http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Exciting-New-Announcements-from-ECEW–Nov–1.html?soid=1101799525736&aid=ZCs99JQGghI.

1) Send email. Don’t wait for the next day or the next week. Chances are you won’t get around to it-and even if you do-they may not recall. Send an email to everyone you took a card from. Even if you don’t see an immediate connection, just say thanks.

2) Connect on Facebook. My favorite strategy. I look the people up on Facebook using their business cards and add them to my network. Now, I know their birthdays, their occupation, and their day to day status (literally!). Best Rolodex in the world.

3) Put one thing into action. Too many people walk away from networking events feeling good, but doing nothing. Take one decisive action from what you learned.

4) Introduce two people to each other. One of my colleagues, Jim Penny, is a master at this. He finds one person at each event and introduces them to someone else he thinks they should know. Now, where those two people take the relationship is up to them, but he is always remembered as the guy who made the introduction!

5) Contact one PRP (Potential Referral Partner). One of the best ways to grow a business is through collaboration with others. Joint ventures can be amazingly powerful. Whenever I network, I try to seek out one referral partner. This can be someone that I can send business to or someone whose clients we can help. The best PRPs are those who can figure out a win-win situation. Example: A web designer sends a printer work, while a printer recommends the designer to their clients.

6) If you took pictures, put them up on Facebook. Tag them whenever possible. Pictures are best posted when the memory of the event is still fresh. If you follow #2, then you can also tag people you have added as friends. Pictures are a great way to attract people to your profile as well.

7) Blog or write about your experience. Whenever I come back from events, my mind is spinning with new ideas. If I don’t get them down, they are lost. Bullet point ideas or write them across your white board. Just get them down!

Make sure your website is working well. If you met a lot of people, the chances are that they will check out your website. Make sure that it is up to date and a good representation of who you are.

9) Thank the host – if applicable. This especially applies to local events which are put together by one individual. A quick note thanking them will go a long way.

10) Check networking supplies. Yes, check your stock of cool business cards, pens, and stickers after your event – and before the next one. I can’t tell you how many times I have had to order cards overnite before I learned this lesson. Check your stock after each event, and you will thank yourself later!

Go to ecewsc.com for a list of our upcoming Coffee Connections and Lunch, Learn and Ern.

She will give you simple steps on how to turn your “deadsite” into a money making website! Search Engine Optimization Pioneer, Kym McLaughlin, Founder of Advanced Internet Marketing, will give you strategic steps that you can take to increase the exposure of your business, build leads and increase revenues through inbound marketing. Learn how to pull traffic, position your site and your business online to become a leader in your industry. For more information on this months Lunch, Lear & Earn and to RSVP to this event click here.

March 18th – Coffee Connection -
8:30am – 9:30am at Just Chill, 1118 Park West Blvd. Mt. Pleasant, SC 29466
This Weeks Topic: “Your Communication Strategy”
Give us one successful way that you communicate with your customers and prospects.  Email blasts, handwritten notes, Send Out Cards, etc.

March 23rd – Coffee Connection -
8:30am – 9:30am at Laura Alberts
891 Island Park Drive, Daniel Island, SC 29492
This Weeks Topic: “Mentoring”
What types of mentors could you use right now to further your business?

Other Events Around Town
March 6th – 4th Annual Unmasking Colon Cancer Ball
The Ball will launch the Colon Cancer Alliance’s National Dress In Blue Campaign and will feature a live fashion show, designer showcase, music, dancing, entertainment, and more!!
This is a fabulous event for a great cause! Proceeds benefit colon cancer awareness, research, and screenings in South Carolina. Tickets start at $75 per person.  To buy tickets and read more on this event click here.

Sincerely, Ellen Stebbins, President ECEW

“Opportunities? They are all around us…there is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.” - Orison Swett Marden

“We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” – Nelson Mandela

Ellen Stebbins,

How To Get the Most Out of Your ECEW Membership

Attend 2 ECEW functions each month

Bring 1 guest per month

Generate 2 referrals for an ECEW member each month

Serve on 1 committee

Please visit the members area of our website, login and complete your member information! Be sure to upload a photo!  click here

Events:

Presenting the Carlisle and Per Se Collections NY
February 10-17
Susan Marlowe and Ferdi Stevenson
Professional, Resort, Casual and Cocktail, Jewelry, Accessories and Leathers
Designed for smart and sassy busy ladies.
We will have over 700 fabulous designer garments that mix and match for value and versatility.
Sample our complete online brochures at
www.carlislecollection.com and
www.persecollection.com

ECEW members receive special discount. Use Code:ECEW. Sizes 0 – 18. Visa, MC and creative payment plans! Because YOUR clients and competition should never be better dressed than YOU!
contact susan.marlowe@yahoo.com for more information.

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TAB-LowCountry, founded in 2004,is a Savannah to Charleston members-only organization of business owners, CEOs, presidents and partners whose members meet once a month in board-of-director-like groups of 8-12 owners. Our board members bring their challenges and opportunities to discuss with the group and receive practical business advice from their fellow business owners. Members also receive monthly private coaching at their offices geared to setting and achieving business and personal goals. Currently, over 70 TAB-LowCountry members receive peer guidance and direction to help them:
increase revenue;
improve profitability;
operate their businesses more effectively
www.tab-lowcountry.com

Lunch & Learn at Zeus Grill & Seafood – Tuesday, February 9 11:30AM – 1PM (one time only change of venue)
Ellen Stebbins, Social Media. Please visit to www.ecewsc.com to register for this event! Sponsor: Tab Lowcountry www.tab-lowcountry.com

Social Media IS the future. It’s where we get our news.  It’s how we meet and stay in touch with people. It’s how we influence and get influenced. It’s how you position yourself as an expert in ANY field. And it’s how you can grow a huge following of raving fans and build a massive business on the internet. Business success may now have less to do with the size of ad budgets but on the quality of interactions with people and customers. And as many companies are finding out, social media can help improve their bottom line. Ellen Stebbins will give you with an understanding why Social Media is critical to your success and to provide you with an overview of marketing strategies to successfully market yourself online.

Coffee Connections Success Stories…I am looking for more Coffee Connection stories. At our Coffee Connections we will be giving tips for business as well as networking so come by the next one. Meet some new people, network, and learn!
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ECEW MEMBER EVENTS AROUND TOWN
Presenting the Carlisle and Per Se Collections NY
February 10-17
Susan Marlowe and Ferdi Stevenson
Professional, Resort, Casual and Cocktail, Jewelry, Accessories and Leathers
Designed for smart and sassy busy ladies.
We will have over 700 fabulous designer garments that mix and match for value and versatility.
Sample our complete online brochures at
www.carlislecollection.com and www.persecollection.com
ECEW members receive special discount. Use Code:ECEW. Sizes 0 – 18. Visa, MC and creative payment plans! Because YOUR clients and competition should never be better dressed than YOU! contact susan.marlowe@yahoo.com for more information.

Women in Business Conference is Friday Feb. 12 from 8-3 at the Marriott Lockwood DT Charleston. Tickets are available through Charleston Chamber and Center for Women. Vendor booths are still available as well. ECEW is a Sponsor!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=249161577659&ref=nf

Joann Stadtmueller will be speaking with Leslie Haywood of Grill Charms as seen on Shark Tank. Our two break out sessions are entitled: Don’t Be A Twit Social / Digital Media is a phenomenon that’s turning everyone into a publisher and content creator. From Youtube to Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin, the list is ever growing, very addictive and the possibilities are endless. But do you really know how to use these tools effectively? Do you keep on target with your business message? Are you making valuable connections for your business?  Learn tips, tricks and solutions for furthering your efforts online.

February 11, 20101 Jamie Price Photography
Champagne Opening Reception at Butterfly Consignments 5:30-8:00 PM
482 King Street – Open to the Public
Sponsored by Amanda Rosen, Butter Fly Consignment Boutique  and Chocolate provided by Christophe Chocolatier

Friday, Feb. 12th thru Sunday, Feb. 14th. 2010 SEWE show
ECEW member, Chris Rutigliano, will be showing her latest oil paintings depicting many of our water birds:  egrets, peeps and gulls, and other more domesticated residents. Stop by and see Chris in the 2nd floor ballroom at Charleston Place Hotel.  For more information contact Chris at 425.6766 or email to chris@chrisfineart.com

At our Coffee Connections we will be giving tips for business as well as networking so come by the next one. Meet some new people, network, and learn!

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Coffee Connection Success Stories
“I have two recent success stories.  I was able to establish two business relationships because of ECEW.  One with Amy Lovette, Pure Water Technology of Charleston, who signed up for a SendOutCards SOCBox and has already referred me to others.  Thank you Amy!

And the other connection was with Melissa Brown, Attorney, who signed up for SendOutCards on Friday and is very excited about using SOC to maintain and build her relationships! “

Thank you ECEW for helping us connect!
Nancy Green, Send Out Cards

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Newsletter items Due by this Tuesday!
If you have a special for ECEW Members in February that you would like included in the newsletter, please let me know by this Tuesday, midnight.
If you have an event in town for ECEW members as well, please let me know by this Tuesday, midnight., Amy Sinclair – amy@themouseexperts.com.

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Who catered the amazing food for 2010 Launch?

Caroline Bevon
Caroline’s Marketing Catering
55 Windermere Blvd
Charleston, SC 29407
cgbevon@yahoo.com
843-763-7057

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Please join us, Ellen Stebbins,
ECEW President

Your top relationship strategies: Share how you develop relationships to grow your business.
Event Sponsored By:  Sweet Peas Nanny and Babysitting Agency, LLC

At our Coffee Connections we will be giving tips for business as well as networking so come by the next one. Meet some new people, network, and learn!

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Updates…

“What an amazing workshop we had with Audrey Cavenecia on Thursday night! For those of you who missed, I strongly encourage you to visit her website at http://www.herturningpoint.com. In just a few short hours, she helped me and many others gain tremendous clarity and focus to move toward our life’s design!

A big thanks goes out to Cathy Middleton who generously provided us the delicious food through Catering by Caroline and to Keller Williams for graciously opening their doors to host our event! I look forward to seeing you at our next event! “

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Tip of the week: by Amy Sinclair
Call two to three people a day every day this week for your business. Thank them for their business, ask them for referrals, follow up on service, something.
Do you have a tip or want to let us know how a tip has worked for you? Let me know at amy@themouseexperts.com

Ellen Stebbins, ECEW President

Her Turning Point™
No matter how powerful, effective, successful or amazing we are as women, we know in our hearts that we have this place where we are still holding back… where we are not completely free.  You may even ask yourself, “Given how far I have come, why can’t I just (fill on the blank)?”

Why go into another year knowing you aren’t fully yourself… fully emerged?

It’s a common experience for women to battle with who they really are and what they truly want.

ECEW is proud to present “Her Turning Point” – a subtle but profound dialogue that gives you a new perspective on why we all feel as though something is “holding us back.”You will have the opportunity to not only listen to a cutting edge perspective – but participate in a series of exercises that gently remove layer by layer of anything that is no longer, “you.”

You will walk away with is a sense of peace and vitality about your life, the access to who you are and what you want.

Audrey Cavenecia, California-based veteran Coach and Entrepreneur, will speak to how we as women can, once and for all, get to the source of what we really want.

• The Universal Design of Woman
• The Stages of Woman (what unique stages in life have to do with who we are)
• Deconstructing You (the women you “had” to be)
• A Purposeful Life: “Your” Life (exercise)
• A New Language:
• The Power of No (makes what you really want appear so much faster!)
• The Unapologetic Woman (living a life free from guilt)
• Living in-tuition(Truly listening to ourselves

Catering By Caroline is providing catering for the event!
Space is limited! Register now!  Log on to www.ecewsc.com.

Thursday, January 14th
6pm-9pm
Keller Williams Realty building
2nd Floor
496 Bramson Ct (Off Long Point Rd)
Suite 200
Mt Pleasant,SC
ECEW Members and Center For Women Members: $40 Non-Members: $50

ABOUT AUDREY

Audrey Cavencia

Audrey Cavenecia is a veteran coach and creator of Her Turning Point™, 40andWOW.com and WOWisforWoman.com based in San Francisco, California.  She has led personal development programs impacting over 100,000 individuals and has coached global leaders, celebrities and Fortune 100 executives with her unique approach.  She is no ordinary business woman.  She is a visionary, innovative leader and a beacon of inspiration. Audrey believes strongly that “everyone has something profound to contribute.”  Now that we are “linked together” through collaborative networks, we must boldly step forward with something fresh to say.

Wednesday, December 17th Coffee Connection
9:15 AM at Just Chill

As you head out to parties in the coming days and weeks, do not forget to put cards in your pocket or small purse. It is amazing how many times I grab a small bag and forget to throw one or two in and then need them…. This is where you see people you don’t always see and meet new people! Take advantage of these encounters.

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I am looking for success stories from being a member of ECEW. Whether it is a business relationship you made at a coffee connection, a client you obtained from a referral. Please send them to amy@themouseexperts.com.

Amy Sinclair
Ears of Experience, LLC

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Ellen Stebbins, ECEW President

17 Prescient Street
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina 29464
843-345-6605