NAWW Member, Lisa Manyon has been hired to develop and facilitate a series of training seminars for the Idaho Small Business Development Center. The training will assist businesses in avoiding costly marketing and advertising start-up mistakes.

The series includes:

1) Image is Everything ~The Heart of your Business Identity
2) Plan the Work & Work the Plan ~ Strategic Advertising & Marketing Plans
3) Words Speak Volumes ~ Copywriting Basics
4) In the Public Eye ~ Free Publicity

The following national guru’s are supporting the training by providing takeaway pieces (with more to come):

- Kim Castle and W. Vito Montone of Why BrandU www.whybrandu.com

- Vickie Sullivan, speaker and consultant www.sullivanspeaker.com

- Laura Lake marketing specialist for About.com http://marketing.about.com

- Peter Bowerman author of the Well Fed Writer www.wellfedwriter.com

- Lorrie Morgan- Ferrero of Red Hot Copy www.red-hot-copy.com

- Joan Stewart aka the publicity hound www.publicityhound.com

- Jill Lublin with Promising Promotions www.promisingpromotion.com

The training seminars will be held at the Small Business Development Center on the campus of Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston Idaho on May 2nd, 4th, 9th and 11th from 6 to 8 pm. As the training nears more details will be posted at www.writeoncreative.com in the Manyon’s Musings section.

NAWW members are asked to contact Lisa Manyon at lisa@writeoncreative.com if they would like to contribute to the takeaway pieces.