About Connect-Relate-Network

IF you want more success, more sales, more customers;

IF you want better work-life balance;

IF you want to meet other business people with the same positive attitude about business growth and improving life in our community, Kitsap County…

THEN you want to check out Connect-Relate-Network.

 We’ve come back with improved networking and educational opportunities, plus benefits only for our members. A lineup of highly informative speakers will present topics from marketing, social media, and Facebook advertising to sales growth, time management, building business relationships and much more!

NEW! “Members Only Benefits” – updated November 2013!

• 25 free “thank you for meeting with me” postcards, designed and printed by Jennifer Zuver, owner of MarkItz. Use them to follow up with prospects and referrals.
• One month FREE Coaching – our members get one month FREE COACHING (a $375 value) from Dave Mitchell at PMR Coaching & Consulting. This free offer is available to any member once they’ve completed their fifth month of Dave’s proven coaching systems.
• 15% discount on services from Valarie Harris, SocialMEDIvA. She’ll promote your business using social media so you stop wasting time on “free” but ineffective marketing.
• Two months of free local promotion – a great way to target local customers by letting Mary West Network place promotional postcards for your business in tabletop holders at a choice of three highly trafficked Kitsap County locations. Your choice of one place in Poulsbo, Bremerton or Port Orchard.
• Poulsbo PC & Electronics – Complete Diagnostics for only $10. That’s a savings of more than 50% off the regular $24.95 price for this service.
• Enrollment fee waived for membership in LegalShield (a $10 value), courtesy of Susanna De Santos. For a low monthly fee, LegalShield lets you consult a top quality law firm when you need advice. LegalShield has business and personal plans.
• Two months of free advertising space on SpotLight Around Town, offered by Sherry Morisch. This website service focuses on promoting Kitsap County small businesses, their products and services.
• Three freshly baked muffins – free – from Jak’s Café & Espresso in Poulsbo.
• 20% reduction on It Works! – a discount off the retail price of these tightening, toning and firming wraps offering fast and lasting results from a botanically based formula – good for men and women, too.
• Dreamzscape Tours and Travel – CRN members get a $50 credit when they spend $1,000 or more on their dream trip booked through Tammy White’s travel agency.
• 10% discount on up to 10 tutoring sessions from Dream Team Tutors, offered by CRN member Jenny Williams.
• Two complimentary personal coaching sessions with H.C. “Joe” Raymond, author of Embracing Change from the Inside Out. Or get a 10% discount off the fee for any of Joe’s “personal change” workshops. Your choice!

More benefits to come. Add your business’s Member Only Benefit here and, when you join CRN, you’ll receive a 50% discount on your member fees! (Contact Mary West about including an item from your business.)

Connect-Relate-Network gives you tools for business growth and work-life balance in a supportive network of like-minded business people.

What it takes to join:

• You are serious about local business networking and referrals
• You are willing to share your business plan and vision with the group so we know what our goals are and understand how we can support each other in reaching them
• You want the added feature of monthly educational business and community oriented presentations, plus the member-only benefits
• You’ll take part in a “Pay It Forward” project giving back to our community
• Fees: $50 to join, $20 monthly membership fee (50% discount if you offer a members-only benefit!)

Meetings are the first and third Tuesdays in Poulsbo from 1:30-2:30 at Stella’s Pizza & Pasta. Come as our guest, free of charge, to your first meeting.

Each Connect-Relate-Network group is kept to 18 members. We believe a group this size, with a limit of two members from each type of business represented, will bring the best results for our members. (When we have more applicants than space available, we will start more groups.) The Poulsbo Connect-Relate-Network group is the first of what we hope will be many.

For more information, please contact Mary West by phone: 360 509 3784 or by email: mary@marywestnetwork.com

About the blog

Elena M. Rodriguez, writer and editor at Pacific Press International, runs this blog for C-R-N. Elena specializes in writing for and about businesses, whether local, national or international in scale. She’s the author of several books and has edited the work of other authors, journalists and business people. She welcomes comments on new Connect-Relate-Network blog posts. You can email Elena directly at: elena@pacificpressinternational.com.