Subject: NNBA Nurse Entrepreneurs ~ Naming Your Startup ~ Protect Your IP ~ Keynote Announcement!

President's Corner

July 1, 2024

Dear Nurses,


This week we’re celebrating the 4th of July, marking the day the Declaration of Independence was adopted and the United States officially became its own nation. We typically celebrate America’s birthday with parades, barbeques, picnics, and my favorite, fireworks! I can’t help but compare the fireworks of Independence Day to nurse entrepreneurs starting a business and declaring their Independence Day. There is the preparation and planning, initial investment for materials and set-up, creativity, the launch and timing, risk and uncertainty, the spectacular moments, and community engagement. It’s a vivid metaphor, right?


The NNBA is passionate about providing nurses with information on the career options available through entrepreneurial models. We believe in diversification, not having all our eggs in one basket, to protect the financial strength and longevity of our careers. Attending NNBA’s Nurse Entrepreneurship & Career Alternatives Conference identifies options and concrete models that work for today’s nurses, as a side hustle or full time. The sessions and workshops are filled with massive-value content, contact hours, and provide a high ROI. Established nurse business owners can discover multiple ways to expand their current offerings. The sessions will inspire, motivate and equip you to go from where you are to where you want to be!


Featured Article Highlights

A clear, powerful name for your startup business can be extremely helpful in your marketing and branding efforts. Here are 13 helpful suggestions on how to come up with a winning name for your business in our first featured article below, What Should I Name My Startup?


Intellectual property is a business asset. It helps set apart your business from your competitors. It also provides a stream of revenue, which you deserve to be compensated for since they are your creations. Therefore, it makes good business sense to know How to Protect Your Intellectual Property in 5 Different Ways.


In the last featured article below is an interview I had with Daily Nurse’s Louis Pilla on Finding Success As a Nurse Entrepreneur. He referenced my contribution to the book Evidence-Based Leadership, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Nursing and Healthcare, which is an extensive look at important facets of the nursing profession and nurse entrepreneurs!


Important Conference and Hotel News

We are 24 Days away from the NNBA 2024 Conference! Registration closes online July 17th.


The Nurse Entrepreneurship & Career Alternatives Conference is an educational, and professional development event that awards up to 15 eligible contact hours. You will be empowered by surrounding yourself with savvy nurse business owners with diverse backgrounds, passions and pursuits.


Join us July 25-27, in Orlando, Florida! https://nursesbusiness.com/nnba-2024-conference/




We have negotiated an extension of the NNBA group discount! Hotel reservations need to be made by July 10th. After that, the room rates increase almost $100 each day. Here is the dedicated webpage for the NNBA is available for attendees to book their hotel rooms. You can even make it a vacation and download this PDF letting you know of surrounding fun attractions, and entertainment.




NNBA 2024 Keynote Address


“The Journey of Building a Business Through Story-Telling.” Join Denetra Hampton as she delves into the powerful art of storytelling in business. This session will provide you with actionable insights and strategies to harness the transformative power of stories to build and grow your business.


Denetra Hampton, MHSA, BSN, RN

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Since 1985, thousands of nurses looking for a change, desiring more freedom, and becoming their own boss, have chosen to advance their careers by becoming members of the NNBA and attending NNBA’s conference on entrepreneurship. Nurses have said it is the most transformative and valuable conference they’ve ever attended. Join us in Orlando July 25-27 and see for yourself!

Unconventionally yours,

 

Michelle

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Featured Articles

What Should I Name My Startup?

 

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What Should I Name My Startup? 13 Smart Tips


Finding the right name for your startup can have a significant impact on your success. The wrong name can do worse than fail to connect with customers, it can actually result in insurmountable business and legal hurdles. In contrast, a clear, powerful name for your startup business can be extremely helpful in your marketing and branding efforts.


Here are 13 helpful suggestions on how to come up with a winning name for your business:


1. Avoid hard-to-spell names


You don’t want potential customers getting confused about how to find your business online. (I never understood why “Flickr” was pushed as the name for the photo-sharing site.) You want to avoid having to continually correct the misspelled version of your name. Keep it simple. Customers are more likely to remember simple names that are easy to spell and easy to pronounce.

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How to Protect Intellectual Property in 5 Different Ways


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Intellectual property (IP) covers any original ideas, designs, discoveries, inventions, and creative work produced by an individual or group. It wasn’t a big deal to protect IP in the past. However, with information more accessible and easier to distribute today due to technology, safeguarding your creations and works from infringers, copycats, and thieves has become vital to any business.


IP protection is not just necessary to ensure that your innovations won’t be copied or stolen. It establishes an incentive so that whatever you create can proliferate and benefit more people without violating your rights. Here are five different ways to protect your intellectual property.


Copyright, trademark, and patent are three of the most common types of IP protection. These grant you exclusive rights to your creations, especially when it comes to the commercial gains of their use.

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Finding Success as a Nurse Entrepreneur


Daily Nurse

Adaptability, organization, and communication are among the skills you bring to patient care every day and are some of the same qualities that can help you succeed away from the hospital as a nurse entrepreneur.


Nurses have a variety of traits that qualify them for an entrepreneurial path. For one thing, “nurses are the best problem solvers, and that’s a quality that will take them quite far regardless of their setting,” says Michelle Podlesni, RN, president of the National Nurses in Business Association (NNBA), said to be the only nursing organization dedicated to nursing entrepreneurs.


“Nurses have a lot of qualities very similar to what entrepreneur qualities are across the board,” said Podlesni during an interview. Podlesni has compared the traits of RNs and the characteristics of entrepreneurs. She says nurses have excellent communication skills, can prioritize, know how to organize, and are adaptable. In addition, they have sound judgment, dedication, and a commitment to continuing education.

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In this pre-conference workshop, you will learn:

  • How nurses are uniquely equipped to use their nursing expertise as an entrepreneur in the gig economy

  • Identify benefits of starting your nurse owned business as an add-on to part-time or full-time employment

  • Explore the top 10 ways nurses can translate their expertise into a side hustle


Additionally, our exhibitors are nurse entrepreneurs and business owners where you can visit, learn about their business and take advantage of their latest offerings!

Thanks and be sure to visit with NNBA 2024

Exhibitors and Nurse Business Owners


The NNBA is the #1 trusted resource of helping nurses succeed in business. We have been in the business of educating and empowering nurses through entrepreneurial models for the past 39 years. Over the years, we've had thousands of testimonies on the transformative quality of being a member and attending our annual educational conference on nurse entrepreneurship. Nurses make great business owners!

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