The First 100 Days for Women Entrepreneurs in America 2009

Join Count Me In with Founding Sponsor, American Express OPENSM as we chart the progress and celebrate The First 100 Days of Women Entrepreneurs in America 2009.
When: Monday, April 27, 2009, 8:30am to 4:30pm
Where: American Express, 200 Vesey Street, New York, NY 10285
**Due to security, access to the event will be through the entrance at 200 Vesey St. ONLY.
Price: SOLD OUT!  Click here to check out our other events.
**No on-site registration will be available.


Highlights
  • Create and clarify your vision with Mind Mapping Expert, Barbara Mackay.
  • Jump start your business revenues by learning from experts and other entrepreneurs.
  • Learn how to survive a tough economy with a panel of experts.
  • Pitch your business and win Free Business Coaching, Round Trip Air Fare from Jet Blue, or a $1000 Dell Shopping Spree.

**Click here for Business Pitch criteria.
Schedule of Events

8:30 am

Continental breakfast

9:00 am

Welcome & Remarks

9:30 am

Create and clarify your Business

10:45 am

Bio & Blackberry Break

11:00 am

Key Note:  Nell Merlino – Moving Forward with the M3 RACE

11:20 am

Make Mine a Million $ Business RACE Business Pitches

1:00 pm

Lunch- Afternoon

2:00 pm

Highlight of M3 RACE Business Pitches

2:15 pm

Mind Map Your Next Steps to Growth

2:35 pm

Panel: Tips on Surviving Tough Economic Times

3:00 pm

Learn how to utilize the M3 RACE tools
3:40 pm M3 Racer Panel

4:15 pm

Closing with  prizes (from the sponsors, with brief shout outs about each sponsor)  - Jet Blue voucher, Dell shopping spree worth $1,000, 1 round of coaching with Coach Connection – to racer whose pitches filled all or most of the criteria listed above.   Also raffle winners selected.

4:30 pm

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M3 Racers: Pitch your business!

 

What do I do?

If you found yourself in an elevator with the investor, client, or partner of your dreams, could you pitch your business by the time they got to their floor?
  • Give your two minute “elevator pitch” in our 11am breakout sessions and get expert advice, exposure, and a chance to win one of three great prizes!
  • All M3 RACERS are invited to pitch their businesses. Not an M3 Racer yet? Join the M3 RACE at www.makemineamillion.org/race.
What do I include in my pitch?
  • Name
  • M3 RACE goal level - Are you a walker, jogger, runner or sprinter?
  • Name of your business
  • Brief description of your business
  • % of employee growth
    • Number of employees at end of 2008 (please include contractors)
    • Current number of employees (please include contractors)
    • Number of new hires since entering the M3 RACE
  • % of revenue growth
    • 2007 year end revenues
    • 2008 year end revenues
    • current year to date revenues
  • Tell us about a 1st quarter business success.
  • What do you believe you need assistance with now?
  • Any new insights you have about growing a business since you joined the M3 RACE?

How do I win?

Every M3 Racer gets instant feedback from a panel of experts on what works and what needs work in her two minute pitch.
  • Prize #1: The contestant with the highest % revenue growth will win 1 Free Cycle of Coaching.
  • Prize #2: The contestant with the highest % of employee growth will win the $1000 Dell Shopping Spree.
  • Prize #3: The contestant that mentions all points and is deemed by our judges to have the most overall growth will win 1 Round Trip Jet Blue Air Fare

This is a FREE event for the Make Mine a Million $ Business Community. Not in the M3 Community? Register now at www.makemineamillion.org/community.

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