Our member spotlight now shines on Angela Hazuda Meyers, of Meyers Marketing Strategy and Standing Room Only Event Promotion. Angela facilitates our monthly Marketing and Communications Group Meetings and will be featured in the spotlight at our upcoming Coffee and Connections event on May 12th.
Angela Hazuda Meyers
President/Owner
Meyers Marketing Strategy and Standing Room Only Event Promotion
Type of Business: B2B. Conduct B2B, B2C marketing programs
Industries: Marketing and Events
Product/Service: Marketing (Strategic, Executional, Interim & Retainer) and Event Promotion
Years in Business: 6 months
Ideal Customers/Best Referrals:
- Small–midsized businesses, non-profits and associations who need help growing their organizations.
- Small-mid-sized organizations who don’t have enough funds or work for a full-time marketing director, but realize they need the function filled, or firms who have recently lost their Marketing Director and need a stand-in until they re-hire the position.
Personally speaking …
I am so sad to say that right now I don’t have much to fill in here. I do a little knitting in the winter, I like to plan the kids parties with theme events and lots of fun activities, and I walk in the early AM with a group of women in the neighborhood and thoroughly enjoy my “adult time,” but other than that this is an area I am working on!
Home life:
I have a hubby of 5 years Patrick. We have a romantic story of meeting, falling deeply in love, he quit his job a month after we met so he could be stateside (after knowing each other for only 2 weeks) then moving in directly with me literally after the taxi dropped him off at my house and getting engaged a year later on top of the Eiffel Tower – but sadly not much romance post kiddos! I have 3 wonderful children: Grant (3.5 years old), Rhett (20 months old) and Charlotte (8 months old). They are fun and keep me hopping, most days it’s wonderful and other days it’s a handful!
Childcare situation:
I have full-time, in-home care. I attempted to go it alone without care, but with 3 under 3 at the time and now with them only 6 months older now, there was not enough quite time in the day to get any work done and not a quiet moment to talk to a client.
Motivation for starting your businesses:
A passion for marketing and helping other small businesses grow AND a desire to be more connected and present in my children’s days.
Greatest benefit of running your own businesses:
Flexibility. I try to fit in a few events with the kids during the day each month, we walk to preschool and back and I have lunch with them at least a few times a week.
Greatest success you had in the past month (personal or biz) and how you celebrated it:
I got 2 new clients for my business. I called my hubby.
On your nightstand:
A notebook to jot down late-night thoughts and to-dos and a few children’s book, Oh and 1,000 Places to See Before You Die – But it hasn’t even been cracked open (I got it for Christmas) and I certainly haven’t scheduled a trip yet!
The one tool, resource, or toy you just can’t do without:
Sneakers. I love getting out a taking a walk or jog to energize or blow off steam. I try to walk most days with the kids or at least get outside for a little fun.
Last purchase for self:
Blackberry
Favorite way to unwind:
Wine a little…
Best advise or tip you ever received (personal or biz):
My mom said – You need to start your own business. After positions in various companies I was frustrated with an organization’s lack of vision, inefficiencies and inability to execute. Many companies get in their own way on a regular basis and I want to help them advance.
Best thing about being an Enterprising Mom:
There are more than one BEST to this one…I love working for myself because I get to be involved with so many exciting businesses and work for a number of different clients, which is very fulfilling. It’s an opportunity you don’t have when working for one company. I also love showing my children how mommy works, getting them exposed to alternative work environments and in the future I look forward to them understanding that they can do whatever they want to do as they grow up.
Connect and learn more:
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Today’s a big day … how will you celebrate in your life and in your work?
For entrepreneurial moms, finding just the right childcare arrangement, one that provides enough care to enable one to focus sufficiently on business while also providing moms a flexible schedule with time for family, can be one of our greatest challenges. This is can be especially difficult when one is first starting out. Does one commit to childcare to create the time to build and maintain the business? Does one work in the off hours until the money starts coming in and then invest in childcare? Or, does one use some creative combination while getting things rolling.
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