Join us Thursday September 3, 2009 10 AM EST.

Jim DeBetta’s product development and sales experience has massed millions of dollars within the retail selling world. Known nationally as a trusted coach and mentor to thousands of inventors and entrepreneurs, he knows how to take new ideas from a sketch on a napkin to selling the final product to major retailers worldwide. uv4qmw2frn

Jim’s career in retail began at an early age with the family business – a fireplace and home hardware company. After graduating from college, Jim went home to help expand the business from a small successful operation into a multi-million dollar business and became one of the most recognized and respected store of its kind on Long Island. Jim stimulated new business, purchased products from all over the world, and ran the overall daily operations.

Jim decided it was time to grow and joined a start up firm that imported binoculars, telescopes, and optical products for children. His retail customers included a “who’s who” in retail such as Target, Wal-Mart, Radio Shack, Sears, Michael’s, Cabelas, Home Shopping Network, Bed, Bath & Beyond, Discovery Channel Stores, Costco, and many others. Jim employed nearly 20 people inside and had dozens of sales reps all over the US, Canada, and Europe. Ultimately, Jim helped expand the company from virtually no significant revenue to a leading brand in the industry that has sold more than 50 million dollars of product since the mid 1990’s. When Jim was ready for a new adventure, he left the company as President and Chief Operating Officer.

Jim teaches inventors how to create sales and marketing strategies, understand the world of licensing, develop a product using CAD design, raising money to fund a business, and locating factories overseas to produce products. Jim is now reaching out to individuals who want to learn how to do it for themselves. You can learn more about Jim at www.JimDeBetta.com

In this interview Jim shares his ideas about the steps you need to take to get your inventions to into the right stores, sell more products and turn a profit.

Some of the questions answered include:

What exactly do retailers want to know about your invention before they will even consider carrying it? 

What should we do BEFORE the presentation? In other words how should we prepare to sell the retailer – what homework or legwork is needed?

Are mass-market retailers treated the same as independent or smaller chains? And if so, what are the differences?

Speaking about a product’s sales life cycle, What is it and how can we put the idea into action to create more sales?

… and more.

To listen in, call:

641) 715-3840 Participant Access Code: 361467#

The Grow a Million Dollar Business Summit and Celebration is THE eConference for Small Business Owners and Individuals who want to grow their business or idea into a financial empire. The even features 14 million-dollar achievers who have each built their own businesses from the ground up. Among Million-Dollar Experts, Kim Lavine, Inventor and Author of Mommy Millionaire, Tom Antion, President of Great Internet Marketing and Loral Langemeier, The Millionaire Maker

Miramar, FL September 7, 2008 — The Women’s eCommerce Association announces the lineup of guest experts celebrating our 5 year anniversary and International Women’s eCommerce Days September 18-20, 2008.

The Grow a Million Dollar Business Summit and Celebration is THE eConference for Inventors, Small Business Owners and Individuals who want to turn their business or idea into a financial empire. The event features 14 million-dollar achievers who have each built their own businesses from the ground up.

The grow a million dollar experts include:

• Tom Antion, President of Great Internet Marketing
• Loral Langemeier, The Millionaire Maker
• Andrea Nierenberg, President The Nierenberg Group
• Nicola Cairncross, President – The Money Gym
• Kim Lavine, Inventor and Author of Mommy Millionaire
• Annie Jennings of Annie Jennings PR
• Heather Juma of Wealth, Success and Women
• Elizabeth Gordon, Author of The Chic Entrepreneur
• Joyce Bone, Founder of Millionaire Moms
• Melanie Benson Strick, Entrepreneur Success Coach
• Chris Ramey President, Affluent Insights
• Diane Keohohou, CEO – Direct Selling Women’s Alliance
• Marilyn Jenett of Feel Free to Prosper
• Maria Marsala of Elevating Your Business
• Sheri McConnell, CEO of Sheri McConnell Companies, Inc

Highlights from the virtual women’s media conference include the following:

• From Small Town Kid to Internet Multi-Millionaire
• Building Leading & Protecting Your Business
• Million Dollar Networking: The Sure Way to Find, Grow and Keep Your Business
• How to Build an Empire from Your Kitchen Table
• The Mindset, Making & Marketing Of The Million Dollar Expert
• How to Become a Millionaire Diva: Helping Women Create Riches in all Aspects of Their Lives
• How to Grow a Million Dollar Business, The Chic Entrepreneur Way
• How Millionaire Moms Achieved Financial Independence ~ and You Can Too!
• How to Build a 6- and 7 Figure Business Using the Power of Virtual Teams
• How to Market to the Affluent
• How to Grow a Million Dollar Direct Sales Organization
• How I Attract Million Dollar Clients Using Prosperity Principles – and You Can Too!
• How to Grow a Million Dollar Business With a Mastermind Team
• Why Creating a Membership Based-Business Is So Smart – The Millionaire’s Business Model

Each one-hour session will be rich in information and expertise attendees can take away to achieve financial freedom and grow a million dollar business. Registered guests will have their choice of attending via the online conference room or they can call into a teleconference bridge line to participate. Registrants who are unable to attend any or all of the event, will have access to the live recordings online after the event and can also purchase a complete set of audio CD’s.

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About The Women’s eCommerce Association

The Women’s eCommerce Association (The WECAI Networkâ„¢), Founded by Heidi Richards Mooney, has more than 1400 members repressing 58 countries is the virtual organization that helps women to business on and off the web. The Women’s eCommerce Association has hosted and sponsored four past summits, The Woman’s Wealth Summit, Women’s Internet Marketing Summit, Women’s Media Summit and Women’s Writing & Publishing Summit. To learn more about The WECAI Networkâ„¢ go to http://www.WECAI.org. For more information and to register for Grow a Million Dollar Business Summit; visit http://www.WhereWomenProsper.com.

To save $20 on registration, go to http://wherewomenprosper.wordpress.com/register/

Media Please Contact: Heidi Richards Mooney, 954-625-6606, Heidi@wecai.org

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On Wednesday, September 10th at 11 AM (EST)

Inventor of the Cleavage Caddy™ Tells how she got her idea onto the chests of women in America.

If you are interested in attending this FREE teleconference, send a message to heidi@inventingwomen.com with “Cleavage Caddy RSVP” in the subject line and you will be sent instructions to participate.

Have an invention?  Need to get your invention off the ground? Join Heidi as she interviews Kim Lavine, Inventor and Author of Mommy Millionaire and 14 experts on building wealth September 18-20 for the Grow a Million Dollar Business Summit. Learn more and register WHERE WOMEN PROSPER.

You can learn more about the Cleavage Caddy™ at http://www.mazantricreations.com/mazantri-cleavage-caddy.html

  Join us on Wednesday, June 18^th at 11 AM EASTERN TIME for an Interview with Sarah Miller Caldicott , Co-Author of Innovate Like Edison

 

“If we all did things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.”  That quote by Thomas Edison begins a wonderful journey on his amazing accomplishments as an inventor and more importantly sets the stage for a book filled with a blueprint to help each of us through the process of innovation, Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America’s Greatest Inventor.  Innovate like Edison was co-authored by Sarah Miller Caldicott, A great grandniece of Thomas Edison and his second wife Mina Miller Edison and Michael Gelb the world’s leading authority on the application of genius thinking and the author of nearly a dozen books, most notably “How to Think Like Leonardo DaVinci.” 

 

 

ABOUT Sarah Miller Caldicott:

 

Sarah has been surrounded by creativity and innovation throughout her life.  When she was seven years old, Sarah learned of her unique relationship to her great great aunt Mina Miller, and Mina’s world-famous husband, Thomas Edison.  Curious about why the Edison phonograph and cylindrical records in her home worked so differently from the small plastic record player that spun 45’s and wax LP’s, she wondered, “How did they get this way?”

 

Intrigued Sarah went on to learn about the accomplishments of Mina Miller Edison’s father – Sarah’s great, great grandfather, Lewis Miller (1829-1899) – an agricultural equipment inventor whose Buckeye Mower & Reaper dramatically improved the productivity of American farmers in the 1850’s and beyond, later inspiring development of the modern Combine Harvester.  A recipient of 92 patents, Lewis Miller was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2006, and co-founded the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York in 1874 – a place Sarah and her family still visit every year.

 

Sarah received her MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business, and began her 20-year career as a Marketing executive with brand-driven firms including Pepsico and Unilever. For 12 years, Sarah spearheaded domestic and international rollouts of mass brands including Cycle, Suave, Salon Selectives, and Degree.

Desiring to pursue more entrepreneurial projects, in 1998, Sarah established StarWave Associates, a strategic marketing and branding consultancy assisting CEO’s and business owners in transforming the growth of their brands. StarWave clients have included DHL Global Mail, Cox Enterprises, Andrx Pharmaceuticals, Shay Financial Services, and Lucent, as well as numerous entrepreneurial firms. 

 

Sarah speaks to audiences across the country, and leads executive seminars on how to embed Edison’s Five Competencies of Innovation in their organizations.  These competencies propelled Edison to generate a record-breaking 1,093 US patents and 1,293 international patents over 62 successive years.

 

You can visit Sarah online at PowerPatterns.com.

 

In this session, Sarah is going to share her Five tips for jump starting your invention prowess and getting the creative juices flowing, give an overview of some of the five competencies as well as other innovative practices.

 

To join us send a message to heidi (at) inventingwomen.com with “RSVP Innovate Like Edison” in subject line. Instructions will be sent in a reply.

 

Friday May 2, 2008 – 9:30 AM Eastern Time (8:30 Central, 7:30 Mountain, 6:30 Pacific)

Tomima Edmark is the inventor of the wildly successful TopsyTail, a hair accessory for women that she marketed by herself to revenues of $150 million. This extraordinary product earned her instant fame among the nation’s small-business set and put Edmark on an entrepreneurial path that continues today. She has since developed a series of additional consumer products, written several successful books and created a variety of e-commerce Web sites. Along the way, she became known for her entrepreneurship and was featured on television shows and in business publications like Good Morning America, Oprah, Forbes Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.

In 1999, Tomima realized there was a gap in the options women had to buy lingerie; our choices were department store, lingerie boutique or mail order. Why shouldn’t we have the same ease buying bras that we had for, say, tee shirts or music? An entrepreneur with a series of unconventional successes, Tomima turned to the internet and HerRoom was born. For Tomima, HerRoom isn’t just about shopping for sexy lingerie. She wants women to find the styles and sizes that fit them best—for all body types and tastes.

With a BFA in Fashion Design and an MBA, she uses her left brain and right brain to understand both the design and business of the women’s lingerie market. Tomina is going to share how she got the idea for TopsyTail, her journey to taking her invention to market and the steps she took to that led to its ultimate success.

To RSVP for this event, send a message to Heidi (at) inventing women.com with “RSVP Tomima Edmark” in the subject line.  Instructions will be sent to you in return email.

   Never Let ‘em Get You Down! The Challenges and Bureaucratic B.S. of Taking An Invention to Market with Denyse DuBrucq, EdD.

Join us on Wednesday, April 30, 2008 (10:00 AM Eastern Time) (9:00 AM Central, 8:00 AM Mountain, 7:00 AM Pacific)

Denyse DuBrucq, EdD. is an educator and inventor.  She serves as Managing General Partner of two partnerships holding her inventions, one dealing with the electronics inventions and the other those dealing with fires and crises.  She discovered how to use Liguid Nitrogen to stop fires.  Prospects for her invention are world wide to reduce the carbon released to the atmosphere during fires and to preserve water resources.  She anticipates demonstrations in China to control their severe coal mine fires and in California for the Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention to end wildland fires quickly and efficiently. 

In 2003 with the Iraq War underway, the Iraqis threatened to explode their oil wells 20 feet below the surface.  To control these events without losing rights to the technology as happened in her work to control the Kuwait well fires in 1991, DuBrucq started writing the first Liquid Nitrogen patent focusing first on the Iraqi task, and, as the ideas kept streaming, the a wide group of fire and crises control capabilities. 

August, 2003, she offered the US Army Corps of Engineers means to quickly end the oil pipeline fires in Iraq, where these fires took 10 days to end, enabling them to be controlled in one day.  The compensation she requested never happened because it had to be paid by the company that lost profits because of the new required speed of fire control.  In this session you will learn about Denyse’s journey of disappointment, promises not kept, political two-stepping and other challenges she has faced to get her products to market. 

Unwavering in her quest to succeed, Denyse has put together a team that she feels will help her get the much needed funding, attention and outcome she knows can and will change the world.

Interested in attending?  Send an email to heidi (at) inventing women with RSVP Denyse DuBrucq in the subject line and you will receive call-in and webinar instructions.