events + collabs

IRL marketing events and networking for small business owners

marketing events

Your online engagement practices—critical for growing your following organically and increasing your reach—should be mirrored by a willingness to exist in your business community. Aelsa Socials networking events are an opportunity to translate your social media prowess into the IRL realm.

Girls’ Night Out Networking: For female business owners in particular, traditional networking events can feel overwhelming. Not sure where we fit into the social structure of a group, we can tend to shrink ourselves. So I’ve designed these networking events with themes, gifting opportunities, and built-in connection touchpoints that help alleviate those anxieties!

The Village Collective: a networking and support group for women in the business of motherhood.

Before collaborations were posts or sponsored partnerships on social media, they were group projects that brought together like-minded (or like-purposed) individuals to accomplish goals.

I’m obsessed with collabing with fellow small business owners, especially female small business owners.

Stay tuned for some pretty incredible collaborative events I’ll be featuring here!

collaborations

FAQs

  • It depends on the event! Girls’ Night Out networking events for female business owners in central Illinois are always free. The Village Collective, my networking and support group for women in the business of motherhood, hosts events of various natures at various price points (but many are free!).

    Collaborative events usually do come with a registration fee. I work hard to keep my events priced accessibly for small business owners and offer payment plans whenever possible.

  • Ah! I’m so excited you’re interested in this! You can just send me a note here to get started.

    Right now, I’m really focused on the following areas when it comes to choosing my collaborators:

    • local to central Illinois

    • small business owners

    • women

    • moms

  • The Aelsa Socials brand is named with an intentional double entendre because I firmly believe that you see the best results in your social media marketing when you’re pairing your online engagement efforts with IRL (in real life) connection.

    Networking is what social media can only try to replace: connecting people and making friends out of them. Hence my tagline: marketing that makes friends.

my mission is to serve small businesses and nonprofits with customer-centric marketing services and events, believing that

good marketing is an exercise in empathy.

my vision is to become the go-to spot for small business owners in central Illinois for marketing through connection.