Women Helping Womens First Meeting

On Wednesday September 16th I officially started my new networking group. I don't think I have been so nervous! I really wanted this first meeting to be good and run smoothly.

Well it did, all those nerves went crazy for nothing. Oh, execpt that I was so nervous that I forgot to take pictures during my first meeting. I think someone else will have to be in charge of that from now on.

So now it's time, I introduce myself and thank everyone for coming. I started by telling everyone why I wanted to start this group. Then I explained how we will conduct our meetings and then I introduced our sponsors for the night. My first sponsors was Jill Schmidt who is the catering director for the Medina Entertainment Center ( http://www.medinaentertainment.com/ ). Kris Munnich was my second sponsor, she is a Party lite consultant ( http://www.partylite.biz/sites/krisminnich/host-a-show-specialoffers ). They each got about 5 minutes to to tell everyone who they are and what they do. Then I introduced my first key speaker, Nicole Middendorf, she is a financial advisor. Her and her husband own Strategic Financial (www.helpingyouinvest.com). I chose Nicole for many reasons, but mainly because she is a great speaker, knows her business, and works mainly with women. She was phenomenal! She came up front and explained who she is and how she became a financial advisor. She then gave us good tips for us right now, being that things are just a bit crazy in our financial world. She also gave each person a folder with information about her, but also gave us one of her books. It is called Simple Answers Life is more than just money. It is written in question and answer form. I am about half way through it and it is so full of information and answers.

OK, so now we get to the best part. We start the networking process. Now we were a smaller group so we had to be creative how we mixed it up. We started as groups of eight, we went around in a circle and told everyone who we are and what we do or have to offer. Then they hand out what ever information they want to give to everybody. When that is all done then we remixed and started the process over with a new group. I think it went really well and everyone had a chance to really get to each person at their table. The goal is for everyone to meet at least 15 people each meeting. Now if you come early or stay later you can definitely meet even more women.

It went so well and it really was a great success. Everyone who was their believes in this group and thinks it will be a great place for women to come and build new relationships and grow their business and/or their friendships.

So I hope that you will be able to join us for our next meeting. Melissa