Meet Me In Boston

If you've been following my Manor Hall Soap company you will have heard of Donna Maria Coles Johnson. She's the President and CEO of the Indie Beauty Network and I'm always talking about her. Donna Maria has been a huge inspiration to me and to many others. Leading a 7,000 member strong network of small business owners, her tireless work and research for all things business bring us together, helping to improve our daily grind.

One of the latest brainstorms from Donna Maria is splitting the U.S. up into Indie regions so that her members can get together and bring our power together locally. I have had the great honor of being named the representative for the Boston region, and I'm really excited to announce that the first meetup is going to be on Saturday, July 30th, at the Indie Business Summer Sizzle Networking Luncheon in Boston.

I recommend that if you have any kind of small business and you think you can get to Boston on July 30th, you go and get more info over at Indie Business Blog. This is a great opportunity you absolutely don't want to miss.

In addition to meeting me and Donna Maria, you'll also get the chance to make contact with two other great business minds. Speaking first is the amazing business coach, financial analyst and professor, Nunzio Bruno (catch him at his informative financial blog, Financially Digital). And speaking second will be the wonderful marketing strategist Al Santaniello, host of the awesome Businews Channel.

One of Donna Maria's favorite sayings is that "a rising tide lifts all ships". Well, Donna Maria is that tide, and she has helped lift me up, along with thousands of others. This is going to be a really great event, designed to bring real information to small business owners, and I can't wait for it. If you have a small business, a start-up business, or even just thinking about going into business for the first time, I'd really like to meet you there. You'll arrive full of the usual wonderings of what it's going to be like.... and you'll leave, knowing that your business has just turned a real corner!