BooJee Beads in the News

We have gotten quite a bit of Global Press since winning the CMI award. I thought i would post the links to the articles (even in French :)

A Makeover For ID Badges Martinez was "blown away" by the success, Harrington said. "She's the one who had the vision and the belief that we could make it into a big business," Harrington said of Martinez. The products are available in 1,200 retail outlets in the United States as well as the product Web site, http://www.boojeebeads.com/ Read entire story at http://www.zwire.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=17139946&BRD=1698&PAG=461&dept_id=21849&rfi=8

Getting A Bead On Business In January of 2003, Kimberly Martinez, a former corporate executive, helped transform her friend Lisa Harrington's jewelry products from a basement operation into a boardroom success story.Read entire story at http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/06/million_winners/source/11.htm

1 Million By 2010: Cisco Helps Women Entrepreneurs Reach Higher Through Make Mine a $Million Business Program Kimberly Martinez of Bonitas International; and Molly Fuller and Ann McCarten-Gibbs of Hands On Gourmet will receive a complete Smart Business Communications system from Cisco Systems, the first network technology sponsor of the Make Mine a $Million program. Read entire story at http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2006/ts_073106.html

Elle féminise les accessoires professionnels Kimberly Martinez (à droite) aide son ami Lisa Harrington à faire de sa petite bijouterie une entreprise florissante. Elles lancent Bonitas International, une société qui propose des décorations pour les accessoires professionnels : petits bijoux de portables, cordons pour lunettes très féminins, colliers pour attacher les badges d'identité...Read entire story at http://www.linternaute.com/femmes/carriere/0609-chefs-d-entreprise-laureates/14.shtml

Madeira business owner honored nationally "We committed early on that we would build a business that not only provided for our families, but would reach out to support other women who did not have the same opportunities we have been able to create."Read entire story at http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/C2/20061025/NEWS05/610250755/

El programa nacional 2006 ‘Make Mine a $Million Business’(TM) premia a veinte mujeres empresarias en un evento en San Francisco; Las empresarias galardonadas Recibirán Tutelaje, Financiamiento, Asistencia en Marketing y Tecnología para el Desarrollo de Empresas de un Millón de Dólares Read entire story at http://www.hispanicprwire.com/news.php?l=es&id=6382&cha=14

Top 20 Award -National 2006 Make Mine A $Million™ Program The Make Mine a $Million Business program aims to foster a community of one million women-owned businesses at $1 million or more in annual revenue by 2010. The effort could help add up to four million jobs and $700 billion to the US economy Read entire story at http://home3.americanexpress.com/corp/pc/2006/open_20w.asp/

Special Programs Give Female Entrepreneurs Assistance Kimberly Martinez, an Englewood resident and chief executive of Bonitas International LLC, got a financial boost from Count Me In when her banker was unwilling to fund her needs. Read entire story at http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006611120394

Kimberly Martinez Speaks at CMI in NY

I was honored to be asked to be on a panel discussion at the last M3 event in NY. It was a star studded gala with Hillary Clinton, Suze Ormand, Danny Levy and Susan Sobbet (president of OPEN) speaking. I was asked to talk about how winning has impacted us. So here is the truth. Your prize in this contest is really about winning opportunity. Winning isn’t about getting a bouquet of roses. Rather it’s about getting a pack of seeds. Seeds you need to plant water and nurture. If you are willing to do the work they will spout and grow like Jack and the Beanstalk taking you and your business to the stars.

And speaking of growth, Bonitas International has been growing like crazy. We are having a great gift giving season and we have gotten orders from Austrialia, France and Denmark in just the last week. Our newest website www.EyeGlassHolders.com is coming along nicely and we have had a new marketing person Susan Hoeben join our team. She has great talent and energy and has already made a signficant impact in our organization.
The next short term goal is a major overhaul of the www.BooJeeBeads.com website.

I was recently highlighted in a the area newspaper in a nice article about CMI http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006611120394 and I will be a guest on the radio show www.MomTalk.com in a few weeks! Watch (listen?) for my podcast soon.