Make Mine a Million $ Business™ Names Finalists

Mary Cantando, coordinator for the North Carolina Make Mine a Million $ Business™ (www.makemineamillion.org) event, has appear the accolade finalists for the accident appointed for Tuesday, Oct. 7 at the Blake Hotel, amid at 555 S. McDowell St. Twenty finalists were called from applicants above the Carolinas and will be asked to bear a business angle to women entrepreneurs, board and guests at the event. The finalists are as follows:

•Jan Allison, Carolina On-Site Fleet Services, Inc., Winston-Salem, N.C.
•Denise Bennett, DS Bennett Business Strategies, Raleigh, N.C.
•Jessica Bottesch, Empower Personal Training, Durham, N.C.
•Ronda Michaels, Empower Personal Training, Durham, N.C.
•Dr. Angela Bright Pearson, Bright Audiology, Sanford, N.C.
•Kristie Byrum, Byrum Innovation Group, Inc., Greenville, S.C.
•Elizabeth Casazza, Aquavida USA, Ocean Isle, N.C.
•Gail Corrigan, Corrigan Associates, Inc., Creedmoor, N.C.
•Wendy Coulter, Hummingbird Creative Group, Cary, N.C.
•Barbara Denison, Cranky Creative Group, Durham, N.C.
•Carrie DeWitt-Partello, East Coast Moving LLC, Shallotte, N.C.
•Carrie Gault, Happy Box Architecture PLLC, Charlotte
•Virginia Jones, Kinetic Electric Group LLC, Laurinburg, N.C.
•Lia Lucero, Showpiece Enterprises, Inc., Cornelius, N.C.
•Jess McLamb, The Roper Group Inc., Raleigh, N.C.
•Fabi Preslar, SPARK Publications, Matthews, N.C.
•Zoe Schmidinger, Maple’s Leather Furniture Inc., Sugar Mountain, N.C.
•Lisa Shock, Roxboro Family Medicine & Immediate Care, Roxboro, N.C.
•Kimberly Ward, Petra Land Surveying, PLLC, Waxhaw, N.C.
•Maggie Weldon, Maggie Weldon Designs, Kernersville, N.C.

Ten winners will be called by board and admirers members. Awardees will accept apprenticeship from Count Me In™, a platinum business banknote abatement acclaim agenda from American Express OPENSM, consultations from AIG® and more. The Make Mine a Million $ Business™ affairs provides women entrepreneurs with the befalling to aggrandize their businesses to added than a actor dollars in anniversary revenue.

The Micro to Millions™ affairs is a new affairs of Count Me In that supports businesses that are not absolutely ample abundant yet to administer to the Make Mine a Million $ Business™ program. The absorbed of this affairs is to abutment micro businesses to calibration to a akin of advance area they can administer to the Make Mine a Million $ Business Program in 18-24 months. The affairs provides a abate awards amalgamation agnate to the Make Mine a Million $ Business program. Finalists for this affairs include:

•Connie Cwik, Cwik Business Connections, High Point, N.C.
•Carol Nix, Carol Fountain Nix, LLC, Raleigh, N.C.
•Yael Powell, Absolute Best Care, Charlotte
•Avi Sommerville, Highcliffe Baked Goods, LLC, Asheville, N.C.

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www.mmimarketing.com

News Facts:

•Mary Cantando, coordinator for the North Carolina Make Mine a Million $ Business™ (www.makemineamillion.org) event, has appear the accolade finalists for the accident appointed for Tuesday, Oct. 7 at the Blake Hotel, amid at 555 S. McDowell St. Charlotte, North Carolina. North Carolina women business owners may complete an online appliance through Monday, Sept. 1.
•Twenty finalists were called from applicants statewide and will be asked to bear a business angle to women entrepreneurs, board and guests at the event.
•Ten winners will be called by board and admirers members.
•Awardees will accept apprenticeship from Count Me In™, a platinum business banknote abatement acclaim agenda from American Express OPENSM, consultations from AIG® and more.
•The Make Mine a Million $ Business™ affairs provides women entrepreneurs with the befalling to aggrandize their businesses to added than a actor dollars in anniversary revenue.

Quotes:
“We are aflame to accessible our North Carolina accident to women entrepreneurs from South Carolina,” said Nell Merlino, architect and admiral of Count Me In. “Our movement is growing exponentially, blame American women into the next borderland of bread-and-butter achievement. The baby business area is a advancing allotment of our country’s economy, and women-owned firms are the fastest growing segment. There is a abundant befalling actuality to advice actualize jobs and accomplish acquirement from which we will all benefit.”

“Our finalists body what abounding businesswomen would like to be and achieve,” said Cantando. “The Make Mine a Million $ Business™ affairs educates and encourages added women to be like our finalists.”

About Make Mine A Million $ Business™:
Make Mine a Million $ Business™, a affairs of Count Me In and founding partner, American Express OPENSM, provides women entrepreneurs with the befalling to aggrandize their businesses by breeding added than a actor dollars in anniversary revenue. A different civic affairs that provides money, mentoring and business opportunities to advice businesses abound from micro to millions, the ambition of Make Mine a Million $ Business™ is to advance one actor women entrepreneurs in the accomplishment to ability anniversary revenues of one actor dollars by 2010. North Carolina will host the state’s aboriginal Make Mine a Million $ Business™ accident on Tuesday, Oct. 7 at the Blake Hotel in Charlotte. For added advice amuse appointment www.makemineamillion.org or alarm (212) 245-1245.

Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
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