Life After Corporate: Series Explores Secrets to Small Business Success – and Provides Donation to KIVA
Amid the bad economic news dominating the media and the public psyche, two entrepreneurs from Canada and the United States have teamed up to spread the message that some small businesses are thriving.
East St. Paul, Manitoba, Canada, February 15, 2009 --(PR.com)-- About The Corporate Fugitive and Entrepreneurs Unplugged
Sherri Garrity, founder of The Corporate Fugitive and Make It Count Communications, and Marcia Hoeck, Staff Profitability Consultant and owner of Hoeck and Associates, have created the first international speaker series to focus specifically on the challenges and achievements of business owners who come from corporate backgrounds.
What’s different about these businesses is that their owners have left the corporate world behind, and have not only adapted but are wildly successful, say Sherri Garrity and Marcia Hoeck, who will be profiling 12 entrepreneurs from the USA, Canada, and the United Kingdom in the Corporate Entrepreneurs Unplugged Telesummit.
“The people we will interview over the next several weeks have been very successful in making that transition and have been able to create businesses that allow them to make more money and take more time off, but also really recession-proof their businesses. We want business owners to know that there are people out there who are doing very well and that there are skills you can learn and techniques you can use to create more security, control, and wealth than you have working in a corporate career,” says Sherri, the owner of a communications consulting firm in central Canada and founder of the Corporate Fugitive Network.
Marcia and Sherri, both former corporate employees, met at a conference in November, struck up a friendship, and came up with the idea of providing role models to other entrepreneurs as well as those dreaming of leaving their corporate world for self-employment.
“What we found to be true in our experience and talking with other ‘corporate fugitives’ is that they don’t have the same reasons to start businesses as other people. Control, security, and money are the three reasons why people leave corporate positions,” adds Marcia Hoeck, owner of a marketing and branding firm in the USA, and a consultant to small business owners on building productive teams.
The partners agree that there are common mistakes that many entrepreneurs make. Marcia and Sherri talked in depth about these common mistakes recently on a special teleseminar presentation to kick off their Corporate Entrepreneurs Unplugged Telesummit.
During the six-week event, beginning February 10, 2009, they’ll interview highly successful entrepreneurs, including Michael Gerber of the E-Myth fame, Michael Port, and several others including eight women who are running six figure businesses from home, while taking care of young children. To promote the spirit of collaboration and role models, Marcia and Sherri are donating a portion of the event proceeds to Kiva.org, the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.
To get information, and to listen to the interview “The 7 Biggest Mistakes Corporate People Make When Starting Their Own Businesses” visit www.entrepreneursunplugged.com.
For interviews or more information contact:
Sherri Garrity
http://www.corporatefugitive.com/
Email: sgarrity@shaw.ca
(204) 955-6391
Marcia Hoeck
http://www.moneymakingdreamteam.com/
Email: marcia@hoeck.net
(419) 472-8808
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Sherri Garrity, founder of The Corporate Fugitive and Make It Count Communications, and Marcia Hoeck, Staff Profitability Consultant and owner of Hoeck and Associates, have created the first international speaker series to focus specifically on the challenges and achievements of business owners who come from corporate backgrounds.
What’s different about these businesses is that their owners have left the corporate world behind, and have not only adapted but are wildly successful, say Sherri Garrity and Marcia Hoeck, who will be profiling 12 entrepreneurs from the USA, Canada, and the United Kingdom in the Corporate Entrepreneurs Unplugged Telesummit.
“The people we will interview over the next several weeks have been very successful in making that transition and have been able to create businesses that allow them to make more money and take more time off, but also really recession-proof their businesses. We want business owners to know that there are people out there who are doing very well and that there are skills you can learn and techniques you can use to create more security, control, and wealth than you have working in a corporate career,” says Sherri, the owner of a communications consulting firm in central Canada and founder of the Corporate Fugitive Network.
Marcia and Sherri, both former corporate employees, met at a conference in November, struck up a friendship, and came up with the idea of providing role models to other entrepreneurs as well as those dreaming of leaving their corporate world for self-employment.
“What we found to be true in our experience and talking with other ‘corporate fugitives’ is that they don’t have the same reasons to start businesses as other people. Control, security, and money are the three reasons why people leave corporate positions,” adds Marcia Hoeck, owner of a marketing and branding firm in the USA, and a consultant to small business owners on building productive teams.
The partners agree that there are common mistakes that many entrepreneurs make. Marcia and Sherri talked in depth about these common mistakes recently on a special teleseminar presentation to kick off their Corporate Entrepreneurs Unplugged Telesummit.
During the six-week event, beginning February 10, 2009, they’ll interview highly successful entrepreneurs, including Michael Gerber of the E-Myth fame, Michael Port, and several others including eight women who are running six figure businesses from home, while taking care of young children. To promote the spirit of collaboration and role models, Marcia and Sherri are donating a portion of the event proceeds to Kiva.org, the world’s first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs in the developing world.
To get information, and to listen to the interview “The 7 Biggest Mistakes Corporate People Make When Starting Their Own Businesses” visit www.entrepreneursunplugged.com.
For interviews or more information contact:
Sherri Garrity
http://www.corporatefugitive.com/
Email: sgarrity@shaw.ca
(204) 955-6391
Marcia Hoeck
http://www.moneymakingdreamteam.com/
Email: marcia@hoeck.net
(419) 472-8808
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www.entrepreneursunplugged.com
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204-955-6391
http://www.corporatefugitive.com
www.entrepreneursunplugged.com
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