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About The Heart Link Network
How the Heart Link Women's Network is Unique?
A landmark UCLA study suggests friendships between women are special. They shape who we are and who we have yet to become. Scientists now suspect that connecting with friends can actually counteract the kind of stomach-quivering stress most women experience on a daily basis. Now today’s networking women can improve their health by joining together for dinner and fun at a business networking event designed just for them. Dawn Billings' Heart Link Network® will expand your social capital, multiply your connections, grow your business, all the while improving your health. It doesn't get better than that! |
An Interview with Dawn Billings, CEO and founder of The Heart Link Network
- How is the Heart Link Network Unique?
- A: The male model of marketing and networking, called interruption marketing has been the dominant model for over fifty years. The power of interruption marketing was discovered with the invention of the radio. Advertisers were delighted to find that they could capture listener’s attention, and interrupt that attention with ads by sponsors and listeners would buy. This was a wonderful new way to market products or services. Then came the television commercials, billboards, magazine ads, newspaper ads and the list goes on and on.
Then a few pioneers decision to take their business directly to the homes, where the women were happy to have their days interrupted. Vacuum cleaners, pots and pans, encyclopedias, make up, Tupperware, perfume; the list goes on and on. This model worked marvelously until women started to enter the work force, everyone got busy and we seemed flooded with interruption. Finally when the Internet began to explode, interruption was given a name—SPAM.
People dislike being interrupted. They have TiVO to get past commercials; they listen to satellite radio, sign up to be on NO call lists so that their home time cannot be interrupted. People are bombarded with information, and they have learned to despise "interruption." We designed The Heart Link Network based on "Permission Marketing" instead of "interruption marketing." The Heart Link Network was created to allow the Area Coordinator and her attendees to network in a way that is comfortable, inexpensive, FUN and natural for them, continually creating a new warm market each month. Word of mouth is the best marketing you can have. The Heart Link Network insures that many more mouths are singing your praises!
- Do you believe women in business are important to our economy?
- A: Oh my goodness, yes. At our present rate of growth in women’s businesses, women will soon own more than half of all privately-held businesses. Even when lawmakers and many men are not interested in leveling the playing field, I intend to unite women to rev up the engines of our PINK bulldozers.
Watch out world, we’re getting ready to redesign the field,” says Billings with a smile. “We are creating a new revolution for business networking women, but unlike angry movements in the past, this revolution is built on compassion, collaboration generosity and love. Business networking Women have a lot to give to the world, and there is no question we can do it best when our PINK hearts are linked, synced and working to showcase and support one another. Isn’t it time you took advantage of most effective, brightest, high tech, high touch and pinkest networking tools that exist?”
- How did you come up with this unique networking model for women?
- A: Through numerous interviews with business networking women I realized that men and women networkvery differently, they have very different endocrine systems and yet ninety percent of all networking models were based on interruption marketing, which feels unnatural and stressful to most women. Women use social networks to link to resources and each other. Like our Heart Link Facebook Fanpage. Women love being a part of something larger than them. Through sharing with other women they can find anything from new recipes, cures for diaper rash, advice about relationships - to how to write a business plan, get a grant, or find a great attorney or CPA.
“My mission is to aid business networking women in living the dreams in their hearts. There is empirical evidence that proves the broader a business women's network; the more likely she is to succeed. Eighty one percent of women who own million-dollar-plus companies belong to formal business organizations, associations or networks, while only sixty one percent of women with small businesses, network.
As I looked at the problem I believed it was about access. There simply were not powerful, effective and inexpensive ways for business networking women entrepreneurs, small business owners, and women in more flexible direct sales businesses to unite, join resources, and link hearts in helping one another succeed. So I created the perfect marketing and networking tool to help them, The Heart Link Women's Network.
The Heart Link Women's Network, our face-to-face, heart to heart gatherings are geared towards today’s progressive working and entrepreneurial women. We also created a “no cost” online business women’s networking community called The Heart Alliance for women across the globe. Our newest venture is an online advertising directory created to showcase, support and optimize women in business. With small, inexpensive mini-websites, a women small business owner can now optimize her business for pennies a day and create an "inbound marketing" stream of traffic to her business. In everything we do, We are about “women-helping-women-succeed in all areas of their lives.”