Post by Veronica Eyenga, contributing Women On Business writer According to WomenEntrepreneur.com and The Center for Women’s Business Research, the number of woman-owned businesses is on the rise. The biggest noticeable difference? Not all woman-owned startups are service industry based, a trend that dominated the last decade. That’s right. With every new woman-owned … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2010
Tahera Dudhwala Joins the Women on Business Writing Team
I love to have a variety of viewpoints and experiences shared on Women on Business, and our new writer, Tahera Dudhwala, brings exactly that. Please join me in welcoming her to the team! You can learn more about Tahera below. Tahera Dudhwala is a writer and editor based in Manchester, England. Her extensive marketing and finance background allows her to run … [Read more...]
FTC and Other Organizations Aim to Help Business Owners Get Loans
Guest post by Shannon Suetos (learn more about Shannon at the end of this post) Being able to budget your money is key for a new business owner—doing so can be the difference between being successful or not. Budgeting is even more important these days with the state of the economy. The U.S. Labor of Statistics has reported that the unemployment rate (as of December 2009 ) is … [Read more...]
Top 10 Email Marketing Takeaways from 2009
Guest post by Janine Popick, CEO of Vertical Response (see disclosure below) 1. Get Social The web's most successful companies have discovered the power of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social media to connect with their customers. 2. Host then Post Web 2.0 marketers have found a great way to expand their readership beyond their opted-in subscribers. Create a … [Read more...]
People, Planet, and Profits
The "triple bottom line" is something you've been hearing about lately. It refers to thinking about your business in a way that measures your impact on people, planet and profits. Instead of solely reading a Profit and Loss statement and focusing on the "bottom line" (how much your company netted), the trend towards measuring a triple bottom line means you find measurable … [Read more...]
3 Rules for Business
There's a popular saying that goes, "Rules are meant to be broken!" After all, isn't that how one breaks out of the proverbial "box?" How could you possibly think outside the box if you're constantly following all the rules that demand you stay in the box? In the art classes I've taught, many times students would ask me about the "rules." The "you should always" things. … [Read more...]
Pack Some Energy into Your Lunch
You would be hard pressed to find someone who hasn't experienced the afternoon fatigue at work after lunch. We tend to blame it on everything around us except the thing that makes the most sense - the food in our lunch! I have heard the sleepy blame game for years now, and it includes pointing fingers at the weather, meetings, not having enough coffee, and the list goes on … [Read more...]
Tune Up Your Pitch
Have you ever been to a networking event where everyone needs to stand up and introduce themselves? I don’t know about you, but after about 3-4 people stand up and recite their elevator pitches, I can’t remember who does what. Very few of them capture my attention. Even less of them are memorable. They all sound alike because everyone is using the same approach, the same … [Read more...]
Leadership and “Process till you Puke”!
In every business, in every life, it is vital to process all information and even emotional content to make sure that you are making the best decisions you can make. Yet, there are extremes and when you get caught at one end point of the spectrum or the other, there is a tendency to either deny what is going on, or indulge in over-thinking the process. One of our best … [Read more...]
The Never-Ending Meeting
Last week I had six meetings over a nine hour work day. I also attended one single meeting that consumed the better part of my day. I spent more time meeting and less time actually doing. This is my plea for the "meeters" of the world to break from the pack and start becoming "doers." Many studies find that 70% or better surveyed said their meetings are very often … [Read more...]