Archive for August, 2008

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About the Speaker Katrina Sawa is known as The JumpStart Your Biz Coach because she literally kicks her clients and their businesses into high gear.  She works with highly motivated women entrepreneurs that want to maximize and fast-track their business to make more money and enjoy more free time.  Katrina uses online and offline Relationship Marketing Systems & Strategies to leverage your resources, contacts and your expertise; plus she kicks you in the butt to implement it all too!   Katrina was named “The Networking Queen” by her peers and clients since she founded her business in 2002. She was always found out mingling at chamber of commerce mixers, business networking events and expos and any event she could attend where her target market would be in attendance. Consistent networking and follow up is the primary reason Katrina has been so successful in her business.   Since 2006 however, Katrina has transformed her local, hourly-fee based business into an international online marketing coaching and info-product company.   Katrina has her B.S. in Business, Marketing Concentration, from California State University, Sacramento and currently lives in the Sacramento, California area with her German Shepherd Zeke.  Get Katrina’s Free Report and Audio online at www.JumpStartYourMarketing.com

In response to an article written on July 22, 2008 “Smaller Share of U.S. Women in the Workforce” our letter to the editor was published! Thank you to our great Public Relations Committee, Jann Taber & Robyn Boyer,  for keeping an eye on current articles and events and getting us press! Please read below.

Women as entrepreneurs

Re “Smaller share of U.S. women in workforce” (Page A1, July 22): Women aren’t dropping out or giving up. Rather than return to a flagging industrial workforce, one that still pays women only 59 cents for every dollar a man makes for the same labor, women in droves are starting businesses.

According to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Women’s Business Research, one of every 11 adult women is an entrepreneur. Every minute, five women start a business in the United States . Nearly 10.4 million firms are 50 percent or more owned by women, and we employ more than 12.8 million people. Even in this economy, that’s about $1.9 trillion in sales.

Between 1997 and 2006, majority women-owned firms grew at twice the rate of all firms, 42 percent vs. 24 percent. What does this spell? Success outside the workforce for millions of women.

– Rosanna Garcia, President

National Association of Women Business Owners, Sacramento Chapter