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Friday, April 4, 2008 from 7 to 9 am Speaker: Pepper Schwartz Topic: "Prime: Adventures and Advice on Sex, Love, and the Sensual Years" The leading relationship authority, Dr. Schwartz is the author of 15 books including Finding Your Perfect Match, The Love Test and more than 40 scholarly articles. She's contributed to such publications as the New York Times, Lifetime Magazine and Psychology Today. Dr. Schwartz appears frequently on television shows, including "Oprah," "The Today Show" and "Dateline NBC." Dr. Schwartz was a regular member of the KIRO-TV news staff for twelve years and appears regularly on national TV news, documentaries and other programs. She teaches the Sociology of Sexuality to 700 students at the University of Washington, and was given an award in 2007 as Outstanding Teacher in the Social Sciences and Most Engaging Lecturer on campus.
		Speaker: Pepper Schwartz

		Friday, May 2nd, 2008 from 7 to 9 am Speaker: Diane Kane Topic: Low to No-Cost Strategies to Increase Your Bottom Line Assessing current customer relationships and fine-tuning your customer-service policy (or creating one!) is one of the least costly and most effective strategies for increasing your bottom line. Learn how solid customer relationships translate directly into increased sales and decreased costs. These strategies will create an atmosphere of trust and professionalism within your business that keeps customers coming back. Speaker: Diane Kane has 22 years of hands-on experience as a small businesses owner, consultant, speaker and group facilitator. She holds a Master's Degree in Organization Development. Prior to committing to a full-time consulting role, Diane was the owner, founder and President of Seattle-based Heartfelt Connections, Inc., a gift manufacturing company established on her kitchen table in 1992. Diane grew Heartfelt Connections from its home-based beginnings to an enterprise with national product distribution and sales groups in every major city in the U.S. Diane enjoys working with committed entrepreneurs who are actively engaged in the process and practice of running and growing their businesses.
Speaker: Diane Kane

Friday, June 6th, 2008 from 7 to 9 am Speaker: Nancy Juetten Topic: "Low Hanging Media Fruit" Many business owners feel overwhelmed at the prospect of initiating media relations activities. They worry that they will be spending time and effort without earning ready results. You can make submissions and be virtually guaranteed media placements, it's just a matter of getting into action and sharing your news. Once you gather the "low hanging media fruit" and enjoy being seen, heard, and celebrated in your own backyard, you will be motivated to go deeper in your media relations activities to earn bigger and more influential "ink and air." You'll walk away with specific names and contact information for the Puget Sound media decision makers who can bring your business story into the media spotlight. You'll also learn a few ways to phrase your story pitch to successfully earn the "ink and the air," and you'll be inspired to get into the media relations game. Speaker: Nancy S. Juetten is a work-in-the-trenches publicist, newspaper columnist, speaker and the creator of the Media-Savvy-to-Go Publicity Toolkit that empowers business owners everywhere with 147 powerful ways to get seen, heard, and celebrated in their own backyards through the power of free publicity. She knows how to work with the media to create winning results, and she wants to help business owners everywhere quickly get up to speed so they can do the same for their own growing businesses.
		Speaker: Nancy Juetten

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