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The Work Smarter Forum connects people from the Puget Sound area and won't be complete without you!

TO: Seasoned Puget Sound Small Business Owners, Practitioners, and Professionals

FROM: Maria Marsala, Coordinator of the Work Smarter Forum

DATE: Saturday July 04, 2009

SUBJECT: Work Smarter

Are you still excited about 2009? Congratulations! Now, you're ready to take your company to the next level - but how?

Do you know how you get where you're going next? Maybe you're concerned about how to move your business forward. Or you may have reached a roadblock and need some help. Do you have everything in place to grow to the next level, hit 6-figures, or even 7-figures, this year?

Here's a tip: The tools, techniques, and strategies that you've used to achieve your current level of success almost always have to be modified and tweaked to get to the next level.

Join us for the Work Smarter Forums, a series of breakfast seminars presented by Elevating Your Business and colleagues. We've put together a group of successful business owners from varied industries who can help you reach your goals for 2009! The Work Smarter Forum series will share with you some proven paths to success and help you make this your best year ever!

  • Meet with other business owners once per month for all of 2009!
  • Enjoy a special morning of networking, an interactive workshop, and, of course, breakfast.
  • Learn from inspiring stories of other Puget Sound business owners who've built successful businesses here!
  • Leave with useful put-into-practice-today info to accelerate your success.

Dates: 2nd Thursday of each month, from January to and including December

Where: Twisted Cork, Hyatt Hotel, 1st Floor, Downtown Bellevue

Time: Door opens at 7:30am with networking formally starting at 7:45am, Breakfast at 8am and speaker from 9-10am

Cost: $40. online. $50 starting two days before the event and at the door. Includes breakfast, 1 hour mini-class, and parking.

Yes, I want to work smarter, meet other dynamic entrepreneurs, and grow my business! Click here for access to Work Smarter Forums.

Attend this mind-blowing line up of some of the best and brightest business owners around Puget Sound -- yes, they ALL live, work and play here - who are coming to share their expertise with you on how to grow yourself AND your business.

No slouches here. Only go-getters and go-givers please.

Now, some of the names of our speakers will be familiar to you and some, I'm sure, are brand-spanking new to you. But that's the goal --- to bring together the best and the brightest stars to share with you their innovative ideas and leave you with real life strategies that you can implement immediately - in many cases, even before you leave the event!

Let's talk about you! The Work Smarter Forums are for you if:

  • You are a leader in your field, company, or organization. You may be a business owner, an expert, a professional, an executive.
  • You've been in business for at least two years. You could be self-employed (gone from working for someone else to creating a job for yourself) or an independent professional or practitioner ready to build your vision of a business empire.
  • You're ready to delegate and take the plunge to hire employees and consultants.
  • You have accomplished a lot of what you set out to do and now you want more... but aren't quite sure what.
  • You don't need an explanation of ROI - but you do need to get more focused on it!
  • You're frustrated with putting out fires all the time and are ready to be done with that!

If your business model and marketing strategies can use some updating, then it's time to join us at Working Smarter!

How we differ from every other networking group

Look, we've all been part of other networking groups in the Puget Sound area and we wanted to try something different. So we're restricting the group to people who have been in business for a while - no newbies, please. (MLM folks are restricted to talk about products only - not the opportunity to start another business.)

We're looking for people with focus, people with vision, and people with a good sense of humor - laugh a little, learn a lot!

The best of on-line, best of in-person

We've designed the Work Smarter Forum events to be the best of internet networking combined with the best of in-person events. So there'll be some formal networking during the event, a web 2.0 group, and some exciting learning opportunities.

Each speaker will bring exercises that you'll complete during the learning part of the morning, so you can immediately see how a concept or strategy works.

And of course, we want you to have a great breakfast and wonderful networking time with other business owners who share your passion to grow themselves and their business to new heights.

What can you expect?

Expect to be challenged. Expect some great conversation. Expect to make some new friends. And expect to leave the event with new skills you can use right away.

Expect success...

Yes, I want to work smarter, meet other dynamic entrepreneurs, and grow my business! Click here for access to Work Smarter Forums.

Don't miss out on what could be the most important business development and leadership series of your life! Our extraordinary panel of business masters will condense their decades of wisdom into workable insights and executable items that you can implement right away.

Giving back...

We're supporting Puget Sound domestic violence shelters. Please bring a toiletry, pamper item, or a few gift bags to each event. We'll donate gift bags throughout the year! C U there.

Maria Marsala, Strategic Business Advisor at Elevating Your Business, Coordinator of Work Smarter Forum

P.S.: From planning to blogging, from social media to finance - and everything in between! Explore our terrific collection of business and marketing seminars. You're sure to find ways to continue to expand your business that will quickly work for you!


Our Distinguished Speakers

Here's your chance to learn business and marketing strategies you can immediately use. These are the same strategies, ideas, and tactics our speakers use for their own businesses. They're also the same tips we've shared with other business owners and leaders JUST LIKE YOU to help them build their own businesses and careers, and the same ones you'll get at our Work Smarter Forum Breakfasts! Sign up now.

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Yes, I want to work smarter, meet other dynamic entrepreneurs, and grow my business! Click here for access to Work Smarter Forums.



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