now that I know what I am capable of. How do I hold sight of this bigger vision while still running my business, paying my employees and managing my profit and loss?”
October 11, 2013 ESS & Dinner will be "The Millionairess Formula: 6 Steps to a 7 Figure Business and Lifestyle" Speaker is Allison Maslan is the CEO of Allison Maslan International, a Global Business Mentoring Company
NAWBO COMMUNITY SERVICE OPPORTUNITY
We are proud to announce that NAWBO SF Bay Area raised $3,000 for Girls, Inc. through our opportunity drawing and a generous year end donation from members of the 2012-2013 Board of Directors in appreciation to outgoing president, Kathleen Thurmond. Kathleen was the force behind this fundraising effort and will present the donation to Girls Inc. in early September.
Walnut Creek Networking Breakfast Forum is looking for two facilitators. If you or a woman you know would like to co-facilitate this group of women business owners please contact us. Kay Robinson president@nawbo-sfba.org
Third Wednesday 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM
NEW LOCATION: Small Business Administration SFDO 455 Market Street, Suite 600 San Francisco, CA 94105 (415) 744-6777
Speaking of Money, how about a special promotion?
Bring a friend for free!
Want to untangle your money story AND save some money? Everyone who attends the SF Breakfast Forum in August can bring a friend at no additional cost! Join us for the August SF Breakfast Forum and enjoy this "buy one, get one free" end of summer special promotion.
 August 21 - Untangle Your Money Story
Are you ready to break through to your next income level but it seems like every time you try you get sabotaged with issues around money?
Are you tired of watching others soar ahead with their success and income, while you feel stuck in the same old place?
Does your cash flow chart resemble the roller coaster at 6 Flags or do you worry that if you make more than your friends, family, colleagues or even your spouse, you'll upset the apple cart?
Join Shannon as she describes the Four Money Mirrors that will reveal exactly why you may be pushing money away with your beliefs and habits.
Learn powerful mindset tools and action steps that you can immediately put into use to become magnetic to money.
Shannon will also share with you three powerful tips that will get you started on a plan to invite more money into your life with grace and ease and dissolve the hidden barriers to your wealth.
Shannon is the founder of the Untangle Institute, whose mission is to help clients make Presson changes that enable them to answer their highest calling. By releasing old stories and limiting beliefs, clients are able to easily start mapping out the practical steps to get what they truly desire.
Our morning breakfast forums provide a comfortable place for businesswomen and entrepreneurs to gather monthly, exchange ideas and discuss business challenges. The Networking Breakfast Forums are a dynamic, informative and productive way to start your day!
Cost:
Members registered by Monday: $12; at the door $15
Non-Members registered by Monday: $20; at the door $25
First time guests: same as members for first three months when you register as a Guest.
Please share the word with your friends and colleagues!
Learn more and register online by Monday, August 19
Fourth Tuesday 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM
Il Fornaio Corte Madera Town Center, Corte Madera
August 27 - Three Secrets To Making Hiring Easy
Most Hiring decisions are less effective that a coin toss.
 A coin toss? We spend so much time and energy looking for the right person to join our team when we could just flip a coin to get the same results. Yet, there is a way to improve your odds.
Everyone knows the basics of hiring you post an opening, look at resumes, interview the people with the most impressive resumes and voila you have a new team member. Within each step, business owners use various methods to try to weed out the superstars from the duds. But our dismal success rate at best paralyzes us into making a decision and at worst predics that we will spend wasted productivity, energy, money and time addressing a low-performing team member.
In this session, you will learn three good and easy methods to making smart hiring decisions that will propel your team and your company to the next level.
Laura works with business owners and leaders to help them make smart hiring decisions. She helps them to develop their hiring stategies and systematize their hiring process, making it easy for them and ensuring the new hires stick around. Laura was previously in HR and has an international MBA.
Our morning breakfast meetings provide a comfortable forum for business women and entrepreneurs to meet monthly, exchange ideas and discuss business challenges. The Networking Breakfasts are a dynamic, informative and productive way to start your day!
Cost:
Members registered by Friday: $12; at the door $15
Non-Members registered by Friday: $20; at the door $25
First time guests: same as members for first three months when you register as a Guest.
Please share dates and details about our breakfasts with your friends and colleagues.
Learn more and register online by 11:59 PM Friday, August 23
Olivetos
5655 College Avenue
Oakland, CA 94618
7:30 AM - 9 AM
Monday, September 9 (Note day and date change)
Be The News
Doling out gems from her best selling book, “Guerrilla Publicity”, Jill shares powerful strategies for getting your name from unknown to newsworthy in almost no time. You will re hink everything you know about publicity when Jill shatters the misconception that publicit y is expensive. Sharing her proven secrets to understanding what the media outlets want, Jill provides you with short -term, doable, FREE and lowcost tactics that will boost your visibility. Jill Lublin’s expertise will drive profits to your pockets, and prospects to your door!
Jill Lublin is the 3 Time Bestselling Au hor of “Guerrilla Publicity”, “Get Noticed…Get Referrals”, and “Networking Magic”. An international speaker with more than 200 speaking engagements each year, Jill Lublin is an audience favorite for her lively and interactive keynote speeches, seminars, and special programs. www.jilllublin.com
Our morning networking breakfast forums provide a comfortable place for businesswomen and entrepreneurs to gather monthly, exchange ideas and discuss business challenges. The Networking Breakfast Forums are a dynamic, informative and productive way to start your day!
Cost:
Members registered by Tuesday: $12; at the door $15
Non-Members registered by Tuesday: $20; at the door $25
First time guests: same as members for first three months when you register as a Guest.
Learn more and register online by Thursday, September 5
Please share the word with your friends and colleagues!
NAWBO National & NAWBO CA
NAWBO National
National Conference October 3 -5, 2013 Miami, Florida
Need one more reason to register for NAWBO’s Women’s Business Conference in Miami? This year's opening reception is at the Nikki Beach Miami outdoor beach club—South Beach’s playground for jet setters, celebrities, VIPs and special guests...like YOU! Check it out here: www.nikkibeachmiami.com. Then go to http://nawbo.org/content_17264.cfm to register.
Affiliates and Partners
Registration for the WIPP Annual Leadership Meeting is Now OPEN!
WIPP Leader to Leader: From Across America to the Halls of Congress
October 9-10, 2013 – Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill
Procurement Programs
Supplier Diversity Programs in corporations are a way for women owned businesses to secure contracts.
The first step is to become a certified Women Business Enterprise. Contact Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) to begin the process of being certified. http://www.wbenc.org/
Public Policy
Tax Reform Affects All of Us
In an attempt to understand how the small business community feels about tax reform, the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship chaired by Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) held a roundtable entitled “Small Business Tax Reform: Making the Tax Code Work for Entrepreneurs and Startups." WIPP's Chief Advocate, Ann Sullivan was invited by the Committee to participate to ensure that the voice of women-owned business was a part of this incredibly important discussion. In her remarks, she said that a majority of WIPP members would rather have a lower tax rate than any of the 20+ deductions and credits that currently exist in the tax law. She discussed the importance of a tax code, that if rewritten, is simple and fair. WIPP believes that businesses should be treated the same regardless of their business designation both in the tax rate and the credits or deductions available to them. Read More.
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The House Small Business Committee has a site designated for business owners to suggest Congressional hearing topics. In the 112th Congress, the Committee held 80 hearings on a wide range of topics affecting small businesses. They want your input on hearing topics for the next two years. Please let them know at Small Biz Open Mic.
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Deborah Lardie will be representing NAWBO SFBA on the New Public Policy Primer Calls that will be held monthly to keep us informed of issues affecting business owners.
Mayor's Roundtable: Deborah is participating SF Mayor's business roundtable discussions. Let her know issues that concern you as a SF business owner.
 Join Deborah Lardie, NAWBO SFBA Public Policy Chair, in informing and advocating for our members.
NAWBO Advocacy Partners provide NAWBO with more opportunity to speak to decision makers on behalf of our members and all women business owners on issues that are most important to women entrepreneurs today. These issues include health care, procurement opportunities, access to capital, fair and equitable tax treatment for small businesses and more. For details on NAWBO’s public policy platform and legislative highlights—and to get involved to make sure your voice is heard—please visit our site’s Legislative Action Center. We invite you to get involved and make your voice heard.
Key Dates: Mark Your Calendar
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