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After a successful career as a lawyer and founder of the public interest advising office at Harvard Law School, our founder Stacy DeBroff left the corporate world to write books for parents and spend more time with her own two children, now ages 13 and 15. She went on to become a nationally acclaimed parenting expert and bestselling author of The Mom Book,The Mom Book Goes to School, SIGN ME UP!, and Mom Central: The Ultimate Family Organizer, as well as the creator of http://www.momcentral.com.
Maria T. Bailey is an award-winning author, radio talk show host, nationally known speaker and the foremost marketing authority on marketing to moms. Her company, BSM Media is a full service marketing and media firm that specializes in marketing to mothers. The client lists includes Disney, Cartoon Network, Nestle, AOL, The Discovery Channel, Chuck E. Cheese, Disney Publishing-Family Fun Magazine, Oracle, Microsoft, Clarke American, Dolly, Inc., Tahitian Noni International, Stork Avenue, and Office Depot. She has been an invited presenter to Burger King, Coca Cola, Best Buy, Wal-Mart and many other major corporations. Her book, "Marketing to Moms: Getting Your Piece of the Trillion Dollar Market" (2002, Prima) was the first to examine the buying power of mothers and the most effective marketing initiatives to tap the $1.7 trillion market. Maria's newest book, "Mom 3.0: Marketing With Today's Mothers by Leveraging New Media & Technology" presents engaging new insights into the world of blogs, vlogs, podcasts, mobile devices, Mom Mavens. "Trillion Dollar Moms: Marketing to a New Generation of Mothers" (Dearborn, 2005) focuses on the emergence of Gen X and Gen Y moms and how they compare with the aging Boomer Mom segment.
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[ Sep 22, 2010 ] 24th Annual Entrepreneurial Woman's Conference - It is our pleasure to invite you and your colleagues to the 24th Annual Entrepreneurial Woman's Conference, Women's Business & Buyers Mart, the oldest conference and business opportunities fair for women in business in the country, and the premier event for women business owners in the Midwest. This year's conference will be held September 22, 2010 at McCormick Place-West in Chicago. This year's event offers women business owners solutions to the current problems they are having and the opportunity to increase the profitability of their businesses by building relationships with corporate and government buyers, business experts, and other women business owners.
[ Sep 27, 2010 ] 2010 Annual Conference Women, Money & Opportunity - Join Us in Washington DC for our national Public Policy Conference in partnership with Women Impacting Public Policy. Go to Capitol Hill with us to talk to your representatives about the issues that matter most to you. Sign up with Women Impacting Public Policy - This is a MUST-ATTEND event for any woman business owner. Your voice matters!
2010 Annual Conference
Women, Money & Opportunity
September 27-29, 2010
Washington, DC
[ Oct 14, 2010 ] 2010 WBDC Conference & Business Expo - The event will begin on Thursday, October 14, 2010 at the Office Depot Global Headquarters in Boca Raton, Florida and will conclude on Friday, October 15, 2010 at 4:00 pm. The 2010 WBDC Conference & Expo is the Women's Business Development Council's third annual trade show and will bring together America's leading corporations, government agencies, women business owners and affiliate organizations with the goal of increasing network and contracting opportunities for Women Business Enterprises.
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Karen Blackwell manages supplier development and diversity at Nestlé USA. The company's buyers, she says, are clearly "the people who have the most opportunity to make a difference in supplier diversity," but she's part of that solution, too, with supplier diversity as her sole responsibility.
"My role is to help the buyers implement supplier diversity strategies," she says. "I help them identify diverse companies and identify opportunities for bringing them in. We sit down together and work out a strategy to make it happen."