#WIBN Passion to Profit Conference brochure - October 20th, 2014 Vancouver

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Vancouver | Waterfront Fairmont Hotel

Featuring Entrepreneur Magazine Writer and W100 Top Winner @KelseyRamsden

October 20th |Vancouver | Waterfront Fairmont Hotel

“It is always about relationship and trust in the end.”

“It is always about relationship and trust in the end.”

What’s it All About?The 4th Annual Women in Biz Conference is a day of networking, mentoring, relationship-building and a mini MBA in profit generating ideas. This year our theme is Passion To Profit – Smart Growth Strategies. To be successful in business you have to LOVE what you do, BELIEVE in your value and have a PLAN to activate your measurable success EVERY YEAR. That’s where we come in. Women in Biz Network is going to help you get to the next level in your business. session leaders have years of experience and success and have won entrepreneurial awards across North America.

October 20. 2014 | Vancouver Fairmont Waterfront Hotel

Featuring Entrepreneur Writer and W100 Top Entrepreneur @KelseyRamsden

October 20th |Vancouver | Waterfront Fairmont Hotel

“It is always about relationship and trust in the end.”

Why Should I Attend?

Because you can’t afford not to! Forging strong relationships is key to success.

October 20th will bring you face to face with everyone you need to know and learn from!

October 20. 2014 | Vancouver Fairmont Waterfront Hotel

“It is always about relationship and trust in the end.”

• Refreshments, lunch, and breaks• Conference and braining storming sessions• Mentoring exercise • Complimentary childcare courtesy

of Kids and Company • Connection reception

What’s Included?

October 20. 2014 | Vancouver Fairmont

Waterfront Hotel

Featuring Experts from Across North

America!

Location/Date:Fairmont Waterfront Hotel | 900 Canada Place Way |

Vancouver | October 20th

Tickets: Early Bird Pricing from $150 for Members & $200 for Non Members and Includes 1 year WIBN Membership

Looking for Ways to Improve Your Business and Career Profitability and Skills? Passiontoprofit.ca

Workcation – Year Round Pool | Play and Work. Take a Break and Expense your Travel….

The has made a conference rate of $199 per night available to attendees, if booked before September 19, 2014.  To book by phone call (604) 691-1820 or 1-800-441-1414.  Make sure to say you are attending the Women in Biz Network conference to qualify for the group rate

“It is always about relationship and trust in the end.”

• To get the business and life you want your ‘being’ must be a part of it. This is no airy fairy love in – this is heart beating brass tacks. Less ‘doing’, more ‘being’. But what do you want to be?

• We will focus on purposeful deliverables and your ‘being’ clarified as we get to the heart of our lives and business success in the making.

• All businesses need to grow or adapt. Just as we do. We will talk truths about smart growth strategies, actionable and measurable, to support you in your passion to profits goals. Hard questions and ”heart” answers – bottom line results.

Key Note: The Tug of War

Kelsey Ramsden is Canada’s Top Female Entrepreneur and international business coach, ranked #1 by Profit and Chatelaine Magazines in 2012 & 2013. Kelsey also writes for Entrepreneur Magazine.

Connect with Kelsey on Twitter: @kelseyramsden

“It is always about relationship and trust in the end.”

• Attendees will increase awareness and self-confidence to make better decisions faster and reap their best results ever. You can ‘How To’ people to death, but without the confidence and clarity to execute, they will get nowhere fast. Attendees will leave this conference with their gas tank full and ready to rocket down the road to success!

Master of Ceremonies

Aly Pain As a Certified Professional Coach, Aly works with entrepreneurial and executive leaders struggling with overwhelm, connection to a meaningful purpose and lacking a clear plan of action. Clients are founders and leaders of award-winning private and publicly held companies representing the top of their peer groups.

Connect with Aly on Twitter: @Alypain

“It is always about relationship and trust in the end.”

Build Community with a Cause

• Find out why a successful business requires a social army.  Learn how to start immobilizing an audience through social channels and build a loyal customer following. Community is the key to growth and success in any kind of business. 

Find out how many hours Christina spends communicating with her audience.   Peak into how to give ownership to your clients, your readers and your customers.  This has always been about them and not about you.

• Explore how to make your audience the hero.  How to solidify your brand and your idea via community building with a cause. 

As the founder and author of Second Firsts, Christina has helped thousands of people rebuild, reclaim, and re-launch their lives using the power of the human mind. Christina’s work has been featured on the Huffington Post, NPR, The Times of India, Beliefnet, the White House Blog, and MariaShriver.com.

Connect with Christina on Twitter @secondfirsts

“It is always about relationship and trust in the end.”

Podcasting for Business & Profit

• A Podcast is a powerful tool to demonstrate thought leadership, get your name out there, build a community around a brand and allow people to get to know you on a deeper level than a online soci@l interactions or static pages.

• In this interactive workshop we will explore the anatomy of a well-structured podcast from beginning to end as well as look at some real world case studies of successful, women led, podcasts

• Attendees will leave with a structure of their very own show, budget, equipment list, podcast strategies, promotional tips and recommended technologies as well as some solid action items on creating a show people will listen to and keep tuning in.

Anastasia has been bringing ideas to market for global companies, startups and helping small businesses make their ideas reality for over 20 years. She is a passionate ideator, positive instigator, a results and facts driven business strategist and compassionate leader and visionary. Anastasia believes that all business ideas are valuable, but not all are profitable and works with all sizes of organizations to tap into their talent, invest in their culture.

Connect with Anastasia on Twitter @AVV

“It is always about relationship and trust in the end.”

From Passion To Infinite Possibilities• When we are passionate about something, it’s often because we’ve had

some personal experience with it. For some, it’s a result of being talented or gifted in a particular area, for some it’s a desire to improve upon a product, service or situation and for others, passion is a result of having endured the undesirable and wanting to change your outcome. From wherever your passion stems, there is a personal story to support it and it’s that story that we use in business to capture the attention of our audience, because people are more interested in why you do something, rather than what you do.

• During this session, Athena will prompt the conference attendees to identify their passionate story, find the wisdom in it and learn to share it. Where there is no story, there is no passion and where there is no passion, there is no profit.

Connect with Athena on Twitter at @wisemouthmedia

Athena Taddei is the President of Little Fish Big Pond Inc. a marketing a business development firm that specializes in smaller companies and more recently has founded WiseMouth™ Media Inc., a website that supports and encourages the sharing of wisdom, philosophies, insights, feelings, memories and experiences.

“It is always about relationship and trust in the end.”

The Sweet Success Code • Learn how YOU are your own secret to six figure success. Brenda will dive into on

how you can activate your inner star power for more passion and profit. Through an interactive exercise you will experience the power of your own voice in your business communications.

• What you will Learn:

- Learn how to become a magnetic beacon for your ideal client

- How to activate your inner STAR power for more Passion and Profit

- Experience the power of your own voice in your business communications (Interactive Exercise)

Connect with Brenda on Twitter @SuccessShaman

Brenda is a Juno Award-winning singer, spirit-led business guide, speaker, goose-bump-giver, single mom, grandma and The Success Shaman. Behind the scenes, you can find her sipping herbal tea, belly laughing and ecstatic dancing.She has appeared on MuchMusic, APTN, CTV, CP24, Global, Vision and CityTV’s Breakfast Television, as well as CBC Radio and various other radio stations across North America.

“It is always about relationship and trust in the end.”

How the marshmallow turned my life & business around

• Being a startup junkie and entrepreneur for over 30 years I am used to failure and turnarounds. However my last failure was hard to take and I went down with a depression for over a year. I will talk about how I got out of my funk and how the marshmallow helped me rise from the ashes.

Connect with Melody on Twitter @melodybiringer

From strawberry shortcake to home furnishings to a fitness business, Melody has trotted down virtually every entrepreneurial trail in existence. Her current entrepreneurial love-child is Urban Campfire, a movement to create a different conversation, produced by the CRAVE Company. CRAVE connects savvy business women through networking events, symposiums and a series of smash-hit city guides. Author of CRAVING Success: a startup junkies path from passion to profits. Includes 132 tips for ambitious entrepreneurs.

“It is always about relationship and trust in the end.”

Smart Business Expansion Planning

Business growth and expansion is one of the most talked about subjects in the entrepreneurial world.  It can be good, and it can be bad.  It depends. Growth can create value but if not properly managed growth can destroy value.  There is no “one-size” fits all.   However, all business from a child’s lemonade stand to Lululemon have 4 specific and important areas; marketing/sales; operations; human resources; and finance.  It is important to the success of the business that they all work together.  It is also important to have the right people, process and controls in place. We will explore just that.

 Find out who else is operating in your space, what’s their value proposition, and how can you do the same or better.

Connect with Victoria on Twitter @Kidcochildcare

As CEO, Victoria oversees the company’s strategic direction and provides leadership to the company’s management team to deliver industry leading child care services. Victoria has a long and distinguished career in the child care industry. Kids & Company is the culmination of over 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur and child care and parenting expert. Kids & Company has served over 30,000 children and created thousands of jobs across North America.

“It is always about relationship and trust in the end.”

Brainstorm Session - Challenges and Opportunities

• Accounting and Cash-flow

• A Book is the New Business Card

• Branding and Creative

• Business Strategy and Growth

• Refining Your Elevator Pitch

• On Camera Strategies

• How to Be a Happy Writer

• Writing a Business Plan

• How to brand yourself as an expert

• Innovation techniques to offer new products and services

• Marketing Ideas

• Monetizing your Programs Online

• Networking Strategies to Build Strategic Partnerships and Alliances

• Pricing Strategies

• Sales Challenge Solutions

• Explore how a mentor can help you

• What to look for in a mentor

• Where to find a mentor

Nancy Harris is vice president and general manager, Canada at Sage North America. Ms. Harris is responsible for driving the strategic and product direction for Sage 50 Accounting–Canadian Edition and Sage One–Canadian Edition and oversees key functional areas including sales and marketing and research and development. A primary focus of her role is strengthening relationships with and cultivating an exceptional customer experience for Sage small business customers, partner channels, accountants, and bookkeepers.

Mentor Me? How to Find The Support You Need

• How to carve out the relationship

• Interactive challenge to find the rightmentor or mentee for you

Learn How To:

Connect with Nancy on Twitter @SageNancyHarris

“It is always about relationship and trust in the end.”

Key Note Finale: YOUR In-Credibility Factor

• What entrepreneurs say it takes to succeed in business and how they push themselves and their companies to the next level.

• How they coped with financial challenges to pull their businesses back from the brink of disaster to emerge stronger than ever.

• How to apply the top five principles of the best entrepreneurs in the world to your life right NOW.

•  How successful entrepreneurs smash through the Barriers in Business

• How they cope with financial challenges to emerge stronger than ever

• Insider Secrets to get your company noticed by the media

• Get ready to supercharge your business in 2014 and make your goals a reality.

Connect with Teresa on Twitter @teresakruze

Teresa Kruze is the creator of “The In-Credibility Factor”, a multimedia venture designed to motivate and inspire entrepreneurs. Kruze recently launched a country-wide speaking tour to coincide with her new book that soared to the top of the best seller list on Amazon.com. Along with her speaking and writing, Kruze is a veteran broadcaster and producer in Canada (TSN, CTV, City-TV) and currently hosts a weekly television talk show. Her goal is to share what she has learned from some of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world with other business owners and help them supercharge their way to success.

• Location/Date: Fairmont

Waterfront Hotel | 900 Canada Place Way | Vancouver | October 20th

Tickets: Early Bird Pricing from $150 for Members & $200 for Non Members and Includes 1 year WIBN Membership

Looking for Ways to Improve Your Business and Career Profitability and Skills? Passiontoprofit.ca

Workcation – Year Round Pool – Play and Work. Take a Break and Expense your Travel….

The has made a conference rate of $199 per night available to attendees, if booked before September 19, 2014.  To book by phone call (604) 691-1820 or 1-800-441-1414.  If booking by phone, please make sure to say you are attending the Women in Biz Network conference to qualify for the group rate

Day time agenda – October 20, 2014

7:30 am Registration Opens 12:00 pm

Lunch

8:30am Opening Remarks & MC Hits Stage

1:00 pm

Mentor Me? Finding the Support you Need

9:00 am The Tug of War 1:45 pm

Smart Business Expansion Planning

9:30 am Podcasting for Business and Profit

2:15 pm

Afternoon Break

10:00 am

Build Community with a Cause

3: 00 pm

Tips and Tools to Get More Muscle Out of Your Day

10:30 am

Break 3:30 pm

Your Story: From Passion to Infinite Possibilities

11:00 am

The Sweet Success Code 4:30 pm

How the Marshmallow Turned My Life and Business Around

11:30 am

Micro-sessions 5:00 pm

Your In-Credibility Factor

Connection Reception – Let’s Get to Know Each Other

October 20th, 2014 5:15 pm – 7:00 pm

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How We Make A Difference

1% of Women in Biz Network’s Revenue is donated to Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness – Delivering Hope which help women in shelters rebuild their lives. We also gift memberships to CCAA throughout the year.

Cheers to our #WIBN Sponsors who Make This Possible