A friend and I started a new Meetup group, MovNat & Paleo Columbus. We did this because we enjoy practicing natural movement along with traditional lifting in the gym. We also eat Paleo — which, in a nutshell, is eating meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, nuts and seeds with no gluten and no processed foods. So [...]
Category Archives: Events
Jan
23
The Power of the Meetup
Also posted in Event Planning, Exercise, Fitness, Marketing, Paleo, Planning, Written Impact Tagged Business, event planning, events, Exercise, marketing, Paleo Leave a comment
Jan
10
What Have You Done to Build Your Brand Today?
Sometimes small business owners look at Marketing as a task done separately from the rest of their business. Oh contraire! Marketing, or the building of your brand, occurs every day on many levels — with every action, word, meeting, email, phone call and event. Review today’s brand building .. how did it go? Did you [...]
Also posted in Blogging, Branding, Business, Collaboration Tagged branding, Business, Collaboration, marketing Leave a comment
Aug
14
Lessons Learned from an Event Planner
Post by Julie Naporano, WI Events Manager. In my more than 9 years as a contracted event planner, I have learned five important points about the business: People underestimate the time it takes to do everything. People think they know what they want until they have to explain it. Being nice matters. Things look different [...]
Also posted in Business, Creativity, Entrepreneur, Planning, Written Impact Tagged Business, event budgets, event goals, event planning, events, fundraising, written impact 1 Comment
May
23
Cool Moments as a Small Biz Owner
Being a small business owner has some really cool moments. Last week was filled with them as Julie and I coordinated a one-week Bike Tour event for seminarians — men in their twenties who are preparing to become Roman Catholic priests for the Diocese of Columbus. Their school year is really intense at the Pontifical [...]
Also posted in Bike Tour, Catholic, Client Spotlight, Columbus Diocese, Determination, Inspiration, Life, Written Impact Tagged Catholic, Collaboration, events, written impact 16 Comments
May
2
Welcome to Our New Website
Our website has been under construction for a while now and that is okay because client work always comes first. Then of course, as a writer, I could tweak the content endlessly. You gotta love WordPress; it makes it so easy to change, well, just about everything. We are so glad to have our blog [...]
Mar
21
Measuring the Success of an Event
Post by Julie Naporano, Events Manager, Written Impact I was sitting in a Board meeting a few weeks ago after planning an event for a non-profit. We discussed expenses, income, guests who attended, comments from Board members, and finally the final net $$ earned for the event. Then the question came up, “How do we [...]
Also posted in Event Planning, Marketing, Networking, Nonprofit, Written Impact Tagged event budgets, event goals, events, fundraising, hosting events, measuring success, ROI, ROO, strategic planning, WrittenImpact 4 Comments
Mar
1
Welcome to Written Impact Julie!
It’s a new month and we have a new team member at Written Impact! Welcome to Julie Naporano, Events Manager, and we look forward to the exciting new roads we will travel together. Julie has been planning events for non-profits, businesses and individuals for nine years. When she approached us about joining our team, it [...]
Also posted in Business, Business Passion, Collaboration, Communication, Event Planning, Marketing Tagged Business, Collaboration, Columbus, creativity, event planning, events, Julie Naporano, written impact, WrittenImpact 5 Comments
