This event is sponsored by the Women Professional Network, located in Bellingham, Washington
"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."
Jack Welch
Economy-Proof Your Business
It Starts with Your Vision(s)
It's time to create a vision for a brighter, more profitable business future; because the truth is, if you don't know where you're going, you may not like where you end up!
Learn how to live life to its fullest when you create a visions for your business and your life.
About The Program
Having visions for your life and business will guide what you do, where you go, etc. They help you to determine where you're going... but only if you get your thoughts out of your head and written down, where they can do you some good!
Life vision. Business vision. Vivid vision. Maria will start this workshop by discussing the various ways you can create visions and then talk about the 3 most helpful types of business visions. Your business vision is the first thing you write a business plan. It helps chart where you want your business to go. It keeps you focused on what's important to the growth of your business. It describes what you want your business (career or life) to look like and is an important tool that helps push you forward.
There are many ways to "vision". It's time to write a business vision for a brighter, more profitable future. In this session the audience will:
- Learn 5 different ways to "vision" that you can use for personal or business visioning.
- Discover the importance of creating 3 vision statements for your business.
- Create a draft of your Business Vision Statement using the One Page Business Plan® methodology.
Benefits To Attending
The benefit of attending this session is an understanding of how visioning can help you live life to the fullest and make better decisions because you know where you want to go.
"Maria Marsala is a consummate and astute professional with vast business knowledge, twenty-first century business sensibilities, an intensely listening ear and a caring heart. I enthusiastically and unreservedly recommend Elevating Your Business to any entrepreneur wanting to grow a business into a successful entity."
Geoffrey Gilmore, CSEP, NBCT, Corporate & Wedding Event Planning, Past Seattle ISES President, Gilmore Signature Events, Kenmore, WA http://www.sigevents.com
Who Will Benefit
- Home, solo, micro and small business owner
- Principals and practitioners
- Executives and managers who run departments or teams
- Sales, marketing and HR professionals
- And yes, if you are not a woman, you'll find this program helpful, too!
Register at WPN Bellingham
Date: March 31, 2011
Time: 7am-9am PST
Where: The Lakeway Inn
Investment: $15 to $18 includes breakfast.
Note: Missing this presentation could cost you tons of money and wasted time. Take time for this important presentation. You will think differently about your business and life.
About Women's Professional Network
The WPN is a monthly breakfast networking and learning organization whose members are professional women based in Bellingham, Washington. Founded in 1992, they provide a welcoming environment for women to network, build relationships and promote their businesses.
Attend a monthly meeting to learn, grow, and share your business with your peers. Visit their website at WPN Bellingham
Maria Marsala Brings Strategic
Focus, Action, and Result$
An irrepressible entrepreneur, Maria entered the business world at age 14, landed on Wall Street at age 17, and shattered the glass ceiling at age 21. Fiercely determined and keenly insightful, she became a bond trader when female executives were as rare as pink diamonds. Maria spent the next 20 years streamlining corporate operations and generating profits for her employers. Her penchant for dispensing valuable advice became evident as she mentored other women, transforming secretaries into traders.
In 1998, brimming with over 25 years of business experience, Maria founded Elevating Your Business, a company dedicated to helping high-achieving women who own professional service businesses. Maria customizes solutions to detect and overcome each client's unique obstacles, helping them create the business and lifestyle they only imagined possible.
When asked why they hire Maria, her clients consistently cite these three reasons:
- Her ability to "give them their life back" by systematizing and simplifying the essential functions of business, which they hate doing, including: planning, administration, operations, and marketing.
- Her insightful, kick-ass solutions to their business problems allow them to get "unstuck" quicker, attract their ideal clients, and achieve more in a few months than they could after years of struggling.
- Her focus on finances including budgeting, pricing, and creating products for their marketing funnel has increased their sales 25%-400% in 4 to 12 months!
"Maria's input has helped me organize my business more in three months than I had in the nine months prior. She asks the right questions and doesn't mince words. Her vast storehouse of business and marketing knowledge makes her a valuable partner in my business. She's helped me package my services, allowing me to increase my fees by 200% and the monthly sales of the company are more than 600% from where we were just 8 months ago. If you're considering hiring an advisor to help grow your business more rapidly, look no further. Maria is a skilled, caring, but firm coach, and most importantly, she will help you get the results you're looking for in your business and personal life."
Elin Barton, COO & Partner, White Knight Pro Video Company, Binghamton, NY, http://www.WhiteKnightPro.com
After many requests to share her insights on what small business owners can learn from bigger businesses, Maria created a step-by-step program called "Corporate Secrets Marketing™". Her concepts have been quoted regularly in prestigious media outlets including: Money magazine, Jim Cramer's "The Street", Women's Day, Market Watch, Advisor Max, and The Bottom Line. Her strategies are mentioned in several books including: "Six Steps to Free Publicity" by Marcia Yudkin, "Streetwise Small Business Book of Lists" edited by Gene Marks, and "Find Your Inner Betty" by Tanner Stransky - - she'll deliver fabulous commentary to you, too. Maria has spoken internationally at more than 100 business and association meetings, retreats, conferences, as well as on radio and TV shows. Maria is an Internet-marketing veteran, trained life coach, certified teleseminar leader, author, and former newspaper columnist.
A life-long volunteer, Maria tutored first-graders at age 10, and has been recognized with numerous awards for her work with teenagers and protecting the environment. She currently holds memberships at Washington Distributive Education Clubs of America (WA DECA), Eagle Harbor UCC, Make Mine a Million, National Association of Female Executives (NAFE), Seattle Philanthropic Advisors Network (SPAN), Columbia Tower Business Club, and Women Business Advisors Alliance.
Maria is a very proud native NY'er who lives near Seattle, Washington. She is currently single and enjoys playing cards and games, gardening, attending the theater, driving around the country, attending concerts, or perusing hardware and office supply stores.
Testimonial
"Maria isn't known as the Resource Queen for nothing - she knows everything there is to know about running a business successfully and where to go to find the tools and services to do it. Maria's advice and strategy has been invaluable to the clarification and execution of my business goals."
--Nicole Wexler, Decorator & Stager, Turquoise Decor, Seattle, WA, http://www.TurquoiseDecor.com
