![]() | Website Basics Series Begins Tuesday Feb. 9th 3 pm - 5 pm |
![]() | Los Angeles Freelance Meetup Saturday February 13th, 3 pm With Special Guest Terri Langhans: Blah Blah Blah! |
Blah Blah Blah: How to Stand Out from the Competition, Get Better Results from Your Marketing and Sell More Services
Saturday February 13th, 2010 3 pm at Blankspaces on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles
Cost: FREE
No
one cares about you and your boring freelance business. That’s how it
feels, sometimes, doesn’t it? To the people who buy from you or hire
you, you and your competition all seem to look alike, sound alike,
provide the same service or sell the same stuff. “Blah, blah, blah,
just tell me how much it’s gonna cost.” Ouch.
At our next Meetup, Terri Langhans, CSP will pack 90-minutes with creative ideas, powerful insights, plenty of laughs, real world examples and tangible tools you can use right away (and over and over) to be less ordinary and more effective when it comes to marketing, advertising and business development. Regardless of what you’ve tried before, and regardless of how big or small your budget is--even if you don’t have a marketing budget.
Terri will zero in on these important areas of attracting more clients and growing your business, including How To:
- Distinguish your business from the competition and find your points of difference no matter how much you "look like the other guy."
- Describe what you do in a way that attracts (not repels) prospects and creates a conversation to explore working together.
- Create marketing messages that are memorable and more effective in generating the response you want.
Terri
promises you will walk away energized and equipped with what you need
to know, and what you need to do to be less ordinary and more effective
in growing your business. You and your marketing will have more focus
and higher impact which will give you greater response and a better
bottom line.
Why listen to Terri? Terri Langhans, CSP
is the former CEO of a national ad agency and marketing firm that she
started from scratch as a freelancer and grew large enough and
profitable enough to sell to a Fortune 100 Big Boy. But that was then
and this is now. Now Terri is COE (Chief of Everything) at Blah Blah
Blah, her speaking and consulting business and a CSP (Certified
Speaking Professional), one of only 206 women worldwide to have earned
the designation awarded by the National Speakers Association and the
International Federation of Professional Speakers. She's also the
author the book The 7 Marketing Mistakes Every Business Makes (And How to Fix Them) and conducts the Maverick Marketing 1-Day Workshop four times a year. 
Speaking: www.BlahBlahBlah.us
Marketing: www.MaverickMarketing.com
RSVP Here - Join The Group (it's free) to RSVP!
BYOW: Bring Your Own Whatever! If you can, bring a little something to munch on and share with the group!
About Blankspaces: A great co-working place in the middle of LA to be seen! for events, pricing and details go to www.BLANKSPACES.com. Show our sponsor some love!! Connect with them on Yelp, Facebook and more by clicking here http://www.blankspaces.com
![]() | February Events Local and Online! Freelancers and Small Business |
![]() | Freelancer Forum Radio Friday February 5th, 10am 2010 Blah Blah Blah: How to Stand Out from the Competition with Terri Langhans Join us Live! |



![]() | January 15th, 2010 Taxes Due! |
![]() | January 2010 Upcoming Events Online and in Los Angeles Be There! |
Hope everyone had a great New Years! This is just a note to let you know about some upcoming LA and online events you might be interested in for January.
Tomorrow 1/13 – Freelancers Union – Online – Bookkeeping Basics
- $30.00 union member price / $40.00 non union member price Details http://tinyurl.com/FUJan
Tomorrow 1/13 – The Entrepreneur Connection LA Meet Up Wine
and Cheese Mixer –
Thursday 1/14 – Constant Contact Email Marketing –
Thursday 1/14 – Peleg Top – 2010 Annual Goal Setting Retreat – Encino – Details/Costs go to www.PelegTop.com Limited spaces available.
Friday 1/15 – 4th Quarter Taxes Due – Don’t Forget!
Tuesday 1/19 – Biznik Eastside Mixer – Free -Hosted by
Heather Parlato and Michael Stern Los Feliz area - Details go to http://tinyurl.com/y8tf827
(Membership to Biznik is free). If you a member look me up and connect!
Thursday 1/28 – Constant
Contact Email Marketing –
Books: New Year Marketing Planner and Calendar by
Marketing
Happy January!!
Thanks for subscribing to Freelancer Forum.net! Don’t forget to visit the radio show Freelancer Forum on Blogtalkradio.com (www.blogtalkradio.com/Freelancer-Forum ) interviewing people who provide services for freelancers. Podcasts available via the link or in ITunes!
~Colleen Rice Nelson
![]() | Learn How to Effectively Network and Grow Your Business in 2010! LA Freelance Meet Up Group Sunday January 10th, 2010 |
Let's start off 2010 with learning how to effectively network! I have heard many comments from members of our group about how networking does, or doesn't work for them and their business. Well it seems to be a perfect time to learn how to effectively network while growing your business in 2010.
Our guest speaker, Daphna Hernandez from Life Coaching Masters will discuss how to effectively network and grow your business. It's not just a matter of going to a mixer and handing out business cards to every person standing in the room. It's not a quantity game, it is a quality game. Come and learn effective techniques to find real potential clients and leads, and how to use networking to expand your business - not just your Rolodex.
Interactive! Let's make this meet up useful for you! Daphna would like to address specific issues that you may have about networking. You can help make this a great meet up by emailing me questions, issues or problems you have concerning networking. Why do you feel you have not had any new business by networking? What is it about networking that drives you crazy? What makes networking difficult for you? What information would help you become a more effective "networker"? Email your comments or thoughts about networking and I will forward these to our guest speaker so she can address these in her presentation for you. Email me at info@freelancerforum.net and together we can make this meet up matter to you!
When: Sunday January 10th, 3 pm
Location: Blankspaces on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles
![]() | About Guest Speaker: For over two decades, Daphna Hernandez has helped hundreds of people take their lives to the next level. She works one-on-one with artists, business professionals, parents, youth, educators and other individuals, providing them with guidance, knowledge and tools to: identify and remove barriers to personal growth and expansion, reduce stress and become happier, more confident and stable, recognize and handle destructive elements in their lives, spot and handle unchanging conditions, personal or professional, repair, create, and maintain successful relationships, set and achieve business and career goals. She has also been a Featured Speaker at over 100 Personal Growth and Development Seminars and continue to impart practical knowledge in regularly-held speaking engagements. Her website is www.lifecoachingmasters.com |
Happy New Year! Let's grow our business in 2010!
![]() | LASBO Los Angeles Small Business Owners Kick off the New Year TONIGHT! January 1st, 2010 |
![]() | Happy New Year! Welcome 2010! |
![]() | Join LA Freelancers For a Holiday Party! Thursday December 10th 7 pm |
These holiday events are always lots of fun and provide tons ofconnections. Join groups from all over Los Angeles to celebrate thehard work we've done throughout the year.
NEW UPDATE: Cost is SUGGESTED DONATION ONLY - If you can't do 5$ bucks - then don't let that stop you from joining us! NEW UPDATE: PRIZE RAFFLE - Drop your business card in a bag for a chance to win some holiday cheer!
....you don't need to be a member of any of these groups to attend.You just have to be an excellent business professional who likes tohave fun! It might be the end of the year - but not the end of yourbusiness! Come out and have fun while building some great businessrelationships in the process.
Location: The HMS Bounty 3357 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90010
HMS Bounty has a variety of food and drinksavailable for you to purchase. We want to be good patrons to this localbusiness for allowing us to host our event there, so we encourage allof you to show your appreciation as well.
OPTIONAL GIFT EXCHANGE: Get in the Holiday Spirit!! If you'd like to participate in our gift exchange, buy a gift of nomore than $10, wrap it, and drop it in our gift box when you arrive.Everyone who drops a present in gets to take one out. Who doesn't lovea surprise?!?
Cost: Suggested Donation only $5 per person
To RSVP for Free Here or Suggested Donation of $5.00 Click Here!
Come and join us for some Holiday Spirit! Whether you are member of any of the groups, or not - if you are a freelancer for small business owner we want to meet up! Join us for some fun!.
Organized by Colleen Rice Nelson and Alaia Williams and Thanks to Colleen Wainwright for the Freelancer Frolic Logo!
Members of the following will be in attendance!


