Meeting Location & Time

MOM'S INC. is now WOMEN BALANCING BUSINESS! New name, same great group! Please visit our new web page to see what's happening starting in June 2015:


Thanks for your interest...we look forward to meeting you!

PLEASE NOTE NEW MEETING DAY AND LOCATION:
Mom's Inc. Silver Spring Chapter meets the 3rd TUESDAY of every month from 10:00 AM until Noon at:

The Olney Library, 3500 Olney-Laytonsville Road (Rte.108), Olney, MD 20832 in the Small Meeting Room.

Mark Your Calendar (topics and speakers are subject to change)

COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT in honor of Mother's Day:
Baby Shower - we will collect baby items at our May and June meetings to donate locally for new mothers needing a little help to bring baby home! Please bring your unwrapped contributions for baby boy and girl layettes - onesies, receiving blankets, pacifiers, crib sheets, etc. Mom's Inc. will provide the diaper bags to fill with your donations.

Speakers List

  • 5/19/15 - Guest Speaker - Sheila Martel, Producer, Writer & Mentor and Member Spotlight - Annette M. Bergmann, Realtor - Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, PenFed Realty

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Meeting Agenda for May 19 Meeting

9:30 – 10 am: Sign-in: Help set up if you are able; make a connection with someone new; pick up business cards and brochures; display your information and raffle item.

10 – 10:30 am: One minute self Introduction: practice your elevator speech.

10:30 – 10:50 am: Guest Speaker: HARNESS THE POWER OF BLOGGING Jessica McFadden - Writer and creator of A Parent in Silver Sprig.com. Her blog was featured in Forbes and was voted Washington DC's Best Local Blog. We've heard so much about the importance of using blogs as a business tool, now let's hear from someone who HAS turned her blogging into a career with Nickelodeon! See more about Jessica on our blog: http://momsincss.blogspot.com/

10:50 – 11:20 am: Member Presentation: Linda Quinones - Pampered Chef (mmmm, I wonder what Linda will bring this time...)

11:20 - 11:50 am: Roundtable Topic: Ideas for preventing Summer Slump - is your business typically slow during summers? Bring ideas on what we can do to keep it hopping!
11:50 am - noon: Raffle: this is a good opportunity to showcase your products or services and try something new.

As always, my passion at Dream Dinners is to make every busy person's life a little easier, especially business moms who wear multiple hats! Here is what we have in our Garb&Go freezer ready to go. You get 5% off when you reach $100 in purchase - so make it a productive outing and bring your cooler. This is your private Market Day so take advantage of it - reservation is welcome.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Bio of Guest Speaker - May 19

Jessica McFadden is the writer and creator of A Parent in Silver Spring.com, a resource website for families in the Washington, DC area. On her blog, she seeks to inform and entertain her fellow parents with a calendar of events, reviews of local offerings, giveaways and humor. A Parent in Silver Spring has been featured in Forbes, The Washington Post, Maryland Life and was Voted Washington DC's Best Local Blog by Nickelodeon ParentsConnect.

Thanks to the success of her website, Jessica now works part-time from home as a freelance writer, writing for ParentsConnect, The Washington Post and The Washington Times Communities. Prior to beginning her website, Jessica worked as an aide in the United States Senate and as a public relations professional. She left the workforce in 2003 when her first child was born, and took a complete professional hiatus until beginning her website in 2008. Her most important gigs are being mom to Charlie, 6, and Eve, 4, and wife to Chris.