The BNC will be hosting the Dancing Elephants Achievement Group Final Friday Forum on the last Friday of every month. The Forum is for everyone who wants to connect with others and stay focused. "Our goal at the Final Friday Forum is to provide the busines community with an enriched networking environment and offer the opportunity to learn new business strategies and techniques from our guest speakers who present at each event," says Tim Moore, Dancing Elephants Achievement Group.

THIS IS IT - THE FINAL - Final Friday Forum for 2009!

One week early this month due to the Thanksgiving Holiday.

Dancing Elephants Achievement Group
in partnership with
inSide919.com
along with our Platinum Sponsor
Home Video Studio™ Presents

Along with this month's sponsor: Miss Taffy's Cheesecakes and Discount Wine - Special Holiday Wine Tasting!

ALICE OSBORN

Say What You Mean to Say: Write Articles to Bring Traffic to Your Website

Writing content-rich articles that link back to your website will increase your page ranking, will bring visitors and customers to your site, and will increase others’ awareness of what you do. But it takes work and effort. Alice Osborn, writing expert and teacher, will show you simple tools and tricks to keep you committed so that your article marketing campaign will transform you into the sought-after expert in your field. She’ll also discuss idea generation, common dos and don’ts as well as creating the perfect profile and headline. Alice believes that no one else can write about your business as well as you can. So no more excuses—let’s start writing today!

About Alice:

Alice Osborn (M.A., English, NC State) offers editing and writing services to small businesses and creatives. Alice is the author of Right Lane Ends (Catawba, 2006), is a former English teacher at Raleigh Charter High School, and offers creative writing and business seminars throughout the Triangle and has recently taught at Whole Foods, Meredith College, UNC-Friday Center and Duke Continuing Studies. She is a regular contributor to The Pedestal Magazine, Wake Living and Triangle Mom 2 Mom, published by the News & Observer. In addition, her poetry has appeared in Soundings Review, Main Street Rag, the 2008 and 2009 Kakalak Poetry Anthologies, the Raleigh Quarterly, and more. She serves as the Raleigh Regional Representative for the North Carolina Writers’ Network and is the Organizer of the North Raleigh Coffee and Contacts chapter. Alice grew up in the Washington, D.C. area and moved south to Charleston after graduating from Virginia Tech (B.S. Finance). She learned how to waitress, drive a car, and sail in the Holy City. A few years later, she learned how to catch a shoplifter, rock climb, sing karaoke, and scuba dive in Myrtle Beach, SC. She now lives in North Raleigh with her husband, two children and two parakeets. When not working, she enjoys hiking, social networking and watching True Blood on HBO.

Here’s the schedule:

11:30 – 12:00 Open Networking

12:00 – 12:15 Eat and Greet!

12:20 – 1:30 Presentation & Introductions

Participants are not required to R.S.V.P. $10 charge (at the door) to attend and lunch will be served.

Satisfaction Guaranteed

If you don’t agree this was a valuable use of your lunchtime, we will give you – absolutely FREE – a big jar of pickles!

Sponsorship opportunities available, please contact Tim Moore for more information. [masked] or [masked]

Only a small $10 charge to attend and a light lunch will be served.

*** Remember, we are continuing to accept donations for the Food Bank. Please help us help our community. Barrels are located in BNC by the Clearwire kiosk.

Once Final Friday Forum is completed on Friday afternoon at 1:30 all our guests are invited to linger at the "Final Friday Afternoon Club" for more networking, relationship building, socializing and a FREE WINE TASTING complements of the BNC discount wine shop and cafe.

Everyone is invited to spend as little or as much time as they want to celebrate with friends the end of another great month!