Country Living Women Entrepreneurs Tickets + Air, Hotel $300 gift card included! Proceeds to Feeding America Start Price USD 9.99 Current Price USD 1,451.33 Time Left - Bid Count 29 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Saturday, November 15, 2008 End Time Tuesday, November 25, 2008 Location Chicago, IL See more about 'Country Living Women Entrepreneurs Tickets + Air, Hotel' Description Auction     VIP Tickets to the Country Living Women Entrepreneurs event in Chicago This prize package will include a trip for two to the 4th annual Country Living Women Entrepreneurs event on May 30, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. Airfare, hotel accommodations and VIP tickets to the event are included. This extremely successful event has sold out every year since its inception. This year over 600 women entrepreneurs from across the country were in attendance. The half day event is filled with information and inspiration on a variety of topics of interest to small business entrepreneurs and those who are thinking of starting their own business. Panel Discussions and seminars in the general session include*: Lunch with a Leader (one-on-one interview with Rosanna Bowles, founder of award winning tableware company, Rosanna Inc.); Publicize Your Product Like A Pro (panel discussion with expert marketers, PR pros and editors, who will give insight on how to get your product noticed by the press for national and regional exposure) All About Trade and Gift Shows (informative seminar presented by retail, merchandising and trade show expert, Mary Liz Curtin, who will share with the audience how to sell their product to retail buyers at trade and gift shows throughout the country) 2009 Country Living Women Entrepreneurs Panel (discussion with featured women business owners in our June 2009 issue) A one hour wine and cheese reception will conclude the event, where guests have the opportunity to meet each other, share resources, network and mingle with our panelists and editors. All attendees also receive a generous gift bag filled with product and information from Country Living, their sponsors and the women entrepreneurs. *subject to change The winner of this package will also receive the option of a guaranteed spot in the morning “Pitch Your Product to Country Living” sessions providing the opportunity to pitch their product or service to a panel of Country Living editors and contributors for possible inclusion in a future issue of the magazine (if applicable and winner product meets program criteria). What is included? Round trip coach airfare for two to Chicago from a major U.S. airport Two nights accommodations (double occupancy) at a top hotel located near the event $300 gift card for incidentals Two VIP tickets to the 4th Annual Country Living Women Entrepreneurs including lunch the day of the event Dates valid: Saturday, May 30th, 2009 *the date of the event Does this package include travel? Round trip coach airfare for two to Chicago from a major airport in the continental U.S. is included. Airport transfers and meals (with the exception of lunches at the event) are not included Special Details/Rules: No monetary substitutions of any kind for any portion of this package that cannot be completed. No changes to the itinerary or substitutions will be made to change or enhance this package unless at the buyers own cost and responsibility for making the changes. Package Donated By: County Living Magazine 100% of all proceeds from the auction will benefit Feeding America. Feeding America is the largest charitable domestic hunger-relief organization in the United States. Through its network of more than 200 member food banks, Feeding America annually provides assistance to more than 25 million people in need in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. 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