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May 12, 2008

Women Tech Council: Women in Innovation Networking Event

Om May 7, 2008 the Women Tech Council presented the first annual Women in Innovation Networking event with featured speaker Sharlene Wells Hawkes CMO of StoryRock.

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October 19, 2007

The Utah Women's Technology Council - Inaugural Luncheon

On October 18 the Utah Women’s Technology Council convened to launch the first meeting and luncheon at the Miller Free Enterprise Center. The Women’s Technology Council is a forum organized to bring women in technology sectors together to network and establish new relationships with women in various professional roles.

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May 2, 2007

The Dynamics of Salesmanship

The definition of a sale is ‘the act of meeting prospective buyers and providing them with a product or service in turn of money or other required compensation’ [Wikipedia, 2007]. The sale is the practical implementation of marketing event and has a clearly defined cycle of events through salesmanship that involves, to a larger extent, attributes in selling. Those attributes involve empathy, ego drive and strength.

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March 21, 2007

The UTC CEO P2P Experience

Today I had the privilege to attend the Utah Technology Council (UTC) CEO P2P forum where the topic of discussion was “The Smartest Things I Ever Did”.

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February 14, 2007

Changing the Voice is More Like a Changing of the Guard

Recently, I have had some difficulty writing blog entries. My main concern is that the since my blog is directly linked to my company are the entries that I create and write can have a positive or negative impact on the company image? Since I have put so much energy and time into building a small business the image of the company means more to me and I the last thing I would want is to tarnish that image by not projecting a more professional tone of voice.

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December 15, 2006

Culture Shock: Embracing the role of the entrepreneur

What you think you know and what you realize you don't know when you step into entrepreneurship. A transition from academia to small business and the inevitable cultural changes.

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October 11, 2006

The SBIR Experience: Beginning to End and Everything in Between

The process of competing for and winning a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant is an undertaking that requires a serious committment in planning and execution. The following describes the process of planning, writing, submitting and finally, obtaining an SBIR award.

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October 10, 2006

Image Collaboration in Pediatric Ophthalmology

The weekend of October 6 I was invited to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Conference and Exhibition. This conference was held in the lovely city of Atlanta at the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC) and attended by close to 40,000 pediatricians, pediatric specialists and practitioners and device manufacturers and vendors.

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