In this E-News:
- Planning For Success
- New Meeting Format for Summer Success Series
- Planning for WHD 2008

Next Meeting: Business Do's and Don'ts
Friday, June 8, 2007 – 7 to 9 PM
South Snohomish County PUD Office Auditorium
21018 Highway 99 – Edmonds, WA 98026

Planning For Success
Summer is an ideal time to create your strategic plans for the fall and
winter months. Many clients feel ready to make changes in September as
well as at the start of a new year.

To that end, we are creating more and more opportunities for NGHWA
members to join forces and support one another for maximum success. The
Summer Success Series will help you to fine-tune your plans so that by
fall, you are ready to launch the strategy that is right for you and
your business.

Summer Success Series
This summer, we're changing our format from the usual
Speaker-Audience format to a MEMBER IDEA EXCHANGE! We have so many
talented people in our membership who are glad to share their resources
and support other members.

So why reinvent the wheel? Save yourself time and money, and avoid
making the same mistakes others have made. Please be willing to share
your mistakes so others can learn from them, too!

Here's how it's going to work: When we arrive at the PUD
Auditorium, we'll arrange the chairs in a circle. After some brief
announcements and our Member Introductions (your 30 second Elevator
Speech), we will introduce a topic and go around the room in a
"round table" fashion, giving each person an opportunity to
either ask questions, share where they may be stuck, describe what
lessons they have learned, or provide potential solutions and resources.

We'll do our best to give everyone a chance to share – although
if you prefer, you can "pass" and just absorb all of the
information.

Here's our topic list –

• Creating and Booking Presentations and Workshops
• Mailing Lists, E-News, Public Relations, and Advertising
• Networking, Referrals, Strategic Relationships, Client Loyalty
• Systems: E-commerce, Administration, Office Systems
• Projecting a Professional Image - In Person, In Print, Online

Each topic could be an entire meeting on its own, and we expect there
will be some crossover. Depending on the interest level, we may even
break into smaller groups.
If you have specific articles or resources you'd like to share,
please bring them.


Planning for World Hypnotism Day 2008

We have a TENTATIVELY scheduled date of January 12 for a Hypnotherapy
Resource Forum at Evergreen Hospital. If you are interested in offering
a presentation and/or purchasing a vendor booth, please submit an
application at
http://www.positivecentral.com/Video/HypnotherapyResourceForum.htm
<http://www.positivecentral.com/Video/HypnotherapyResourceForum.htm> .

We are looking for people who are interested in serving on the planning
committee for the 2008 World Hypnotism Day events here in the Seattle
area. We can meet via phone and email, and the projects will include
soliciting sponsors, managing the production and distribution of
posters, coordinating vendors, sending out publicity announcements to
radio stations and newspapers, and creating an agenda for the day of the
event.

Please let me know if you're interested in helping and what parts of
the process you would most like to do. Lauren@...
<mailto:Lauren@...> .

I believe Kent Ogletree is still collecting success stories for a
collective book. If you want to submit your story and be included in
this important project, contact Kent at Kent@...
<mailto:Kent@...> .


In Conclusion...
It's such an honor to gather and collaborate with such a positive,
enthusiastic, talented group of Hypnosis professionals. I look forward
to learning and sharing with you on Friday June 8!

Warmly,

Lauren Archer Finkelstein
2007 President, NGHWA
President, Positive Central
www.PositiveCentral.com <http://www.PositiveCentral.com>
425-881-7082










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