What is the Ladies Who Launch Incubator?

The Ladies Who Launch Incubator is not your typical coffee klatch or corporate-type networking. The Incubator is the first sexy savvy forum to marry intuition with ingenuity and creativity with collaboration and dreaming! Designed to connect people both on-line and in-person; entrepreneurs, writers, artists, freelancers, independent contractors, film producers, founders of non-profits and anyone interested in launching or expanding a business or creative project come together to find their common denominator - being in the flow of their life and living out their creative dreams. And for those of you with wander lust pondering just when oh when you will ever get off your derrière and start that creative project you've been dreaming about - sit no more.

Everyone in the Incubator first goes through an Incubator Intensive, a workshop designed to help you expand and clarify your vision, get you moving and initiate you to the concepts of incubating. This program is designed for anyone who wants to expedite their dreams, launch a brand new idea, expand an existing venture or simply explore the possibilities of creativity and entrepreneurship in their lives. Literally any motivated woman at any stage in her life can benefit from this program.

For those who complete the intensive, there is an on-going Incubator where the momentum continues and the magic happens with events, parties, inspiring speakers and connecting with some of the most brilliant women in your area and around the country.

And just like anything worthwhile, the Incubator is an investment. Here are just some of the benefits that the Incubator provides:

1. Facilitation of exchanges, introductions, business contacts and referrals with hundreds of motivated women just like you.
2. Access to a national Ladies Who Launch Incubator network where you will have a profile on the website and opportunities to promote and advertise your products, services and ideas through Ladies Who Launch.
3. Valuable learning workshops and new perspectives.
4. Exclusive discounts, free consultations and access to really cool products and services.
5. A supportive and fun environment where everyone wants to see you succeed. You can have the best of friends, boyfriends, husbands and families, but this group is designed specifically to support and forward your goals.

If you are interested in leading an Incubator and bringing the program to your region, click here.

People often ask...is the Incubator for me? The Incubator is literally for any motivated woman. We've had wildly successful CEO's who want to turn up the heat on a personal project and join the Incubator, along with seasoned professionals who've made it in one world but want to take on the next, as well as women who just have an inkling of an idea. Think of the Incubator like a focus group, or your own personal think tank. Sure, everyone has friends who support them, but rarely do you get the undivided attention of a dozen other women behind YOUR project. Think about it; to Incubate means you will take something from one stage and hold its hand to the next. Add the energy and knowledge of the leader and other members of your group, and soon your project has a life of its own. The bottom line is, we mix everyone together and magic inevitably happens. Before you join the Incubator, see if you fall into one of these categories:

"I have no idea what to do." This is a legitimate Incubator project. By the end of the Incubator, using input from the other woman and guidance from the famously proven Incubator model, it is very likely that you will be clear about what you want to do and begin taking the steps to make it happen.

"I have just launched." What is better than getting your seed of a project into the hands of creative and motivated women? Ladies Who Launch acts as a distribution, PR and marketing channel, meaning that your idea will get out into the world where it belongs. Most importantly, it gives you the support for those hard days that we all have when you feel like throwing in the towel.

"I have an established business." Move forward faster. Massage your creativity and your business. Just like Madonna, if you want to stay relevant, you have to continue to reinvent and re-launch your project and idea. The Incubator will keep you motivated and fresh. It becomes a focus group for taking your business to the next level and to places you may never had thought it can go. It's also fun--the most important part of keeping your business original and alive.

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For those of you who completed the Incubator Intensive, we have an ongoing Incubator meeting for you---for as long as you have projects or relationships that you want to grow and expand, the Incubator will surprise and delight you---but most importantly, she will deliver for you. There will be speakers and hot topics for discussion as well as additional tools, advertising opportunities, nationwide networking and benefits on Ladies Who Launch. The ongoing Incubator keeps you in the mix and connected to a network that just gets bigger and more dynamic every day. Joining for the year is like being part of a monthly lecture series that feeds your mind, business and life with nutrients you couldn't get anywhere else. You will meet people and hear speakers you might only read about in magazines. Staying tuned in is part of continuing to go higher and further.

After completing your Incubator Intensive workshop, here are some of the benefits to being a part of the Ongoing Incubator:

• Meetings. 8 meetings per year: Meetings are a chance to put your project into the Incubator again, allowing you to keep the momentum going, to be heard by other members and to find new networking opportunities among members. Meetings are a chance to attend interesting and innovative events, which may include speakers, vendors' lifestyle activities, cocktails, parties and more. They are chance to be creative, to give members a chance to reconnect, as well as to meet the new members who just went through the most recent Intensive.
• Online Community. Nationwide networking on the Ladies Who Launch website. Communicate and network with other Incubator members nationwide, Featured Ladies on Ladies Who Launch, the entire Ladies Who Launch online community through our virtual forums and access to these networks.
• Launch Pad. $600 credit on Launch Pad List ($600 value includes 20 postings for 30 days each or 4 postings of weekly email inclusion).
• Advertising. You get a $600 ad credit per year to be applied towards advertising on Ladies Who Launch. Contact advertising@ladieswholaunch.com.
• Events. Discounted admission to all Ladies Who Launch Live Events nationwide and access to event directories of all attendees.
• Product and Service Distribution. The chance to distribute your products and services through a variety of distribution mechanisms: be a vendor at an LWL event in your city or in a different city, donate to the silent auction, put something in our event gift bags, and post on Launch Pad.
• Ladies Who Launch Business School: Case Studies: 50% off Ladies Who Launch case study subscriptions (normally $250, Ongoing members get the special price of $125). Subscriptions start in January.
• Ladies Who Launch Magazine Contributions: Grow your business through establishing yourself as an expert in your field. With our approval, contribute content to our Online Magazine complete with resources, tips and information for the motivated woman. Partners' Offerings: Special consideration discounts and promotions from our affiliates and sponsors.
  • American Greetings: Bloom by AG (www.bloombyag.com) a brand new hip and stylish online greeting card division of American Greetings is a recent LWL sponsor and has agreed to give all Ongoing members a free subscription. You can send everything from video clips to fashionable cards. You can print your own materials from a range of quality products—it is very cool!
  • Count Me In: Preferential loan treatment from Count Me In, our non-profit finance partner.