Here are some helpful preparation tips for tomorrow's networking event:

• Spend some time today thinking about how you will introduce yourself to others tomorrow. We call this your "60-second commercial." You will be asked to tell us, in 60 seconds or less the following:
  
  1. Who you are
     
  2. What do you offer
     
  3. What do you specifically need in the next 30 - 60 days
     
  4. What do you plan to purchase, for personal or business reasons, in the next 30 - 60 days
     
  
  
• One of the keys to the success of our networking events is our philosophy of "GIVING FIRST." Translated, this means we approach networking from a position of abundance, where giving to others leads to unlimited opportunities for all. Tomorrow, as you meet and connect with others, please approach all of your interactions from a place of "giving." Seek first to help others before being helped.
  
  We promise, by engaging in our "giving" approach to relationship building you will gain more from this eWomenNetwork experience than you ever imagined.
  
  
• Be Prompt! Arrive NO LATER than 11:00 AM to collect your name badge, benefit from informal networking and browse the array of dynamic display tables. Even though the event will officially conclude at 1:30 PM, many women will want to continue mingling and networking. We encourage you to stay and enjoy our post-"Accelerated Networking" cool-down.
  
  
• Bring: Plenty of business cards, your notebook and your appointments calendar.
  

Mary Ellen Fletcher

Is All Fair in Fair Fare? And Other Corny Money-Making Topics.
Although a number of current corn dog vendors lay claim to the invention or popularization of the corn dog, Carl and Neil Fletcher introduced their "corny dogs" at the Texas State Fair sometime between 1938 and 1942, and the little-changed dogs are now billed as "The Original."

Some of the valuable principles you will learn:

• The importance of claiming to be the original
  
• What fun has to do with it
  
• How to keep condiment supply lines open and flowing
  
• Techniques for overcoming barriers of "good taste"
  
• The value of sticking with it