Quad Cities Open Coffee
Date and Time
Thursday Oct 26, 2017
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CDT
Starts: 8:00 AM
Ends: 9:00 AM
Fees/Admission
FREE to Attend.
Contact Information
Julie Forsythe
(563) 823-2652
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Description
Quad Cities Open Coffee
Greek Guide to Storytelling: Top 7 Content Commandments
The Ancient Greeks were master storytellers. And let’s face it, not only do stories define the human experience, but they are a sure path to business success. In their honor, the Greek Guide to Startup Content: How to be a Storytelling God(dess) is a workshop that will teach you the biggest rules of writing via the Top 7 Content Commandments. You'll depart with go-to tactics for creating a compelling narrative for blogs, emails, landing pages, websites and e-books. Storytelling is a buzzwords these days, but it's only as good as it's happy ending. Get ready to Greek out!
About our speaker, with Quad Cities roots:
Andrea Enright, Storyteller, Boot-Wearer
Andrea Enright is a small town Illinois girl, livin' in a Colorado world, and will join us this week via Skype! Andrea has been a Open Coffee attendee when visiting the region recently. Active in other entrepreneurial communities, Andrea is a frequent speaker at Denver co-working facilities and most recently presented at a session for Denver Startup Week, the biggest event of its kind in North America.
Andrea grew up in Port Byron, but has lived in New York City, the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Beirut and now Denver. Andrea has run The Boot Factor, a storytelling agency, since 2002. She helps clients like Chipotle, Honeywell, Hunter Douglas, Western Union, EPA, Bloomingdales, University of Denver, Xcel Energy and many more. . .translate messaging, educate audiences, and convert customers via brand messaging, email campaigns and website content. Andrea is a runner, a mama, a writer, a festival-goer and likes a nice key lime pie. Her past includes plenty of hitchhiking and couch-surfing in dangerous countries, 27 months in the Peace Corps, five years at the University of Illinois and a few minor roles in B-movies for the SyFy Channel.
Meet your entrepreneurial peers and be supported through your startup journey within this Open Coffee community! This time is for you: pitch your business idea, get help on developing your business model, find out ways to get more business, or meet a mentor - join us for open conversation over coffee! This is a loose-format networking opportunity for entrepreneurs and people interested in entrepreneurship,normally meeting on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month.
For location details, more information, or to RSVP - go to: http://www.meetup.com/Quad-Cities-Open-Coffee/