{"id":431,"date":"2013-09-25T04:30:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T04:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/papabenskitchen.com\/blog\/?p=431"},"modified":"2014-01-04T20:56:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T20:56:43","slug":"papa-bens-live-at-wbec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/papa-bens-live-at-wbec","title":{"rendered":"Papa Ben&#8217;s Kitchen Live at WBEC-West Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Did\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-433 alignleft\" style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 15.454545021057129px; font-style: normal; line-height: 21.81818199157715px;\" alt=\"WBEC JnG\" src=\"http:\/\/papabenskitchen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/WBEC-JnG.jpg\" width=\"163\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/WBEC-JnG.jpg 629w, http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/WBEC-JnG-209x300.jpg 209w, http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/WBEC-JnG-419x600.jpg 419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/>you know that Papa Ben&#8217;s Kitchen is a women owned business? These delicious cookies maybe Papa Ben&#8217;s recipe, but it was his wife Jean, daughter Gail, and granddaughter Jenica that turned it into a business. We made it official and became certified as a women owned business with the Women&#8217;s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). This past week Gail and Jenica represented\u00a0Papa Ben&#8217;s Kitchen\u00a0at the Women&#8217;s Business Enterprise Council West Conference. We had the opportunity to meet strong, successful women from all over pursuing all types of\u00a0endeavors. The networking with other business owners was priceless as was the time together. \u00a0We spent a lot of time sharing our family tradition and history with those at the show. Needless to say the Mandelbroyt was a huge success!One of the most educational seminars we attended was on the topic of Social Media and SEO. Speaker\u00a0Oscar Garcia from <a rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Web90x\" href=\"http:\/\/www.web90x.com\/\">Web90x<\/a> loved our cookies so much that he took our very own President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cxZ1nrBNoTY\" target=\"_blank\">Gail Lesser-Gerber<\/a> and interviewed her in a live Google Hangout video. Watch the interview below\u00a0and hear all about the history of Papa Ben&#8217;s Kitchen and our delicious <strong><a title=\"almond bread cookies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.com\/almond-bread.php\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">almond bread cookies<\/a> <\/strong>aka\u00a0Mandelbroyt.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cxZ1nrBNoTY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-440\" style=\"border-color: #bbbbbb; margin-top: 0.4em; background-color: #eeeeee;\" alt=\"WBEX GnJ Silent Auction\" src=\"http:\/\/papabenskitchen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/WBEX-GnJ-Silent-Auction-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"196\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/WBEX-GnJ-Silent-Auction-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/WBEX-GnJ-Silent-Auction-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/WBEX-GnJ-Silent-Auction-450x600.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We wrapped up the conference by attending a stunning Great Gatsby themed gala.\u00a0We celebrated the highly successful week with\u00a0our new friends and even bid on some priceless\u00a0silent auction items. One lucky participant even walked away with the beautiful <a href=\"http:\/\/papabenskitchen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Papa Ben&#8217;s Kitchen <\/a>package full of almond bread cookies and other delicious mandelbread cookies we donated. Proceeds from the auction\u00a0provide further business opportunities for women all over the country. After this weekend we realize what education and support can do for a business and its people.\u00a0Thank you WBEC for a great conference, we look forward to many more educational events. For those of you interested in the organization or want more information on how to get certified, be sure to check out their website and learn more about the <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wbecouncil.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Women&#8217;s Business Enterprise Council.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did\u00a0you know that Papa Ben&#8217;s Kitchen is a women owned business? These delicious cookies maybe Papa Ben&#8217;s recipe, but it was his wife Jean, daughter Gail, and granddaughter Jenica that turned it into a business. We made it official and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/papa-bens-live-at-wbec\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,4],"tags":[41,42,11,44,43],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertaining","category-food-beverage","tag-almond-bread-cookies","tag-almond-cookies","tag-papa-bens-kitchen","tag-wbenc","tag-womens-business-enterprise-national-council"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Gail-Jenica.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.papabenskitchen.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}