Early Bird Registration Ends May 1st
(just 2 weeks away!)
Date: May 19, 2011
Time: 8:00 am - 2:00 pm
Location: The Loudermilk Center
40 Courtland Street Northeast
Atlanta, GA 30303
(404) 507-1690
Early Bird Registration: $65.00;
$85 after May 1st
(Includes: full conference registration, continental breakfast, lunch
and parking at Loudermilk lot)
Sponsor and Exhibitor Opportunities also available.
Join Maria Bailey, keynote speaker and moderator, along with our impressive line-up of speakers for this educational and inspiring networking event!
Moms in Business Unite has created an event which provides four educational tracks focusing on Women in varying stages of their business. If you are a woman business owner or inventor who has a product idea, ready to launch her product or wondering what's next, the Moms in Business Unite conference will give you the opportunity to interact those that have gone through the process with great success!
During the half-day conference, topics will include:
- Patents & Licensing
- Locating a Manufacturer
- Using Social Media to Market Your Business
- Entering the Retail Marketplace and Growing with Big Box Retailers
- Technology Must Haves for Your Business
- And much more!
Moms in Business Unite speakers include:
Maria T. Bailey, CEO of BSM Media, is the foremost authority on marketing to moms with a series of articles and books, including "The Ultimate Mom Book" (HCI, 2009), "Mom 3.0: Marketing With Moms By Leveraging New Media and Technology", "Marketing to Moms: Getting Your Share of the Trillion Dollar Market" and "Trillion Dollar Moms: Marketing to a New Generation of Mothers", and a soon-to-published fourth book. Maria is host of Mom Talk Radio, the #1-downloaded parenting podcast, and co-host of Good Day with Doug Stephan, the #7 morning drive time radio show. A busy mother of four children, Maria is co-founder of BlueSuitMom.com, MomTV.com and Newbaby.com and has been featured in US News and World Report, Wall Street Journal and on CNN, Lifetime TV and various local affiliates.
Desiree is the founder of Bottles to Britches Premier Baby Planners in 2009 and within months was selected as a winner of the British Airways Face to Face contest, intended to grow business overseas. Desiree has gained notoriety among the baby industry as a true professional and partners with many brands in her never-ending goal of connecting with parents, providing the very best products and services for their children. She has also branched, currently providing event services, including the Atlanta Baby and Child Expo, sponsored by TheBump.com, and co-founded Atlanta.BellyandBeyond.com. She is the leader of the Atlanta Founding Moms Exchange, a group of more than 100 momtrepreneurs in the Atlanta area, and is a regular speaker at their events.
Amy Baxter, MMJ Labs, www.buzzy4shots.com
Inventor of Buzzy®, a bee-shaped palm sized device combining cold and vibration. When placed between the brain and the pain, the competing stimulus decreases minor sharp pains. Since the official product launch May 1 2009, Buzzy has been adopted by over 100 hospitals and more than 5000 users. Buzzy was awarded a Kimberly Clark Huggies MomInspired grant Fall 2010.
Author, "Your Big Sister's Guide to Surviving College", contributor and Executive Editor for the Work & Business section of HybridMom.com, host - The Coolest Things Show, show-and-tell about the coolest things she finds such as, websites, productivity tools, tech gadgets etc. and The ChatterBox Show, a weekly live-streamed internet radio show with guest from inside and outside of her social media circle. Christie is also co-founder of The BlogRollers Media, a social media company specializing in creating unique and entertaining marketing experiences for brands and bloggers.
Britt Menzies,StinkyKids, LLC., www.stinkykids.com
In just five years, StinkyKids has transformed from a doodle of a ballerina to a brand comprising of apparel, dolls, children's books, bikes, skate boards and more, leading into other categories with retailers such as Nordstrom, FAO Schwarz, Amazon.com, Target.com, Barnes and Noble.com as our partners and Madame Alexander Doll Company,
Jim DeBetta, DeBetta Enterprises, www.jimdebetta.com
Nationally recognized inventor coach who teaches women (and men) how to develop their product ideas and take them to the retail marketplace. After helping lead a sport optics start-up company from virtually no significant revenue to nearly 50 million dollars in sales, he began working with larger companies and start-ups alike to help them achieve greater sales at larger retail venues. Jim has spoken at dozens of invention and consumer product industry conferences, workshops, major universities and for well known entrepreneurial events for women including Ladies Who Launch, INPEX, National Hardware Show, and the Inventors Association of Georgia.
Lorraine Robertson, 30 Miles Media, Inc., www.runwifeyrun.blogspot.com
The BlogRollers Media is a social media consulting firm that specializes in creating experiences. 30 Miles Media, Inc. is a freelance writing company specializing in print and online outlets.
Renee J. Ross, www.cutiebootycakes.com
In July 2008 Renee launched her personal blog Cutie Booty Cakes as a way to promote her first entrepreneurial endeavor, a diaper cake business. Before she had even shipped a cake, she was bitten by the blogging bug and had found a new passion. A self-confessed social media junkie, Renee leverages the power of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to raise awareness of important social and health-related causes. She is a member of the Walmart Moms Social Media program. She is a contributing editor for BlogHer.com. Renee has appeared in Parents Magazine, Southern Living, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution, and has been a featured speaker at the following conferences: Blissdom, Blogalicious, BlogHer, SITScation, BlogWorld Expo, Type A Mom, Mom 2.0 Summit and the Minds of Mom Summit.
Linda Lewis, The Breast Chek Kit, Inc, http://www.bckshirt.com
Linda Lewis has been a business owner for more than 15 years, and is the Founder, CEO and Inventor of The Breast Chek "Shirt" and Kit, a product - that through its patented track and trace design directs women how to perform a breast self exam, while educating them on the importance of early detection. Among her other businesses, she is also the Founder and Executive Director of NABCAF, Inc. a non-profit organization that provides health screenings including free mammograms to uninsured women.
Shameeka Ayers, The Broke Socialite Media, www.thebrokesocialite.com
Shameeka Ayers married her love of marketing and public relations to her obsession with social media to create her alter ego, blog and brand, The Broke Socialite, in 2006. Based in Atlanta, Shameeka is a highly sought-after motivational speaker who is passionate about sharing stories about self-discovery, reinvention and her transition from employee to entrepreneur.
If you can't make this event, there will be conferences in San Diego, Boston, Denver and Detroit!!!
