Be Featured on Women Grow Business
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Being a featured guest blogger on Women Grow Business
We welcome one-time guest bloggers or even ongoing guest contributors. We invite women entrepreneurs and businesswomen to share their experience – on leadership, success, failure (and transcending it), marketing, social tech, talent retention, and more.
What to do:
- Option 1:
Have a topic in mind that’s particularly important to you, that also could benefit women business owners. For more insight to the blog’s editorial mission, I invite you to read our first post: Victory, Defeat, and In Between: Welcome to the Women Grow Business Blog. Then draft a blog post between 400-500 words of original work and submit to sburke (at) shonaliburke (dot) com, along with your contact information, photo, and mini bio for consideration. To maintain preferred blog formatting, please provide link love in your post as well i.e. include 3 to 5 links related to your content, please (thank you!). Please do not include photos in your post unless you have ownership of the intellectual property rights associated with that photo or the photo is an unambiguous part of the creative commons with proper attribution. - Option 2:
If you’re a woman entrepreneur and would rather participate via an email-interview format, I invite you to answer these questions: - What decisions have best enabled your company to endure the current economy (and excel)?
- What most influenced you to launch your business?
- What key strategic and operational tactics helped your business first get started?
- What failure or missed benchmark proved a good business lesson (and why)?
- How do you use social media for your business?
- Where do you envision your business in (5) years?
- What’s your preferred question not asked here?
- Please send replies to sburke (at) shonaliburke (dot) com, along with your contact information, photo, and mini bio;
- Questions?
Contact the editor: sburke (at) shonaliburke (dot) com; - Of note, submitted posts may be edited for ease of reading and to cater to online formats, or for legal or other competitive reasons.
Thanks for your interest in Women Grow Business!
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I think one important business topic for women would be restaurants for sale because men are said to the best chefs in the world and they practically own the restaurant business line. I would like to see women succede in such a domain because it is a paradox that men are the most successful persons with restaurants.
I'm so glad to have found this blog. It seems I've been waiting for something like this for a while. You guys are doing such a great job, connecting with and inspiring women in business. Kudos for recognizing that it takes all women entrepreneurs, both the successful ones and the start-ups. In keeping with history, women have continued to turn the wheels of the economy, even when it threatened to grind to a halt! And I am honored to be a part of that powerful machinery. Indeed, many women made the decision to become entrepreneurs because every other option was closed to them (for whatever reason…). I am so inspired to read their stories in different forums, I hope that many of them will find their way here to share those stories….because it's time to hear them!
Hi Shonali: So this is what you do! Aha! Would you be interested in a guest post about using humor to grow your business? And working with another person to maximize your strengths (and time)? It's a topic dear to my humorous little heart, could benefit women business owners and fulfills the mission (I believe) Jill put forth in the first post.
I think you've seen our (my twin is the other part of this possessive pronoun) blog, so you know that we have a passing relationship to humor (I wrote it this way to give you the follow-up line, “Yes, it did pass you.”).
We think we're successful; in just 2 months of posting our site we've become columnists, featured bloggers, syndicated, interviewed as 1 (okay, technically we are 2) of 365 inspirational people and interviewed on radio, with tv planned for next month.
In any case, congratulations on your fairly recent promotion and I'm glad to be your Twitter twerp.
You are SO cool, Alexandra! I’d love it – thank you so much for asking. I’ll be in touch via email soon. Actually, make that carrier pigeon.