Assessing Your Options For Change

Collaborative Marketing Partners will be hosting a Free 5-week Teleseries titled, “Assessing Your Options For Change,” for small business owners and prospective entrepreneurs, Tuesdays, 2 – 2:45 pm CST from September 25th through October 23, 2007.

This series of inspirational and informational Telesessions is designed to arm business owners and entrepreneurs to make changes in their current business, begin the process of starting a business, or to explore other life changing opportunities.

Five entrepreneurial experts offering a variety of topics, one each week, will help callers to examine their options, assess their marketability (services, products), determine the best course of action for banking needs, decide whether they are best suited to working for themselves or for others, and learn to handle the stress and anxiety often encountered when making changes. The teleseries will also provide networking opportunities among attendees to develop business relationships and share leads.

In this 5 week, FREE Teleseries, the topics covered will be:

September 25 – “I Wanted to Write So I Bought a Newspaper.” - Ann Schwab, “Metamorph Maven” and Publisher of the Du Page Woman Newspaper shares her own story of successful change and inspires people to make changes that will help them to realize their full potential personally as well as professionally.

October 2 – “What’s Next? Mapping Out Your Plan For Change.” – Conni Pluchino, founder of Collaborative Marketing Partners, demonstrates “exercises” that assist you in identifying and refining your focus for changing careers, starting your own business, or developing new products and services to expand your existing business.

October 9 – “Building the Right Banking Relationships.” – Mike Gresk, Mayor of Wheaton; Branch Manager, First Choice Bank, and Entrepreneur explains the reasons for separating personal and professional bank accounts, establishing banking relationships, and determining how to position your business identity—sole proprietorship, partnership, or corporation.

October 16 – “Are You Entrepreneur Material?” – Dr. Gary Ernst, PhD, Coleman Foundation Professor of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, examines the differences in the mental and physical requisites between working for yourself versus working for others that will help you to determine to which type of working environment you are best suited.

October 23 – “Eat Life for Lunch: The Art of Stress Management.” – Michael Andreano D.C., Trinity Holistic Health Center, will show you how to identify the major sources of stress in your life, such as owning your own business, teach you how to increase your capacity to handle stress and actually decrease your stress levels.

Collaborative Marketing Partners offers full service marketing, including copywriting, consulting and coaching. Group marketing and virtual networking opportunities are available to members of the CMP Network which enables small business owners and solopreneurs to benefit from “big-business marketing on a small business budget.”

To register for the Free 5-Week Teleseries, “Assessing Your Options for Change,” or to learn more about the speakers and the CMP Network, visit http://www.collaborativemarketingpartners.com, email cmp@collaborativemarktingpartners.com, or call Collaborative Marketing Partners, 630-260-9844 to reserve your space, no later than September 23.