Chocolate, Canines & Commerce: A Tail of Success
Please join us for our next Women in Business Series Event, brought to us by Presenting Sponsor Wells Fargo. In partnership with the Idaho Small Business Development Center, Keynote speaker will be Kim Merritt-Butler. She is a fourth generation, self-employed business owner who has owned and operated multiple successful companies over the past three decades starting when she was in high school. Kim has been working with SBDCs across the country helping them start and grow webinar programs and we are very pleased the Idaho SBDC is bringing her to Boise and Nampa on October 13th to inspire and motivate entrepreneurs in the Treasure Valley. Kim Merritt-Butler is a fourth generation self-employed business owner who has owned and operated multiple companies over the past three decades. Nationally recognized since she was a teenager, Kim started her first company, Kim’s Khocolate, at the age of 11. Clients of her custom molded specialties included “Apple,” “AT&T,” “MCI,” “The Rolling Stones,” “Bausch & Lomb,” and “Land Rover.” Her second company was an e-commerce retailer of brand name tabletop and home décor items that had Kim as one of the top independent retailers in the US for Portmeirion, Denby, and Lenox. Kim will be reentering the retail world in late 2016, with Good Dog in a Box, a subscription service in the pet industry she started with her sister, professional dog trainer, Jennifer Merritt, CPDT-KA, B.S. For the past 14 years, Kim has been working in the online world, where she specializes in business growth utilizing the web. She currently “practices” as The URL Dr. where she doles out prescriptions for online success to her small and mid-sized business clients. Kim has been working with SBDCs across the country helping them start and grow webinar programs. Her webinar series is available free of charge to SBDCs and their clients, and her online workshops provide a revenue source for participating groups. New in 2016, is The Small Business Academy, an online learning management system that offers over 400 educational and instructional videos to small business in online marketing, web design, ecommerce, and growth strategies. Over the years, Kim has been a featured speaker at YPO Family University, The Wharton School, National Federation of Independent Business, and is a regular presenter of seminars and webinars for the SBDC across the country. She has testified before a US Senate Subcommittee on Entrepreneurship and has been the recipient of the NFIB Young Business Owner of the Year Award. Kim’s entrepreneurial activities have been highlighted in “USA Today,” “Inc.,” “People Magazine,” “Barron’s,” “Newsweek,” “Success,” and numerous national and regional media programs.
Speaker(s): Kim Merritt-Butler, The URL Dr.
Co-Sponsor(s): Nampa Chamber of Commerce, Wells Fargo
Registration will be taken through the Chamber's website, please click the link below to reserve your spot.
Fee: $ 10.00
Registration will be taken through the Nampa Chamber