Testimonials—Inspiring Success

When I joined Women TIES a few months ago, I was excited to join the Speaker’s Bureau of Women Entrepreneurs. I wondered if the bureau truly produced speaking opportunities for members. If you have doubts that it works, allow me to tell you what happened that changed my mind:

After I acquired a new domain name for my business (and a matching e-mail address to go with it), I updating my site making it attractive, simple and effective. On my 'to-do' list, I scrawled "update contact info on Women TIES." Figuring no one really scours the Speakers Bureau for speakers, I put that chore on the bottom.

The next morning I sat down at my desk with coffee and got right to tweaking my site. As I worked on aligning the POP server e-mail with my site, I heard a "BING!" come from my new e-mail. I thought, "So soon? No one knows this address even exists. Who could it be?" I opened my new e-mail and there, in all its glory, was an e-mail from a woman interested in hiring me to speak for her organization. The first line of her e-mail read, "I found your information on the Women TIES website..."

I was thrilled! Thank goodness my old website redirected her to my new site. But wouldn't it have been great if all of my super-new snazzy info was there for her to see - including my new book coming out in March. I smiled big, set my tweaking aside and immediately went to WomenTIES.com and got busy updating my profile.

The lessons I learned were:

1) Update your contact info immediately.
2) Women TIES has traffic, clearly,so keep your contact info updated.
3) My new POP server works!

— Joleene DesRosiers, Transformational Speaker / Author