Innovative Conference Combines Interactive Internet Capabilities and Action
Oriented Tools
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- womenCONNECT.com (WCC), the leading
online destination for women business owners and professionals at
http://www.womenconnect.com will present The E*VENTURE, an innovative business
conference by and for female entrepreneurs. Scheduled for October 25th and
26th, The E*VENTURE will be held at The Ronald Reagan Building and The
International Trade Center in Washington, DC.
The E*VENTURE at http://www.eventurers.com will provide "real-time" strategies
and action-oriented tools to help women entrepreneurs jump-start their
revenues, increase their client base, negotiate higher fees, distinguish their
business on the Internet, and manage or eliminate threats to their success.
In addition, registrants to the event will become WCC registered users with
special "E*VENTURERS ONLY" access to private Internet bulletin boards where
they can interact with one another and communicate with conference leaders
before and after the event.
"The E*VENTURE extends our outreach and shares Internet and networking
opportunities with the real world," said Susan DeFife, president and CEO of
WCC and keynote speaker at The E*VENTURE. "We are doing a great deal to
connect women via the Internet to give them the tools to grow their
businesses. We see this event as a conference where women can spend each day
getting solid information that they will use immediately." WCC's business
content was recently hailed by BusinessWeek Online as "some of the richest and
most diverse content of its kind on the Web."
U.S. women were responsible for $3.3 trillion in consumer spending in 1997
and another $1.5 trillion as purchasing agents for companies. Combining their
personal and professional expenditures, U.S. women make up the largest single
economic entity in the world.* The National Foundation for Women Business
Owners (NFWBO) reported in May 1999 that revenues generated by the 9.1 million
women-owned businesses in the U.S. have increased to $3.6 trillion annually --
a gross economic output greater than the GDP of Germany. Revenue from U.S.
women-owned businesses has doubled since 1987, far outpacing the growth in the
number of women-owned businesses. Women-owned businesses now represent 38% of
all U.S. firms and comprise 1/4 to 1/3 of the worldwide business population.
About The E*VENTURE (http://www.eventurers.com)
The E*VENTURE is a unique business conference for all female
entrepreneurs, with a special focus on those that are new and those with
companies grossing less than $1,000,000 annually, who want to make the move to
the next level by focusing on immediately generating revenue. Featuring five
different seminar tracks, programs are designed to provide practical
information for the full range of participants. The E*VENTURE has 10
additional events planned in various cities throughout the United States in
2000. Interested attendees can register online at womenCONNECT.com
(http://www.womenconnect.com) or at The E*VENTURE Web site (http://www.eventurers.com) or by
calling 800.511.7330.
About womenCONNECT.com (http://www.womenconnect.com)
WomenCONNECT.com (WCC) provides a freely available Web site with thousands
of pages of original daily business, career and finance news and feature
stories for women in business. Bulletin board discussions, chat sessions with
experts, e-commerce opportunities and interactive tools (such as a dynamically
generated job bank with personalized email notice of employment opportunities
and a searchable directory of women-owned companies), enhance the user
experience. Timesaving personalization options include an email alert with
summaries of, and links to, recent WCC articles in the user's favorite topic
areas. In addition to content syndication arrangements with CompuServe and
Lycos (LCOS), WCC has an exclusive finance partnership with CNNfn.com, the
financial news unit of Time Warner Inc. (TWX). WCC investors include the GE
Financial Assurance unit of General Electric Co. (GE), Mid-Atlantic Venture
Funds and Women's Growth Capital Fund.
* Tom Peters, The Circle of Innovation, Knopf (1997).
SOURCE womenCONNECT.com
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Related links:
http://www.eventurers.com
http://www.womenconnect.com
CONTACT:
David Wieme or Wayne Henninger, both of WAVE
Public Relations, Inc., 202-232-WAVE, 9283, or wavepr1@aol.com;
or Wendy Nipper, 703-312-9176 or wnipper@pgi.com; all for
womenCONNECT.com
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