Women's Business Center

Welcome to

The Women's Business Center

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WBC Open House

WBC Offices, 1555 Lafayette Road,

2nd floor, Portsmouth, NH

Friday, January 9th

12PM to 5PM

Please drop in and meet our new

Executive Director, Christine Davis,

meet the staff,

network with fellow members

and share in some refreshments.

We look forward to discussing how we can

work on our businesses as well as in them!

January 2009 Programs

WBC Roundtables

"Negotiations!"

For 2009, our mantra is: Make time to work ON your business as well as in your business. To that end, we are kicking off our Programming season with a bang. Our topic for January: Negotiations! Join us at our Roundtables (the last in the evening format) to hear our speakers present strategies for negotiation, negotiating with men, and winning techniques to walk away from the table with what you want. We know that women and men negotiate differently. Come and learn how to come away from a negotiation with everyone feeling like a winner. We will discuss how to determine your walk-away point, the strategy of “going to the balcony”, listening strategies, and we will engage in practice negotiations with those present. Whether it is a lease negotiation, loan negotiation, sales negotiations – you will pick up valuable tips to help along the way.

Keene Roundtable 1-8-09 CANCELLED

Manchester Roundtable 1-8-09 CANCELLED

Seacoast Roundtable 1-13-09

Concord Roundtable 1-14-09

Details for all programs are in our Program Calendar. Click Here for Program Calendar

Group Coaching

with Gail Zona

Are you asking yourself these questions: How do I get more sales? What can I do about this recession? Why don’t I ever seem to have enough cash? Why am I not making any money? My customers are all cutting back—what do I do?

Or perhaps your questions are: I do the same year after year—how do I get out of this rut? Where do I find more sales leads? How do I get money to fund my business?

Or even: When do I hire someone? When do I move from my home office into a real office? Should I take on partners?

The Group Coaching Sessions are the way to answer your questions and make your business soar. For 2 hours each month, we meet to discuss topics designed to help you learn how to manage, plan for, and run your business like the CEO’s at the fastest growing companies in the world. Handouts and worksheets are carefully designed to help you gain insight into your business. Meeting monthly insures that you will spend at least 2 hours each month thinking strategically about your business…the key to growing it. Interactive discussion with peers and the facilitator, an experienced business coach, provides tips, techniques and ideas you can put to use the very next day.

For only $30/session, the same price as a week of Starbucks coffees, you can get results like these participants did: grew revenues 5 times over when she started; cut marketing costs in half and still grew her sales; increased her bottom line 20% and put more money in her pocket by cutting out the products that were not profitable. So, what are you waiting for? Sign up now and enter 2009 with a smile on your face!

The Group Coaching Sessions are facilitated by Gail Zona, an experienced business coach and MBA, who designed these sessions to help micro-entrepreneurs succeed. Based on her years of experience as an executive in fast-growing, high-tech startups, Gail designed a series of facilitated, structured coaching sessions using the best ideas available to jump-start micro-entrepreneurs and put them on the fast track. Now entering their 4th year, these sessions are educational, practical, and have shown remarkable results.

WBC Member fee is $90 for 3 months

Non-Member fee is $130 for 3 months

Registration is required, limited to 8 per class

Click Here to Register for Manchester

Click Here to Register for Portsmouth

WBC Membership

Consider A Gift of Membership for

Your Favorite Entrepreneur!

Membership at the WBC is not just for you, it could make a great holiday gift for a friend, relative or colleague. And it supports the state's only business resource center focused on women's business ownership. Could these benefits be of value to someone you know ?

- free one-on-one business coaching

- educational programs for all levels of development with special member pricing

- connections through Roundtables, networking events, the WomenBiz Marketplace

- free listing in the state's first online women-owned business resource,

the WomenBiz Directory

Give the gift of community at the WBC today!

Renewing Member? Click here to go to 'Manage Your Account',

log in, and Renew!

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WBC Cares Program

The WBC has received scholarship sponsorship from Ocean Bank to subsidize program

and membership costs for women entrepreneurs in NH this year. The WBC Cares Program

makes this and other funding available for women who qualify to give everyone access

to the resources provided by the WBC for women business owners. For an application,

contact Nancy. at 430-2892, ext. 1.

Click here to print application

The NH Womenbiz Directory

Listing in the WomenBiz Directory is a member benefit at the WBC. To search for a

woman-owned business or to list your business, click here.

WBC Membership - Join Today, Get Benefits Right Away!

When you become a member of the WBC, you begin a journey that is uniquely yours, and

you help the state's only business resource center exclusively serving women entrepreneurs strengthen our communities as well. Become a member today...

The Women's Business Center is partially funded by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). SBA's funding is not an endorsement of any products, opinions, or services.

The WBC is grateful for the support of the Amoskeag Business Incubator, 33 So. Commercial St, Manchester. To learn about

services and opportunities at ABI for new, NH based businesses,

click here.

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Flourish- the symbol of the WBC

for information on purchasing

exclusively designed flourish jewelry,

including earrings, pendant and pin,

contact the WBC

430-2892

Flourish jewelry makes

a great gift!

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WBC Weather Policy

The Women’s Business Center reserves the right to cancel any program or event due to inclement weather. All cancellations will be posted on the front page of our website, womenbiz.org, or on our phone line, 603-430-2892.

In case of cancellation, the WBC will reschedule the program or event. If rescheduling is not possible, participants’ fees will be credited toward any other WBC program within one year. Participants will be notified in either case after regular business resumes. As always, it is not WBC policy to refund fees when participants do not attend scheduled programs.