Attention: Female Entrepreneurs Ready to Attend an Event that is Truly Transformative and Inspiring – One That’s as Unique as You Are, That’s Customized to YOU and YOUR BUSINESS – And That Leaves You Fulfilled, Energized and Ready to Move Your Business Forward!

Finally! If You’ve Ever Attended a Live Business Building Event and Left Feeling Disappointed, This Information is for YOU!

You’re About to Discover A Live Business Building Event Customized for Your Personal Entrepreneurial Type and Designed to Provide YOU With the UNIQUE and INDIVIDUALIZED Support, Tools, Strategies and Breakthroughs You Need to Grow Your Business, Increase Your Cash Flow, and Create a Plan to Achieve Your Vision!

This is NOT one of those one-size-fits-all, come-and-listen-while-people-talk-onstage events. This IS a HANDS-ON, WORKING event customized to you, to fit your needs, to fill in your gaps and to fuel your growth. Join us and see the difference for yourself.

From the desk of Michele DeKinder-Smith
February 04

Are you one of thousands of female entrepreneurs who have poured time, energy and money into live business building events, only to walk away with a binder that sits on your shelf and a lot of disappointment?

I have great news: I’m about to unveil a live event that is COMPLETELY different from anything you’ve ever seen before. This event is designed to fit each attendee’s individual needs. This is a working event, from which you will walk away with a fully developed action plan for moving your business forward towards your bold vision for the future.

Events are a huge investment. Not only do you pay the ticket price, but you  usually  pay for travel and hotel, as well as take time off from work. So it’s understandable if you’re a little gun shy about attending another event, especially if you’ve been disappointed by one (or more!) in the past. 

But this is different. For one, I understand that as a female entrepreneur, you are probably working your fingers to the bone, day after day. Maybe you’re making enough money, maybe you’re not. You probably spend even your “off” hours thinking about your business, strategizing for growth, dreaming about your bold vision for its future. So the last thing you want to do is feel like you’ve wasted valuable time and money on a disappointing event.

That’s why I’ve developed this new event, one that will provide you with an action plan specific to your unique needs and desires – one that I guarantee will leave you feeling exhilarated as you head back to work to launch your newly developed action plan.

Does any of this sound familiar?

• You’ve been constantly disappointed by business-building events you’ve attended because they don’t fit what you need. What if you had access to an event that was customized to fit your unique personal situation?
• You feel frustrated because you’re striving for business growth, but you haven’t seen it – and you’ve been disappointed by so-called “business-building” events that simply don’t provide information YOU can use. What if you could get together with a group of like-minded women who have walked in your shoes, led by successful female entrepreneurs who are driven to help you succeed?
• You definitely need to jumpstart your cash flow – so you can make more money and invest in new, exciting business opportunities. But the reading you’ve done and the events you’ve attended didn’t fit your unique situation. What if you could get your hands on proven, working strategies for boosting cash flow, almost immediately, in your SPECIFIC situation?
• You need more clients – but you don’t work the long hours touted by business building gurus. What if there was a way to identify and attract your ideal clients so you enjoyed the working relationships and increased your profits, while maintaining your ideal schedule?
• You feel alone and wish you had more support in your business. What if you could connect with dozens of women business owners just like yourself, and share ideas and strategies?
• You crave organization – you know that with systems in place, your business could thrive, but you aren’t sure how to create those systems. Wouldn’t it be great to learn from women who have been there – and who have created streamlined systems that work?
• You have the passion, energy and determination to make anything work – only you’re missing the big plan. Wouldn’t you love help paring down your great ideas into a focused vision with an organized plan for achieving it?

If so, then I have great news: you're in the right place!

At this point, you may be wondering what all of this has in common. As a female entrepreneur, if you are not satisfied with your business growth, your cash flow, your existing systems or your overall vision and plan for achieving it, then chances are, you’re not living as your ideal entrepreneurial type.

Maybe you’re thinking, “I am living my ideal entrepreneurial type. I love my business, and I love my life.”

Then why are you struggling, either with something external like cash flow or client attraction; or with something internal like your work-life balance?

Before I go any further, let me explain exactly what I mean by “living as your ideal entrepreneurial type.”

Jane Out of the Box has researched more than 3,500 female entrepreneurs, and has found that they fall into one of five entrepreneurial types: Jane Dough, traditionally successful, who loves to strategize and run her team, which is sometimes her downfall because she delegates a little TOO much; Go Jane Go, also successful, a people person who sometimes feels overwhelmed because she has such high standards that she does much of the work herself and because she is focused on giving; Accidental Jane, who started her business by accident and loves her freedom; Merry Jane, who runs her small business in addition to meeting many other obligations; and Tenacity Jane, who is passionate about her business even while it is struggling financially.

If you haven’t yet taken the Jane Out of the Box assessment to determine your entrepreneurial type, you will have the opportunity to do so! 

When you are living as your ideal entrepreneurial type, you are following your heart and respecting your values and your needs. It means you are striking the right balance between business and personal obligations, between hours worked and money earned, and between business particulars and creative outlet. You are satisfied, personally and entrepreneurially.

Now you understand what it means to be living as your ideal entrepreneurial type, but why is it so important?

Here are a few reasons. When you are living as your ideal entrepreneurial type:

• You are working smarter because you recognize and utilize your strengths and have the right strategies for beating your challenges. Working smarter means you are more effective because your efforts pay off faster. Therefore, you continue to gain positive momentum.
• You feel less stress because your entrepreneurial type is compatible with your other life circumstances. You are able to spend as much time as you need to at work and as much as you need to enjoying your personal life.
• You are focused and can celebrate your successes as you work toward specific goals. By crafting and taking steps toward achieving goals, you build your confidence as you grow your business in increments that work for you.  
• You feel satisfied because you are always true to yourself, whether that means being creative at work, or having the time freedom to meet your other obligations well.
• You get to live life on your own terms, making decisions about who to work with, how to work with them, and when you work (and when you play).
• You feel balanced, and enjoy your time at work and your time away from work.

Now you understand how important it is, personally and professionally, to live as your ideal entrepreneurial type. But how do you do it – how do you dial in exactly what is “ideal” for you? Maybe you’re not even sure what the types are. Even if you did, do you know which type you’d like to be?

And when you’ve decided on your “ideal” entrepreneurial type, how do you go about becoming that type?

You’re in luck: this is exactly what I am so excited to share with you – our roadmap for becoming your ideal type, and therefore, for living your ideal life.

But first …

Who am I and why should you listen to me?

I’m Michele DeKinder-Smith, and as the Founder and CEO of Jane Out of the Box, it’s my passion in life to help women like you – business owners – succeed. Jane Out of the Box is an online resource dedicated to the women entrepreneur community. Based on several years’ worth of research – during which we’ve interviewed more than 3,500 female entrepreneurs – Jane Out of the Box provides varied information, including articles, helpful links and a free assessment for business owners to determine their entrepreneurial type (and therefore their strengths and challenges). My first business, Linkage Research and Consulting (more on that later), made close to $2 million in revenue in 2009, while requiring fewer than 40 hours of my time in a typical week.

I’m not telling you all this to make myself sound super-successful. In fact, before I figured out how to make my business work for me, I had $100,000 in credit card debt from my business. I had to sell my house, and I was seriously questioning my own skills and abilities.  I’m sharing the truth of how it was for me, because I want you to know that I completely understand what you’re going through now. I understand precisely what it is like to know that something just isn’t right – and to want to know exactly how to fix it! And I understand the solutions you need to get your business moving in the direction you want it to go.

My research background and deep understanding of the challenges women business owners face provides me with a unique grasp of the distinctive nature of each individual entrepreneur’s situation.

And that is why I’m so excited about this LIVE event, “See Jane Succeed: Live!”, October 1 and 2 in Chicago.

This event is the result of tons of research by Jane Out of the Box – research we conducted by talking to businesswomen JUST LIKE YOU! We designed each segment of the event around specific questions, issues and challenges we’ve seen female entrepreneurs struggle with. So we know it is packed full of timely, pertinent and useful information! And remember, you’ll have the opportunity to take our assessment during the event to determine your entrepreneurial type so the information you get will relate to your unique situation.

You see, it’s not your fault you haven’t been getting the results you crave in your business or in your life. First of all, there is SO MUCH to learn about running a business, running a business well, and running a business well and balancing that with your life outside of work. Often, it takes years to figure out exactly how you define success, and then several more years to start achieving it. One little (or big) change, and the direction of your course may change, too.

Maybe you’ve taken a business-building course before. Maybe you’ve taken several. And they just didn’t work. Maybe you left the event with high spirits and enthusiasm, and a huge binder (which is still sitting on a book shelf in your office).

There are hundreds of business-building events out there. And I’m sure that with your passion and determination, you’ve attended one or even several. But those events weren’t tailored to you. They were one-size-fits-all events where businesspeople crowded into a room and listened as “experts” spoke at them from a stage, not taking into account their unique situations or distinctive combinations of strengths and challenges. These events didn’t work for you because they weren’t personalized. They weren’t customized. They weren’t made-to-order.

So what makes “See Jane Succeed: Live!” different?

Until now, NO ONE has created a completely customized, entirely personalized event like this, designed to provide you with a custom-tailored plan for changing your entrepreneurial type so that you’re living ideal. Until now, NO ONE has created an event designed to uncover the precise areas in which you need support, to help you break through your specific business challenges and to design a focused plan about taking your business to the level you envision.

Until now.

So you may be wondering, how is this all going to work? How am I going to identify my current entrepreneurial type, create my personal definition of success, and craft a working plan for making the transition from my current type to my ideal type?

Here is just a sampling of what you’ll get when you attend our 2-day groundbreaking event in October:

Large Group Presentations: we’ll educate you about the 5 “Jane” types revealed in Jane Out of the Box research of more than 3,500 female entrepreneurs. This will allow you to define your current type, evaluate your strengths and challenges, uncover your current habits and characteristics, and then decide which type is really “ideal” for you.

BreakOut Sessions: we’ve designed these sessions to support YOU, whether you need help strengthening the best characteristics of your current entrepreneurial type, or you need advice about how to transform into a new “ideal” type. These sessions will center around 2 areas of support:

1. Proven Business Strategies, including marketing and sales, visioning and planning, and client attraction, as well as financial tools to manage revenue, expenses and profitability. This BreakOut Session will include Hot Seat Coaching Sessions, in which we will select several participants to receive a quick and thorough coaching session – from which all participants will learn!
2. Creating an Ideal Life – personally and professionally. We’ll discuss work-life balance and integration strategies, and taking care of yourself and your personal priorities while growing your business. Again, we’ll feature several participants in Hot Seat Coaching Sessions.
3. The 30-Day Plan. You will walk away with a 30-day plan to become your ideal “Jane” type. You will take home exercises, checklists and other strategies you can begin to use immediately to move your business forward.

Facilitated Networking & Learning from Your Peers: One of the challenges of most events is having the time to really connect with fellow attendees. That’s why we’ve carved out specific times to connect with your peers and share strategies for success. Our networking process includes round table discussions, small group discussions, and ample mingling time – all while making it easy to identify other women who share your common goals (your ideal type). And to keep the momentum rolling, we’ll have an online forum where you can connect both before and after the event, as well as send you home with an attendee list so you can stay in touch with your new friends and potential joint venture partners.

The Ideal Entrepreneurial Life 30-Day Essential Action Plan. As you may be able to tell from the preceding, this event is NOT all ideas and theory. We’re going to teach you exactly how to live your ideal entrepreneurial life – and you’re going to walk away with a ton of “how to” practical advice from our experts and your peers. At the end of the event, we’re going to give you a step-by-step, very concrete plan for your next 30 days …. A plan that is going to help you experience the joy of knowing you are stepping into your ideal entrepreneurial life!

Secret Announcement: we’ll let you in on the next big thing at Jane Out of the Box – and how it will accelerate your growth, no matter what your entrepreneurial type! 

PLUS, we’re offering you an option to upgrade to VIP status, which means you will attend networking lunches on both Friday and Saturday, and you’ll join a member of the brilliant team for a dine-around dinner Saturday night (we’ll take you out to one of our favorite dining spots in Chicago – so you’ll see the city and you’ll get a chance to ask us questions in a small-group, low-key setting!).

Once you have gotten all the pieces in place, all you have to do is to follow your customized, personalized plan and start making the changes. By taking one step at a time, you will JUMPSTART your cash flow, GROW your business, and feel completely SATISFIED, personally and professionally.

Now that you know exactly what you’re going to get during our live 2-day event, you’re probably wondering how much it’s all going to cost you.

Before I answer, ask yourself this: how much is it worth to you, to know that after attending a single 2-day event, you will hold in your hands a concrete plan, built JUST FOR YOU, to become your ideal entrepreneurial type?

Is it worth $2,000? How about $5,000 or even $10,000?

Imagine what it would feel like to live your life in complete harmony. You attract ideal clients, love working with them, and earn the pay you know you deserve. You enjoy your time at the office, and in your home life you reap the rewards of your hard work running the business.

Again, what is that worth?

“See Jane Succeed: Live!” is designed to help you define success on your own terms, to create a plan for achieving that success, and to then live the life you’ve defined.

All you have to do is land one new ideal client with the new marketing tools you develop in Chicago, or save several hours’ worth of time with the new streamlined processes you’ll learn during this event, and you’ll instantly make up the $397 investment in this course.

Maybe you’re thinking, “Why get on a plane or take a long road trip to Chicago when I can download an info product and save myself the time and hassle of travel? What’s the point of attending a live event when I can do all this from home?”

Events are hands-down the BEST way to get you out of the day-to-day monotony, to let you see yourself and your business in a fresh way. You can talk to your peers and gain new perspective on what you can do to take your business to the next level.

Successful people frequently use events as a way to get into a new environment so they can see where they’re stuck or where they’re getting in their own way. They want to be exposed to new people and new ideas and reconnect with members of their “tribe” – the people who truly understand the challenges and issues they face each day.

And let's not forget all the networking potential! One big client or joint venture partner can MORE than pay for your investment. (And, as you probably know, you have much stronger relationships with people who you've met face to face then simply got to know them via phone or email.)

Imagine how much easier life will be when you are living as your ideal entrepreneurial type. Decisions will be easier to make, clients will be easier to find and work with, and you will get more and better results – with less stress. You’ll create a network of likeminded women who want to support you. And you’ll always have the knowledge and ability to change your type as your situation evolves. What is THAT worth to you?

Ready to get started? Or do you still have a few questions?

Q: There are so many events out there – and I’ve already attended a few with not much luck. How is this one any different?

A: This is NOT a one-size-fits-all, you sit with hundreds of other attendees in an audience while speakers talk onstage. This event is COMPLETELY customized to fit your entrepreneurial type (if you haven’t taken the Jane Out of the Box assessment before the event, you can take it there and discover your type). So all the information you learn is tailored to your specific situation!

Q: My business is struggling and I’m not sure I can afford the investment in this course. Shouldn’t I just wait until later, when my business grows enough to support the investment?

A: This is a “no brainer.” If your business is struggling, this is the absolute BEST time to invest in a surefire business booster. Remember, each member of this team is an expert in female entrepreneurs and in achieving success on your own terms, and we are going to give you the tools and strategies you need to jumpstart your cash flow as soon as you walk out the door on the last day of the event. You’re going to have better tools for managing your finances. PLUS, you’re going to get an awesome networking opportunity, during which you can share advice and ideas with other people who have walked in your shoes. That, alone, is worth the investment.

Q: Having to travel to Chicago for the event is even MORE of an investment – how can I justify the additional cost and hassle?

A: Consider this a mini-retreat, during which you get a little time away from the daily grind, as well as a chance to spend 2 days in the company of other powerful businesswomen like yourself. Plus, Chicago is a fun place to visit, especially when you’re among other women in business.

Q: I’m not sure I have the time to attend an event out of town. How can I justify spending time away from my business, where I’m obviously needed?

A: The outcomes from these 2 focused days will make a huge difference in your business and in your life, shaving months or even years off your learning curve as you strive for your ideal type and your ideal life. Plus, one of these days is a weekend day, so you won’t be missing out on work hours.

So are you ready to get started?

So are you Ready to get started?

Living your ideal entrepreneurial type – and all the satisfaction that comes with it – is just a click away!

To your success – as you define it,

Michele DeKinder-Smith
Founder and CEO, Jane Out of the Box

 

P.S. If you’re not completely satisfied with your life as it is now, then you’re probably not living as your ideal entrepreneurial type. We’re going to give you a personalized, customized, action-packed plan for changing that so that you are!

P.P.S. Spaces are limited, so reserve your spot for this fantastic opportunity NOW!

 

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