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San Francisco's Eat My Words Makes Million Dollar Business Finals
Founder Competes for Financing, Mentoring, and Other Prizes to Help Catapult Her Businesses' Revenue to a Million Dollars
| Source: Eat My Words
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - September 9, 2008) - Business growth program, Make Mine A
Million $ Business™, selected Alexandra Watkins of Nationally Acclaimed
Naming Firm, Eat My Words, as one of twenty finalists to compete for an
awards package at the New Mexico event on September 18, 2008. The event
will feature female entrepreneurs from New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and
California who competed for business development packages including money,
marketing, mentoring and technology assistance to help their businesses
grow into million-dollar enterprises.
The upcoming competition provides the twenty finalists the opportunity to
present their business in a three-minute "elevator pitch" to a panel of
business experts and a live audience. Ten winners will be chosen by the
audience and judges.
Watkins founded Eat My Words in 2005, a distinctively different naming firm
whose primary passion is generating conceptual, unforgettable names and
taglines, after a successful 15-year career as an advertising copywriter
where she discovered she had a passion for naming things. Without a college
education or any formal business training, the 44-year-old entrepreneur has
turned her passion into a company with clients like Frito Lay, Del Monte,
Plantronics, InterContinental Hotels and infomercial giant Guthy-Renker.
Finalists will receive several of the key components of the Make Mine a
Million $ Business awards package that will help their businesses break the
million-dollar barrier, which includes inspiration, community, business
coaching and mentoring from a "dream" team of coaches and business experts
from Count Me In, and select discounts from national sponsors.
Launched in 2005 by Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence and
founding partner American Express OPEN, the Make Mine a Million $ Business
program was created to help post-start up, women-owned businesses grow to
one million dollars in annual revenue. Since its inception, the program has
hosted 18 competitions in cities around the country and grown into a
nationwide movement. For this year's event, more than 400 applications
were submitted in hopes of securing one of the finalist spots.
For more information about how women can grow their businesses please visit
www.makemineamillion.org.