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Is Your Idea the Next Facebook?
How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Turn Your Brilliant Idea Into a Real Business
So you have a great idea, relentless passion, and a nagging suspicion your idea could be the next Twitter or Instagram. Being passionate about your idea is a big part of what it takes to win but it’s not enough. You also need a solid roadmap, a reality check, and entrepreneurial skills that can guide your start-up from concept to customers. Entrepreneurs have a radar for opportunities, innovation, and competition. They attract stellar teams, take vigilant care of their brands, and have a network of support. This session will walk attendees through the fundamentals of building a sound business plan and cover critical areas needed to take on building a business.
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Legal Confidence: Empower Yourself for Blogging Success
When it comes to legal issues, blogging and business can often take on a new challenge. With topics such as what type of business to form, how to protect your content, understanding contractual obligations, and taxes, understanding the legal implications of blogging empower you and gives you confidence for making informed decisions. Learn real world solutions to issues facing the blogging community.
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Ignite the Sparks of Passion with the Fuel of Purpose
Do the work you love, love the work you do. Sounds great, but have you questioned if passion alone is enough to pay the bills? If not, you should. Together, we’ll dig deeper than passion and reveal your ultimate business asset: Purpose, an unstoppable force that draws opportunities to you while bringing joy and real value to everything you do. Learn how to grow your passion with purpose and see great rewards in your business and life.
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Branding You: The Merger Between Their Perception and Your Reality
Internet access, electronic media, and networking continue to explode and in the midst of it there’s a conversation happening about you. Yes – YOU. Every digital impression about you or by you contributes to how others think and feel about you. Are you influencing this conversation or simply letting it happen? Now is the time to purposefully determine the worldwide impression of YOU. Back up and get a running start on defining, causing and directing your emotional and intellectual connection with the world. Learn how to influence and engage others with the real story. Live out the you, you were created to be in such a time as this!
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LIKEABILITY 2.0: Women, Influence and the Social Web
A well-researched paradox about professional women describes the inverse correlation between success and likeability (or put more bluntly, when it comes to getting ahead at the office, nice girls finish last.) Female entrepreneurship and the social web are turning that paradox on its head, however, suggesting the new model of female professional success has everything to do with likeability.
In this session we’ll tackle questions such as: is being likeable the same as being popular? Can you be nice without surrendering your effectiveness? What can bloggers learn from women in conventional professional roles, and vice versa? Join us as we roll up our sleeves and take the gloves off for a frank conversation about the true nature of likeability and what it means for your professional goals.
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3 Things You Can Do RIGHT NOW to Grow Your Facebook Fan Page
Discover how setting goals and asking the right questions can boost your Facebook engagement and establish you as an authority in your niche. Melanie explains how to take your Facebook fan page from meh to amazing with a few tweaks to your status updates and tracking efforts.