Momprenaire Minute Volume 1, Issue 20 Join Momprenaire.com today - It's Free!   NOTE: If someone you know can benefit from this issue, please forward it on to them.   Who Let The "Stinky" Cheese In The Room? Hi there, {!firstname_fix},   Do you like that picture? What do you see? Here's what I had the privilege of seeing just last night: a phenomenal group of 35 women coming together to build into each other's lives, share some challenges, find solutions, and build each other up. Wow. It was powerful. Last night, I had the honor of hosting the 1st Houston Women In Business Night Out with my dear friends, Jennifer Haubein, Sara Blumenfeld and Tandelyn Weaver. The intention for the 4 of us was to bring together women who were tired (and darn sick of...) networking events that meant you showed up, said hi, left, and never made any powerful partnerships because of it. To me, the average networking event today seems that way...like a lump of stinky, smelly cheese. And frankly, I don't want to be around that. Now, I'm sure I'd meet nice people. And surely I'd have an opportunity to find ways to connect. But unfortunately, I found more people wanting to create a "pitch fest" instead of listening and blessing others' lives at these types of events. So for me, these events became like "stinky cheese". I just would rather not want to get near these types of events. As I left last night's event, it occurred to me, I wouldn't have heard "Wow, I've never been to such a powerful group! This was not like anything I expected from a networking event! When is the next one?" if they weren't thrilled out of their stockings for more events like this - ones where we were intentional to uplift, support, listen, encourage, share our solutions willingly. So here's my question: When you network, how do you "show up"? Do you come ready to hand out a card to each person that breathes and when they do, do you smell like a stinky cheese?   Or are you ready to build and invest in the lives of the people that come into your life and show up as a blessing to them? I want you to think through how you "show up" this week. Who do you want to be? How do you want to be known in your industry? The answers to these questions will reveal a huge portion of how you stand out from the crowd and how the crowd will see and react to you. You may or may not be close enough to come to the next Houston Women In Biz event on April 7th BUT you can begin to strategize with other Momprenaires at The Social here at Momprenaire. Invest wisely - both your time and money... and when you do, your presence AND pocket book will be greatly appreciative. ;) To your continued success, Maruxa P.S. Next week's newsletter will address how we "show up" online - especially when we try to get joint venture partners promoting us! Momprenaire can be the place where you can learn and get the resources to focus, simplify and learn the power of delegation in your on and offline marketing strategies! To join as a member at no-cost, join here: http://www.momprenaire.com/ public/10.cfm Momprenaire in the News Terri Diekhaus of BeanKeeping.com - Record Keeping 101: How To Make More Money With What You've Got Right Now (this interview is available at Momprenaire.com!) March 11: The Mama CEO Webinar Show: How To Use Social Media To Find More Prospects (More details on this in Momprenaire.com)   March 25: Join Sarah Cook at RaisingCEOKids.com and me as we're interviewed together for the The Parenting Summit, Middle School Edition with Jacqueline R. Green, BA (more details on signing up in a future MM!)   April 7: I would love to meet you here in Houston for the 2nd Women In Business Night Out! More deets to come very soon.     About Momprenaire Maruxa Murphy, MA loves partnering with mom entrepreneurs to learn strategies to focus, simplify, and learn the power of delegation in business to move from a creating a hobby to a business that impacts the people you serve! To learn more about Maruxa and Momprenaire, read further here: http://www.momprenaire.com/ public/department13.cfm If you received this, liked it and would like to have your own weekly Momprenaire Minute eZine, sign up today at http://www.Momprenaire.com on the right hand side where it says, "Tip of the Week".       Let's Connect! On Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/MaruxaMurphy Join our Facebook Fan Page: http://bit.ly/MomprenaireFBFan Join our community - It's now F.R.E.E!: http://www.Momprenaire.com Copyright (c) 2009 Momprenaire.com The articles in the Momprenaire Minute may not be reprinted, or revised in any way without the permission of the Momprenaire company. 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