Time to get your spark and hustle on. Good Morning America's own Tory Johnson is bringing her one-day conference, Spark & Hustle, to a city near you. Her 20-city tour includes Minneapolis, Chicago and Detroit, 3 cities where I'll be speaking! Registration for the day-long event is just $77; it's only $67 when you register for 2 tickets at the Early Bird rate. There will be prizes (like, $10,000 prizes.) There will be Tory Johnson. There will be business experts galore. And there will be 350 women learning like crazy. High school and college students register for only $25 here. Find your city here and go early, bird.
✳ Share Your Story
Wanna share your adventures in business and get some publicity, too? The founder of sweet site BestMomProducts.com is looking to feature mom entrepreneurs like you. The best part? They're not product pitches but real interviews with real women in business. Fill out this form to submit your story.
✳ Get Sponsors
Calling all bloggers! Want to learn the ins and outs of getting brands to sponsor you? PR guru Cassie Boorn is hosting a live e-course for bloggers who are interested in getting sponsored by brands. She'll teach you everything you need to know about partnering with brands and she'll walk you through how to create a sponsorship deck. Find out how brands work with bloggers, create a partnership strategy for your blog, and learn how to find the right contacts and pitch brands. Register right here and use code foundingmom1 for 20% off.
✳ Champion This
Have you made an impact on the small business market? Nominate yourself now for the 2012 Small Business Influencer Awards and be recognized as influential to small businesses and entrepreneurs in North America. Get recognition and raise your profile by submitting yourself in a jiff right here.
✳ Challenge Yourself
Chitsie is taking digital marketing to new heights. The new site utilizes social media tools to help companies accumulate more users, more fans, and more followers. We've partnered with them to offer The Mom Entrepreneur Challenge where you can submit an entry and win a number of prizes (think business coaching and Ebay gift cards.) Enter your submission today by clicking here.
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✳ Get Organized
Are you using Evernote yet? Familiar with Teambox? I informally surveyed 514 women in business and found out 5 common ways that you folks are organizing your businesses, and your lives, thanks to technology. Check out "The 5 Most Popular Ways to Organize Your Business" (featured in NBC Chicago!) right here.
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✳ Text It
When Nancy Lublin started texting teenagers to help with her social advocacy organization, DoSomething.org, what she found was shocking -- they started texting back about their own problems, from bullying to depression to abuse. So she's setting up a text-only crisis line, and the results might be even more important than she expected. Watch her fascinating TED talk here.
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✳ Check It
CouchSurfing lets you tap into a network of welcoming people worldwide. Share your hospitality and experience your city through new eyes by offering travelers a place to stay on their journey. Bypass the typical hotel experience; join cool and interesting people for anything from a bike ride to a party using CouchSurfing Activities.
Flippa is the number one marketplace for buying and selling websites. Buyers love Flippa because of its extensive inventory of websites suitable to a range of website investors. The entire buying experience is tailored to make it as easy and secure as possible. Sellers come to Flippa because the site has the highest sales rate in the industry.
SuddenLee is the only online shopping website that guarantees affordable next day delivery from over 300 retailers in a single box. Shop multiple online retailers and get affordable next day delivery all in a single package.
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