Hello January!

Happy New Year! It’s a new decade and a new opportunity to follow your personal and business dreams! We hope the January issue of Cultivating Connections helps by bringing you this compilation of networking opportunities, business tips, and professional development tools.

If you have an event, resource or tool you would like to share for possible inclusion in our next issue, please send it to hello@verbenamarketing.com

If you need help setting, meeting or exceeding your marketing and business development goals, we can help your business blossomOn

Your Reading List

Dare to Lead

If you haven’t heard, watched or read anything by Brené Brown, now is the time. Dare to Lead is an inspiring read whether your new to leadership or trying to improve your leadership skills. You will walk away less afraid of having hard conversations, be able to foster and maintain stronger relationships and cultivate a culture that is true to your values.

What’s on your reading list for 2020? Share it with us

On Your Mind

“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.“

– Brené Brown

In Your Calendar
Kick Start Your 2020 Marketing Efforts With These Awesome Events:

7 Reasons Why PR is Worth the Hustle With Darian Kovacs

It’s often said that there’s something magical about public relations in business. A lot of time and resources go into this marketing method, but what is so special about it and why should businesses invest in it?  

Key Takeaways:
• The importance of telling your story
• Using PR to stay human in a tech-forward world
• Off site SEO and how PR can help you get on the first page of Google
• How PR helps HR
• Using PR to effectively reach your target market
• Expanding your reach through multiple platforms
• Increasing your client’s trust through PR

Special guest speaker is Darian Kovacs, PR mastermind and Managing Partner of the award-winning Jelly Digital Marketing and PR explains how PR can, and will, bring the “WOW” factor to your business.

Brought to you by: Cloverdale District Chamber of Commerce
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
11:30 am – 100 pm
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2020 Marketing Plan Workshop

Let’s make 2020 the best year yet; what better way to do it than with a plan?

Brought to you by: Fraser Valley Boss Ladies
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
9:30 – 1030 am
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If You Hate Networking Then Speed Networking is for You!

Doers the thought of networking fill you with dread? Want to build your network in a fun and comfortable environment?
 
Then mark your calendar for speed networking on Thursday, January 30 and connect with fellow business professionals over cocktails and appys at The Clayton Public House.