Welcome to the Women of Westchester…They are joining as a group

Welcome to the Women of Westchester

I belong to a networking group of strong women entrepreneurs.  Each owns her own business, and each is has a strong drive and bent of creativity.  Our businesses span a wide range of fields…none of us competing and all of us collaborating to try to help grow the others’ businesses.

We represent many areas including real estate, real estate attorney, title management, decorator, t-shirts and promotional products, graphic designer, bookkeeper, an event planner, an organizer, in-home nurse care giver, a painter, a fire/flood/mold restoration company, a plumber and of course The Flooring Girl.

We meet the first Friday of every month in West Harrison NY (and if you live in the area and your biz is not represented, we welcome you to join).

Well as luck would have it, I missed the October meeting, and it sounds like they had a super productive meeting about how to bring the group to the next level.  Several were discussing how amazing it was that I was getting so much business from the web and my blogging.  They wanted “in”…but many are rather behind on technology and a bit overwhelmed by the prospect of blogging.  Then, someone suggested, “What if we do it together?”  That way, we split the cost and the work and make it happen together.

I thought this was a great idea because collectively, it is much less intimidating.  And, we will energize each other.  So, I set up an Active Rain blog…it is Members Only now, but in the next month or so, we will activate it to be a Rainmaker account (sometime in December, I think).

Last week, I did an intro session on the power of this and an overview.  There is a lot to learn and I had less than an hour, so at beginning of December, I will cover part 2 and then hoping the group will be ready to dip their feet into blogging.  (We already have a draft post).

For now, we simply have 1 “real” post…it’s just a simple intro post, and we’ve started to fill out the profile page (I am doing this with the group as a learning exercise, so we will finish it in December.  The rest are all reblogs…trying to explain to the group how to do this.

I hope that you will subscribe to group.  If you do, over time, you will see a variety of topics posted from some very dynamic women.  I’m hoping the comments will help energize the group to blog more.  I’m hoping that we can reach at least 100,000 pts by the end of 2012 so that our membership cost will be lower in 2013.  (I know if it was my acct, I could do that, but remember, I’m trying to help others who are less tech savvy than I am to do this).

Please give a warm welcome to the Women of Westchester.