Heart to Heart Happenings October 2016

Heart to Heart Happenings October 2016 View this email in your browser Heart to Heart Happenings October 2016 Hi Monica, Sorry about the last minute notice about having to cancel our Eastside meeting on Tuesday but sometimes unexpected things happen that are out of our control. As far as we know, we are still on for our next meeting on Oct 18th but Kristina will advise us if there are any other changes. We don't have time to babysit people who sign up and don't pay so there are now some Spotlight Table openings. See the schedule below and sign up if you want a table! If you want to sign up for a table, you will have to go online and sign up for a table. Payment will be required within two weeks (or less) or your spot will be cancelled and opened up to someone else. I made a decision at our last Northend meeting to hold our holiday party at Shawn O'Donnell's since the poll was running exactly 50/50. We discussed how it will just be easier for everyone to keep the meeting location the same since it is a regular meeting date. Finally, I am going to do away with the Eventbrite invites as they made it difficult again to publish the event on Facebook. It is just too much maintainance for 2-3 RSVPs so at the end of this month, you will no longer be able to RSVP through Eventbrite. ~Monica~ NORTHEND Oct 10th Meetup RSVP EASTSIDE Oct 18th Meetup RSVP Kathy with The Miller Connection - Connecting you to health insurance answers. Contact me for more info! NORTHEND Oct 10th Eventbrite RSVP EASTSIDE Oct 18th Eventbrite RSVP Emily with Windermere Real Estate - There's No Place Like Home MORE INFO & NEWS SAVE THE DATE We will be hosting our annual White Elephant Gift Exchange Holiday Party on Monday Dec 12th, 2016! It will be a regular meeting date but we will forgo our usual meeting format for a fun holiday party. Please bring a funny or unusual gift to this meeting. Please do NOT buy anything! You must bring something from your home that you want to get rid of. If you need ideas, please ask! We will start with very brief 15 second introductions, then draw numbers to pick presents and most of the meeting will be spent opening and stealing gifts.  NO MEETINGS We will NOT have a meeting for the Eastside group on Tuesday Dec 20th and we will NOT have a meeting for the Northend group on Monday Dec 26th. Monica and Kristina will be out of town for both of these dates and we figured people will want to spend time with their families for the holidays. We will resume our normal meeting schedule after the first of the year.  MEETUP ADVERTISING I am going to highlight two of our Meetup Sponsors each month in order to give them greater exposure. I noticed that the ads only show up on the desktop version of Meetup and I think most people use the app or the mobile version in a web browser which means these ads are probably not seen as much as I had hoped. I am raising the price for our next round of Meetup Sponsors starting in November. The price will increase from $35 to $49 for a 6 month advertising run. That works out to be a little over $8/month so it is still very reasonable advertising for your business. I will accept 6 sponsors for this offer. That means you will have at least two months where your ad will appear in our emails. These emails also get published to our Facebook page and website so there will be more chances for people to see your ads. I have ONE SPOT open so contact me if you are interested in this offer! NORTHEND SPOTLIGHT TABLES I am increasing the price of our Spotlight Tables where you get 7 minutes to present about your business and you can also set up a table to display/sell your products/services. Starting in November, the price will increase from $20 to $25 per table. See the list below for who is signed up through the end of the year.  MEMBER OF THE MONTH This is a new offer that I am starting! We are not using our website as much as we should so I would love to offer a "Member of the Month" where you will provide me with a blog post that we can put on our website. You will have the chance to highlight your business and tell us more about what you sell/offer. You can use 500-1200 words, up to 5 images, and unlimited text links. Content is subject to approval. This is great for SEO and will remain on the site indefinitely. Your blog post will also be shared on Facebook and highlighted in our monthly newsletter as well. I have 4 people signed up so far and our first article was published in October! Check out Sandee Palmquist who is our October Member of the Month! As an introductory offer, I will start this program for just $35!  NORTHEND SPECIAL SPEAKER As I mentioned before, I had to move our speakers out to 2017. Please SAVE THE DATE! Our next speaker is Nicole Lux Ritchie with Luxcentric on Jan 23rd, 2017 and her talk is about productivity with "Inbox Zero". After that we will welcome back Nikki Rausch The Sales Maven who will speak to us on Mar 13th, 2017 about "Buying Signals". I had an overwhelming response to extend the time we give our speakers and everyone wanted to hear more from Nikki. At our next speaker event, we will do brief 15 second commercials in order to give them more time to give their presentation! Do you have someone to recommend or a topic that you want to hear about? Let me know!  EASTSIDE CHAPTER We will be changing to a twice a month format and changing the day of the week to every 1st & 3rd Tuesday. We still meet at the same location at Canyons in Redmond and Kristina McCrady is leading that group. There will be 1 Spotlight Table at each meeting until attendance supports an additional one. The tables are $10 and you must attend a meeting to sign up. Kristina also plans on drawing for a free 3-minute commercial (Spotlight tables get 7 minutes and regular commercials are 1.5 minutes) so make sure you attend and get the lowdown on everything she has planned. MONTHLY ADVENTURE OUTINGS Kim and Stephanie have stepped up to lead a monthly H2H Adventure Outing where we plan to meet and spend $30-40 per person on a fun activity or event. Some ideas that we have been tossing around were karaoke, a mani/pedi day at the spa, wine tasting, solve a puzzle room, etc. Send your ideas of fun activities to do to Kim or Stephanie. SPOTLIGHT TABLES - NORTHEND To have a table, you must have attended a meeting within the last 3 months. You will get 7 minutes to present about your business and/or passion. The cost for a Spotlight Table is $25. Here is the schedule for the upcoming months:  10/10/16 - Monica with Anywhere But Here Travel and Barbara with Tupperware 10/24/16 - Kathy with Nice & Bella and Cheryle with Juice Plus 11/14/16 - Heather with Usborne Books & More and Victoria with Natural Goodness 11/28/16 - Linda with Vacation Sooner with Linda and OPEN 12/12/16 - HOLIDAY PARTY - NO SPOTLIGHT TABLES 12/26/16 - NO MEETING - HAPPY HOLIDAYS! SPOTLIGHT TABLES - EASTSIDE To have a table, you must have attended a meeting within the last 3 months. You will get 7 minutes to present about your business and/or passion. The cost for a Spotlight Table is $10 and you must attend a meeting to sign up. Please contact Kristina McCrady for more information! 10/18/16 - Dottie with H2O at Home 11/1/16 - Sandee with Gourmet Temptations Gift Baskets 12/6/16 - NO SPOTLIGHT TABLE - HOLIDAY PARTY? 12/20/16 - NO SPOTLIGHT TABLE - HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Monica, Your Travel Gal creates personalized vacations and honeymoons for busy professionals and families. Let Monica save you time and money PLUS alleviate the stress and frustration of planning your next trip! Remember to go onlline to LOOK ... But contact Monica to BOOK! 425-608-0266 x827 ~ monica@goabhtravel.com Website Facebook Meetup Twitter Eventbrite Email Copyright © 2016 Monica, Your Travel Gal, All rights reserved. Just a reminder that you have been added to our mailing list because you have attended one of our meetings AND you are NOT a member of our Meetup group. If you are getting our messages in both places and would rather just get it in one, please unsubscribe to the duplicate mailing. I don't want to spam anyone and we make a point of mentioning this at every meeting so I am just trying to be mindful of our rules. :) Our mailing address is: Monica, Your Travel Gal 19410 Hwy 99, Suite A119 Lynnwood, WA 98036 Add us to your address book