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P.O. Box 25548 Chattanooga, TN 37422-5548 423.421.5646 sistersinbusiness@comcast.net Week of November 13, 2006
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Proof Is In the Printing: Sisters In Business Brings Exposure to Members
Kimberly Thomas is a SIB Network business woman, who started her relationship with SIB as a vendor at its"1st Annual Business Women's Empowerment Luncheon, Tradeshow, and Youth Fundraiser" in conjunction with Girl's Inc. The magazine article covers Ms. Thompson's Night of Worship concert scheduled for this Friday, November 17, 2006 7:30 PM, at the Hawkinsville Baptist Church located 7463 Pinewood Drive in Chattanooga, TN. In an email sent to SIB about a month earlier, Publisher Camille Platt inquired about doing an article on Kimberly Thomas, which further developed the "linking relationship" between both companies; proving SIB's philosophy that relationships are key to building business, and that the SIB N.A.M.E. Strategy ('Network, Advertise, Market, and Empower) promotes those in the Sisters In Business Network.
Read more about the article on Kimberly Thomas in the November issue of Chattanooga Christian Family Magazine. Contact Camille Platt at chattanoogachristian@gmail.com.
-Camille Platt, Editor Chattanooga Christian Family
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Another 'Sweet Success' for Sisters In Business: Nov. 4 Fundraiser/Show Helps Community Kitchen and Small Business What a wonderful day on November 4 it was for all of us (Chattanooga Community Kitchen, Business Vendors, Guests, and Sisters In Business.) at SIB’s 1st Annual Holiday Shopping Showcase & Business Expo! The event was truly a sweet success. I have received so many kudos and compliments about the vendors and the occasion: how wonderful, classy, and resourceful it was in terms of business networking opportunities, vendor merchandise, and more. A quick verbal survey yielded results by show of hands that practically every vendor sold merchandise on site. Further, some vendors reported gaining new customers/contacts, took orders for extended merchandise requests, and cultivated new business partnership leads and direct selling opportunities. Though people volume was somewhat low, there was a steady flow of great guests who brought food and money donations for the Chattanooga Community Kitchen, and spent money with the vendors. Highlights of the event included spotlighting each sponsor and vendor and giving them the opportunity to speak, in order to promote their message, mission, and/or business products and services. Mr. Hughes was among those who spoke at the event, and we appreciate him and his wife coming by to shop. Also, newly introduced with this showcase were the SIB “Blue-light Special Sales” and “Vendor Door Prize Entry” periods. The vendor promotional period along with the blue-light special and vendor door prize times have been given two thumbs up and greatly embraced by vendors. These features as well as the Online SIB Sneak-Preview to Showcase uniquely define SIB’s tradeshows. These features will also now become part of the SIB trademark and signature for future SIB shows, showing our difference and dedication to promoting business owners and their businesses. Another way of showing clients how Sisters In Business truly has a “heart and soul for taking care of business”. See links below to see more information about the event.
Click here to see Vendors, Merchandise, & Door Prizes! Click here to see The Holiday Showcase Shopper's Guide! Click here to see Vendors and Booth Floor Plan! Click here to see SIB Website Visitors' Pre-Showcase Comments Click here to see SIB Website Afters-Showcase Comments
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SIB NEWSLETTER ARCHIVES: SIB Online Newsletter 10/23/06:Help The Community Kitchen-Shop Early for the Holidays, New Sponsor Fire Eye Productions & Aladdin Printing SIB Online Newsletter 10/16/06: New SIB Client Tanya Horne, SIB Solutions Propel Sisters, Camille Platt, Early Holiday Shopping Helps The Community Kitchen SIB Online Newsletter 10/2/06: Client Zeknovia Charles, SCWN Patti Harris, Katye Jones SME, Deborah Grimes Catering, Showcase Preview SIB Online Newsletter 9/25/06: Darlene Houston Purse-sonals, Woman's Way Treasa Newton, Katye Jones Lunch & Learn, Showcase Sneak Preview, Jack and Jill Tip, SIB Online Newsletter 9/18/06: Ferlencia Floral Designs Joins SIB, SOM Cheri Hudgins, Faithful Fitness, SIB Award SIB Online Newsletter 9/11/06: September 11, Felicia Wilson Fitness Column, Youth In Business Wanted SIB Online Newsletter 8/28:ATHENA Award Nominee Mary Williams, SME Lunch & Lear Dr. Whitaker, Statistics SIB Online Newsletter 8/21:Woman's Way, Scenic City Women, Prepaid Legal, Community Kitchen, "Crowns" SIB Online Newsletter 8/14:Tamara Long, Minority Health Fair, Girls Inc Job Openings, GO DBE Marketplace SIB Online Newsletter 8/7:ETBP Jackie Payne, Blue Cross Women Town Meeting, Lunch & Learn Mtg. SIB Online Newsletter 7/31: OB/GYN Dr. Whitaker, CPA Terri Jeter-McAvoy Katye Jones, Bizzy Bee, Client Ads SIB Online Newsletter 7/24: Mary Williams, Dorothea Johnson, Virginia Yarbrough, Deborah Grimes honored SIB Online Newsletter 7/15: Sisters In Business "1st Annual Business Women's Empowerment Luncheon" SIB Online Newsletter 7/4: Girls Inc at SIB Luncheon, Mini-trade show, & Youth Fundraiser, GirlVenture Acdy. SIB Quarterly Oct-Dec. 2006-Whitaker, Houston, Tuggle, Horne, Charles Join Sisters In Business, New Business Tool SIB Award Nomination, Network News SIB Quarterly July-Sept. 2006: News Ads, Partners Merrill Lynch Katye Jones, Henderson, Hutcherson, & McCullough CPA Terri-Jeter McAvoy SIB Times Free Press March 22, 2006
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Mayor Ron Littlefield’s Great Ideas Competition is an important way to help identify and nurture Chattanooga’s next-generation of entrepreneurs. Please encourage all of the high school juniors and seniors you know -- private, public and home school students -- to submit a great idea they may have for a business, product or invention (it does not have to be fully developed). Once submitted, their identity and idea are instantly coded and protected for confidentiality and security purposes—not to be viewed by or shared with any third parties. Sisters In Business and the Office of Mayor Ron Littlefield’s very much want to encourage Youthful Entrepreneurs, and help them discover their potential to do business, and The Mayor has found an great way to help towards this end, while also offering youth the incentive to Win Money for College. To learn more about and to register, just go to http://www.mayorsgreatideas.org/. For more information or to help sponsor the program call Cherita Adams/Mayor’s Office at 423-425-6206 or email adams_c@mail.chattanooga.gov. Also see the related display ad in this issue. Paid Advertisement
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Great Ideas Competition is looking for the next Einstein. Is your child an aspiring entrepreneur or inventor? If yes, you must check out Mayor Ron Littlefield’s Great Ideas Competition. Encourage Youthful Entrepreneurs to Win Money for College – Juniors & Seniors only. Mayor Ron Littlefield’s Great Ideas Competition is an important way to help identify and nurture Chattanooga’s next-generation of entrepreneurs. Please encourage all of the high school juniors and seniors you know private, public and home school students—to submit a great idea they may have for a business, product or invention (it does not have to be fully developed). Once submitted, their identity and idea are instantly coded and protected for confidentiality and security purposes—not to be viewed by or shared with any third parties. If your child is one of the 150 applicants selected to advance to round two, he/she will learn how to develop their great idea into a qualified business plan. The two business workshops are free and several retired executives will work with each applicant to produce a winning B-plan—parents are encouraged to attend the business workshops; dates for each workshop will be announced in January 2007 after the first selection has been made. Registration is fun, fast and easy, just go online to enter (deadline 12/1/06). Better still, the top participants will win money for college – a total of $7,500 in scholarships will be awarded to the first, second and third place winners. Please forward this information along to your employees and business contacts. Great Ideas is a much needed, innovative scholarship program for our city because it helps kindle the entrepreneurial spirit in tomorrow’s business leaders. For more information or to help sponsor the program call Cherita Adams/Mayor’s Office at 423-425-6206 or email adams_c@mail.chattanooga.gov. Your child will love it and so will you–be a part of Mission Possible: Finding the next Einstein!
"Day After Thanksgiving" Holiday Shopping Showcase November 24, 2006 'BLACK/GREEN' FRIDAY
*** CANCELLED *** Due to changes in Sisters In Business' holiday plans and that of several other interested vendors, the Holiday Shopping Showcase on November 24, 2006 has been cancelled. Thanks to the wonderful vendors who had already signed up for this event. And thanks to everyone from Georgia, Alabama, Knoxville, Cleveland, and Chattanooga who came and helped make SIB's "1st Annual Holiday Shopping Showcase" a 'sweet success'! We’ll see everyone at our next event in 2007. Treasa Newton of Woman's Way Journal SME (Subject Matter Expert) for SIB's "Lunch & Learn" on December 14 , 2006
SIB Sponsor and Partner Treasa Newton will be (SME) for month of December.
Treasa Newton is Editor / Publisher of Woman’s Way Journal, a regional information publication for women. She began Woman’s Way in March of 1993 as a ministry to “education, inform and empower women in a family-type publication.” Today, the publication has over 60,000 readers monthly and is distributed in seven counties; two in Tennessee and five in Georgia.
Prior to establishing Woman’s Way Journal, Treasa was CEO of Creative Communications, a local advertising agency in the Chattanooga area for ten years.
She has served as Supervisor of the Communications Department of Blue Cross / Blue Shield of Tennessee, as Public Relations Director for a national hospital management firm and was responsible for some 150 hospitals nationwide. She also served as Director of Information Services for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, as advertising assistant for a major manufacturing company and as editorial assistant for the Tennessee Credit Union League.
Current community involvement includes serving on the boards of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Chattanooga as parliamentarian and on the board of the Tennessee Federation of Business and Professional Women as Regional Director. She served as that organization’s state president in 1987-88.
LOCATION: The Tallan Cellar in the Tallan Building Downtown Chattanooga, TN, located at the corner of Martin Luther King (MLK) Blvd and Chestnut inside the Tallan Building Chattanooga, TN 37402. Phone:, (423) 648-0880. Lunch will be available if so desired, not required, at a cost of $10.50 per person, and will begin 11:30 AM. Click here visit the Cellar Restaurant which also makes available its menu daily.
FREE PARKING: Nearby Day's Inn Rivergate has graciously allowed free parking for all luncheon attendees this day. Please click here to see upcoming SIB SME's and SIB Networking Meetings.
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At Sisters In Business "Lunch & Learn" Meeting Thursday, December 14, 2006 at The Cellar restaurant in the Tallan Building.
The Cellar is located downtown Chattanooga at the corner of Martin Luther King (MLK) Blvd and Chestnut inside the Tallan Building Chattanooga, TN 37402. Phone:, (423) 648-0880. Lunch will be available if so desired, not required, at a cost of $10.50 per person, and will begin 11:30 AM. Click here visit the Cellar Restaurant which also makes available its menu daily.
FREE PARKING: Nearby Day's Inn Rivergate has graciously allowed free parking for all luncheon attendees this day.
Open to Public. Come Meet and Greet! Come Talk and Eat! Hear a Brief Speech, From an SME! (Subject Matter Expert) Get Empowered!
Thanks to Our "Holiday Shopping Showcase & Business Expo" Sponsors
YOUTH IN BUSINESS WE WANT YOU! That's AYES! Sisters In Business has a passion for youth, and also wish for them to discover their potential to do business as young business entrepreneurs. That's why the Sisters In Business Holiday Shopping Showcase & Business Expo 2006 has allotted a limited number of tables for young folk (15-21) who may wish to do business and showcase their talent and skills. Do you know a young person who has marketable skills? Do they show the potential of being in a junior business? Maybe they are good at word processing, or other office applications, provide computer training or computer technical support, can sing, dance, or do dramatizations for special occasions, create dynamic drawings and wonderful paintings, knit or crochet beautiful blankets, braid hair, has baby sitting service, write story/poetry books, or tutor children. Maybe you, or someone you know, could help sponsor such a youth on this day. Why not help some young person develop their talents and abilities and show them how their skills are a marketable resource that could help sustain and financially support them in life if/when needed. Get their business plan, display, and business cards ready, and coach them that day as they explore the world of entrepreneurship and business commerce. Click here to learn more about SIB's "YOUTH IN BUSINESS" and AYES page. Please consider being a mentor to children whenever you can. Thank you!. Email us here to request more information about Youth In Business.
Blankets Needed at The Chattanooga Community Kitchen
Blankets can be brought to the Chattanooga Community Kitchen located on 11th Street. Mayor Ron Littlefield has also made an appeal for blanket donations, as well as accommodations to receive them at Mayor’s Office located at 10th and Lindsay Streets. Click here to read more about the Mayor's appeal.
As can be seen on the Chattanooga Community Kitchen's website, "Every Night in Chattanooga 300 men, women, and children go to bed outside, hungry, and homeless. Another 250-300 pillow their heads in shelters. Thousands more, the near homeless, are within inches of losing everything. They are powerless, in need, and often in despair. Sisters In Business is joining with the Chattanooga Community Kitchen and together "we are working to change that!" Click here to read about the work of the Chattanooga Community Kitchen.
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Tekelia,
I was looking at your website today and noticed an advertisement for a
night of worship 
Business
News & Information
Sisters
In Business has a passion for youth, and also youth in business.
Apparently so does Mayor Ron Littlefield, which is why when SIB learned of
the exciting new youth initiative entitled the Great Ideas Competition,
immediate attention was given to it to find out more.
